Regensburg – Weiden railway line

Regensburg – Weiden (Oberpf)
Schwabelweis Danube Bridge near Regensburg (1859)
Route number :	5860
Course book section (DB) :	855
Route length:	86.617 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	160 km / h
Train control :	PZB , ZUB122 , ZUB262
Dual track :	Continuous
Legend from Nürnberg Hbf from Ingolstadt Hbf 0.000 Regensburg Central Station 339 m Bundesstrasse 15 to Munich Hbf from Regensburg Ost 2.743 Regensburg harbor bridge ( Abzw ) 3.258 Danube (333 m) Bundesstrasse 8 and Bundesstrasse 15 Valhalla Railway from the local train station Walhallastraße 4,312 Regensburg-Walhallastrasse 6.100 Regensburg-Konradsiedlung 7.479 Regensburg-Wutzlhofen to Falkenstein (Oberpf) Bundesstrasse 16 Bundesstrasse 15 11.400 Regendorf 15.066 Regenstauf 339 m Rain (136 m) Federal highway 93 Bundesstrasse 15 Connection to Maxhütte 24.000 Ponholz 377 m 27,154 Maxhütte-Haidhof ( wedge station ) 390 m to Burglengenfeld 33.100 Loisnitz 36.055 Klardorf (formerly personal stop) Connection to Nabwerk Schwandorf Wackersdorf lignite mines - Schwandorf power plant from Furth in the forest Bundesstrasse 15 42,600 Schwandorf 359 m 43,142 Naab (17 m) Bundesstrasse 15 Bundesstrasse 85 46,926 Insane wages 360 m to Nuremberg Buchtalbahn to the Tonwerk Buchtal 50.892 Schwarzenfeld (Oberpf) Nabburg – Schönsee railway line from Schönsee 58.280 Nabburg 368 m 62.815 Pfreimd 372 m Federal highway 93 Federal motorway 6 69.200 Bundesstrasse 14 69,549 Wernberg 382 m 75.720 Luhe 78.115 Luhe-Wildenau 389 m Federal highway 93 Haidenaab (50 m) 81.500 Rothenstadt Federal highway 93 from Neukirchen 86.617 Pastures (Oberpf) 397 m to Bayreuth to Oberkotzau Swell:

The Regensburg – Weiden railway line is a double-track main line in Bavaria . It connects the Upper Palatinate district capital Regensburg via Schwandorf with Weiden in the Upper Palatinate .

Opening story

The route was opened in several sections. The relevant sections were built by the AG der Bayerische Ostbahnen and operated until they were nationalized in 1876.

The first line section was opened on December 12, 1859, the Regensburg – Schwandorf – Irrenlohe line as part of the Regensburg – Nuremberg connection. Four years later, on October 1, 1863, a branch line to Weiden was opened from Irrenlohe. Another year later, the section from Weiden via Wiesau and on to Mitterteich was opened to traffic on August 15, 1864. After the connection from Mitterteich to Eger went into operation on October 15, 1865 and the connection from Hof ​​to Eger on November 1, 1865, it was possible to travel by train from Regensburg to Hof - but only with the detour via Eger , which is in Bohemia is located and at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Opening dates

• December 12, 1859 (Regensburg - Irrenlohe on the route to Nuremberg)
• October 1, 1863 (Irrenlohe - Weiden on the route to Eger)

Route description

Ostkopf of Regensburg Central Station with the Länderbahn train coming from Hof

Irrenlohe train station , in the middle the track from the direction of Nuremberg , 2009

Passenger train with diesel locomotive of the class 132 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Weiden Train Station , 1991

The route begins in Regensburg's main train station and from there initially runs eastwards together with the railway line to Passau . The routes separate at the level of the Safferlinger Steg: the route to Passau swings to the south, the route to Weiden leads north through the Regensburg port area and first crosses the Westhafen and then the Danube over a bridge. The route runs east past the Regensburg districts of Konradsiedlung , Wutzlhofen and Haslbach , swings to the northwest and follows the rain to Regenstauf . After Regenstauf, the route crosses the Regen, continues to the northwest, crosses the A 93 and crosses the Ponholzer Forest in a loop. Past the village of Ponholz, the route continues north to Maxhütte-Haidhof, where the railway branches off to Burglengenfeld , and then between Naab and the A 93 to Schwandorf.

The Schwandorfer Station is an important railway junction in the Upper Palatinate. There the north-south connection from Dresden via Hof to Regensburg and Munich meets the west-east connection from Frankfurt via Nuremberg to Furth im Wald and Prague. The line from Furth im Wald meets the Regensburg – Weiden line south of the station from the east, while the line to Nuremberg branches off to the west at Irrenlohe station, four kilometers to the north.

