Mühldorf – Burghausen railway line

Mühldorf – Burghausen
Altötting station (2009)
Route number :	5723, 5725
Course book section (DB) :	942
Route length:	32.280 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Top speed:	(5725) 80 km / h
Legend from Munich and from Rosenheim 0.0 Mühldorf (Oberbay) 411 m to Neumarkt-St. Vitus to Simbach Inn 3.6 Mühldorf-Ehring 7.0 Tüßling 401 m to Freilassing 9.0 Sanctuary 14.0 Altötting from here about 600 meters walk to 405 m former steam tram Neuötting – Altötting 19.0 Kastl (Upper Bay) 425 m to the Gendorf Chemical Park 20.2 Gendorf Alz 22.0 Burgkirchen (formerly Bf.) 419 m Alz Canal 25.4 Pirach 458 m 27.7 Raitenhaslach (until 1940) 29.4 Lindach (Upper Bay) to Wacker Chemie , Refinery and KombiTerminal 32.2 Burghausen (Oberbay) 420 m 30.4 Burghausen (Oberbay) (until 1940)

The Mühldorf – Burghausen railway is a 30-kilometer, single-track branch line of the Südostbayernbahn , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG , between Mühldorf am Inn and Burghausen . All passenger trains today are made up of railcars of the DB class 628 , the travel time is usually 35 to 39 minutes, depending on the direction. In Kastl there is a train crossing at almost every hour on almost all journeys .

history

The branch line Mühldorf – Burghausen was opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (K.Bay.Sts.B) on May 1, 1897 from Mühldorf to Altötting and on August 9, 1897 to Burghausen. On April 24, 1920 it was transferred with the K.Bay.Sts.B to the Bavarian group administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

In the Tüßling area , the route was changed in 1908, with the railway, which had previously touched the town to the north, around the market to the west and south as part of the construction of the Mühldorf – Freilassing railway line and a new branch station was built.

On March 26, 1940, there was a landslide that caused major damage to the uphill section of the previous route. This led from Pirach via the Raitenhaslach stop (km 27.7) to the old Burghausen station (km 30.4), which was located in the south of the city on the Napoleonshöhe on Tittmoninger Strasse near the Salzach. After a replacement bus service was initially set up, from December 1940 the 8.2 km long industrial railway of the Wacker company , which had been in existence since 1916, branched off at Pirach station and reached the Wackerwerk further north via Lindach, also for passenger transport. An initially provisional new Burghausen station was set up at it. Lindach was a station for the connecting railway that only served operational purposes, but was then also used for passenger transport.

After the creation of the chemical triangle around Burghausen, the line gained great economic importance in freight transport . According to Pro Bahn, around one percent of the nationwide freight volume by rail runs over this route . Regional trains are used for passenger transport. The Gendorf stop was reopened at short notice on December 14, 2003. The Heiligensta d t (Oberbay) stop, which has been closed since 1988, was reopened on December 9, 2005 in the new course book spelling Heiligensta t t (Obb) (only Heiligensta t t according to the DB infrastructure register ).

As part of the master plan for the rail chemical triangle of Bavaria , the eighteen-month modernization work on the Mühldorf – Burghausen railway line was completed at the end of April 2011. In particular, the new construction of electronic signal boxes and the technical safeguarding of the level crossings have improved the travel time of regional trains and the line capacity for freight traffic .

In early summer 2014, 1.6 kilometers of low-noise barriers were built in Burghausen with funds from the Infrastructure Acceleration Program II .

In 2018 the Südostbayernbahn built a new platform in Heiligenstatt with a height of 55 centimeters and a length of 120 meters.

planning

Together with the expansion of the Munich – Mühldorf – Freilassing rail link, the branch to Burghausen is also to be electrified.

literature

• Reinhard Wanka, Wolfgang Wiesner: Main line Munich – Simbach and its branch lines . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1996, ISBN 3-922138-59-4 , p. 197-206 .
• Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. Moving traffic history with a revolutionary future, self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-05-6474-1 .

Web links

• Search for traces of the railway: Pirach – Burghausen and the old route at Tüßling
• Deutsche Bahn AG: Extension of the Munich – Mühldorf – Freilassing line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Transport Minister Dr. Peter Ramsauer puts electronic signal box (ESTW) into operation. Modernization of the Mühldorf - Burghausen railway line completed / new signal box technology, level crossing protection, additional tracks and platforms. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn, April 23, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 24, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
2. ↑ Announcement: 8th rail symposium of the German Association for Noise Protection e. V. In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 9/2014, p. 192.
3. ↑ Rieder 360 ° - the low noise barrier. In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 9/2014, p. 138.
4. ↑ Südostbayernbahn renews the platform at the Heiligenstatt stop near Altötting. Deutsche Bahn, October 10, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 . 
5. ^ Project presentation "ABS Munich - Mühldorf - Freilassing" in the "Report on the expansion of the railways 2007" by the BMVBS
6. ^ Dossier ABS Munich - Mühldorf - Freilassing. In: Project Information System (PRINS) on the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030. Accessed on November 27, 2018 .