Schnabelwaid – Bayreuth railway line

Schnabelwaid – Bayreuth Hbf
Route number :	5001
Course book section (DB) :	512, 860
Route length:	18.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend from Nürnberg Hbf 0.000 Beak woad 472 m after Cheb 5.524 Creußen (Oberfr) 434 m 9.100 Red Main (90 m) 9.700 Bundesstrasse 2 and Bundesstrasse 85 9,829 Neuenreuth (b Creußen) 415 m 12.200 Federal motorway 9 15.400 Bundesstrasse 2 and Bundesstrasse 85 from Hollfeld 16.600 Junction Kreuzstein 17.200 Bundesstrasse 22 (40 m) Badstrasse Mühlkanal 17.800 Bundesstrasse 2 17.800 Roter Main (together 110 m) Tunnel road from Weiden (Oberpf) 18.210 Bayreuth Central Station 344 m to Warmensteinach to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg Swell:

The Schnabelwaid – Bayreuth railway is a single-track main line in Bavaria . It branches off the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line in Schnabelwaid and leads via Creußen to Bayreuth .

history

The Fichtelgebirgsbahn was built to connect Bayreuth directly with Nuremberg after the city had been connected to the Ludwigs-Süd-Nord-Bahn by means of a branch line from Neuenmarkt in 1853 . The entire length of the Nuremberg – Bayreuth railway was opened on July 15, 1877, and the branching section Schnabelwaid – Holenbrunn was not put into operation until ten months later. Today, the continuous double-track line from Nuremberg to Marktredwitz is the more important axis, the single-track main line Schnabelwaid – Bayreuth is considered a branch line. The southern part of the Fichtelgebirgsbahn from Nuremberg to Pegnitz is now also known as the Pegnitz Valley Railway .

From April 12, 1945, as a result of the acts of war at the end of the Second World War, traffic on the line was idle after the trains had only been on the move at night due to the attacks by low-flying aircraft. On June 8, 1945, the first train ran again between Bayreuth and Pegnitz.

→ see also: History of the Railway in Bayreuth

Route description

Branch to Bayreuth in Schnabelwaid with class 612 railcars , right the line to Marktredwitz

The route branches off in the station Schnabelwaid from the Nuremberg-Cheb railway and runs along the Red River Main and the bundled here highways 2 and 85 north to Bayreuth. It is single-tracked along its entire length and has alternative points for train crossings at the Creußen and Neuenreuth stations. The route-related top speed is 140 km / h.

On the southern outskirts of Bayreuth , the joint track of the former branch lines to Hollfeld and Thurnau flowed at the Kreuzstein junction from the Altstadt station until 1998 . Here, from the east, the Weiden – Bayreuth line also joins the route, both lines run parallel to the main station without a switch connection. They cross the river valley of the Red Main on an almost 1.5 km long dam. Coming from the south, the route first leads over the B 22 (Wieland-Wager Straße), then the Mühlkanal and finally, immediately before the entrance to the Bayreuth main station, first over the B 2 (Albrecht-Dürer Straße) and directly afterwards the Rote Main.

traffic

"Rail bus" to Pegnitz in Bayreuth Hbf (1987)

Regional Express trains with diesel multiple units of the 612 series ( Regioswinger ) travel along the route every 2 hours from Nuremberg via Pegnitz, Bayreuth and Münchberg to Hof . Until the timetable change in December 2013, these trains were operated as Interregio-Express trains and continued to run to Dresden . Since the complete electrification of the Leipzig – Hof railway line between Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf and Hof Hbf , the line was broken in December 2013 in Hof Hbf , so that a change has been necessary since then. In addition, class 612 railcars run hourly as a regional express from Nuremberg to Bayreuth and in school traffic on the route. Since December 2013 there has also been a direct connection with the 612 series from Lichtenfels to Nuremberg via Kulmbach , Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg and Bayreuth . Since the arrival of the district and the city of Bayreuth, the route has been fully integrated into the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN) and is served by the R3 regional train line.

gallery

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  Schnabelwaid station with 614 from and 798 to Bayreuth (December 24, 1987)

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  Class 612 tilting multiple unit as the Franken-Sachsen-Express in Creußen

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  Former Neuenreuth station (2012)

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  At the Kreuzstein junction (left the "Ostbahn" to Weiden ; 1986)

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  Bridge over Tunnelstrasse in Bayreuth (1987)

literature

• Hans Kundmann: "100 years of the Fichtelgebirgsbahn" Nuremberg – Marktredwitz – Eger / Marktredwitz – Hof / Schnabelwaid – Bayreuth a. Holenbrunn – Wunsiedel. Publisher: MEC Modell Eisenbahn Club / Hofer Eisenbahnfreunde e. V., Hof (Saale) 1976 and 1985
• Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the railroad . Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0780-6 .

Web links

• Route on the OpenRailwayMap
• Route description on Nahverkehr-Franken.de (private)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Bernhard Ücker: The Bavarian Railway 1835-1920 , p. 145
4. ↑ Peter Engelbrecht: The war is over. Spring 1945 in Upper Franconia . Späthling, Weißenstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-942668-23-1 , pp. 50 .
5. ↑ Peter Engelbrecht, op. Cit. , P. 47