Bodenwöhr – Nittenau railway line

Bodenwoehr North – Nittenau
Route number :	5803
Route length:	10.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Furth in the forest 0.00 Bodenwöhr North (until around 1940 Bodenwöhr train station ) 379 m to Rötz to Schwandorf 1.7 Bodenwöhr hut (until around 1940: Bodenwöhr place ) 4.9 Bruck (Oberpf) 362 m 7.2 St. Hubertus (until around 1920) 8.20 Nittenau (new) 10.8 Nittenau 353 m

The Bodenwöhr Nord – Nittenau railway is a branch line in Bavaria . It branches off the Schwandorf – Furth main line in Bodenwöhr and leads to Nittenau .

history

On November 5, 1907, the Bavarian State Railways opened an eleven-kilometer standard-gauge line, which branches off at the Bodenwöhr Nord station about two kilometers north of Bodenwöhr and reaches its destination in the Regental in a southerly direction via Bodenwöhr Hütte and Markt Bruck .

Passenger traffic ceased on May 22, 1955. The freight - mainly gravel transport - operates to this day. Only a few special trains run in passenger traffic. There are demands from the region in favor of regular passenger traffic. Among other things, Emilia Müller , the Bavarian State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Integration , who lives in Bruck and has her constituency here, supports this.

In terms of freight traffic, the Bodenwöhr ironworks and the chipboard plant in Nittenau were served until 1971 in addition to smaller connections. After that, all that remained was the gravel traffic from Nittenau station, where a gravel loading point was set up in the mid-1980s. This was relocated two kilometers north to the open stretch around 2002. However, the old Nittenau station was approached to bypass the locomotive. In order to save this additional route, a bypass track was built at the new ballast loading point in August 2012, which became operationally the new Nittenau station.

The remainder from kilometer 8.43 to the end of the route in the old Nittenau station was closed on June 2, 2010 and has been converted into a cycle path.

literature

• Gerald Hoch, Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in the Upper Palatinate. Decline or renaissance from the 1970s to the new millennium . Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Resch, Neustadt bei Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-7-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Railway Authority: Approval for the closure of the railway line (Bodenwöhr Nord) - km 8.430 - Nittenau  ( 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.  
2. ↑ Tobias Reisky: With the "Postkastl" into the forest, in: Bahn-Report , Issue 1/2013, p. 75f, editor: Interest group rail transport eV, Rohr, ISSN  0178-4528