Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway line

Holzkirchen – Lenggries
Overview of the railway lines south of Holzkirchen
Route number (DB) :	5505
Course book section (DB) :	956, 957
Route length:	30.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	Holzkirchen – Bad Tölz: D4 Bad Tölz – Lenggries: CE
Minimum radius :	294 m
Top speed:	100 km / h
Train control :	PZB
Dual track :	No
Legend from Munich Hbf 36,446 Wooden churches 683 m to Rosenheim to Schliersee 42,403 Warngau from Tegernsee 47.231 Shaft laugh 757 m Works railway to the Marienstein cement works 51,953 Reichersbeuern 718 m 57.900 Bad Tölz (until 1924) 57.093 Bad Tölz (since 1924) 687 m 59.888 Gaissach 667 m 63,365 Obergries 666 m 66,566 Lenggries 679 m

The Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in Bavaria . It is routed as the main line from Holzkirchen to Bad Tölz , and as a branch line from Bad Tölz to Lenggries .

history

Route at Gaißach with an integral of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn

The railway line was opened in two sections, the first section to Bad Tölz was opened on June 1, 1874. In 1905, a postal service from Bad Tölz to Lenggries was set up. The extension of the railway line to Lenggries went into operation on September 3, 1924.

On the evening of June 8, 1975, the Warngau railway accident occurred between Warngau and Schaftlach . 41 people were killed and 126 injured in a head-on collision between two express trains .

At that time, Warngau was still a train station. In the meantime, it has been downgraded to a stopping point and only has one track.

Local trains of the Bavarian Oberlandbahn have been running on the route on behalf of the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG) since November 29, 1998 .

Routing

The line leaves Holzkirchen station in a south-easterly direction. The Mangfall Valley Railway branches off to the east in the direction of Rosenheim. The Holzkirchen – Schliersee railway runs east to the southern outskirts, and then also turns east. The first stop is Warngau. After crossing a forest, you reach Schaftlach. Here the route branches off to Tegernsee . The route turns west near Waakirchen and finally reaches Bad Tölz via Reichersbeuern. From here the railway follows the Isar valley to Lenggries in a southerly direction .

Future prospects

According to the concept of the Bavarian state government for more electromobility on the rails in Bavaria, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann proposed the route for electrification from a Bavarian perspective.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.isartalbahn.de KBS 956 Munich – Lenggries (accessed on September 6, 2011)
2. ↑ www.mangfalltal-bahn.de History of the development (accessed on September 6, 2011)
3. ↑ History of our competence. Deutsche Bahn AG, February 22, 2011, archived from the original on September 20, 2011 ; accessed on May 11, 2016 . 
4. ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .