Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line
| Weiden (Oberpf) –Oberkotzau | |
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| Route number : | 5050 |
| Course book section (DB) : | 855 |
| Route length: | 87.020 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Route class : | D4 |
| Top speed: | 160 km / h |
| Train control : | PZB , ZUB122 , ZUB262 |
| Dual track : | Weiden (Oberpf) –Oberkotzau |
The Weiden – Oberkotzau line is a double-track main line in Bavaria . It connects to the Regensburg – Weiden railway line in Weiden in Upper Palatinate and leads via Marktredwitz to Oberkotzau , where it joins the Bamberg – Hof railway line . The route is part of a national long-distance connection from Munich to Hof and on to Leipzig and Dresden .
history
The route was opened in several sections. The section from Weiden to Wiesau was built as part of a connection from Regensburg to Eger by the AG der Bayerische Ostbahnen and operated until it was nationalized in 1876.
The route from Weiden via Wiesau and on to Mitterteich was opened to traffic on August 15, 1864. After the connection from Mitterteich to Eger went into operation on October 15, 1865 and the connection from Hof to Eger on November 1, 1865, it was possible to travel by train from Regensburg to Hof - but only with the detour via Eger, which is in Bohemia is located and at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .
On August 15, 1877, as part of the construction of the Fichtelgebirgsbahn of the Royal Bavarian State Railways, a connection to Markt Redwitz was put into operation from Oberkotzau station on the Bamberg – Hof railway line. On August 15, 1878, the Nuremberg – Eger railway reached the Redwitz market from Nuremberg. This line was also continued to the Eger railway junction in Bohemia until 1883. As early as June 1, 1882, the gap between Wiesau and Marktredwitz on Bavarian territory was closed, thus completing today's Weiden – Hof route.
Opening dates
- Weiden – Wiesau (–Eger): August 15, 1864
- Holenbrunn – Oberkotzau: August 15, 1877
- Marktredwitz – Holenbrunn: May 15, 1878
- Wiesau – Marktredwitz: June 1, 1882
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The line was single-track until 1900. The expansion to two tracks caused problems in the Groschlattengrün station, located in the area of the village of Pechbrunn. It was located directly on the local basalt works , which could not be moved. On October 30 and 31, 1900, the station building was therefore separated from its foundation, raised four centimeters and moved ten meters. During this campaign, operations continued, including in the building, without any notable interruptions.
On July 9, 1939, there was a serious railway accident in the southern entrance to the station in Marktredwitz. The D 25 from Munich Hbf to Berlin Anhalter Bf ran into standing freight wagons at the three- arch bridge that had been separated from a freight train ahead. The two locomotives of the express train, the Prussian P 8 38 2145 and 38 2401 , as well as the first wagons of the train derailed and fell from the bridge.
Until the end of the Second World War, the line was part of the most important long-distance connection in southern Germany between Munich, Dresden and Breslau . In the 1939 summer timetable, a total of eleven express trains ran on the route. In addition to express trains on the route from Munich to Dresden, Wroclaw and further into Beuthen in Upper Silesia , long-distance trains also ran on the routes Vienna-Leipzig-Hamburg, Berchtesgaden -Berlin / Dresden and Rome-Munich-Leipzig-Berlin.
The regional rail services on the entire route were provided by the Upper Palatinate of the Vogtlandbahn with diesel multiple units of the Desiro type . The regional rail services on the Marktredwitz – Hof section were re-awarded as part of the “Upper Franconia Diesel Network” tendered by the Bavarian Railway Company on February 8, 2008.
In December 2012 agilis took over regional transport. There should be an improved operating offer, u. a. give a continuous RB line Hof – Marktredwitz.
outlook
The 35.9 kilometer northern section Marktredwitz – Oberkotzau is to be part of the Franconia-Saxony Magistrale, which is listed in the current federal traffic route plan as project no Project ”is listed in the“ Urgent Needs ”section. The section from Weiden to Marktredwitz, on the other hand, together with the southern connecting route Regensburg – Weiden as part of the east corridor south, which is included in the current federal traffic route plan as project no. 16 (ABS Hof - Marktredwitz - Regensburg - Obertraubling) as a "new project" in the section "urgent Demand - Priority Elimination of Congestion "is listed, be electrified.
Route description
From Weiden, the route leads along Wald- and Fichtelnaab via Neustadt an der Waldnaab , Windischeschenbach , Reuth near Erbendorf to Wiesau , bypasses the Steinwald on its east side and ends together with the railway line from Nuremberg from the west at Marktredwitz station. Between Weiden and Marktredwitz, four branch lines branched off from the line: in the wedge station of Neustadt the line to Eslarn , in Reuth the line to Erbendorf and in Wiesau the lines from Bärnau and to Eger via Waldsassen . In Reuth, a light rail line began with a gauge of 600 mm, which led to the village of Friedenfels about six kilometers away (see Reuth – Friedenfels railway line ).
From Marktredwitz, the route branches off from the one to Schirnding and Eger and leads north via Holenbrunn, Röslau and Marktleuthen, and on the way to Hof crosses the eastern foothills of the Fichtelgebirge. From Fattigau the line runs parallel to the Saale and the Bamberg railway line and joins them at Oberkotzau station .
literature
- Manfred Bräunlein: The Eastern Railways . Lorenz Spindler, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-88929-078-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Michael Ernstberger, op. Cit. , P. 96 ff.
- ↑ feuerwehr-marktredwitz.de
- ↑ turntable-online.de
- ↑ Summer timetable 1939 of the course book route 425 Regensburg – Hof
- ↑ Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology : Free State of Bavaria puts out diesel train services on the rail network in northeastern Bavaria ( Memento of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Press release from February 11, 2008.
- ↑ Federal Railways Expansion Act
- ↑ Project Information System (PRINS) for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, as of August 2016
- ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, as of March 2016
- ↑ Michael Ernstberger: North Bavarian field and mine railways and the history of their operations . 1st edition. 2005, p. 9 .