Railway line Leipzig-Plagwitz-Pörsten

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Leipzig-Plagwitz-Pörsten
Railway line Leipzig-Plagwitz-Pörsten.PNG
Route number : 6811
Course book range : 549 (1998)
Route length: 23.64 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route - straight ahead
from Leipzig Hbf
   
from Leipzig-Connewitz
Station, station
0.000 Leipzig-Plagwitz 118 m
   
to Leipzig-Miltitzer Allee
   
to Probstzella and to Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz
   
2,380 Leipzig Schönauer Strasse 123 m
   
3.900 Leipzig southwest 122 m
   
5.580 Louse 120 m
   
to Markranstädt
   
7.230 Goehrenz - Albersdorf 123 m
   
9.760 Kulkwitz South 126 m
   
11.470 Schkölen - Räpitz 123 m
   
State border between Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
   
14.560 Meuchen 128 m
   
17.290 Lützen 123 m
   
19.250 Skirts 122 m
   
Rippachtal viaduct
   
from Großkorbetha
   
23.640 Pörsten 140 m
Route - straight ahead
to Deuben (b Zeitz)

The Leipzig-Plagwitz – Pörsten line was a branch line in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . It ran from Leipzig-Plagwitz via Lützen to Rippach-Poserna (Pörsten station) and connected to the Großkorbetha – Deuben line . It was shut down in 1999.

history

The Leipzig-Plagwitz-Lützen section was opened on September 1, 1897 by the Prussian-Hessian State Railway. The remainder of the section to Pörsten, which also connected the Großkorbetha – Zeitz line, which was built at the same time , was opened in 1898.

The traffic volume in freight traffic consisted mainly of coal, agricultural products and fertilizers. In 1965, Lützen station was set up as a wagon load hub. This meant that there was no freight traffic in Lausen, Schkölen-Räpitz, Meuchen and Pörsten. In 1923, five pairs of trains ran in tourist traffic, one of them only on weekdays. There was also a Lausen – Pörsten train in rush hour. In 1944 there were six pairs of trains every day, two of them on workdays and one on Sundays only by special order. Some trains ran from Markranstädt via Lausen to Leipzig-Plagwitz. In the 1980s, nine pairs of passenger trains ran Monday to Friday, one of which was an empty train, six on Saturdays and five pairs of trains on Sundays.

Passenger train on the Rippachtal Viaduct (May 1998)

Up until 1966 there were two pairs of local goods trains per day, at times also three, one of which ran from Pörsten to Lützen and the other two from Leipzig-Plagwitz to Lützen. After that, only one pair of local goods trains in the morning drove from Leipzig-Plagwitz to Lützen, which used to run daily, and from the summer of 1980 on Sundays to Fridays.
From 1969 the route was listed in the timetables under the timetable number 512. In the vernacular of the people of Leipzig and those living on the railway line, the train was also referred to as the "Lausen-Lützen-London-Express". With the timetable change on May 14, 1998 the passenger train service was stopped. The last trip took place on May 23, 1998.

At the request of DB Netz AG , the Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the line on June 23, 1999, and on August 31, 1999, the line was closed by DB Netz AG.

After the statutory waiting period, the line was dismantled in 2005.

Route description

course

The line began at platform 3 in the Leipzig-Plagwitz railway station . The line initially ran parallel to the Leipzig – Probstzella line and then swung west at the southern end of the station. After 3.9 km, the Leipzig Südwest stop, which was opened for the summer timetable in 1977, was reached. The Lausen stop was at 5.5 km . The Lausen – Markranstädt railway line used to branch off here , but it had to be shut down in the 1950s as the Kulkwitz opencast mine progressed . As far as Göhrenz- Albersdorf (km 7.2), part of the new line opened in 1965 is used. It was created in place of the section dismantled because of the risk of slipping on the edge of the then closed and flooded Kulkwitz opencast mine. The Kulkwitz Süd stop (formerly Seebenisch) was reached at km 9.7. There was a massive reception building here. This was followed by Schkölen - Räpitz at km 11.4. Until 1979, there was a loading track that had not been used since 1965. The Meuchen stop (km 14.5) also had a loading siding that was used as a siding by the Leipzig-Plagwitz railway maintenance facility. Finally, there is Lützen station (km 17.2), the most important intermediate station on the route. In Lützen there was a siding with weighbridge to the sugar factory, which was used by an agrochemical center (ACZ) and the rural trading cooperative (BHG) after the Second World War . From now on, the route ran parallel to the B87 to reach the Röcken stop at km 19.2 . Here was a connection to the gravel washing and loading system of Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG . The route continued on the B87 until it passed a deep gorge with a moderate gradient, and then crossed the town of Rippach on a 150 meter long steel viaduct. After a left turn, Pörsten was reached.

