Hörpolding – Traunreut railway line

Hörpolding – Traunreut
Route number :	5731
Course book section (DB) :	947
Route length:	2.575 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend from Traunstein 0.000 Hörpolding 522 m Traun 0.428 to Garching Steiner Mühlbach 2.575 Traunreut 551 m Connection to Heidenhain Connection of BSH household appliances Connection Siteco Swell:

The Hörpolding – Traunreut railway line is a branch line in Bavaria . It branches off the Traunstein – Garching railway line in Hörpolding and leads to Traunreut .

history

Separation of the lines at Hörpolding station. On the left the track leads to Garching, on the right to Traunreut. (2008)

Traunreut station (2014)

Today's Hörpolding – Traunreut railway line goes back to the connecting line of the St. Georgen Army Ammunition Plant , the construction of which began in 1938 in preparation for the Second World War . The ammunition factory and the associated connecting railway went into operation in 1942.

After the war, the area of ​​the dismantled ammunition factory was used as accommodation and living space for displaced persons from eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia , from which the future town of Traunreut emerged. The factories of today's BSH Hausgeräte and Heidenhain have settled in the remaining production halls , which still ensure a constant volume of goods traffic.

From September 28, 1952 to September 27, 1963, passenger trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn ran on the former connecting line, which in Hörpolding each had a connection to the trains on the Traunstein – Garching line. After that, on July 21, 2001, at the town festival in Traunstein, a passenger train traveled the route again.

As part of the reactivation of the Hörpolding - Traunreut route, since the timetable change on December 10, 2006, 15 trains per day and 10 trains per day connect Traunreut with Traunstein via Hörpolding. Before that, the line was extensively modernized for 5 million euros, including a. Traunreut train station received a barrier-free platform.

Since the timetable change in December 2019, trains have been running every hour from Traunstein to Hörpolding, then alternately every two hours to Traunreut and Garching. Shuttle buses run every hour on the Traunreut – Traunstein route.

literature

• Armin Franzke: The Traun-Alz-Bahn Traunstein - Garching ad Alz. Return of rail passenger transport to Traunreut. Brochure, 2006, ISBN 978-3-9809568-5-7

Web links

Commons : Hörpolding – Traunreut railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the operator Südostbayernbahn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Station database. In: bahnland-bayern.de. Retrieved January 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ "Strengthening the railway line" in the Traunsteiner Tagblatt