Railway line Passau – Obertraubling
The Passau – Obertraubling railway is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria . In Passau it connects to the Wels – Passau railway line and leads in the Danube Valley via Plattling and Straubing to Obertraubling , where it joins the Munich – Regensburg railway line . As part of the national long-distance connection from Vienna to Nuremberg and Frankfurt am Main , the route is one of the most important rail connections in southern Germany.
history
In order to open up East Bavaria, which had hitherto had no railroads, the Bavarian state left the construction of the railway there to the privately-owned Royal Privileged Stock Corporation of the Bavarian Eastern Railways, newly founded in 1856 . On April 12, 1856, the Ostbahngesellschaft received the concession to build and operate railway lines in eastern Bavaria. The exact route was worked out by the Bavarian state from 1851 and was prescribed to the Eastern Railway Company. One route led from Munich via Landshut (opened on November 3, 1858) to Geiselhöring . There it branched north to Regensburg and south via Straubing to Passau . The Landshut – Geiselhöring – Regensburg and Geiselhöring – Straubing sections went into operation on December 12, 1859. From Straubing, the 77 km long route continued from September 20, 1860 via Plattling and Vilshofen to the border town of Passau. From September 1, 1861, the rail route was continued there by a branch of the Austrian kk priv. Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn (KEB) in the direction of Linz and Vienna .
Due to this route, through trains had to go from Passau to Regensburg via Geiselhöring and turn heads there. On July 1, 1873, a direct connection from Sünching to Straubing was opened, which considerably shortened the route and accelerated the journey. Between 1880 and 1897 the now superfluous section Sünching - Geiselhöring was shut down and later also Perkam - Straubing, after the connection to Radldorf had been established from Perkam on September 30, 1896 , which joins the main line towards Straubing.
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With the nationalization of the Bavarian Eastern Railways on May 10, 1875, the entire route fell to the Bavarian State Railways . With the law of March 3, 1894, the double-track expansion of the line was initiated. On June 1, 1959, the scheduled electrical operation began.
In the planning section of the 1985 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan, the project for an upgraded line from Nuremberg to Passau with investment costs of 150 million DM was included.
As part of the immediate seaport-hinterland traffic program , 28 new signals were set up, increasing route capacity.
In 2019, the preliminary planning for the ETCS equipment of the route was tendered. Interventions in signal boxes should be avoided as far as possible. For the ETCS equipment between Nuremberg and Passau, 58 million euros are estimated (as of 2017).
Route description
The line leaves Passau train station in a westerly direction. The branch lines to Freyung and Neumarkt-Sankt Veit branch off in the urban area. At Schalding , the line is spanned by the Schalding Danube Bridge, which leads the Federal Motorway 3 over the Danube. As far as Vilshofen , the railway line runs for a good four kilometers in a narrow space between the Danube and Löwenwand, parallel to federal highway 8 . Because of the risk of flooding, the railway was led up to three meters above the road and followed the winding Danube with numerous arcs. From Künzing to Obertraubling, the route leads with just a few bends through the flat landscape of the Gäuboden .
To cross the Isar near Plattling, an iron truss bridge was built on granite pillars with a total width of 162 meters. With the flood openings, the bridge has a length of 318.35 meters. A two to three meter high railway embankment with ten flood bridges was also built through the five kilometer wide floodplain near Plattling.
business
Since the timetable change on December 9, 2007, ICE-T trains have been running on this route every two hours - a total of six train pairs - and one intercity train pair per day. The IC train pair begins and ends in Passau, the ICE trains continue to Vienna. Long-distance traffic stops are Regensburg, Plattling and Passau.
Regional express trains run between Passau and Plattling (see also Donau-Isar-Express ). These only stop in Vilshofen and Osterhofen on the way. The Regional Express trains run from Plattling directly to Munich. Regional trains run hourly between Plattling and Regensburg run by agilis , a private railway that runs through to Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . Alstom Coradia Continental multiple units are used on both lines .
The route between Plattling and Straubing is used by DB Systemtechnik for test drives. This is where interference current measurements are carried out on rail vehicles. It often happens that rail prototypes are on the move on this section of the route in order to obtain their approval .
literature
- Arthur von Mayer: History and geography of the German railways. Berlin 1891.
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in the Bavarian Forest. 3. Edition. Morsak Verlag, Grafenau 1980, ISBN 3-8755-3 .
Web links
- Driver's cab ride on a freight train (Feb. 2013), Part 1 : Passau - Neumarkt, Part 2 : Neumarkt - Würzburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ^ Wilhelm Linkerhägner: Bundesverkehrswegeplanung '85 . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 66 , no. 10 , 1990, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 933-936 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn AG (Ed.): Immediate program seaport hinterland traffic improves rail infrastructure in Bavaria . Press release from January 22, 2014.
- ↑ Germany-Frankfurt am Main: Services of architecture, construction and engineering offices and test centers. Document 2019 / S 164-403828. In: Supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union . August 27, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 (German).
- ^ Elisabeth Hößl, Manfred Gollmann: operational tasks (BAst) line equipment ETCS EDP border Passau - Nuremberg 2nd construction stage. (ZIP) as part of the European Deployment Plan (EDP). DB Netz, December 19, 2017, p. 86 f., 105 , accessed on November 16, 2019 (German, file 18_BAst-ETCS-Baustufe 2.docx.pdf in ZIP file).