Deggendorf – Metten railway line

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Deggendorf – Metten
Section of the Deggendorf – Metten railway line
Route number (DB) : 9582
Course book range : 426b 1957
Route length: 4.22 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 by Bayerisch Eisenstein
Station, station
 0.0 Deggendorf central station 323 m
   
 to Plattling
   
 4.2 Metten 312 m
   
 5.3 Metten quarry

The Deggendorf – Metten railway was a single-track, non-electrified local railway in Eastern Bavaria . The railway line was built and operated by the local railway Deggendorf – Metten AG .

history

Local railway Deggendorf – Metten AG

The company was founded on the one hand to provide the town of Metten, which is known for the Metten Monastery, with a rail connection and on the other hand to be able to transport the products of the granite quarries in the vicinity of the place by train.

The concession was granted on September 7, 1890, in the same year construction began and operations began on October 17, 1891. The track length of the Paterbahn , as it was popularly called, was 4.22 kilometers, in addition there was a 1.1 kilometer long siding to the quarries in Metten. The two steam locomotives on this line were named Deggendorf and Metten ( Krauss , built in 1891, serial numbers 2451 and 2452, type B n2t, scrapped in 1965 and 1953, respectively).

Regentalbahn AG

The railway was taken over by Regentalbahn AG on February 1, 1928 and continued to be operated by them. The more powerful Osser locomotives ( Maffei , built in 1922, serial number 5478, type C h2t) and the new Deggendorf (Maffei, built in 1927, serial number 5684, type D h2t) came from it. The last locomotive was the Bayerwald (identical in construction to Deggendorf , factory number 5683), from 1975 only one railcar ( Dessau , built in 1937) was also used for freight transport. After the passenger traffic was discontinued, the Deutsche Bundesbahn took over the delivery of the wagons.

On November 6, 1975, the last steam train ran on the route. The last passenger train was on the move on September 23, 1983, after only two passenger trains had been running freight transport in the previous years. Freight traffic was stopped on June 1, 1991 and the line finally closed on August 1, 1993. Today a cycle path runs along the railway line between Deggendorf and Metten.

Others

  • As it was built in 1983, the route is part of the “German Railroads Volume 7 Der Bayerische Wald” expansion of the Microsoft Train Simulator that was published on October 22, 2006 .

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 7: Bavaria . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-666-8 , pp. 115–123
  • Bernhard Rückschloß, Das Mettener Bockerl - History of the disused local railway Deggendorf - Metten , Deggendorf 1999, Model - Railway - Association Deggendorf e. V. (editor), ISBN 3-934726-00-3 .
  • Bernhard Rückschloß, The steam locomotive "Deggendorf" - draft horse on branch lines in the Bavarian Forest , Deggendorf 2017, Model - Railway - Association Deggendorf (publisher), ISBN 978-3-934726-81-9 .
  • Andreas Fried, Klaus-Peter Quill: Regentalbahn . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeitler, W .: Railways in the Bavarian Forest, 3rd edition, Grafenau 1980, p. 87

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