Augsburg local railway

Augsburg Localbahn GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1889
Seat	Augsburg , Germany
management	Udo Schambeck
Number of employees	56 (2015)
sales	4.8 million EUR (2011)
Branch	Transport , logistics
Website	www.augsburger-localbahn.de

Augsburg ring
Route number :	I.
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Donauwörth and Ulm Augsburg central station Gögginger Bridge to Buchloe Augsburg Haunstetter Strasse to Ingolstadt and Munich Infrastructure border between Deutsche Bahn and Augsburg Local Railway Ilzhöfer company Fa. Eberle / Fa. Silberhorn / Fa. Stangl Friedberger Strasse Augsburg Ring station Augsburg worsted spinning mill Lotzbeckstraße (tram line 6) Reichenberger Strasse Martini & Cie Provision stream Mech. Cotton spinning and weaving mill Augsburg (Proviantbach plant) Spinning and weaving mill Augsburg (Aumühle plant), now glass palace Proviantbachstrasse Line IV (Augsburg-Lechhausen) Augsburg slaughterhouse and cattle yard Berliner Allee Osram / Ledvance Amagasaki Avenue Lechhauser Strasse UPM-Kymmene MAN bridge Dierig (Stadtbach plant) MAN Energy Solutions / MT Aerospace Provision stream Stadtbach Senkelbach Balloon factory , substation on the Senkelbach Riedinger Strasse manroland Dierig (Senkelbach / Wertach plant) Wertach Bridge Augsburg – Nördlingen railway line Quieta works Wertach (Line II)
Augsburg – Pfersee / Göggingen
Route number :	II
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Wertach (Line I) Bürgermeister-Ackermann-Strasse Eberle & Cie / Dierig (Mühlbach plant) Augsburger Strasse (Luitpold Bridge) Spinning and weaving mill Pfersee Wertach Wertach Canal Ackermann-Göggingen AG Gabelsbergerstrasse Gögginger Strasse Renk AG , civil brewery Augsburg-Göggingen Hosokawa Alpine Eichleitnerstrasse Line III (Augsburg-Haunstetten) Augsburg West train station
Augsburg – Haunstetten
Route number :	III
Course book range :	ex 303i
Route length:	7.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Line from Ulm Track construction yard B17 Container transshipment point Oil store at the gas works from Donauwörth and Ulm Augsburg Hbf (freight yard) Gögginger Bridge to Ingolstadt and Munich Bernhard Müller Augsburg Morellstrasse to Buchloe Infrastructure border between Deutsche Bahn and Augsburg Local Railway Schertlinstrasse Line II / Line I (Ringbahn) Augsburg West train station Building material Steiger Augsburg – Buchloe railway line AL-Messe station Old mail Tram line 3 Böwe Tram line 2 B 300 Haunstetter Strasse Schürer Seven table Siebenbrunn Premium AEROTEC formerly owned by Haunstetten spinning mill Haunstetten place Freight point
Augsburg – Lechhausen
Route number :	IV
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Line I (Augsburg-Ring) Berliner Allee Branch line I to Osram / Ledvance Lech Zugspitzstrasse Tram line 1 Blücherstrasse KUKA AG Stätzlinger Strasse Meraner Strasse Ledvance / Kiwa Aindlinger Strasse Waste recycling plant Augsburg

The Augsburger local course GmbH (AL) is a Augsburger railway companies and railway infrastructure company , which was founded in the 1889th It operates a track network of 40 kilometers in length in the Augsburg city area ( Augsburger Ringbahn ), which opens up the industrial areas in the districts of Haunstetten , Lechhausen and Göggingen and which includes a small marshalling yard . On this own network and until the end of 2018 also on Deutsche Bahn tracks in the Augsburg area, AL operates goods and works transport with a total transport volume of 1.1 million tons per year (as of 2014).

history

1840–1860: Prehistory and general traffic development in Augsburg

On October 8, 1840, the Munich – Augsburg line was opened. The first Augsburg train station was built as a terminus at the Red Gate behind the “Schüleschen Kattunfabrik”, which was later converted into the “Nagler und Sohn” textile factory. In the meantime, the military riding school was housed in the former train station, and the tram depot has been located there since 1920. In 1847 the Augsburg – Donauwörth railway line opened . During the construction of the line, the Oberhauser Bahnhof was built, but it quickly became clear that the two lines should be connected, and so on July 1, 1846, the Augsburg Central Station (now Augsburg Hbf) was inaugurated. This created an important north-south connection from Munich via Augsburg and Donauwörth to Nuremberg, the heart of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn . In 1847 the Augsburg – Kaufbeuren line was completed, in 1852 the further section to Kempten was released, and in 1875 the opening of the Paartalbahn to Ingolstadt was celebrated .

