Halle – Cottbus railway line
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The Halle – Cottbus railway line is a 176-kilometer double-track electrified main line that was opened in 1871 and 1872. It formed the central line of the Halle-Sorau-Gubener railway company. Today it is part of a connection from Central Germany to Poland .
While the route was also used by express trains until the fall of the Berlin Wall , today it primarily plays a role in regional and international freight traffic.
history
Beginning until 1945
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On December 1, 1871, the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HSGE) opened the Cottbus - Falkenberg / Elster section after the eastern extension towards Guben had already gone into operation in the same year. Six months later, on May 1, 1872, the trains ran via Falkenberg to Eilenburg , and two more months later, on June 30, 1872, the line to Halle went into operation. Like many of the Prussian private railways at the time, the line was characterized, among other things, by the fact that there was no level threading into existing railways, but was mainly crossed without crossing. There are two tower stations in Doberlug-Kirchhain (crossing with the Berlin-Dresdener Bahn ) and in Falkenberg / Elster (crossing with lines of the former Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn ). A separate train station was built in Delitzsch , independent of the existing train station. On November 1, 1874, the connecting line to Leipzig was opened in Eilenburg .
The line was expanded to two tracks by 1911. Until the end of the Second World War, the line was an important link from Central Germany to Silesia . There were a number of through car connections from West Germany. Leipzig was also served by through cars via Eilenburg.
Between 1945 and 1990
After 1945, the role of the route changed. Due to the Oder-Neisse border , the importance of traffic to the east decreased, but gradually new tasks arose in passenger and goods traffic to the growing industrial locations in the region, such as Cottbus, Guben or Eisenhüttenstadt .
The second track, which was dismantled after 1945 as a reparation payment , was rebuilt before 1970. Between 1984 and 1989 the electrification of the railway took place in several stages .
The Cottbus – Eilenburg section and on towards Leipzig were also used by a number of long-distance trains until 1990 . For example the routes Frankfurt (Oder) - Frankfurt (Main) and Cottbus - Erfurt . There was also an international express train from Leipzig to Kraków . Typical long-distance train stops were Calau (Niederlausitz) , Finsterwalde (Niederlausitz) , Doberlug-Kirchhain, Falkenberg (Elster), Torgau and Eilenburg. The Eilenburg – Halle section, on the other hand, has primarily served regional and freight traffic since 1945 at the latest.
After 1990
In 1992, the express train service on the route was synchronized, and the express trains have run every two hours since then. The line was converted into an interregional line in 1995 , with trains running from Cottbus and Leipzig via Magdeburg and Schwerin to Lübeck. In 1999 every second train and a year later all trains were replaced by a regional express. In 2016 the second track between Halle Hauptbahnhof and Peißen was dismantled.
passenger traffic
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Regional Express trains run every two hours between Cottbus and Eilenburg and on to Leipzig. They are supplemented between Cottbus and Falkenberg by regional trains and between Falkenberg and Eilenburg by the S4 (Wurzen – Leipzig – Hoyerswerda) of the S-Bahn Central Germany , so that there is about an hourly service.
Since December 2017, trains have been running every one to two hours between Halle and Eilenburg as line S9 of the S-Bahn Central Germany. This line was previously operated as a regional train (line 118, most recently 75).
Vehicle use
DB Regio Südost uses three-part Bombardier Talent 2 railcars for the S9 Eilenburg-Halle . Previously, Regio Shuttle and modernized DR double-decker push-pull trains with the 143 series were used here.
Since the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland started operating, the S4 has been running with three or four-car Talent 2. These have replaced the double-decker push-pull trains previously used on the RE 11 (Leipzig – Hoyerswerda) and the RB 115 (Leipzig – Eilenburg Ost) from modernized DR- Cars and the 143 series .
The RE 10 Leipzig – Cottbus is made up of a four-part and a two-part Talent 2 as standard. Due to delays in the approval process, push-pull train sets from former Interregio wagons (converted DR express train wagons ) with class 182 locomotives were used as a replacement .
Freight transport
The route is used by freight trains , including those from the direction of Falkenberg / Elster and those that are formed in Eilenburg, to the freight center in Halle (Saale). In addition, it is increasingly important in freight traffic to and from Eastern Europe, whose traffic axis branches off in Falkenberg via Hoyerswerda to Węgliniec in Poland ( Węgliniec – Roßlau railway ). After completion of the construction work between Horka and Hoyerswerda, according to Deutsche Bahn, traffic will increase from 40 freight trains today to up to 160 freight trains daily in the Falkenberg – Eilenburg – Halle / Leipzig section, making the route an important international freight line.
In May 2011, the BLG Logistics Group announced that it would be investing 10 million euros in 20 of the 40 tracks at Falkenberg station and expanding it as a marshalling yard including a workshop for car freight trains from and to Eastern Europe. The trains then run between Eastern Europe and the ports of u. a. Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Bartonek: Next talent date for Cottbus. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 7, 2012, accessed May 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Harry Müller: Lower Silesian Magistrale is still on hold. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 20, 2006, accessed September 4, 2018 .
- ^ Frank Claus: High-tech neighbor for the museum. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 13, 2011, accessed May 23, 2011 .