Leutershausen-Wiedersbach – Bechhofen railway line
| Leutershausen-Wiedersbach-Bechhofen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5252 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 420c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 22.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Leutershausen-Wiedersbach-Bechhofen railway , known colloquially as the Bechhöfer Boggala , was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the main line Nuremberg – Crailsheim in Leutershausen-Wiedersbach and led to Bechhofen .
history
In 1895, founded in Herrieden a railway committee to the communities west of Ansbach and in Bechhofen be moved brush industry to connect to the rail network. Original plans included running the line from Ansbach via Elpersdorf or Elpersdorf and Neunstetten to Herrieden and from there to Bechhofen. However, these proposals were countered by the technically complex overcoming of the ridge between Ansbach and the Altmühltal, so that the Bavarian State Railroad pleaded for the branching of the line in Leutershausen , which was ultimately implemented. The draft law for the construction of the line was received by the Royal Bavarian State Ministry on September 22nd, 1899. There were delays due to objections from the municipality of Leutershausen, who wanted to achieve a direct connection to the new route, which would have lengthened the route and made it more expensive with additional engineering structures. The Leutershausen municipal councils withdrew the application under threat of breaking the construction of the route, so that the bill passed parliament on March 20, 1900 and was signed by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria on June 30, 1900 .
Construction work began in 1901 and the line was opened on June 16, 1903. The operating result of the line was in deficit from the start, which in the course of time made ideas to extend the line to Dürrwangen (1903) or Ehingen (1920) obsolete let.
In the 1939 summer timetable, four pairs of passenger trains were recorded daily, all of which were connected to and from Ansbach. The travel time from Leutershausen-Wiedersbach to Bechhofen was between 44 and 46 minutes, which corresponds to a cruising speed of around 30 km / h.
The use of rail buses after 1945, which drove directly to Ansbach without the detour via Leutershausen, reduced the capacity utilization of the trains. On August 2, 1963, the Deutsche Bundesbahn applied for the suspension of train traffic, which was approved on April 1, 1968. Passenger traffic ceased on November 28, 1966, and freight traffic followed on May 31, 1970.
The tracks were dismantled first up to Neunstetten (1970/71) and later until shortly before the confluence with the main line (1972). Over the years, the DB placed freight wagons on this remnant piece waiting to be repaired.
From 1983 the last visible relic of the route was destroyed as a result of the electrification of the main line Nuremberg – Crailsheim (1985) through the construction of catenary masts. Today only the station buildings remind of the former route.
Vehicle use
At the beginning steam locomotives of the D IX and D VII series were used, which were replaced by the 70 series from the 1930s . After the war, rail buses of the VT 95 series replaced most of the locomotive-hauled passenger trains . The remaining locomotive-hauled services were taken over by class V 100 diesel locomotives after the class 70 (70 083) representative used on the route was retired in 1963. Diesel locomotives of the V 60 series were most recently used in freight train traffic.
literature
- Ulrich Rockelmann: Searching for traces of dismantled railway lines in the Nuremberg area . Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg, Nürnberg 1999. ISBN 3-87191-270-0 .
Web links
- Hans Nater: History of the Leutershausen-Wiedersbach – Bechhofen line. Eisenbahnfreunde Ansbach, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
- The "Bechhöfer Bockela" (private)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Summer timetable 1939