Cottbus – Guben railway line
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Route number (DB) : | 6345 6220 (realignment) |
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Course book section (DB) : | 211 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 37.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: |
Cottbus – Peitz Ost: 140 km / h Peitz Ost – Guben: 120 km / h |
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Dual track : | Cottbus-Guben | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Cottbus – Guben line is a double-track electrified main line in the southeast of Brandenburg . It connects the independent city of Cottbus with the German-Polish border town of Guben on the Lusatian Neisse . The connection is in the passenger traffic every hour by the Regional Express Line 1 , which also connects Cottbus and Guben with Eisenhüttenstadt and Frankfurt (Oder) . From 2002, parts of the route had to be relocated in the Cottbus area in favor of the Cottbus-Nord open-cast lignite mine .
history
The railway was the first section of the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HSGE) to open to traffic on September 1, 1871. With the Guben – Bentschen line , which was completed a year earlier, there was a direct connection between Poznan and Cottbus. With the expansion of the HSGE network to the west, a direct rail line was also created to Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . Since the railway, together with the adjacent lines, represented the first southern bypass of the Berlin railway junction , it was expanded to two tracks before the end of the 19th century. In addition to the local transport connection between Cottbus, Guben and Bentschen , there were also express trains between Frankfurt (Main) and Eydtkuhnen on the German-Russian border. Later, a pair of express trains ran between Leipzig and Königsberg and between Halle and Allenstein .
After 1945, the Oder-Neisse line was set as the German eastern border and traffic in Guben was interrupted. However, the line gained new importance in both passenger and freight traffic with the construction of Guben and above all Eisenhüttenstadt as new industrial centers. The second track, which was dismantled after the war as a Soviet reparation , was rebuilt between 1948 and 1957.
Most of the passenger trains between Cottbus and Guben were tied through to Frankfurt (Oder) . In the 1980s, for example, several express trains ran between Frankfurt (Oder) or Angermünde and Dresden, as well as an interzonal train from Frankfurt (Oder) to Frankfurt (Main). In the summer there was also an express train to Stralsund .
The entire line was released for electrical operation on December 15, 1990.
On September 18, 2002, the section between Cottbus and Peitz Ost was closed because the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine had to be given way here. The line was therefore given a new route that runs northwest of the opencast mine and uses parts of the Cottbus – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line that was closed in 2000 . The diversion route was opened to traffic on August 18, 2002. Since initially only one track was completed, some trains continued to use the old route until October 7, 2002.
The extension of the Jänschwalde opencast mine , which has meanwhile been canceled, would have cut the railway line between the Jänschwalde East and Guben South operating points and therefore required further relocation.
Web links
- Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn on bahnstrecken.de
- Cottbus – Peitz Ost railway line on bahnstrecken.de
- 1981 timetable
Individual evidence
- ↑ The railway evades the coal. In: Punkt 3 , 2002/15. August 8, 2002, p. 4 , accessed January 10, 2015 .