After the line has crossed the Naab and left the Irrenlohe separation station behind, it passes Schwarzenfeld and meets the remains of the Schönsee railway line near Stulln . This former local line crossed the Naab and the main line to Weiden and then ran on its western side to Nabburg, where the branch line had its starting point until 1994. The main route continues along the right bank of the Naab, past Pfreimd , Wernberg-Köblitz and Luhe-Wildenau to Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . The train station, like that of Schwandorf, is a junction, as the lines from Nuremberg (via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg) and to Bayreuth branch off there. In addition to a former depot, which existed until the 1990s, there is a repair shop for passenger coaches (PFA Weiden) in Weiden, which is now part of Stadler Rail .

Route history

Buchtalbahn 1930–2009

In Schwarzenfeld, the Buchtalbahn , built in the mid-1930s, was connected , a freight railway primarily serving the Buchtal AG . This was connected to extensive light rail systems there.

A separate settlement was built in Schwarzenfeld for the workers employed there and housed in Schwarzenfeld. In order to bring these workers to the factory premises, the route was also used for passenger trains, which ran until at least 1961. At least one mallet locomotive with the number 3 and type B'Bn 4vt was available to operate this route . A diesel locomotive was used for shunting operations from 1968 to 1998.

It is known that a special train was used on the route from 1988. Freight traffic on the route was discontinued in 2009.

In addition, there was a mine connection railway in Schwarzenfeld from Schwarzenfeld station to the Bavaria mine in Schmidgaden, called the Buchtalbahn .

Route relocation north of Schwandorf in 1984

Before 1945, the straightening of the route and the construction of the Naab Bridge began north of Schwandorf. Construction was only continued in the 1980s and completed in October 1984. The northern head of the station at Schwandorf had to be rebuilt because of the relocation.

Schwandorf bypass 2008

As part of the Danube-Vltava Railway project, which has since been canceled, a south-eastern bypass curve for Schwandorf was planned in 2008, which should make the previous change of direction of the trains from Munich to Prague superfluous and thus lead to a reduction in travel times.

Vogtland Railway

The regional rail services on the entire route were provided by the Upper Palatinate of the Vogtlandbahn with diesel multiple units of the Desiro type .

Current

State of development

The entire length of the line is double-tracked and not electrified. The route-related maximum speed is 160 km / h, after the route was expanded to December 2005 for arc-fast operation.

traffic

The two-hourly alex trains from Munich via Regensburg to Hof and Prague are shared in Schwandorf.

The Regensburg - Weiden (Oberpf) section is integrated into the Regensburger Verkehrsverbund (RVV).

future

Electrification of the route

Together with the north connecting route to Marktredwitz , the Regensburg – Weiden route is to be part of the south east corridor, which is included in the current federal traffic route plan as project no. 16 (ABS Hof - Marktredwitz - Regensburg - Obertraubling) as a "new project" in the "Urgent need - Priority elimination of bottlenecks ”is to be electrified.

Regensburg-Walhallastraße stop

It is planned to reactivate the Walhallastraße stop, which was closed in 1984, a little south of the former location in the immediate vicinity of the Danube Arena north of Walhalla-Allee . This is to receive two 210 m long platforms. It is expected that there will be over 1000 people joining and leaving. The regional trains should serve this stop every hour. The city of Regensburg is planning to align the city ​​bus routes with the stop in the course of the new building . According to the original plan, construction work on the station should begin after the completion of the Osttangente, which took place in November 2014, and should last two years. According to this planning, the stop would have opened around the beginning of 2017. Ongoing planning and financing problems that cannot be resolved between Deutsche Bahn and the city of Regensburg have meanwhile led to an opening date originally planned for 2020 being postponed indefinitely.

literature

• Manfred Bräunlein: The Eastern Railways . Lorenz Spindler, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-88929-078-7 .

Web links

Commons : Regensburg – Weiden railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Openrailwaymap
• Schedule table Regensburg – Hof 1944

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} EK column. (PDF) Retrieved June 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
4. ↑ Buchtal AG, 92521 Schwarzenfeld. August 28, 1989. Retrieved June 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Loco-Revue n ° 242 jui / aoû 1964. In: 1001mags.com. Retrieved June 10, 2017 (French). 
6. ↑ Deutz 58240. In: rangierdiesel.de. Retrieved June 10, 2017 . 
7. ↑ The connecting railway Schwarzenfeld - Tonwerk Buchtal (m21B). (No longer available online.) November 6, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 10, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ^ Federal Railway Directorate Regensburg. State Archives Amberg. Retrieved June 10, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Line from Neukirchen (near Sulzbach-Rosenberg) to Schwandorf, in: The large archive of railway lines in Germany, GeraMond, Munich.
10. ↑ Federal Railways Expansion Act
11. ↑ Project Information System (PRINS) for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, as of August 2016
12. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, as of March 2016
13. ↑ Zughalt.de: New Breakpoint "Regensburg Walhallastraße" planned from 2017 , February 6, 2012, accessed November 19, 2013.
14. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg: Walhalla-Bahnhof is delayed , April 10, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016.
15. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg: DB: The north of Regensburg remains detached , March 10, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.