Railway line Leipzig-Wahren – Leipzig-Engelsdorf

	from Magdeburg Hbf
0.000	Leipzig-Wahren Gbf formerly Wahren
	to Leipzig Hbf
	Abzw L (from Leipzig-Leutzsch)
4.834	Wiederitzsch	125 m
	EÜ Viaduktweg
	Viadukt Wiederitzsch ( Rietzschkeniederung )
	EÜ Delitzscher Strasse
	to Leipzig Messe and Leipzig Messe Süd junction
	Leipzig Hbf – Bitterfeld
	EÜ Maximilianallee ( Bundesstrasse 2 )
	from Leipzig Messe
7.441	Leipzig - Mockau	125 m
	EÜ Essener Strasse
	to Leipzig Hbf
	from Leipzig Hbf
	EÜ Friedrichshafner Strasse
	EÜ Mockauer Strasse
	EÜ Beuthstrasse
	EÜ On the Parthe
	Partheaue
	EÜ Sternbachstrasse
	EÜ Theklaer Strasse
10.699	Leipzig - Thekla	125 m
	to and from Eilenburg
	Hammerwerkbrücke (SÜ Leupoldstrasse)
	SÜ Torgauer Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 87 )
13,395	Leipzig - Schönefeld formerly Schönefeld Pr.Stb.	125 m
	to Leipzig Eilenburger Bf
	Infrastructure boundary Pr.Stb. - KSStb. (until 1920)
	Leipzig – Dresden and Leipzig – Geithain
	from Leipzig-Stötteritz
	from Leipzig Hbf
16.733	Leipzig-Engelsdorf
17.828	Engelsdorf East
	to Dresden-Neustadt

The Leipzig-Wahren - Leipzig-Engelsdorf railway is a double-track, electrified main line in Saxony that is part of the northern Leipzig freight ring . It is primarily used to handle west-east freight traffic in the Leipzig railway junction . Only the section from Wiederitzsch to Leipzig-Engelsdorf is still in operation , the section between the Leipzig-Wahren marshalling yard and Abzw L was closed in 2004 as the Leipzig-Wahren-Leipzig Hbf railway line was restarted. By relocating travel traffic to this connection and the section Groebers - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig Hbf , it was possible to use the former passenger train tracks for the Wiederitzsch – Wahren connection and the freight train tracks for Wiederitzsch – Leutzsch.

history

The line was built by the Prussian State Railways and the Royal Saxon State Railways as part of the redesign of the Leipzig railway junction after the turn of the century. The section from Leipzig-Wahren to Schönefeld was directed by the Prussian State Railways, the remaining section to Engelsdorf belonged to the Royal Saxon State Railways. The entire route was opened on May 1, 1906.

Shortly before the First World War, the line to Leipzig-Schönefeld was electrified. The opening of the electric train operation took place on May 1st, 1914. Due to the war, the electric operation was soon abandoned and the catenary dismantled.

On April 1, 1920, the entire route was transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The formerly Prussian part was administered by the Reichsbahndirektion Halle , the Saxon part by the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden . After the directional boundaries were corrected in 1934, the entire line then belonged to the Reich Railway Directorate in Halle.

The re-electrification of the route took place shortly after the First World War. From January 25, 1921, electric trains to Schönefeld were operated again. Electric operation on the entire route to Engelsdorf began on October 8, 1922. This was the first time that a former Saxon railway line was electrified.

After the Second World War, the contact line was dismantled again. On March 31, 1946, the electric train service ended and all systems were dismantled shortly afterwards as reparations for the Soviet Union . Since May 29, 1959, the line has been operated electrically again.

Between Leipzig-Wahren and Wiederitzsch there is only the line Magdeburg - Leipzig Messe Süd , which is now used to handle freight traffic to and from Wahren, with the expansion of the points of the previous Abzw L, it became a route change where the freight ring line enters the line 6381 to Abzw S and on to Leipzig-Leutzsch. In February 2016, an order was awarded to convert the Leipzig-Mockau train station and replace several railway bridges. The construction of the bridges between Leipzig-Mockau and Thekla began in autumn 2016, the construction stages include the parallel Leipzig-Eilenburg route .

literature

Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .

Web links

Commons : Leipzig-Wahren – Leipzig-Engelsdorf railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

East corridor - section center DB Netz project website
Route symbol on sachsenschiene.de
Tradition of the railway line Leipzig-Wahren - Leipzig-Engelsdorf in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle in the Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Dessau department

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Schweers and Wall, Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland , Edition 2008/09, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 , p. 131
^ Germany-Frankfurt am Main: Construction of railway bridges. Document 2016 / S 035-056905 in the supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union . February 19, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2016 (German).

[sw-1] Schweers and Wall, Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland , Edition 2008/09, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 , p. 131

[ted-2016-02-20-2] Germany-Frankfurt am Main: Construction of railway bridges. Document 2016 / S 035-056905 in the supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union . February 19, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2016 (German).