1860–1885: Founding attempts

As early as 1866 there was a horse-drawn railway project that was supposed to connect Augsburg industry to the state railway. In the years 1871 and 1872, the concession to build a "locomotive freight railway" in Augsburg was acquired by an English company, but construction had not yet started. A year later the Augsburg banking house Heinzelmann made a new attempt, which also failed. In 1884 Heinrich von Buz, director of the Augsburg machine works , took on the founding efforts. The Bavarian State Railroad showed no interest in building and operating it independently, so it was necessary to set up a private company.

1885–1890: foundation and construction

Some Augsburg entrepreneurs, above all Heinrich von Buz (long-time general director of the later MAN AG and 29 years founding board member of Localbahn) and Viktor Martini, first chairman of the supervisory board of Localbahn, took on the challenge of accelerating the transport of goods in Augsburg against much resistance . When the goods from the train station were still being transported through the city by horse and cart, there were repeated bottlenecks, sometimes coal deliveries took a week from the train station to the factory. It is understandable that the coachmen and innkeepers (because the coachmen stopped along the route) resisted plans for a freight railway. The state railway finally realized that it would not work without a freight railroad, because the maneuvering effort and the space that the individual freight wagons took up until they could ultimately be loaded or unloaded was enormous. The individual wagons were sometimes shunted on the sidings for seven days until it was finally their turn to load or unload.

In 1885, 15 companies advised on the construction of a standard-gauge industrial railway on the initiative of Heinrich von Buz. In 1886, a project contract was awarded to Georg Krauss (head of the Krauss locomotive factory) and engineer Ritter von Schwind to develop a railway system. In the same year a license application was submitted.

The founders included eleven companies, a bank and seven private individuals who were close to industry.

• Augsburg colored weaving mill, formerly LA Riedinger AG Augsburg
• Augsburg gas lighting company
• Augsburg worsted spinning mill
• Union AG United match and wax factories, Augsburg
• Cotton spinning mill at Stadtbach AG, Augsburg
• G. Haindl'sche Papierfabriken , Augsburg (later Haindl, now part of UPM-Kymmene )
• Spinning and weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold , Augsburg
• Martini and Co. , Augsburg
• Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG (today MAN)
• Mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill Augsburg (SWA)
• Twisting and sewing thread factory Göggingen AG, Göggingen
• Bankhaus Friedrich Schmid & Co. , Bankhaus Augsburg

The license was granted on January 24, 1889, and just under two months later, on March 22, 1889, the contract for the establishment of the Augsburger Localbahn corporation was signed . At the beginning of the next month, on April 1, 1889, the company was entered in the commercial register. The company's first board member was Kommerzienrat Heinrich von Buz, the first chairman of the supervisory board was Kommerzienrat Viktor Martini. A contract was signed with the municipality of Augsburg for the use of municipal land, the so-called servitude contract . One year later, an agreement followed with the royal Bavarian state railways on the construction and operation of the Augsburg local railway. On October 9, 1890, the end rail was inserted into the main line of the Ringbahn .

1890–1910: Start of operations

On November 10, 1890, the first train drove into the Augsburg engineering works. On May 1, 1891, official rail operations on the Ring, Line I , began. Almost three years later, on August 21, 1893, the company was expanded to include line II to Göggingen and Pfersee. The line III after Haunstetten was finally inaugurated on 13 September 1899th By 1900 the railway already had 28 connections and carried 340,000 tons of cargo per year.

From May 1, 1901, passenger trains also ran on Haunstetter Line III. The departure station for the trains to Haunstetten was Augsburg Central Station. The route was entered in the Reich curriculum as route 303i Augsburg – Haunstetten . In the first year, 75,453 people were transported. When the tram to Haunstetten was completed, passenger transport was given up. The line III was thus the only stretch of the Augsburger local course with systematic passenger.

In 1910, Line I was badly damaged by a flood of the Lech .

