Wiesau – Cheb railway line
| Wiesau (Oberpf) –Cheb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 5040 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | formerly 855, 425g (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 26.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wiesau – Cheb railway was a single-track main line in Bavaria and the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the Bayerische Ostbahnen (BOB) as part of a continuous connection from Regensburg to Eger . It branched off the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line in Wiesau and led via Mitterteich and Waldsassen to Cheb ( Eger ).
In 1945 the line was interrupted at the state border. Since 2000 (in Germany) and 2003 (in the Czech Republic) it has been completely closed with the exception of the 3.6 km long section from Wiesau to the Mitterteich interim storage facility .
history
As part of their north-south route, the Bavarian Eastern Railways opened the section from Weiden via Wiesau to Mitterteich on August 15, 1864, and on October 15, 1865 its continuation to the Eger junction in what was then Austria . Together with the Saxon Voigtland state railway from Eger to Herlasgrün, which opened on November 1, 1865, the line was part of a supraregional south-north long-distance connection between Bavaria and Saxony. At the same time, together with the Eger – Hof line, which was opened at the same time, a significant domestic route for Bavaria was created.
The line only lost its supra-regional importance after the opening of the Marktredwitz – Wiesau – Hof connection by the Bavarian State Railroad on June 1, 1882. Together with the Saxon Leipzig – Hof line , a direct connection was now available across exclusively Bavarian territory, which was cheaper Inclination ratios and larger arc radii was and is significantly more efficient. Until the First World War, however, express trains continued to run via Eger.
It was not until the establishment of Czechoslovakia after 1919 that the border between Waldsassen and Schloppenhof became more important. From this point on, only passenger traffic to and from Eger was allowed to be operated from this station. The line remained in the ownership and operation of what was now the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in 1938, the route was used by an express train connection from Munich to Karlsbad.
After the end of the Second World War, there was a permanent interruption of the line at the state border in May 1945. Travel between Slapany and Cheb was maintained with four pairs of trains until 1963. Freight traffic was given up in 1969. On June 30, 2003, the traffic-free route was formally closed and subsequently dismantled.
In 1977 the line was downgraded to a branch line in Bavaria .
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.
The German Federal Railroad placed the May 30, 1986 - A passenger - at times with more than ten pairs of trains remarkably extensive. Freight traffic to Waldsassen ended on October 10, 1994, to Mitterteich officially on January 1, 2000. On May 11, 1995, the Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the Mitterteich – Waldsassen section, which took place on August 1, 1995. On January 31, 2000, the closure permit for the Wiesau – Mitterteich section followed, from km 3.6 to Mitterteich on December 31, 2000.
The remaining section from Wiesau to the siding of the GRB Mitterteich (km 3.6) was defined as a siding of the Wiesau station as of December 31, 2000 and will continue to be used by DB Cargo Deutschland for freight traffic as required .
Quarry track
From the Steinmühle station, Bayerische Basalt AG operated a field railway with a gauge of 700 mm to a quarry until 1973 . After giving up basalt production, the railway carried kaolin until it was shut down on October 31, 1984.
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 .
Web links
- Waldsassen – Eger cycle path , with photos
- In the Upper Palatinate at the top: Wiesau-Waldsassen , with sketches
- www.oberpfaelzerkulturbund.de 125 years ago, the Mitterteich – Eger railway line opened (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Tripod going astray . In: railway magazine . No. 6 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 44-45 .
- ↑ Printed matter 15/285 of the German Bundestag from January 9, 2003 (PDF; 587 kB) on the subject of " Shutting down regional rail lines"
- ↑ Federal Railway Office : List of disused routes in Bavaria (since January 1, 1994) ( Microsoft Excel file, 16 kB) on eba.bund.de, September 11, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.bahn-express.de/archiv/95666-01.htm