Chiemgau Railway

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Prien a Chiemsee – Aschau (Chiemgau)
Route of the Chiemgau Railway
Route number (DB) : 5706
Course book section (DB) : 952
Route length: 9.573 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : CE
Minimum radius : 267 m
Top speed: 50 km / h
Route - straight ahead
from Rosenheim
Station, station
0.065 Prien a Chiemsee 531 m
   
to Salzburg Hbf
Bridge (small)
Staatsstrasse 2092 (Bernauer Strasse)
Stop, stop
2,490 Urschalling
Stop, stop
4.130 Vachendorf
Stop, stop
5.107 Umrathshausen train station
Stop, stop
6.660 Umrathshausen place
   
Schafelbach
Stop ... - end of the route
9,638 Aschau (Chiemgau) 606 m

Swell:

The Chiemgaubahn is a branch line in Bavaria . It branches off the Rosenheim – Salzburg railway line in Prien am Chiemsee and leads to Aschau im Chiemgau .

history

Aschau (Chiemgau) train station

After Theodor von Cramer-Klett bought Hohenaschau Castle and the associated Priental lands in 1875, he financed the construction of a Vizinalbahn to Aschau. The opening took place on August 18, 1878.

In the 1939 summer timetable, eight pairs of passenger trains were listed every day. The travel time from Prien to Aschau was 20 minutes, which corresponds to a cruising speed of around 30 km / h.

In the mid-1980s, there was only a marginal volume of goods traffic. The few remaining freight wagons were added to the passenger trains as required.

The decommissioning procedure initiated in 1982 was ultimately not brought to a conclusion. Instead, the DB modernized the route. Shorter travel times, modernized railcars and a cycle timetable gave the route a new perspective.

Since the timetable change in December 2016, the Umrathshausen railway station is no longer served by passenger trains.

In the 2020 timetable year, regional trains run about every hour on the route , with a concentration in the afternoons on working days. The 628ers need 14 minutes for the ten kilometer route. In the evening there is a pair of trains that are tied through to Rosenheim .

Vehicle use

From the 1950s the line was served by rail buses of the VT 98 series (later the 798 series). In 1987, two railcars (798 652 and 798 653) and one control car (998 896) were modernized by the Kassel repair shop and repainted in the product colors white / mint green. These modernized rail buses of the Chiemgaubahn were the only rail buses of the Federal Railroad to have this color scheme, all the others, with the exception of the gray-painted 798 711, had the purple red typical of Deutsche Bundesbahn railcars until the end of their service with the DB.

Due to this uniqueness, there are models of the Chiemgaubahn railbuses from several model railway manufacturers. The former Chiemgaubahn vehicles were then used from 1998 to 2016 as “Ulmer Spatz” in tourist traffic, including on the Kleinengstingen – Schelklingen railway line . 798 652 and 998 896 are used today by the RAB Classics interest group, 798 653 is stored at the Bw Crailsheim development association.

In 1996 the "Chiemgau-Bahn" rail buses (798 652 and 798 653) were replaced by class 628.4 railcars .

Web links

Commons : Chiemgaubahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  2. ^ DB Netz AG: Infrastructure Register. In: geovdbn.deutschebahn.com , accessed on July 2, 2020.
  3. Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  4. Map of the Federal Railway Directorate Munich 1985
  5. Summer timetable 1939
  6. a b Wolfram Alteneder, Clemens Schüssler: The branch lines of the BD Munich. A manual and travel guide. Verlag C. Kersting, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4 , p. 85 .
  7. “The Halt” has had its day. In: OVB-online. August 26, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  8. Citizens protest against closure. In: OVB-online. October 13, 2016, accessed November 12, 2017 .