1910–1950: takeover and further expansion

On August 1, 1913, the Augsburger Localbahn took over the management and general cargo traffic on Line I from the Bavarian State Railroad . For it was by Krauss three locomotives of the Bavarian kind D VIII acquired. Founding director Heinrich von Buz died on January 8, 1918, his successor was director Heinrich Pfeifer (operations director of the Augsburg machine works). In 1922, three of its own steam locomotives were in operation on Line I. Three years later, construction began on the main line to Lechhausen. A year later, in 1926, the largest local railway bridge was built with a span of 118 meters. The approximately 300-ton steel bridge over the Lech rested on three support pillars and was permitted for class E trucks. First of all, the Prinz textile factory was opened up with the new line extending across the Lech. The opening trip took place on November 2nd. On December 31, 1927, passenger traffic to Haunstetten was stopped because the tram started operating. In 1930 they started building their own repair shop. Of the 51 bridges owned by the company, six had to be reinforced and three replaced due to increasing loads.

In the years 1933–1935 the Localbahn took over the entire operation on all lines. The previously individual lines II and III were connected with each other through the construction of the West marshalling yard. It was not until 1948/49 that a cantilevered, 75.4-meter-long and 347-tonne steel bridge was built from war stocks over the Wertach, which was originally intended to span the Beresina in Russia, and the connection to Line I took place . In 1936 they celebrated the largest daily output since the existence of the Localbahn with 362 transported wagons, 73 sidings and 90 connection users. In 1937 the annual transport volume rose to 115,163 railcars, after the purchase of a further D VIII five own steam locomotives were in use.

Two years later, in 1939, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary with 82.126 km of its own track system:

• Line I 49.731 km; ( Ring )
• Line II 16,321 km; ( Göggingen, Pfersee )
• Line III 14.360 km; ( Haunstetten )
• Line IV 1.714 km; ( Lechhausen )

    (The km information includes both mainline tracks and side tracks.)

The inventory also included 51 railway bridges, five locomotives (four of which were wet steam and one superheated steam ), four baggage cars, 62 open and 50 covered goods wagons, 29 X-wagons and three explosive wagons . 105 of these freight cars were used in the Reichsbahn freight car association. The annual freight was 670,433 tons.

In 1941 the first diesel locomotive was put into service. After the end of the war, from April 28 to June 6, 1945, operations were stopped due to severe war damage. From 1946 to 1948, 185,500 tons of rubble were removed using special side wall wagons of the local railway; these were piled up to form a standing wall at Rosenauberg; the basis for the Augsburger Rosenaustadion (football stadium) was built in this way. The provisional tracks were laid right through the city. In 1948 and 1949, the construction of the above-mentioned Wertach Bridge closed the gap between lines I and II . The operation could be controlled smoothly from the ring station.

1950–1975: Gradual modernization

Current state of development of the track network

In 1955, flashing light systems were used for the first time on Siebentischstrasse and Gentnerstrasse. A year later, five new diesel locomotives of the type Krauss-Maffei ML 440 C , 46 tons dead weight, 440  HP (324  kW ), MAN engine and radio communication followed. Steam operation came to an end with the decommissioning of nine steam locomotives and one diesel locomotive. A new transport record was set with the largest annual freight ever transported: the transport capacity was 864,000 tons. In 1958 the first magnetically controlled flashing light system for rail traffic in Germany (a local railway Siemens development) went into operation. Another Krauss-Maffei ML 440 C diesel locomotive and other flashing light systems on Haunstetter, Innere Ufer-, Berliner Allee and Otto-Lindenmayer-Straße also went into operation.

In 1960 the annual freight was 859,000 tons and the company had 175 employees. A year later the company Augsburger Localbahn AG was converted into a GmbH. The RVI marshalling yard was built in Lechhausen in 1962. The first portable two-way radios began to be used three years later. A traffic signal system went into operation on Friedberger Strasse, and in 1966 another on Luitpoldbrücke. The points in the West Railway Station have been electrically powered since 1971, and coal transports have also decreased dramatically. In 1975 the locomotives received a radio alarm receiver for the fire brigade advance warning so that the often long freight trains did not block the road crossings when a fire brigade was deployed.

1975–1998: Start of dismantling and further modernization

Former railway track on the edge of the Haunstetter town center

In 1976 the Haunstetten station was closed, which until then had served as the terminus of the local railway. The general cargo traffic was discontinued and staff reduced. The level crossings on Firnhaberstrasse, Aindlingerstrasse and Raiffeisenstrasse were given traffic lights. A year later, DB refused to take over the company. Further downsizing followed, which continued in the following year. Now there were still 64 employees.

The manually operated turnouts in the Ring station were converted to electronic interlocking technology in 1981. In the following year the first diesel locomotive was converted to radio remote control operation, in 1983 and 1984 a further locomotive was converted, so that by the end of 1984 three locomotives had radio remote control; this made shunting operations easier and faster. In 1985 the Böwe company received electronically controlled gate control and signaling systems, so that from then on the factory gate could be opened from the locomotive using a magnetic switch. Three years later, 400,000 tons of goods were transported and around 14,800 wagons were moved. On January 1, 1989, the Localbahn, with its radio-controlled locomotives, was one of the most modern non-federally owned railways in Germany. The total track length was 67.089 km; 26.506 km of this belonged to the 66 private connections and users, and 40.583 km were local railroad tracks.

During the flood of the century in 1999, the southern bridge over the Wertach was severely damaged by debris stuck to the river pillar . When the Gögginger Ackermann weir collapsed on May 23, 1999 and the flood got out of control, the city of Augsburg had the bridge dismantled immediately for flood protection reasons. If the bridge collapsed, the entire course of the river would have been blocked, so that the river would have dammed. A few months later, with a grant from the city of Augsburg, the Localbahn built a new bridge without piers.

1998–2018: Freight traffic on foreign routes

In 1998, the Augsburg Local Railway took over freight traffic on the Landsberg am Lech – Schongau railway and (until 2005) on the Schongau – Peißenberg railway to Peiting Ost . The freight traffic between the Schongau and Augsburg sites of UPM-Kymmene Papier GmbH & Co.KG , which was originally operated purely as works traffic, is increasingly being used to serve other customers. As part of a logistics project, it was possible in 2007 to shift 500 annual truck journeys with paper rolls onto the rails.

Since August 2007, the AL regular operates timber traffic to the siding of the sawmill Anton Heggenstaller near the train station Radersdorf along the route Augsburg-inch high - Ingolstadt ( Paar Valley Railway ). Due to the single track and the limit load of the route, block train traffic is not possible, so the train must therefore be driven in two parts. There is a limited time window for operating the connection due to the regular traffic in local rail passenger transport .

In 2007 a total of 1.12 million t were transported. Of this, 853,000 t were carried by the Augsburg freight railway, 369,000 t were carried on the Fuchstal and 106,000 t on the Paartalbahn.

The Augsburg Railway Park sometimes travels the ring route with a historic VT 98 rail bus .

From August 2018, the Kübler forwarding company MAN-Schiffsdiesel will be traveling to Mannheim with its new transport wagon , where it will be loaded onto ships on the Rhine.

At the end of 2018, AL will abandon freight traffic outside of its own network (on the Fuchs- and Paartalbahn) for reasons of economy. Since DB Cargo will take over freight transport on the Fuchstalbahn from 2019, the service of freight customers is ensured there.

Train stations

Augsburg Ring station

Augsburg Ring station

There are a total of three train stations in the route network of the Augsburg Local Railway. The largest and at the same time most important is the Augsburg Ring train station on Friedberger Strasse in the east of the city center. It is a pure freight yard. Since the founding of the Localbahn, trains from the main station have been dismantled and reassembled according to their destination. The location was particularly favorable at the beginning of the 20th century, as most of the metal and textile processing companies were located near the train station. In addition to the shunting and sorting tracks, this station has a workshop that repairs both its own and third-party locomotives and wagons.

Augsburg West train station

The west station consists of a network of shunting tracks and serves as a freight station for the companies in the southwest of the city. In the past, the textile companies in Göggingen in particular were served from there. There is a direct connection from the West Railway Station to the Deutsche Bahn tracks and the depot . A track joins the north at Morellstrasse , which connects to the main train station.

AL-Messe station

Exhibition station of the AL

The rail reform made it possible again for the Augsburg local railway to transport people. For this reason and because of the rapid rise of the trade fair industry (new construction of the trade fair center), the AL-Messe stop was built for special train traffic right next to the main entrance to the trade fair (east of the Schwabenhalle). It consists of a branch track with an approximately 60 meter long platform that can be approached directly from Augsburg Central Station. Goods, for example exhibits, can also be delivered here. So far, however, the platform has only been used a few times for passenger transport as part of special trips on the occasion of trade fairs, for example for the large Interschutz fire department exhibition in 2000.

Former Haunstetten train station

Before the then independent town of Haunstetten was connected to the Augsburg tram in 1927, passenger trains also ran on the Haustetter line III of the Augsburg local railway. These ran from Augsburg main station on the single-track route from today's university district east of Haunstetter Strasse to Haunstetten station ( 48 ° 18 ′ 24.4 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 41.3 ″  E ) . The train station was at the height of the hospital just before the former Martini factory . Passenger trains ran to Haunstetten from 1901 to 1927, after which the bus shelter and later the siding were dismantled.

vehicles

V 100 and ML 440 C from AL

The local railway administration has owned its own vehicles since 1913. At that time, three Bavarian D VIIIs were acquired . A strong ELNA locomotive was purchased in 1928. In 1940 and 1941 two Bavarian D VII were put into service. In the 1950s Bavarian D VIII and Bavarian D VII were bought again. The steam locomotives were then gradually sold or decommissioned and replaced by diesel locomotives. This included a small diesel locomotive from the Deutz works in Cologne and the shunting locomotives from Krauss-Maffei that are still in use today .

The AL is currently shunting four shunting locomotives of type Krauss-Maffei ML 440 C Krauss-Maffei from the year 1956. Six diesel locomotives (AL 41-46) of the type V 100 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR), which were repowered between 1998 and 2000, are used in mainline traffic. Noise emissions from the V100 diesel locomotives are lower than those from truck traffic, as these locomotives have been repowered and modernized. Operation is permitted around the clock. The route of the local train partly leads through densely populated areas. The shunting area is also located in the middle of a residential area in Augsburg. Citizens' negative attitudes towards noise emissions at night are often evident in public and local political events.

Shareholder

The following shareholders are currently (as of December 31, 2008) involved in AL:

• Adolf Präg GmbH & Co. KG , Kempten: 51.26%
• Stadtwerke Augsburg Holding GmbH: 25.10%
• BVS Busverkehr Schwaben Beteiligungs GmbH, Thannhausen: 10.94%
• UPM-Kymmene Papier GmbH & Co. KG, Augsburg: 10.70%
• Augsburger Verkehrsverbund GmbH (AVV): 1.00%
• City of Augsburg: 1.00%

Key figures

Development of the total tonnage of freight traffic on the Augsburg Local Railway between 2005 and 2015

The amount of goods carried by the Augsburg Local Railway was subject to certain fluctuations between 2005 and 2015. The lowest value in 2006 was around 981,000 tons. In 2010, however, the transport volume rose to just under 1,249,000 tons. In the following years, however, the total tonnage carried fell again. The diagram opposite shows the total tonnage carried in relation to the financial year.

See also

• List of German railway companies

literature

• Siegfried Baum: The Augsburger Localbahn , EK Series Regional Transport History Volume 30; Freiburg: Eisenbahn Kurier 2000, ISBN 3-88255-444-4
• Udo Schambeck, Klaus Meyer: So that the impossible becomes possible. Innovative freight transport concepts. In: freight railways. Issue 2/2008, pp. 28–31, Alba Fachverlag Düsseldorf, ISSN  1610-5273
• W. Bublies, E. Mathe: With the Augsburg Local Railway through industrial history . Brigitte Settele Verlag, 2nd edition 1996

Web links

Commons : Augsburger Localbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Augsburg Local Railway in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b Key} company data . (No longer available online.) Augsburger Localbahn GmbH, 2015, archived from the original on January 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Udo Schambeck (Augsburger Localbahn GmbH): Claims of the freight railways on the (Bavarian) route network. Expert discussion on the subject of freight transport by rail. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Bavarian State Parliament, March 6, 2012, archived from the original on January 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Zintl, Bayerische Nebenbahnen, p. 141
4. ↑ See Schambeck, Meyer, 2008
5. ↑ Local train tour of the Augsburg railway park. Accessed January 31, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Kübler - Hansebubeforum. Retrieved September 11, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Stefan Krog: The local train is downsizing. Augsburger Allgemeine , November 26, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
8. ^ Jörg von Rohland: Fuchstalbahn: DB takes over. Merkur.de , November 28, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Vehicle list with precise details of origin. Retrieved November 11, 2010 . 
10. ↑ Pictures of the AL vehicles in daily use between 1999 and 2002. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 30, 2010 ; Retrieved November 11, 2010 . 
11. ↑ Politischer Frühschoppen, March 20, 2011, with Lord Mayor Dr. Kurt Gribl, Dr. Christian Ruck (Member of the Bundestag) and the city councilor Ralf Schönauer
12. ^ Statistical yearbook of the city of Augsburg 2016 . Page 71.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '25.2 "  N , 10 ° 55' 4.8"  E