Biessenhofen – Füssen railway line

Biessenhofen – Füssen
Route number :	5440 Biessenhofen – Marktoberdorf 5441 Marktoberdorf – Füssen
Course book section (DB) :	974
Route length:	37.133 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend from Buchloe 0.000 Biessenhofen 700  m above sea level NN to Lindau 2.525 Ebenhofen 6.514 0.000 Marktoberdorf 729  m above sea level NN to Lechbruck (1899–1963) 0.636 Marktoberdorf School 4,715 Leuterschess 745  m above sea level NN 8.100 Balteratsried 11,399 Lengenwang 806  m above sea level NN 13.900 Ears 16,684 Seeg 819  m above sea level NN 19.800 Enzenstetten 830  m above sea level NN 22.195 Weizern- Hopferau 805  m above sea level NN 25.600 Reinertshof 27.100 Hopfensee 29.002 Awanst Füssen City of Füssen 30.619 Feet 808  m above sea level NN

The Biessenhofen – Füssen line is a branch line in Bavaria . It branches off the Buchloe – Lindau railway line in Biessenhofen and leads in the Allgäu via Marktoberdorf to Füssen .

history

At Ebenhofen with a view of the Alps

The Biessenhofen– Marktoberdorf section was opened in 1876 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways . On June 1, 1889, the extension to Füssen went into operation, but it was built and operated by the private Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft (LAG). As early as May 18, 1889 - before operations began on June 1, 1889 - the body of Queen Mother Marie of Bavaria was transported by train from Füssen. The “Füssen” locomotive comes from the early days of the line and is today the oldest operational regular-gauge steam locomotive in Germany. After the LAG went bankrupt, the Marktoberdorf – Füssen section was nationalized on August 1, 1938 .

The Marktoberdorf – Füssen section was converted to Signaled Train Control (SZB) of the Scheidt and Bachmann design with a train conductor in Marktoberdorf on May 9, 1989 . The Lengenwang and Weizern-Hopferau stations were given fallback switches and, next to the Füssen station, are no longer manned.

Until the end of 2018, Deutsche Bahn AG ( DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben ) operated the route as the König-Ludwig-Bahn . The entire length of the route was served by regional express trains between Munich and Füssen and regional trains between Augsburg and Füssen every two hours , which resulted in an hourly service . In addition, individual regional trains ran from Monday to Friday as amplifier trains from Augsburg or Kaufbeuren to Marktoberdorf.

Class 218 locomotives with n-wagons were used as the regional express from Munich until 2014 . Since December 2014, Deutsche Bahn has been increasingly using the 245 series with double-deck cars . The class 245 did not prove itself on this route, however, so that the class 218 was the only locomotive to haul the Dosto push-pull trains until the last day of operation. The last n-car push-pull trains were replaced in June 2015. Augsburg's regional railways consisted of class 642 railcars .

business

Since the timetable change on December 9, 2018, the Bayerische Regiobahn has taken over operations on the route (Augsburg / Munich - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren -) Biessenhofen - Füssen. Since then, only LINT railcars have been used.

The route is served along its entire length every two hours between Munich and Augsburg to Füssen, which results in an hourly service . In addition, amplifier trains run from Buchloe or Kaufbeuren to Marktoberdorf from Monday to Friday . The Marktoberdorf Schule stop is only served by individual trains.

course	frequency
Füssen - Biessenhofen - Munich main station	Two-hour intervals
Füssen - Biessenhofen - Augsburg main station	Two-hour intervals

Future prospects

According to the concept of the Bavarian State Government for more electromobility on the rails in Bavaria, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann proposed the route to Augsburg from a Bavarian perspective as a pilot project for operation with LOHC technology (Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers).

Web links

Commons : Biessenhofen – Füssen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Course book table from 1944 (former KBS 404r)
• History of the Füssen train station on www.füssen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kuchinke, Stephan: The Localbahn-Actiengesellschaft a Bavarian private railway and its history . 1st edition Transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71125-7 .
2. ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .