Cottbus – Forst line (Lausitz)
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| Route number (DB) : | 6205 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 209.46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 24.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Cottbus – Forst (Lausitz) railway line is a main line in Germany . It connects the southern Brandenburg city of Cottbus with the border with the Polish Lebus voivodeship .
history
The almost 60 km long Cottbus – Sorau line was put into operation on March 1, 1872 by the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Railway Company . Five years later it was taken over by the Prussian State Railways on January 1, 1877 .
After the Second World War , the area east of the Neisse was added to Poland and the Forst (Lausitz) station became a border station . The originally existing second track was dismantled by the Soviet Union . The section of the former Cottbus – Sorau line, now located in Poland, merged with the Łódź – Tuplice line .
The regional train line RB46 runs between Cottbus and the Forst (Lausitz) station . It was used by DB Regio until December 2008 , and since then by Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn Gesellschaft mbH (ODEG). From the takeover by the ODEG to the VBB- wide standardization of the line numbers, the RB46 had the designation OE46.
The RB93 line of the Polish State Railways runs twice a day between Forst and the Polish ary . In addition, until December 2014 a pair of Eurocity trains ran once a day between Hamburg and Kraków , stopping in Cottbus, Forst and Żary.
In July 2012, representatives of the German and Polish transport ministries agreed to electrify the line from 2014. The plan was to run six Eurocity trains between Berlin and southern Poland every day after the construction work was completed. However, electrification of the route is not in sight at the moment. In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 that the operation is as potential demand in. The electrification and the expansion from the current 120 km / h to 160 km / h in the future are now to be implemented through the federal government's package of measures.
Since May 2016, the cultural train has been running on the weekend from Berlin to Wroclaw via this railway line. The reason for the establishment of this connection was that the Silesian metropolis was European Capital of Culture in 2016 .
Web links
- Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn on bahnstrecken.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ RE remains RE - OE, NE, PE becomes RB! Uniform names in the regional rail traffic of the VBB. In: vbb.de. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2012 .
- ↑ The Cottbus - Breslau railway line is being expanded ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), rbb -Nachrichten, July 11, 2012.
- ^ Act on the expansion of federal railways. December 23, 2016, accessed March 21, 2017 .
- ↑ The coal exit billions are to flow into these projects , rbb24 of April 4, 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020
- ↑ Kulturzug Berlin-Breslau: for 38 euros there and back. In: Focus . January 11, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ From Berlin to Breslau: The culture train will run until at least next year. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 8, 2016, accessed September 9, 2016 .