Grossenhain – Cottbus railway line
The Grossenhain – Cottbus line is an electrified main line in Saxony and Brandenburg . In Großenhain it connects to the Grossenhain – Priestewitz railway and leads via Ruhland and Senftenberg to Cottbus . From Großenhain to Ruhland it is single-track, then double-track.
history
The route from Großenhain to Cottbus has its origin in the Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .
On April 20, 1870, the Grossenhain – Cottbus line was released as a continuation of the Grossenhain – Priestewitz railway . With the later opening of the Berlin-Dresdener Bahn , Großenhain now had two train stations. The existing station on the route to Cottbus was renamed Grossenhain Cottbuser Bahnhof , the new one was named Grossenhain Berliner Bahnhof .
On May 26, 1990, the Deutsche Reichsbahn began electrifying the Cottbus – Senftenberg section, and on May 31, 1992 the Ruhland – Großenhain (–Priestewitz) section including the connecting curve in Großenhain between Cottbus and Berlin train stations. Before that, the electrification of the Ruhland – Senftenberg section had already been put into operation on October 31, 1987, at that time as part of an electrification project from Falkenberg – Ruhland – Senftenberg .
Shortly after the train station in the direction of Lampertswalde , the runway of the military airfield in Großenhain ended . Therefore, from electrification in 1992 until the withdrawal of the Soviet / Russian armed forces in autumn 1993, there was a 660-meter-long stretch of route without overhead lines (route kilometers 3.76 to 4.42). Electric traction vehicles had to pass this stretch with the pantograph lowered as a swing drive. In addition, there was a block signal in front of this stretch of road in both directions, which was not operated by the dispatcher but from the airfield. As a result, it could happen that a train, after the signal for take-off or landing of an aircraft was stopped without warning, came to a stop in the section without catenaries and had to be towed into the station with a diesel locomotive.
business
Today the line is part of the most important rail connection between Dresden and Cottbus. Regional express lines operate every two hours on the routes Dresden – Ruhland – Cottbus (RE18), Dresden – Ruhland (–Hoyerswerda) (RE15) and Cottbus – Ruhland (–Falkenberg / Elster) (RB49). By the two hourly line S4 Leipzig-Ruhland-Hoyerswerda train means Germany arise in the station Ruhland every hour connections to and from all directions.
Since the Elbe-Elster network started operating on June 9, 2013, Bombardier Talent 2 railcars and double-decker trains hauled by electric locomotives have been running on this route .
The hourly regional trains of the RB24 line from Senftenberg via Berlin Ostkreuz to Eberswalde also use the route between Senftenberg and Sedlitz Ost . Talent 2 railcars are also used.
Web links
- Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn on bahnstrecken.de
- Files and plans in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993 . GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 143, 151 .
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Airplane versus train? About a curiosity of the safety technology of the railway , Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter 1/1997, p. 18
- ^ DB Regio Nordost operates the Elbe-Elster network. Deutsche Bahn AG, accessed on June 14, 2015 .