Vehicle use

Locomotives

Class 94 in Plagwitz

When the Prussian T 11 and T 12 locomotives, which had become free in Berlin due to the electrification of the S-Bahn, also came to Leipzig at the end of the 1920s, the Leipzig-Plagwitz depot at that time also served the routes to Gaschwitz and Pörsten. The Prussian T 9 was also based in Plagwitz at that time, the T14.1 , T16 and T16.1 provided the shunting and freight train service .

After 1945 the Prussian G 8.1 took over the main traffic. Furthermore, after the war, class 86 locomotives also came to the Leipzig-Plagwitz depot and handled rush hour traffic together with the T14.1. But as early as 1955, the last locomotive of this series, the 86 800, disappeared. Brand new locomotives of the 83 series took over the train service. First the 83 1002 was available, later the 83 1017-83 1020 followed. The 83 1001, which was used from 1957, was handed over to Haldensleben in 1962. In 1965 the 83 1009 was taken over from the Altenburg depot. The 83 series was used until 1967, the last ones being the 83 1009 and 83 1018 to Torgau. After the last T12 and T14.1 had withdrawn from the Leipzig-Plagwitz depot, the 55 , 83 and 94 series were mainly used from around 1963 , the latter mostly only in shunting services. After the war, the G 8.1 was the dominant locomotive on the route to Pörsten. Around 1965, around 50 machines belonged to the Leipzig-Plagwitz depot for a longer or shorter period of time. From 1968 onwards, many machines were shut down and replaced by still operational locomotives from other railway depots. The coal trains to Göhrenz-Albersdorf were mostly driven with class 44 locomotives via Leipzig-Plagwitz, which came from the Leipzig-Wahren and Altenburg depots.

From 1965, the less crowded passenger trains were also driven with light-incineration railcars (LVT) . After the Leipzig S-Bahn began operating on June 13, 1969 , diesel locomotives also ran on the Pörsten route. Since then, all train transport tasks have been taken over by the DR series V 100 . The locomotives were provided by the Leipzig Süd depot and the staff by the Leipzig West depot .

dare

Until the early 1960s, passenger trains ran with a wide variety of car types from the era of the regional railways. From 1963 two- and three-axle Reko cars were increasingly used. There were Prussian and Baden designs of baggage cars, later the Pwg57 type of goods train baggage car dominated . Until the line was closed, a class 202 was still running with a single car of the type Bme in green-beige.

The route today

At Großgöhren there is still the cut in the terrain up to the viaduct, the viaduct over the Rippach (completed in January 1898) and the subsequent embankment up to the disused Pörsten station. From shortly after the local border of Leipzig-Lausen, the asphalted Elster-Saale cycle path runs on the former railway embankment to the beginning of Rippach. Occasional railway systems can still be seen.

Web links

Commons : Leipzig-Plagwitz – Pörsten railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Bahnland DDR , transpress, Berlin 1981, p. 462, without ISBN
  2. a b c d e Detlev Winkler: Lützen and the railway . In: Modell Eisenbahner . No. 32 . Transpress, ISSN  0026-7422 .
  3. ^ Decommissioning in Saxony-Anhalt. (XLS; 24kB) List of state-owned lines in the state of Saxony-Anhalt that have been closed since 1994. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Authority , February 15, 2013, archived from the original on July 9, 2015 ; Retrieved July 8, 2015 .