Epfenhausen – Penzing railway line

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Epfenhausen – Penzing
Route length: 2 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Allgäu Railway from Geltendorf
Station without passenger traffic
 0.0 Epfenhausen
   
 Allgäu Railway to Kaufering
Service / freight station - end of line
 4th Landsberg / Lech Air Base

The Epfenhausen – Penzing railway line is an approximately four-kilometer-long siding to the Landsberg / Lech air base that is now only used for freight traffic . In the 1950s, the route was also used by passenger trains.

history

The Penzing Air Base, which opened in 1937, was given a siding in 1936. After Epfenhausen station, the railway line runs parallel to the Allgäu Railway for about one kilometer. After the end of the village of Epfenhausen, the route branches off to the right and after about two kilometers you reach the Penzing airfield in a left-hand bend. Within the airfield, the route continues straight ahead, so that at the other end of the airfield, you can bypass the runway in an arc. Hazardous materials, such as aviation fuel, were transported over the rails for the fighter planes stationed in Penzing. During the Second World War , the importance of the route increased sharply due to the transport of materials and ammunition. After the airfield was used again after the establishment of the Bundeswehr in the 1950s, passenger trains also ran over the route. The passenger trains began at Geltendorf station and ran as normal passenger trains via Schwabhausen to Epfenhausen . From there they continued their journey as military trains to Penzing . The trains were driven with Uerdinger rail buses, but stopped again in the late 1950s. To this day, the route is still used to transport aircraft fuel or materials for the airport. Most of the route still has manual switches that were installed in 1936. Individual points are also controlled electronically from the Kaufering station from the Kaufering dispatcher interlocking .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Dilken: A virtual journey on the KBS 970 from Munich to Lindau ( Memento of 30 March 2019 Internet Archive ). In: kbs970.de .
  2. ↑ Alwin Reiter: Epfenhausen ( Memento from January 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: ammerseebahn.de .
  3. ↑ Georg Sattler: Epfenhausen. In: doku-des-alltags.de , accessed on January 6, 2013.