Neufahrn – Radldorf railway line
| Neufahrn (Niederbay) -Radldorf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Geiselhöring train station
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| Route number : | 5630 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 932 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 26.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | C4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 100 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neufahrn (Niederbay) –Radldorf railway line is a 26 km long, single-track, non-electrified branch line from Neufahrn along the Kleine Laber to Radldorf in Niederbayern . It is part of the 46 km long Gäubodenbahn from Neufahrn via Straubing to Bogen .
history
Track construction
The private, royal privileged stock corporation of the Bavarian Eastern Railways opened the first section of its Munich – Regensburg line from Munich to Landshut on November 3, 1858 . The Ostbahn-Gesellschaft energetically pushed ahead with the expansion to Regensburg and Straubing, so that as early as November 8, 1859, a limited freight transport between Straubing and Landshut could be set up. On December 12, 1859, the line from Landshut via Geiselhöring to Straubing was opened, and was extended to Passau on September 20, 1860 . From Geiselhöring on December 12, 1859, the section towards Regensburg went into operation. The Labertal line via Geiselhöring had thus become the middle section of the main railway line from Munich to Regensburg and Passau and the Geiselhöring station became the eastern Bavarian railway turntable with eleven tracks, a large locomotive shed and a workshop.
With the construction of the shortcut line from Neufahrn to Obertraubling near Regensburg in the years 1870 to 1873, the line from Landshut to Regensburg was considerably shortened. Also in 1873 the shortcut route from Straubing to Sünching was built , which made the detour to Geiselhöring and the headache there superfluous for a trip from Regensburg to Passau and a track triangle between Geiselhöring, Straubing and Sünching was created. The Eastern Railway Line and its successor from 1875, the Bavarian State Railway , pushed for the line from Geiselhöring to Sünching to be abandoned. Geiselhöring tried to avert the further loss of importance of the Geiselhöring train station with petitions to various bodies.
The connection between Perkam and Radldorf
With the opening of the Landshut – Plattling railway in 1880, the importance of the line from Neufahrn to Straubing had decreased considerably. The state railway was now looking for a way to dissolve the elaborate track triangle between Geiselhöring, Straubing and Sünching.
Instead of the two branches from Geiselhöring to Straubing and Sünching, they wanted to build a middle distance. The Laber-Bote protested against this in an article dated December 29, 1893. This course would only bring longer travel times and higher fares.
The state railway examined several options and finally decided to build a new 2.47 km long route from Perkam to Radldorf, bridging the Kleine Laber. Perkam received a train station as a replacement for Pilling. The construction of the route was approved by law of March 8, 1894 and carried out in the summer of 1896. The test drive took place on September 26, 1896 and the opening on September 30.
Downgrade to branch line
This connected the end of the route from Geiselhöring to Sünching and the old route via Pilling to Straubing. The old Perkam and Pilling stations were sold. The Laberbrücken near Geiselhöring were later blown up by the military for training purposes. Another critical decision was the downgrading of the existing standard gauge railway Neufahrn-Straubing for secondary web Neufahrn-Radldorf. The protests of the affected communities led to an improvement in the timetable, reduced fares and an order to only allow overpasses and underpasses on the new connecting route, but no crossings on the same rails.
The construction of the railway to Radldorf increased the distance from Geiselhöring to Straubing from 15.6 km to 17.3 km and from Geiselhöring via Radldorf to Sünching from 9.0 km to 14.3 km. A letter to the editor of October 4, 1902 in the Straubinger Tagblatt gives an insight into the conditions during a trip towards the end of the hop harvest in the Hallertau , when a car with 33 seats was occupied by 42 people. At the same time it can be seen that in 1902 passenger coaches with stove heating from 1870 ran on this route, as the clerk complained about the “sooty darkrooms”.
Current operation
In Niederlindhart and Laberweinting, the railway station buildings built in 1859 by the Eastern Railway Company in a rural style are still in very good condition. The very large station building in Neufahrn was built by the Ostbahngesellschaft on the occasion of the construction of the shortcut to Regensburg. From the originally large station building in Geiselhöring, only two parts of the building remain today.
The railway line has been operated since 2002 under the name Gäubodenbahn from Neufahrn via Straubing to Bogen with class 628 diesel multiple units from the Gäubodenbahn . The Gäubodenbahn is one of seven regional networks in Germany that act as their own medium-sized railway company (EVU), but still belong to the DB . The Gäubodenbahn operates a line network of 46 kilometers in length and has 25 employees.
Future prospects
According to the concept of the Bavarian State Government for more electric mobility on the rails in Bavaria, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann proposed the route from a Bavarian perspective as a pilot project for operation with overhead line / diesel hybrid vehicles.
literature
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Weiden 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bahn AG, passenger transport division, eCommerce marketing: data and facts. In: www.bahn.de. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .
- ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .