Kochelseebahn
| Tutzing – Kochel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 5453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 35.470 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : |
Tutzing – Bichl: CE Bichl – Kochel B2 |
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| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 100 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kochelseebahn is a 35.47 kilometer long, single-track and continuously electrified railway line in Upper Bavaria . It is managed by Deutsche Bahn AG as course book route 961. The Kochelseebahn branches off in Tutzing from the mainline main line Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen and leads via Penzberg to Kochel on the eponymous Kochelsee .
The section from Tutzing to Bichl is classified as a main line , the rest as a branch line. The line has been operated electrically since March 4, 1925.
Route description
The route begins west of Lake Starnberg at Tutzing station and initially runs parallel to the route to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . After about 2.5 km, this route branches off to the west, while the Kochelseebahn follows the banks of the lake. Between Seeshaupt and Iffeldorf, the route leads along the Osterseen . After the line had headed southeast to Bichl, it changes direction there and heads south. In addition, the route now leads along the Bavarian Prealps with the Benediktenwand . West of the Kochelseebahn is now the Loisach and the Loisach-Kochelsee-Moore . In Benediktbeuern, the railway line runs directly past the monastery there . After 35.5 km the line reaches its terminus in Kochel.
history
On the initiative of the cities of Weilheim and Penzberg, the Royal Bavarian State Railways (K.Bay.Sts.B.) opened a railway line from Tutzing to Penzberg on October 16, 1865. One of the most important reasons for the construction of the new connection was the transport requirements of the Penzberg coal mine , the annual output of which rose from around 13,000 t to over 50,000 t within ten years thanks to the improved transport connection.
On May 23, 1898, the extension of the line from Penzberg via Bichl to Kochel was put into operation. This branches off from the existing line in front of the train station in the north of Penzberg and touches the place in the south-west, where a new train station has been built. The previous station, on the other hand, was only used for freight traffic, for which a connecting track between the old and the new station, renamed Penzberg Gbf , was created. In Bichl there was a connection to the Isar Valley Railway to Munich until May 31, 1959 , the Bichl – Beuerberg section of which was also opened on May 23, 1898.
The electrification of the entire Tutzing – Kochel line, including the connections to Penzberg Gbf, was completed on March 4, 1925. North of the Penzberg freight station, construction began on a traction power plant in 1942 , which - after the war-related cessation of construction between 1944 and 1947 - went into operation on January 30, 1951. Until the coal production in Penzberg ceased in 1966, it was operated almost exclusively with local hard coal, after which the fuels were delivered from Saarland and the Ruhr area until the power plant was shut down on April 30, 1971. With the elimination of coal mining and power stations, the importance of the Penzberg freight station also decreased. In 1986 the overhead line in Penzberg Gbf was dismantled , in 1989 the station area was sold to the city of Penzberg and the track system was then dismantled.
In the course of the 1980s, regular trips with the "Glass Train" were offered on the route .
With the decline in freight traffic and simultaneously falling passenger numbers, the profitability of the railway line decreased. The Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB), operator and owner of the connection since 1949, publicly considered its closure several times in the 1970s and 1980s, but this was not approved on the initiative of the Free State of Bavaria. Especially since the improvement of the timetable offer in 1994 through the introduction of the hourly service, the number of passengers on the Kochelseebahn has increased again. In the summer of 1997, nostalgic steam trips were offered on weekends on the route; in the summer of 1998 these were limited to Sundays. Today there are no more nostalgic trips.
The freight traffic that remained after the end of the coal transports was largely stopped in the 1990s. By early 2008, acting with railway vehicles and scrap operation was supplied on the site of the former Penzberger traction power power plant sporadically before the siding was dismantled in May of 2008. In August 2008, the old level crossing (Karlstraße / Seeshaupter Straße) and the old no longer operational safety signal were dismantled. The ballast of the former siding as well as the information boards (speed board and whistle board) on the former route are still there today. There are no longer any equipment for freight traffic on the entire Kochelseebahn route; they have been dismantled in almost all stations.
Since May 2010, locomotive-hauled trains have only been allowed to travel as far as Bichl due to a bridge damage. In 2013, all stations on the Kochelseebahn, with the exception of Bernried, were made barrier-free in order to enable barrier-free access to the trains with new vehicles of the 442 series when the Werdenfelsbahn went into operation on December 15, 2013 . Class 425 and 426 electric multiple units previously operated on the route . The Bernried stop finally received a new platform in August 2018.
Current operation
Every day of the week there is an hourly service with trains crossing in Bichl just before the full hour. These hourly trains stop in Starnberg as far as Munich main station, with another part of the train from Weilheim being coupled in Tutzing . On working days there is a half-hourly service, in the morning between Kochel and Munich, in the evening only between Penzberg and Tutzing. These trains then cross in Seeshaupt . Deutsche Bahn has been using class 442 railcars as rolling stock since 2013 .
Mechanical interlockings and form signals were still available at the Seeshaupt and Bichl stations until 2018 . The dispatchers set the points and form signals using hand levers and cables. While the Bichl interlocking was built in the standard design, a mechanical Krauss interlocking with a crank mechanism had stood in Seeshaupt since 1903. In Kochel, an electromechanical interlocking of type E43 / 50 ensured operation. In 2017/2018 the line was converted to a modern electronic interlocking (ESTW-R), which was put into operation in November 2018. The ESTW-R controls the Seeshaupt, Penzberg, Bichl and Kochel train stations from Weilheim .
literature
- Railway Atlas Germany . Verlag Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 , pp. 115 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See signs here (as of September 14, 2017).
- ^ Iffeldorf train station. Pro Bahn Werdenfels, accessed on May 14, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Stefan Bauer, Norbert Moy: The Kochelseebahn. History and Perspectives . Ed .: Pro Bahn . Pro Bahn Verlag und Reisen GmbH, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-9806387-0-7 .
- ^ Georg Reis: Penzberg station . In: The great archive of German train stations . GeraNova Zeitschriften-Verlag, ISSN 0949-2127 (compilation as loose-leaf edition ; 1997 ff.).
- ↑ The track to the Layritz company in Penzberg is history . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Photos of the dismantling of the siding to the former Penzberg traction power plant
- ↑ Kochelseebahn. Pro Bahn Werdenfels, accessed on May 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Bernhard Jepsen: Groundbreaking ceremony with Minister of State Ilse Aigner heralds barrier-free platform expansion. In: Kreisbote. July 11, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ List of German signal boxes. stellwerke.de, accessed on April 2, 2014.
- ↑ 20 million euros for new railway technology . In: https://www.merkur.de . January 30, 2017 ( online [accessed April 12, 2018]).
- ^ Federal Railway Authority : Planning approval [...] for the project "ESTW Kochelseebahn [...]". March 15, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 .
