Bad Endorf – Obing railway line

Endorf – Obing
Route number (DB) :	5705
Course book section (DB) :	12951
Route length:	18.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend from Salzburg 0.0 Bad Endorf 525 m to Rosenheim St 2095 3.3 Bad Endorf airfield (request stop) 5.8 Halfing 504 m Viaduct over the Todtmannstal 10.3 Amerang 544 m 14.3 Aindorf (request stop) 15.7 Pittenhart (demand stop) 18.5 Obing 569 m

The Bad Endorf – Obing railway is an 18.5 km long, standard-gauge railway line from Bad Endorf station via Halfing , Amerang and Pittenhart to Obing . It is operated by the Chiemgauer Lokalbahn (abbreviation: CLB , also called LEO for L okalbahn E ndorf– O bing) as a museum railway.

history

Origin and construction

The western Chiemgau is a wooded area, but the removal of the forest products was difficult because there were only poor forest roads. From 1890 there was an effort to develop this area with railway technology. The Rosenheim – Salzburg and Rosenheim – Mühldorf railway lines were on the edge of western Chiemgau , but none of these lines led into western Chiemgau. To change this situation, a railway committee was founded in Rosenheim in 1890 , which planned a local railway to Frabertsham . The route was to be continued later to Schnaitsee . A railway committee was also founded in Eggstätt , but this planned a railway line from Bad Endorf via Eggstätt to Obing. Two options arose during the planning, one via Arxtham and one via Höslwang . In 1901 the two railway committees agreed on a route from Bad Endorf via Pittenhart to Obing. The line was later to be extended to Frabertsham and Schnaitsee, but the extension was never realized. On August 10, 1904, the construction was specified in a local railway law, 1,195,100 marks were available for the construction. Construction began in August 1907, and the line was opened on October 15, 1908.

Locomotive 657.2770 of the ÖGEG at the end of the CLB 2006 season

Obing station

business

As early as May 26, 1968, the scheduled passenger traffic of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was discontinued, freight traffic followed on January 1, 1996.

Bavarian local railway locomotives were used until the end of the 1950s, in particular the class 70 ( Bavarian Pt 2/3 ), later railbuses of the class 795 and diesel locomotives of the class 211 for freight transport .

Since 2002 the association Chiemgauer Lokalbahn e. V. based in Obing to secure the route and reactivate it in the medium term. In 2005, an operator was found in Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn GmbH (RSE) who took reactivation one step further. The Bavarian State Ministry for Economics, Technology, Infrastructure and Transport granted the RSE the necessary permit to operate the Bad Endorf – Obing railway line. The leaseholder is the Chiemgauer Lokalbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, which was founded in 2005. In September 2014, the Chiemgauer Lokalbahn association finally bought the line from DB Netz .

It started operating as a tourist railway on July 1, 2006. Trains run on Sundays and public holidays during the summer season. As a rule, the VT 103 multiple unit was used until spring 2014 , which was then initially parked as the main inspection was due. Since then, the VT 26 , which was taken over and refurbished in 2011, has been used. There are also steam trains on the Obingen local railway every day. For example, at the end of the 2006 season, locomotive 657.2770 of the Austrian Society for Railway History carried 4,000 passengers over a weekend, meanwhile around 5,000 passengers are common.

Infrastructure

listed viaduct near Amerang over the Todtmannstal

The 18.507 km long, non-electrified route includes seven stops and eight bridges, including the stamped concrete viaduct over the Todtmannstal near Amerang. There are also 62 culverts, 52 level crossings and 7 switches. According to the RSE, the total length of all tracks is around 20 km.

The viaduct near Amerang and the station building in Obing are listed buildings.

Web links

Commons : Bad Endorf – Obing railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chiemgauer Local Railway Association V.
• Operating company CLBG ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Working group Endorf - Obing from PRO BAHN

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfram Alteneder, Clemens Schüssler: The branch lines of the BD Munich . 1st edition. Kersting, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4 , pp. 89 .
2. ↑ Connection to Obing. Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , September 1, 2014, accessed on March 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ LEO Online - Vehicles - VT26