Türkheim – Bad Wörishofen railway line
| Türkheim (Bay) train station - Bad Wörishofen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 5361 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 987, ex 406h (1938) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.206 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | CE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | until 1939: 550 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 6.99 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 206 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 100 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Türkheim – Bad Wörishofen line - formerly the Türkheim – Wörishofen local line - is a branch line in Bavaria . As it connects spur track to the railway junction Türkheim (Bay) Station at the Buchloe-Memmingen railway to the spa town of Bad Wörishofen .
history
The 5.206 kilometer long connection was opened on August 15, 1896; it was originally built and operated by the private Localbahn Actiengesellschaft Wörishofen . The initiator and sponsor of the railway was the well-known priest and hydrotherapist Sebastian Kneipp , he hoped that the railway would generate an upswing for the health resort of Wörishofen (Bad Wörishofen since 1920). The line was one of the first electrified railways in Germany and the first in Bavaria and was operated with 550 volts direct current. In 1905 the company was dissolved, the railway came to the Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft (LAG) from Munich . With the nationalization of the financially troubled LAG, the Bad Wörishofener line finally became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on August 1, 1938 . With the outbreak of World War II , electrical operations had to be stopped in 1939 because of the neighboring airfield . This makes the line one of the few de-electrified railway lines .
Freight traffic has not been possible since 1994 because all side tracks in Bad Wörishofen have been removed and there is no possibility of relocating.
vehicles
The three originally existing electric multiple units ET 186 01, ET 186 02 and ET 194 11 were transferred to the Bad Aibling – Feilnbach local line after electrical operations were discontinued . From then on, steam trains were used, which were later replaced by trains hauled by diesel locomotives or diesel multiple units. Furthermore, battery-powered railcars of the ETA 150 series, which were based in Augsburg, were also in use on the Bad Wörishofen route for a while.
The route is operated by Deutsche Bahn AG with regional trains of the 642 series and DB series 612 (1998) .
traffic
Today, regional express trains and regional trains run alternately here . From Bad Wörishofen the Intercity-Express stop at Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is reached directly ; On the way to Augsburg, there are connections to Munich and Zurich at Buchloe station .
Until the 1980s, there were some through coaches that offered connections to numerous major cities in Germany without changing trains.
Since December 2007 the course book route 987 (Augsburg – Bad Wörishofen) has been called the Kneipp-Lechfeld-Bahn by DB Regio AG .
literature
- Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen - Volume 7: Bayern , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-666-8 (page 263-269)
- Marcus Hehl: In the electric multiple unit to the cure ... The history of Bavaria's first electric railway line . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 196, 1, 1989, ISSN 0170-5288 , pp. 38-41.
- Siegfried Baum: Swabian Railway . The traffic history of the local railways in Central Swabia. Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Hehl: The steam locomotive era in Swabia. Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0613-6 , page 45.