Beucha – Trebsen railway line

Beucha – Trebsen (Mulde)
Route number (DB) :	6823; sä. BT
Course book section (DB) :	503 (2006)
Route length:	16.75 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C3
Maximum slope :	16.6  ‰
Minimum radius :	250 m
Legend from Borsdorf (Sachs) -0.25 (Start of the route) 0.00 Beucha 129 m to Coswig (b Dresden) 0.84 Beucha Ost (formerly Kleinsteinberg) 127 m 0.980 Infrastructure border DB Netz / DRE 3.17 Brandis 139 m At the silicate plant Grube Frisch Glück Instead of MOCO 7.92 Ammelshain (formerly Bf) 142 m Ammelshain quarry 10.65 Altenhain (b Brandis) 148 m Former munitions factory 13.46 Seelingstädt (b Brandis) 154 m Initially the Hengstberg quarry 14.80 Initially the Kolmberg quarry 15.20 Anst Getreide AG 16.75 Trebsen (Mulde) 128 m strategic train towards Nerchau 17.13 (End of route) Instead of a paper factory

The Beucha – Trebsen line is a branch line in Saxony . It begins in Beucha and leads via Brandis to Trebsen .

history

The area east of Leipzig developed into a center of the Saxon stone industry before the turn of the century. However, both the Leipzig-Dresden Railway and the south-facing connection Borsdorf – Döbeln – Coswig passed the most important quarries at some distance. So the desire for a railway line between Beucha and Seelingstädt soon arose, which should primarily serve freight traffic. Since the new railway promised a brisk volume of traffic, it was ultimately approved by the Saxon state parliament. The city of Brandis' request for a rail link was also met.

In April 1898, work began on the new secondary line. The quarry owners contributed financially, in particular with the delivery of building materials. On December 10, 1898, the line to Seelingstädt was opened. Passenger train traffic initially only took place between Beucha and Brandis. From October 1, 1899, passenger trains also ran to Seelingstädt.

The route was later extended to Trebsen. Construction of the extension line began in September 1910. It went into operation on October 1, 1911. In the following years the connection developed to the most profitable in Saxony. In 1938, 30 freight trains ran daily to handle the enormous freight volume. In addition, there was a brisk tourist traffic, which was managed with 11 pairs of trains even in the war year 1944.

On July 14, 1938, the worst accident in the history of the line occurred at a level crossing in Trebsen station. A coach, manned by a Christian group of women from Ramsdorf, drove at excessive speed and with a defective brake system into a shunting department consisting of a small locomotive and several open freight wagons, which at the time was on the manually secured level crossing of today's federal highway 107. The impact was so severe that a female passenger was thrown through the roof of the bus and landed in one of the freight cars. The person was one of the few people involved who suffered only minor injuries. As a result of the collision, the fuel tank of the bus ruptured and caught fire. In total, the accident left ten dead and many injured.

After the Second World War , train traffic was resumed on May 28, 1945 with four passenger trains. Between 1947 and 1949 there was also the Frisch Glück stop near Polenz , which served the rush hour traffic of a lignite works.

After the political change in East Germany in 1989, the route lost its paramount importance in passenger and freight traffic. Travel between Brandis and Trebsen ceased on September 28, 1997. Shortly afterwards, the train service between Beucha and Brandis was condensed into hourly intervals. As of August 6, 2004, the regional trains ran from Leipzig Hbf to Brandis. However, it was not possible to achieve the number of passengers of 1,000 per day required for long-term continued operation.

On December 10, 2006, the local rail passenger transport service was canceled by the now responsible association for the Leipzig local transport area . Freight traffic between Seelingstädt and Trebsen has been inactive since December 31, 2006, after it was last served by the Central German Railway (MEG).

Since the beginning of January 2011, the line has been operated again by the German Regional Railway. At the end of 2012 a special train, consisting of a double traction of piglet taxis , drove the entire route. There is a pair of freight trains per week that serve the Getreide AG junction in Trebsen.

literature

• Deutsche Reichsbahn, Reichsbahnamt Leipzig; German Model Railway Association of the GDR, District Board Halle / Saale (publisher): Branch line with a difference. Documentation on the 75th anniversary of the Beucha - Trebsen / Mulde line , Halle / Saale 1986.

Web links

Commons : Beucha – Trebsen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route description on www.sachsenschiene.de
• Beucha - Trebsen (Mulde) . Archived from the original on November 20, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual timetable 1944 - valid until further notice
2. ↑ Klaus Schumann: The horror accident of 1938 in Trebsen - a look at the police files. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. July 4, 2019, archived from the original on August 23, 2020 ; accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ See Bahn-Report , Issue 2/2010, p. 46, editor: Interest Group Rail Transport eV, Rohr, ISSN  0178-4528
4. ↑ See scan in eisenbahn-sammlershop.de