Altenerding – Pfrombach railway line
| Altenerding – Pfrombach | |
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| Route length: | 23 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
The railway Altenerding-Pfrombach was an approximately 23-kilometer railway line in Upper Bavaria. It branched off the Markt Schwaben – Erding railway line in Altenerding and ran along the Middle Isar Canal to Pfrombach. The railway was built as a works railway for the construction of the canal and was later used for freight and passenger traffic.
history
Since larger machine parts for the construction of the Middle Isar Canal could not be transported on the narrow-gauge Moosbahn built for the canal construction in 1919, a standard- gauge railway to the future Aufkirchen power plant was built for them , which led to the canal route from a junction near the Altenerding stop has been; the tracks were laid by the Mittlere Isar AG (MIAG) on their own, while the Deutsche Reichsbahn built the branch at Altenerding and charged 160,000 marks for it.
The first 4.5 km section to the Aufkirchen power station was built in 1920. In 1922 the extension of the railway was opened by crossing the canal route at Aufkirchen and following the canal to the north to the future Eitting power station . The last extension to the construction site of the Pfrombach power plant went into operation in 1927.
From September 1944, the line was also used for passenger traffic until the canal bridge at Aufkirchen was blown up on April 30, 1945. After its reconstruction at the end of 1946, passenger traffic was resumed. It was initially operated with a MIAG factory locomotive from Maffei, and since 1949 with a Köf II . In 1967 the traffic on the railway was stopped.