Bad Kötzting – Lam railway line

Bad Kötzting-Lam
Route number :	9580
Course book section (DB) :	877
Route length:	17.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Cham 0.0 Bad Kötzting White rain 1.0 Zellertal 4.6 Grafenwiesen 5.2 Allemann 6.4 Watzelsteg 8.3 Hohenwarth campsite (since 2000) 9.6 Hohenwarth 14.2 Arrach 16.2 Frahelsbruck 17.8 Lam 522 m Swell:

The Bad Kötzting – Lam railway line is a branch line in Bavaria that was originally built and operated by the private joint stock company Lokalbahn Lam – Kötzting (LLK). In Bad Kötzting it connects to the Cham – Bad Kötzting railway line and leads to Lam in the Bohemian Forest in the valley of the White Rain .

history

Share for DM 50 in AG Lokalbahn Lam-Kötzting from April 1953

The Aktiengesellschaft Lokalbahn Kötzting – Lam was founded on August 22, 1891 by private investors in order to expand the then planned state local railway Cham – Kötzting by 18 kilometers to Lam . LLK received the license required for construction and operation on August 24, 1891.

On the day the Cham – Kötzting line opened on July 16, 1892, there was still no train service on the 1.1 km long section between Kötzting and Zellertal. The bridge over the Weißen Regen had already been completed here, but a piece of land was missing between the Kötzting train station and the river. Therefore, on July 16, 1892, the company opened an island operation between Lam and Zellertal. On July 4, 1893, the Royal Bavarian State Railways took over management of the LLK. After the property was expropriated, the entire operation between Kötzting and Lam was opened on August 1, 1893.

Lam station was the seat of LLK until 1973 (2006)

Arrach stop (2009)

From the beginning, continuous trains from Cham to Lam were planned. For a time, the corporation also left the operations management on its section of the route to the Bavarian State Railway (July 4, 1893 to September 30, 1897 and October 1, 1901 to April 30, 1912). The unfavorable weather conditions, especially in winter, the economical construction, but especially the difficult economic conditions in the decades after the First World War and then especially in the course of the motorization after the Second World War , did not result in a satisfactory development of the traffic despite the introduction of railcars and buses to. On the other hand, this traffic artery remained indispensable for the border region.

From January 1, 1967, the state-owned Regentalbahn AG , based in Viechtach, took over management for the account of LLK.

On January 1, 1973, the local railway company was dissolved. The movable and immovable property was transferred to the Regentalbahn.

Vehicle use

locomotive	design type	Manufacturer	at LLK since	Whereabouts
Steam locomotives
ARBER	C n2t	Krauss 1892/2637	1892	sell 1901
OSSER	C n2t	Krauss 1892/2638	1892	sell 1923
ARBER II	C n2t	Henschel 1912/11355	1912	sell 1937
OSSER II	C n2t	Maffei 1922/5478	1923	sell 1966
SCHWARZECK	D n2t	Maffei 1928/4321	1928	sell 1965
HERMAN WILLMANN	C1 'n2t	Maffei 1903/2299	1950	Retired in 1961
Diesel locomotives
L 01	B.	KHD 1965/57830	1965	to RAG
L 02	B.	KHD 1965/57831	1965	to RAG
Railcar
01	A1	MAN 1935/127357	1935	Retired in 1967
02	A1	MAN 1939/128175	1939	to RAG
03	A1	LHB 1937/5	1960	to RAG
04 = 05 II	A1	LHB 1937/14	1961	Retired in 1967
05 = 04 II	A1	LHB 1937/3	1962	to RAG
06	A1	LHB 1937/16	1963	Retired in 1966
05 III	B'2	ME 1952/23437	1969	to RAG
06 II	B'2	ME 1952/23438	1973	to RAG

Before the Second World War, LLK acquired its first two railcars. They were brand-new two-axle MAN vehicles, one of which was still transferred to the Regentalbahn (RAG). After the Second World War, the DB acquired a number of two-axle railcars from the VT 70.9 series and VB 140.2 trailer cars that had also been decommissioned there , some of which were converted for in-house operation, others served as spare parts donors. These vehicles were transferred to RAG.

From the opening of operations until the acquisition of the first multiple units, only three passenger cars were available for passenger transport. Initially, four cars were available for freight transport. Additional cars were purchased in 1913, 1921 and 1924.

literature

• Andreas Fried, Klaus-Peter Quill: Regentalbahn . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-72-1 .
• Handbook of the German railways . Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 978-3-921426-29-6 (Unchanged reprint of a publication published by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1935, The German Railways in their Development 1835-1935 ).
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 7: Bavaria . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-666-8 , p. 95-114 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .