Übersee – Marquartstein railway line
| Übersee – Marquartstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | last 428g, before 428m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8.02 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 7 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 180 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Übersee – Marquartstein line was a branch line in Bavaria . It ran from overseas to Marquartstein .
Prehistory and construction
After the enactment of the Bavarian Local Railway Act of April 21, 1884, the local / branch line from Übersee station to Marquartstein through the valley of the Tiroler Ache was built . The official start of construction was in April 1885 and the line was opened on August 10 of the same year. Right from the start, the focus was on freight traffic, primarily timber. A route to Unterwössen , planned by private and communal interests and worked out in 1878, turned out to be too costly and was not carried out.
business
Due to the extensive transport of wood, gravel, stones and cement, the route was economically very successful from the start. With the increasing tourism ("summer visitors") a brisk passenger traffic developed up to the First World War , likewise again in the 1930s ( "KdF movement" ).
The train service was initially handled by two Bavarian D-VI locomotives (serial numbers 1659 “Marquartstein” and 1835 “Staudach”), then the PtL 2/2 (BR 98.3) , later supplemented by the Pt 2/3 (BR 70.0) . In the 1950s, these were replaced by rail buses of the VT 95 series . After that, traffic was handled by Köf II and Köf III , and ultimately by the 211/212 series .
Shutdown
Due to the increasing individual traffic and the expanded bus network, passenger traffic became increasingly uneconomical in the 1960s and was discontinued on May 25, 1968. After that, the route was used exclusively for freight traffic, apart from a few special trains in the 1980s. As the transport of goods also decreased in the following years - also caused by the emigration of industry and trade - general cargo transport was finally stopped in 1970 . In 1986 there was a significant simplification of the track systems in the terminus. Together with the expensive renovation and security measures that had become necessary, this led to closure plans and, on April 1, 1992, to the final cessation of freight traffic.
Current condition
The tracks and superstructure were dismantled in 1993. The station building in Staudach-Grassau was demolished in 1995, the station building in Marquartstein in 2000. The former locomotive shed has been preserved there. The track was not used as a cycle path. Parts of the railway were built over by road widening. A picture board at the location of the former station in Staudach Grassau reminds of the route and this station. On the square in front of the town hall in Marquartstein, at the site of the former terminus, a section of track with a buffer stop and an information board indicates the route.
The traffic is operated today by the bus routes 9505 (Reit im Winkl - Marquartstein - Grassau - Prien) and 9509 (Reit im Winkl - Marquartstein - Grassau - Übersee - Traunstein) of the DB subsidiary Regionalverkehr Oberbayern .
photos
Übersee train station: The trains to Marquartstein departed from platform 1, which is now overgrown.
Class 333 small locomotive with a delivery freight train in front of the Marquartstein station building in August 1975
Locomotive shed Marquartstein in August 1975
Marquartstein station site in August 1996, after the tracks were dismantled and the road relocated to the railway site. On the left the former track area, on the right the reception building.
Entrance building of the Marquartstein train station in August 1996
Buffer stop in memory of the former train station
literature
- Robert Zintl: Bavarian branch lines . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-531-6
- Wolfram Alteneder: The branch lines of the BD Munich . Kersting Verlag, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4
- Wolf-Dietger Machel (Ed.): Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany once & now , Verlag geranova, Munich 2004–2008, ISSN 0949-2143
- Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rails. Freight routes 1980 to 1993. transpress Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71346-8 , page 144
Web links
- Local history of Marquartstein. Homepage of the community of Marquartstein. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
- Overseas - Marquartstein. Website spurensuche-eisenbahn.de. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical hiking guide of the Achental , Tourist Information Market Grassau
- ^ Alteneder, W., Schüssler, C .: The branch lines of the BD Munich, Bonn 1987, p. 84
- ↑ timetable download. Website Regionalverkehr Oberbayern GmbH (RVO). Retrieved November 29, 2017 .