Coburg – Bad Rodach railway line

Coburg – Bad Rodach
Route number :	5122
Course book section (DB) :	831
Route length:	17.65 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	15.9  ‰
Minimum radius :	250 m
Legend from Lichtenfels 0.00 Coburg 291 m to Ernstthal am Rennsteig 0.48 volume up 1.26 B 4 1.99 Coburg-Neuses Awanst waste incineration plant Goldbergsee 3.97 Beiersdorf (b Coburg) 6.12 Wiesenfeld (b Coburg) 304 m 7.78 Meeder 9.78 Kleinwalbur 12.24 Great whale 305 m 15.87 Schweighof 17.65 Bad Rodach 300 m

The Coburg – Bad Rodach line is a single-track, 18-kilometer branch line in Bavaria. The branch line leads from Coburg via Meeder to Bad Rodach . The line, which opened in 1892, was initially built and operated by the Werra Railway Company . In 1895 the railway company and the line were nationalized.

The route is largely passable at 60 km / h. Due to technically unsecured or unrestricted level crossings, only 20 to 50 km / h are permitted in sections.

Unlike many other secondary lines a high traffic of freight and passenger was on the railway line Coburg Bad Rodach available until the 1990s, first with MORA C of freight in 2002 was set up on the operation of a waste incineration plant.

history

Coburg train station

Rodach could have received a rail connection when the Werra Railway Eisenach – Lichtenfels was opened in 1858/59 , but instead of the simple route via Rodach, a difficult route via Eisfeld was implemented. Further projects in the following decades were also not implemented. It was not until the 1880s that there were again serious plans for a rail link to Rodach. Initially, a narrow-gauge railway was favored, but Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha rejected it. The ducal state ministry of Bavaria then asked for help with route planning, as the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha did not have its own specialists in railway construction. After a favorable economic development also made it possible to finance the construction of the railway, the Werra Railway Company received the concession to build and operate the line from the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha on January 24, 1890 . The neighboring municipalities had previously given the state their commitment to participate in the construction costs. Construction began on June 15, 1891, and a year later, on June 27, 1892, the line was inaugurated. Scheduled traffic began on July 1, 1892.

On October 1, 1895, along with the Werra Railway Company lines, this branch line also became Prussian state property and was from then on operated by the Prussian State Railway. Efforts to build a route from Hildburghausen on the Eisenach – Lichtenfels railway via Rodach to Ummerstadt were not implemented, as was the variant of a connection via Maroldsweisach to Königshofen im Grabfeld . An extension to the Hildburghausen-Lindenau-Friedrichshall narrow-gauge railway to Streufdorf, which was envisaged when the license was awarded to the Werra-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, was also not implemented.

After the First World War, the newly founded Free State of Coburg became part of Bavaria in 1920, but the lines around Coburg continued to belong to the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt , attempts to affiliate with the Reichsbahndirektion Nürnberg were unsuccessful. In the timetable of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft in 1934, six passenger trains drove daily on the route with the number 165d in both directions with a travel time of at least 40 minutes. The route book route 831 was assigned the route number 419b in the route book of the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1970, after which the 833 was valid until 1992.

From 1982 onwards, weekend train operations were stopped for a long time. Since the railway line crosses the newly established Goldbergsee between kilometers 2.9 and 3.55 , a protective wall was built parallel to the railway embankment in 2008 to stabilize the existing dam. A flooding of the railway embankment in the event of extreme flooding is accepted with this 2.7 million euro construction. The Bavarian water management department bore three quarters of the costs.

business

Bad Rodach train station

On the route came steam locomotives of the series 86 , later diesel locomotives of series V 60 , V 80 , V 100 and 218 as well as railcars VT 98 and railcar of the 628 series are used.

Since June 2011, Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 multiple units from the Agilis company have been running on the Bad Rodach - Coburg - Lichtenfels - Kulmbach - Bayreuth Hbf - Weiden (Oberpf) regional train line. Trains run every hour on weekdays. A total of fourteen pairs of trains run during the week between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. and cover the distance in 23 to 25 minutes. The trains are handicapped accessible and are only equipped with 2nd carriage class. Since the timetable change in December 2017, the trains have only run to Coburg.

The route is part of the "Upper Franconia Diesel Network" advertised by the Bavarian Railway Company .

Scheduled freight train traffic takes place on the Coburg to Coburg-Neuses section to the waste-to-energy plant.

outlook

From December 2020 trains are scheduled to stop at a new stop in Coburg-Beiersdorf. Deutsche Bahn expects 160 boarding and disembarking passengers per day. The expected cost of the platform of 600,000 euros will be borne by the Free State of Bavaria.

literature

• Wolfgang Bleiweis, Stefan Goldschmidt and Bernd Schmitt: Railway in the Coburg region. Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 1996. ISBN 3-9802748-4-5 .
• Wolfgang Bleiweis, Bernd Schmitt: The railway to Rodach. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-9807748-2-1 .
• Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines. History, inventory and conversion. Neustadt / Coburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-944237-05-3 .

Web links

Commons : Coburg – Bad Rodach railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
• Course book 1944
• Route map of the Rbd Erfurt from 1931
• Branch line from Coburg to Rodach ( Memento from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Bleiweis, Bernd Schmitt: The railway to Rodach. P. 13 ff.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Bleiweis, Bernd Schmitt: The railway to Rodach. P. 28 ff.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Bleiweis, Bernd Schmitt: The railway to Rodach. P. 43.
4. ^ Siegfried Bufe: Railway in Upper Franconia, p. 267
5. ↑ Bernd Schmitt: branch lines in Upper Franconia, p. 83 ff
6. ↑ Christoph Winter: Frankenbrücke stop? In: Coburger Tageblatt . March 10, 2016, p. 16 .
7. ↑ The railway expands the Coburg station. In: np-coburg.de. October 27, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019 .