Regensburg – Hof railway line

Railcar of Agilis and Oberpfalzbahn in Marktredwitz station

The Regensburg – Hof railway line consists of the following sections:

the railway line Regensburg-Weiden ,
the railway willow Oberkotzau and
the section Oberkotzau - Hof of Bamberg-Hof railway .

• The 5.6 km long line from Oberkotzau to Hof (old station) was opened as the northernmost section of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn on November 1st, 1848.

• The Bavarian Eastern Railway Company took on 12 December 1859 section of Regensburg - Irrenlohe her about Schwandorf and Amberg to Nuremberg leading distance running.

• On December 1, 1863, the Irrenlohe - Weiden section of the route from Irrenlohe to Bayreuth was opened by the Eastern Railway . That one got its own track between Schwandorf and Irrenlohe parallel to the Nuremberg Railway.

• The line from Weiden to Wiesau as part of the line from Weiden to Eger (→ Wiesau – Eger railway ) was opened to traffic on August 15, 1864.

• As part of the Fichtelgebirgsbahn , the Marktredwitz –Oberkotzau section was put into operation on August 15, 1877 .

• The last commissioning was the gap between Wiesau and Marktredwitz on June 1, 1882.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Ücker: The Bavarian Railway 1835 to 1920 . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7991-6255-0 , p. 145 .
2. ↑ Manfred Bräunlein: The Eastern Railways . Lorenz Spindler, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-88929-078-7 , p. 37 .
3. ↑ Manfred Bräunlein: Die Ostbahnen , p. 74.