Railway line Böhlen – Espenhain

Böhlen (near Leipzig) –Espenhain
Route number (DB) :	6822; sä. BE
Course book section (DB) :	533 (1993)
Route length:	6.77 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CE
Maximum slope :	17.9  ‰
Minimum radius :	300 m
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend from Leipzig Bayer Bf 0.000 Böhlen (b Leipzig) 132 m to Hof Hbf 0.642 Hof Hbf – Leipzig Bayer Bf 139 m 2.018 Flood bridge (50 m) 2.075 Pleiße 128 m 2.167 Pleiße 128 m 2.263 Flood bridge 2.850 Small pleiße 131 m 3.046 Rötha 131 m 3.720 Bundesstrasse 95 138 m 5.197 Mine train 144 m Federal motorway 72 5.820 Infrastructure border DB Netz / PRESS 6.550 Espenhain factory platform I 6.767 Aspen grove 148 m Instead of the Margarethe pit 6.900 EÜ street of youth 6,960 (End of line 6822) 8.000 Espenhain handover office Anst Scholz Recycling Initially BKV Espenhain At the Espenhain power station 8.800 Espenhain factory platform II 160 m 9.400 (End of route) Swell:

The Böhlen – Espenhain railway is a branch line in Saxony . It runs from Böhlen via Rötha to Espenhain .

history

The line was opened on May 1, 1913. At that time, Espenhain was home to the Margarethe mine, which had its own connecting railway.

The route became particularly important in freight and commuter traffic from 1938, when the construction of a power station and a briquette factory began at the end point Espenhain . After the Second World War , the facilities were expanded even further. At the end of the 1950s, the Espenhain power plant had a share of 8% in the generation of electrical energy in the GDR.

In the early 1960s, the line was one of the first to be electrified in the GDR due to the enormous volume of traffic. Electrical operation began on October 2, 1961.

When the brown coal combine and the power station in Espenhain were shut down after the political change in eastern Germany in 1989, the line lost its importance in passenger and freight traffic. The last sparse tourist traffic was switched to a rail replacement service on May 23, 1993 and was soon completely discontinued. The electrical catenary of the line was then dismantled in the 1990s.

The line was converted into a non-public connecting line from kilometer 5.8. On January 1, 2005, the railway construction and operating company Pressnitztalbahn took over the operation of the connecting railway from RWE Umwelt Westsachsen.

Today, freight traffic is largely limited to serving a scrap dealership at the end of the route, which is carried out by the Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn on behalf of DB Cargo Deutschland , as well as irregular block trains with household waste in containers that are driven by the Pressnitztalbahn and sent to landfills in Espenhain for further transport of the region can be transferred to trucks. The Pressnitztalbahn also operates a workshop for rail vehicles in Espenhain.

In the local transport plans for 2000 and 2007 of the local authority association for the local traffic area Leipzig (ZVNL), the route was designated as a "reserved area" for which there is currently no sufficient potential in local rail transport , but whose route must be kept free for possible future development. This measure was canceled in the 2017 local transport plan, which means that there will in fact no local rail transport on the route for an indefinite period of time.

Since the route cannot be operated cost-effectively with currently three pairs of trains running on working days and since extensive investments are due from 2015, DB Netz put it out to tender on November 25, 2013 for takeover by other railway infrastructure companies .

See also

• List of disused railway lines in Saxony

literature

• Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .

Web links

Commons : Böhlen – Espenhain railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the Espenhain lignite refining plant
• The carbochemistry in Espenhain
• Route kilometers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data on sachsenschiene.net
2. ↑ Meßtischblatt Borna on www.deutschefotothek.de
3. ^ "European Private Railways '07", DVV Media Group, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7771-0365-5 ; Pp. 113 and 220-221
4. ↑ Local traffic plan 2000 of the association for the local traffic area Leipzig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB), pp. 5–51  
5. ↑ Route: Böhlen (near Leipzig) (exclusively) - Espenhain (including). Call for applications from November 25, 2013 to February 25, 2014. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Netze, November 25, 2013, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 25, 2013 .