Röthenbach – Scheidegg railway line

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Röthenbach (Allgäu) –Scheidegg
Route number (DB) : 5430
Course book range : 406f (1966)
Route length: 9.92 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Buchloe
   
 from hamlet
Station, station
 0.00 Röthenbach (Allgäu) 705 m
   
 to Lindau
   
 2.76 Auers - red deer 715 m
   
 4.15 Goßholz 750 m
   
 5.42 Reichsbahn orphanage (1936–61, 1963–66) 755 m
   
 6.54 Lindenberg (Allgäu) 760 m
   
 7.37 Waldsee (1935-61) 780 m
   
 9.92 Scheidegg 784 m
Lindenberg train station in the Allgäu
Locomotive shed in Scheidegg

The railway Röthenbach-Scheidegg well - Scheidegger Moss slide called - was a 9.92 km long branch line , as branch line in Röthenbach on the railway line Munich-Lindau branched off and after Scheidegg led.

history

The branch line to Scheidegg was opened on October 1, 1901, with a maximum gradient of 28.6 per thousand it was one of the steepest branch lines in Bavaria. In Goßholz there was only a short loading track, while in Lindenberg and Scheidegg extensive track and loading facilities were built. For many years, the most important cargo was the hats made in Lindenberg.

The less frequented stops at the Reichsbahn orphanage, later the railway orphanage, and Waldsee were only in operation for a few years.

In 1944, five pairs of trains ran daily, as well as a pair of trains from Lindenberg to Scheidegg every weekday morning. In 1963, the number of train buses was already predominant (13 trips), but there were also five pairs of trains on weekdays and four pairs of trains on Sundays and public holidays. The latter had significantly shorter travel times because freight wagons were not taken on the weekend .

Passenger traffic ceased on September 25, 1966. Even the freight between Lindenberg then and Scheidegg ended, according to other sources but the section Lindenberg Waldsee served until 1976, the operation of a gas bearing. Freight trains ran between Röthenbach and Lindenberg until July 31, 1993. In the 1980s, the route was still used by delivery trains twice a day from Monday to Saturday . The most important goods customers were a cheese dairy and the aforementioned gas storage facility.

A large part of the route is now developed as a railway cycle path . The station building in Lindenberg still exists, as does the locomotive shed in Scheidegg.

literature

  • Reinhold Breubeck: Kempten railway junction (Allgäu). The railway in Oberallgäu and Ausserfern . Eisenbahn Fachbuch Verlag, Neustadt (Coburg) 2005, ISBN 3-9807748-9-9 .
  • Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rails. Freight routes 1980 to 1993 . Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71346-8 , pp. 145 .

Web links

Commons : Röthenbach – Scheidegg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Förster: Transport goods: hats! In: Lok-Magazin . No. December 12 , 2018, p. 52 .
  2. ^ Felix Förster: Transport goods: hats! In: Lok-Magazin . No. December 12 , 2018, p. 54 .
  3. ↑ Wolfram Alteneder, Clemens Schüssler: The branch lines of the BD Munich , Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4 , p. 141