Weiden – Bayreuth railway line

Weiden-Bayreuth
Railcars at the Wunaustraße level crossing in Bayreuth
Route number :	5051
Course book section (DB) :	867
Route length:	58.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend from Regensburg from Neukirchen 0.0 Pastures (Oberpf) 397 m to Oberkotzau 2.8 Federal highway 93 11.5 Parkstein - huts 419 m Bundesstrasse 470 14.9 Schwarzenbach (b Pressath) 20.9 Pressath 424 m to Grafenwöhr (–Kirchenthumbach) 21.7 Bundesstrasse 299 Haidenaab Haidenaab 26.8 Trabitz 437 m Haidenaab 32.3 Kemnath - Neustadt 450 m 35.9 Guttenthau by Cheb 39.3 Kirchenlaibach 462 m to Nuremberg 45.5 Seybothenreuth 425 m Bundesstrasse 22 50.1 Stockau 397 m 54.3 Hermitage 55.2 Federal motorway 9 55.5 Bundesstrasse 22 (Königsallee) 57.0 Bundesstrasse 22 (40 m) 57.6 Bundesstrasse 2 and 57.6 Roter Main (together 110 m) of Schnabelwaid 58.1 Bayreuth Central Station 344 m to Warmensteinach to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg

The Weiden – Bayreuth line is a main line in Bavaria . It connects Weiden in the Upper Palatinate via Kirchenlaibach with Bayreuth .

history

Irrenlohe station , left the tracks from Weiden , 2009

VT 98 rail bus in front of the former Ostbahn car depot in Bayreuth , 1986

The concession to build the Irrenlohe (near Schwandorf ) –Weiden-Bayreuth line was awarded to the Actiengesellschaft der Bavarian Eastern Railways on January 3, 1862. Construction work began that same year, and the line was officially opened on December 1, 1863. From Schwandorf station to Irrenlohe station, it ran on a single track parallel to the Regensburg –Schwandorf– Amberg – Nuremberg railway line, which was also single-tracked . In Bayreuth it ended in its own train station south of the then “Brandenburger Tor”, which received a locomotive shed , a goods hall , a wagon depot and a block of flats for service apartments. For cost reasons, however, passenger traffic was handled right from the start on the platform immediately north of it on the "leased railway" to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg , which had existed since 1853 .

When the eastern railway line went into operation, the former Bayreuth terminus became a through station on the Hof – Bayreuth – Weiden – Regensburg – Munich route , with transfers being made in Bayreuth and Irrenlohe. From now on, the route from Bayreuth to Munich was 40 miles, 12.5 miles shorter than the one via Augsburg . Train crossings were planned in Parkstein -Hütten, Kemnath - Neustadt , Kirchenlaibach and Seybothenreuth .

Initially, three pairs of passenger trains ran between Bayreuth and Irrenlohe. As early as the 1860s, a passenger train (“Courierzug” with exclusively high- class wagons ) was added to international traffic without changing wagons between Cologne and Vienna.

On January 1, 1876, the Ostbahngesellschaft was nationalized and the route was taken over by the Bavarian State Railways . By changing the road layout in the same year, the two Bayreuth train stations could be merged.

The Schwandorf – Weiden section is now assigned to the Regensburg – Weiden railway line .

Route description

course

Bayreuth Königsallee level crossing

The route leaves Weiden train station in a north-westerly direction and initially runs along the B 470 past the Weiden districts of Rehbühl and Weiden-West and the Seltmann porcelain factory . At the level of the Brandweiher settlement, the route first swings to the south-west, then runs in a north-westerly direction through the Manteler forest and from Schwarzenbach along the Haidenaab to Pressath . There the branch line to Kirchenthumbach branched off until 1962 , today only the siding to the Grafenwöhr military training area . Next, the route runs along the Haidenaab, bypasses the Rough Kulm on the eastern side and hits the station Kirchenlaibach to the Nuremberg-Cheb railway . Behind Kirchenlaibach the route runs north-west along the B 22 through the Seybothenreuther Forest and between the Pensen and the Schlehenberg to Bayreuth. It leads past the Bayreuth districts of Grunau, Colmdorf and Neue Heimat and then meets the railway line from Schnabelwaid . The two lines cross the river valley of the Red Main in parallel on an almost 1.5 km long dam, the line from Weiden runs on the eastern of the two tracks. Coming from the south, the two routes first cross the B 22 (Wieland-Wagner-Straße), then the Bayreuth Mühlkanal and finally, just before the entrance to Bayreuth Central Station , first the B 2 (Albrecht-Dürer-Straße) and directly afterwards the Red Main.

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  Weiden station with the outgoing train to Bayreuth, to the right the line to Oberkotzau

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  Ostkopf of the Kirchenlaibach train station : In the foreground an operating track , in the middle the exit towards Weiden, on the left a VT 612 to Marktredwitz

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  West station head in Kirchenlaibach: To the left the double-track line to Schnabelwaid , right single-track to Bayreuth

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  Colmdorf railway bridge

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  Railcar of the type Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 in front of the Bayreuth district of Neue Heimat

State of development

The track structure and the engineering structures had been dimensioned from the beginning for the later installation of a second track. This measure was not implemented, the entire length of the line is single-track and not electrified.

Stations

Bayreuth main train station, in the middle a military train arriving from Grafenwöhr via Kirchenlaibach, 1987

• Bayreuth Hbf: see Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof .
• Hermitage: The station near the Hermitage Park was opened as a stop on December 1, 1910. It received a single-storey reception building in wood construction. In 1939 a crossing track and a small signal box were built, both of which were dismantled in 1971. In 1973 the station was given up, the building no longer exists.
• Kemnath-Neustadt: The train station is roughly halfway between Kemnath and Neustadt am Kulm , about five kilometers from Kemnath city center. It has a crossing track, the loading track has been dismantled. The goods hall still exists, the two-storey reception building has been replaced by a flat new building made of clinker brick.
• Kirchenlaibach: see Kirchenlaibach train station .
• Seybothenreuth: The train station with its brick, two-story entrance building is already listed in the first timetable. The crossing and loading track were removed in 1977 and the station downgraded to a stop.
• Stockau: The station appears for the first time in the timetable from 1876, the station building on the periphery dates from 1883. It has a crossing track, the loading track has since been removed. The original platforms are no longer used, closer to the town center two side platforms were built.
• Weiden: see train station Weiden (Oberpf)

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  Kirchenlaibach train station railcar series RS1 of the company Agilis

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  Kemnath - Neustadt train station

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  Pressath station

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  Weiden station with Agilis railcars from Bayreuth on track 3, on the left a garbage train from Schwandorf

Trains

Diesel multiple units of the type Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 from agilis operate on the route . In addition, there is regular freight traffic with garbage trains to the Schwandorf waste incineration plant , occasionally trains with prefabricated garages and military trains to the Grafenwöhr military training area.

Web links

• Route description for local traffic Franconia (private)

literature

• Manfred Bräunlein: The Eastern Railways . Lorenz Spindler, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-88929-078-7 .
• Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the railroad . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0780-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Bräunlein: The Eastern Railways . Lorenz Spindler, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-88929-078-7 , p. 74 .
2. ^ Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the railway . Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0780-6 , p. 43 .
3. ↑ Manfred Bräunlein: Die Ostbahnen , p. 156.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Bräunlein: Die Ostbahnen , p. 148.
5. ^ Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the Railway , p. 47.
6. ↑ Manfred Bräunlein: Die Ostbahnen , p. 149.
7. ^ Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the Railway , p. 42.