Wiesau – Bärnau railway line
| Wiesau (Oberpf) –Bärnau (Oberpf) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Tirschenreuth station, 2006
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| Route number : | 5041 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | formerly 856, 425h (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 24.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wiesau – Bärnau line was a branch line in Bavaria . It connected the district town of Tirschenreuth , the center of the Stiftland, and the upper Waldnaab Valley in the northern Upper Palatinate with the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway , which in turn connected the connection to Regensburg and Hof.
history
The district town of Tirschenreuth, which had around 4,900 inhabitants around 1910, was about ten kilometers east of the north-south route Eger – Weiden opened in 1864/65 by the AG der Bayerische Ostbahnen . On November 10, 1872, this company put a branch line from the Wiesau express train station to the city of Tirschenreuth into operation, which had contributed financially to the construction costs following a Bavarian concession on November 10, 1870. The route led through a forest area and the pond landscape in the North of the Upper Palatinate Forest .
Only 28 years after the transition from the Eastern Railway Company to the Bavarian State Railway, the law of June 30, 1900 extended the line on July 8, 1903 in a southerly direction to the small town of Bärnau , where around 1400 residents lived.
Until 1976, freight trains with passenger transport (GmP) were on the route . In recent years these trains were hauled by class V 60 locomotives, so that only passenger cars with coal stoves could be used in winter.
In 1963, on weekdays only two passenger trains ran the entire route, otherwise the section between Tirschenreuth and Bärnau was served by buses. The declining number of passengers at the end of the 20th century - especially in the border region - led the Deutsche Bundesbahn to cease passenger transport by rail on September 28, 1975 between Tirschenreuth and Bärnau and only operate between Wiesau and Tirschenreuth from Monday to Friday; on September 22, 1989 these trips to the county seat ended. Since 1984, freight transport has been increasingly restricted. Freight traffic between Liebenstein and Bärnau ended on December 31, 1984, on October 1, 1994 it ended between Tirschenreuth and Liebenstein, and between Wiesau and Tirschenreuth on January 1, 2000. Today the tracks have been dismantled and the route is partially used as a cycle path. Except for the station building in Tirschenreuth, all stations have been preserved and some are used as residential buildings.
Web links
literature
- Gerald Hoch, Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in the Upper Palatinate - decline or renaissance from the 70s into the new millennium . 1st edition. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Resch, Neustadt bei Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-7-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German railways in their development 1835-1935 . Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1935 / Reprint Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 No. 1872/59
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German railways in their development 1835-1935 . Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1935 / Reprint Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 No. 1903/17
- ↑ Tripod going astray . In: railway magazine . No. 6 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 44-45 .