Sinzing – Alling railway line
| Sinzing-Alling | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5852 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 411g | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sinzing – Alling railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It ran in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg from Sinzing to Alling . The line was built at the instigation of the factory owners in Laabertal.
history
Just a little more than a year after the Regensburg – Ingolstadt railway line opened, the Bavarian State Railway opened a four-kilometer-long Vizinalbahn on December 20, 1875, which led from the Sinzing station into the valley of the Schwarzen Laber . It ended in front of the village of Alling, which 35 years later - before the beginning of the First World War - only had 116 inhabitants. It belonged to the rural community of Viehhausen with around 800 inhabitants, which was about three kilometers from the train station and belonged to the Stadtamhof district office .
The volume of passenger traffic was correspondingly low, for which three pairs of trains were sufficient, all of which ran to and from Regensburg main station. But as early as 1914, there were additional trains for tourist traffic in the Upper Palatinate Jura on Sundays and public holidays. Over the years - interrupted by setbacks - the number of train pairs to Alling increased to nine in 1950, some of them only from Sinzing. Then it took off again, because now buses were used directly to Viehhausen. On March 1, 1967, rail passenger traffic ended. The trains were pulled by small steam engines. There were two stops in the Regensburg suburb ofprüfunging. The Allinger Bockerl stopped at the lower stop of the Prüfingen train station, but just 300 m further on again at the point where there is a demand barrier today, i.e. H. on what was then the street from the tram terminus in the direction ofprüfungingen Castle. The next stop was Sinzing. Freight traffic was much more important for the short route. After all, Alling owned a filter fabric and a paper factory as well as a sawmill before 1914. In addition, until 1959 a 600-mm-gauge mine railway transported lignite that was mined near Viehhausen. Freight traffic was operated until the end of 1985. The route has since been closed and was converted into a cycle and footpath in the early 1990s.
literature
- Gerald Hoch, Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in the Upper Palatinate . 1st edition. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Resch, Neustadt bei Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-7-X .
- Peter Heigl: The Allinger Bockerl . Middle Bavarian Dr.- u. Verl.-Ges., Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-931904-01-6
- Historic branch lines in Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria. History and stories about almost forgotten railway lines in Eastern Bavaria. The book for the MZ series . H. Gietl Verlag Regenstauf and Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86646-556-5 , page 59ff