Rohrbach – Mainburg railway line

Rohrbach (Ilm) -Mainburg
Route number (DB) :	5383
Course book range :	413d
Route length:	23.35 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CE
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	300 m
Top speed:	40 km / h
Legend from Munich Hbf 0.000 Rohrbach (Ilm) (until 2000: Wolnzach Bahnhof) 420 m to Ingolstadt to Geisenfeld 2.000 Burgstall (b Wolnzach) (from 1957) 3.200 Gosseltshausen 5.303 Wolnzach Market 6.100 Federal highway 93 6.200 Wolnzach 6.500 Connection to ARS Altmann 7.210 Jebertshausen 7.200 9.070 Gebrontshausen 12.470 Berg (Niederbay) 14.070 Osterwaal 16.180 Enzelhausen (until 1909: Au) 446 m to Langenbach (Oberbay) 17.710 Rudelzhausen 19.840 Puttenhausen 21.610 Sandelzhausen 23.350 Mainburg 421 m Swell:

The Rohrbach – Mainburg line is a branch line in Bavaria . It runs through the Hallertau hop region in Upper Bavaria from Rohrbach (formerly Wolnzach Bahnhof) to neighboring Wolnzach . Together with the section to the Lower Bavarian Mainburg and the branching line Langenbach – Enzelhausen , which was closed in 1996 , it was popularly known as the Hallertauer Lokalbahn or Holledauer Bockerl .

history

Construction began on the line from Wolnzach Bahnhof to Mainburg, which was approved by the Local Railway Act of May 26, 1892, on August 1, 1893. The section to Wolnzach Markt was opened after a short construction period on December 6, 1894, the remaining section to Mainburg only slightly more than one year later on December 16, 1895. The Enzelhausen train station was initially named after the market in Au in der Hallertau , about 3.5 km away . To enable Freising and Moosburg to connect to the Hallertau, the construction of the line from Langenbach to Enzelhausen began on August 12, 1907 . The branch line was opened on May 1, 1909, with which Au received a local train station.

As a rule, three continuous pairs of trains were offered daily for passenger transport. After the initially used local railway locomotives of the type D VII had proven to be undersized, from 1898 mainly machines of the type D XI were used on the Hallertau local railway. From 1922 they were replaced by the Bavarian GtL 4/4 (series 98 ⁸ ) with four drive axles. Since the 1930s, the 57 ¹⁰ , 70 ⁰ and 98 ¹⁰ series have been used again and again , and occasionally other machines such as the 54 ^15-17 or 64 series . The locomotives were usually provided by the Ingolstadt depot , while maintenance took place on site at the Mainburg locomotive station during the steam locomotive era.

The property damage suffered on the line during the Second World War was manageable, so that rail operations could be resumed in autumn 1945. As part of the traction change, the young Deutsche Bundesbahn switched the locomotive-hauled passenger trains from 1953 to new rail buses of the VT 95 series and diesel multiple units of the pre-war series VT 70 ⁹ and condensed the timetable to seven train pairs on weekdays as well as two pairs of trains in the Wolnzach Bahnhof – Wolnzach Markt section and one between Wolnzach train station and Enzelhausen. Due to falling passenger numbers due to automobilization during the economic boom, rail buses increasingly drove without sidecars in the 1960s. After the weekend traffic had already been switched to rail buses on specially developed roads in 1965 , passenger train traffic was finally completely stopped on June 1, 1969. The bus service Wolnzach Bahnhof – Mainburg could not last long. The line was gradually reduced to a single working pair of trips and discontinued without replacement in the mid-1990s.

In the freight traffic, diesel locomotives of the 211 series replaced the old steam locomotives in the 1960s . Individual journeys between Wolnzach Bahnhof and Wolnzach Markt were also handled with a Köf II stationed for shunting and light freight train service in Wolnzach Bahnhof , before the 290 series was mainly used on all trains from 1982 onwards . The trains were still well used until around the beginning of the 1990s, and they often had to be hauled by two locomotives. The move of the ARS Altmann automobile forwarding company to Wolnzach brought additional transport volumes. Savings and restructuring measures in the course of the rail reform and the liberalization of road haulage in Germany led to the closure of almost all loading stations and, at the end of 1995, to the suspension of traffic between Wolnzach Markt, Mainburg and the remnant section of the branch line to Au that remained in 1970.

On September 1, 1996, the no longer used section from kilometer 8.0 was officially closed and dismantled in autumn 2004. Since around 2010, the end of the route has been at km 7.2. After the end of railway operations, a cycle path was created in sections on the former railway line. The former station area in Mainburg was built over by a bus station, supermarket, parking lots and commercial space. The former station building is privately owned, as is the site of the former Enzelhausen train station.

business

The Zugleitbetrieb route has been in operation since 1970 . The traffic on the route that remains today is limited to the industrial connection of the ARS Altmann company in Wolnzach, which is served on weekdays by around two pairs of freight trains . In October 2013 and April 2014, Deutsche Bahn invested around 4 million euros in a comprehensive renovation of the main line. In the process, numerous no longer needed switches and the remains of the old telegraph lines were removed.

In order to increase security, several unrestricted level crossings are provided for equipping with barriers and traffic lights. In the 2010s there were more and more complaints from residents about the loud whistling signals of the freight trains, which mostly run at night.

Since 2006 there have been occasional special trips on the "Wolnzach Express".

Web links

Commons : Rohrbach – Mainburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Holledauer Bockerl
• Special train trips to Wolnzach, route description, pictures
• Pictures of the dismantled route section

Individual evidence

1. ^ DB Netz AG: Infrastructure Register. In: geovdbn.deutschebahn.com , accessed on May 10, 2020.
2. ↑ Route map of the Munich Railway Directorate , as of March 1952. In: Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. An eventful traffic history with a revolutionary future . Self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056474-1 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Günter Begert, Heinrich Stangl: Branch lines between Arber and Hallertau . Ed .: Siegfried Bufe. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-69-1 , p. 157-167 .
4. ^ Josef Schmalzl: Chronicle of the Hallertau local railways . Self-published, Haag adAmper 1985.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Rohrbach (Ilm) - Wolnzach railway line. Hallertauer Lokalbahnverein eV, accessed on May 26, 2020 . 
6. ^ Alois Graßl: The most important locomotives. In: bockerl.de. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Bundesbahn (ed.): Course books, pocket timetables . (various years).
8. ↑ Wolfram Alteneder, Clemens Schüssler: The branch lines of the BD Munich . Verlag C. Kersting, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4 , p. 39-44 .
9. ^ Wolnzach: Big construction site step by step. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Wolnzach: Step by step against the many whistling. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
11. ^ Wolnzach Express trains since 2006. Hallertauer Lokalbahnverein eV, accessed on May 26, 2020 .