Tutting – Kößlarn railway line
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 Information board in Tutting at the beginning of the cycle path
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| Route number : | 5728 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 427f (1960) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.78 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tutting – Kößlarn line was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Simbach am Inn – Pocking railway line in Tutting and led to Kößlarn in Lower Bavaria .
history
This railway line was the result of a long-term tug-of-war between the Rotthalmünster and Kößlarn markets , which were both striving for a local railway from Simbach am Inn with their place as their terminus. The state railway decided that only one line could be built, and the line along the Inn to Rotthalmünster was judged to be the cheaper one compared to the line proposed by Kößlarn, which would have led via Wittibreut through hilly area.
Nevertheless, on October 27, 1900, Kößlarn and Wittibreut sent a new petition to Munich to the General Management of the Royal Bavarian State Railways in favor of a railway construction in Kößlarn. General director Gustav Ebermayer noted that this request was not to be approached, but they were prepared to carry out a Rotthalmünster – Kößlarn project if 1,000 marks were transferred for it, which was immediately done by Kößlarn.
On August 10, 1904, the law on the 23.07 kilometer long Simbach – Tutting – Rotthalmünster local railway came into force. Kößlarn had been left out for the time being. It was not until the law of June 26, 1908 that the construction of the 6.23 kilometer remaining stretch to Kößlarn was approved. On October 29, 1910, the railway line from Simbach to Rotthalmünster was opened, and on May 1, 1911, the remaining line to Kößlarn.
As early as November 2, 1912, however, a law was passed to extend the route from Tutting to Pocking in order to establish the connection between Passau and Simbach. On December 1, 1914, the Tutting – Pocking line went into operation, which at the same time brought the Simbach am Inn – Pocking railway into being.
As a result, the section from Tutting to Kößlarn had become a branch line that was also operated independently. This local train proved - despite the relatively high passenger volume up to the 1950s - to be just as unprofitable as the railway line from Simbach am Inn to Pocking. In 1921, three pairs of passenger trains ran between Tutting and Kößlarn every day, covering the 9.8 kilometer route in 38 minutes. From the winter of 1953/54 Uerdinger rail buses were also used, which reduced the journey time to 22 minutes. Nevertheless, the Deutsche Bundesbahn stopped travel on October 2, 1960. On January 1, 1970, the freight traffic between Rotthalmünster and Kößlarn ended. January 1, 1996 finally saw the closure of the remaining section between Tutting and Rotthalmünster after there had been no trains running there for weeks. The entire railway line has now been dismantled, a cycle path runs along the route.
In 2007 the former railway system was exempted from railway operations by the Federal Railway Authority in a procedure pursuant to Section 23 of the General Railway Act, thus releasing the last binding under railway law .
Web links
literature
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate , Weiden, 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9
- Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. Moving traffic history with a revolutionary future, self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-05-6474-1