Ingolstadt – Riedenburg railway line
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| Route number : | 5380 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 413e (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 38.71 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ingolstadt – Riedenburg branch line was a branch line in Bavaria . It connected the Danube town of Ingolstadt , located in Upper Bavaria , with the town of Riedenburg , located on the Altmühl , which belonged to the Upper Palatinate until 1972 (since then the administrative district of Lower Bavaria ). The route is known today as the Schambachtalbahn .
Building history
The city of Riedenburg, which belonged to the Upper Palatinate until 1972, tried to establish a railway connection towards the end of the 19th century . A continuation of the Sulztalbahn, opened in 1888, from Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate via Beilngries to Dietfurt and on through the Altmühltal to Riedenburg was an option , but it would be possible a. It had become quite expensive because of the need to build bridges, and it would have impaired shipping on the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal . This is how the plan for a branch line from Upper Bavarian Ingolstadt via Altmannstein to Riedenburg came about . This could be built more cheaply and could also be used to remove wood from the large state forests of the Kösching Forest.
At the expense of the communities ready to be connected, an inexpensive route was established in 1898. It should branch off 3 kilometers north of Ingolstadt main station to the east in the direction of Kösching and reach the Schambach valley near Sandersdorf. In this winding valley it led to the mouth in Riedenburg. After the participating municipalities had agreed to the free land assignment and substantial subsidies for the 38.7 km long branch line, the construction was approved by the Bavarian state parliament by law of June 30, 1900.
Construction began as early as 1901 when the line to Treuchtlingen in Ingolstadt Nord was branched off. Until Dolling, the line was available for freight traffic from autumn 1902 even before passenger traffic opened on May 1, 1903. The remaining 23 km to Riedenburg went into operation on October 1, 1904. The station facilities in Riedenburg with locomotive sheds and coal banses were located southeast of the town and would have allowed the line in the Altmühltal to be continued to Kelheim .
Train traffic
With a view to the excursion traffic, two pairs of trains a day were operated on this branch line from 1904 until the outbreak of the First World War . In 1913 they needed about two hours for the 42 km long route from Ingolstadt main station. In 1924 the travel time was the same . For 1936 the timetable shows three pairs of trains with a journey time of one and a half hours. At that time , steam trains guided by a Bavarian Pt 2/3 were used. In the years 1969 to 1971 five pairs of trains drove, the travel time being between 60 and 80 minutes. After a transitional period with class 64 steam locomotives, rail buses of the class VT 95 were used for passenger transport .
By 1925, the Riedenburg – Ingolstadt workers' and schoolchildren's trains were partially tied through the Ingolstadt Nord station to the military station on the Donaulände (today the location of the city theater), from where it was only a few steps to the schools in the old town. After the military station was closed in 1925, the Schlachthof stop with a short platform was set up between the stations in Ingolstadt Nord and Ingolstadt Hbf, where the trains of the Riedenburg local railway stopped until the 1960s, even if the stop was not recorded in the official timetable.
Shutdown
From the 1960s onwards, rail bus travel (VT 95) was gradually thinned out and parallel traffic was established on the road. In 1971 there were still five pairs of trains running on the entire route, but also four pairs of omnibus routes, as well as further omnibuses between Ingolstadt and Kösching. The end of passenger traffic on the entire route on May 28, 1972, was not surprising. On September 30, 1973, freight traffic on the Altmannstein – Riedenburg section was also stopped and the tracks were dismantled the following year. A cycle path has been created here.
Until the 1980s, freight trains for the transport of sugar beets ran on the remaining route between Ingolstadt Nord and Altmannstein . In addition, a company in Altmannstein insisted on handling its goods by rail and thus contributed to maintaining the route until the 1990s. In the last few years the freight trains were mainly driven by class 290 diesel locomotives from BW Ingolstadt.
Freight traffic from Offendorf to Altmannstein was ended on June 1, 1994; the last remaining section of Ingolstadt – Offendorf was shut down on August 1, 1995. Before that, some special trips could be carried out with a diesel multiple unit of the Deutsche Bundesbahn or a steam train of the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen. Since the route was dismantled in 2004, a cycle path has been set up on the route piece by piece.
Only the connection to the Gunvor refinery there, branching off from the former line in Ingolstadt Nord, from which branch tracks branch off in the direction of the former Shell refinery, now the Interpark industrial area, and to the Bayernwerk power station near Großmehring, have survived .
Special trip by the eagle on the siding to the former Shell refinery at the junction to the Bayernwerk
Between Kösching and Oberdolling
The former train station "Theissing" near Tholbath, today privately owned
Bridge over the B299 in Sandersdorf
Route above Neuenhinzenhausen
The former station building in Altmannstein
View from the Rosenburg to the former train station of Riedenburg
In 2008 the now continuous, 36 km long Schambachtalbahn cycle path was opened on the former route of the railway line. Several information boards explain the history of this railway line and the neighboring places.
New bridge over the B299 in Sandersdorf for the Schambachtalbahn cycle path
The former train station in Altmannstein
Web links
- The route on bahnrelict.net
literature
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . 2nd edition Amberg 1997
- Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German railways in their development 1835–1935 . Berlin 1935