List of formerly double-track railway lines

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Due to the decline in transport demand, as a result of war events or post-war dismantling , in Germany and other mostly European countries , railway lines that used to have two or more tracks have often been reduced to one track .

historical overview

Even at the beginning of the construction of railway lines, some important lines were double-tracked, as the capacity of a double-track line is more than double that of a single-track line. In Central Europe, however, the extensive double-track expansion of existing main lines did not begin until around 1860 . Even new lines, especially if they were also to become main lines, were either built with two tracks or at least laid out with a route designed for two tracks . In the vicinity of many large cities and / or railway junctions, lines were often expanded to include three or four tracks, usually separating either passenger and freight traffic or long-distance and suburban traffic.

In the years before the First World War , in Germany, in addition to the main lines, branch lines were occasionally expanded to double tracks, especially in the expected deployment areas in the west required according to the Schlieffen Plan . Several branch lines in the Eifel and the Palatinate received second tracks, although the volume of traffic in times of peace did not justify this economically.

After the First World War, the Deutsche Reichsbahn often had to rebuild such lines on a track in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . Changed military strategies meant that many of these lines did not get their second track back, even during the armament before the Second World War . Other routes were expanded to double tracks before the Second World War, but mostly due to normal traffic growth and not due to military requirements.

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union began extensive dismantling and reparations in its zone of occupation . In addition to the dismantling of the complete overhead lines of the electrified lines around Leipzig and Magdeburg , above all almost all double or multi-track lines were dismantled on one track. Only very few sections, such as the Berlin - Frankfurt (Oder) connection , remained double-tracked.

The Deutsche Reichsbahn gradually began to rebuild the second track. Until the fall of the Wall in the GDR, most of the double-track lines before 1945 got their second track back. Some came after 1990. However, some of the lines have remained single-track to this day.

In West Germany, individual lines were only removed from a track in the French occupation zone . The German Federal Railroad , which operated rail traffic in the west from 1949 , initially dismantled the second track on lines that had lost their traffic significance due to the division of Germany. Since the 1970s, it has also started dismantling other routes that are now relatively underutilized. Only a few single-track lines were expanded to double-track by the Federal Railroad. On the other hand, individual sections were even multi-tracked in the course of the expansion of ICE traffic .

The Deutsche Bahn AG has largely refrained from reducing further double-track lines to one track. However, it is now widely criticized for significantly reducing capacity by dismantling sidings and overtaking tracks on both two-track and single-track routes. The criticism comes mainly from private railway companies, who see the opportunities for competition they achieved in the course of the railway reform to be limited. The DB AG argues with the considerable cost savings that are possible through the dismantling.

In other European countries, lines have been reduced to a lesser extent to just one track. Dismantling due to war events was only carried out in individual cases. It was only the decline in demand in rail transport that increasingly led to individual routes in Belgium , Luxembourg , France , Austria and Poland losing their second track.

Outside Europe, especially in Canada and the eastern half of the USA, double and multi-track lines have been reduced to one track.

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin / Brandenburg

Hesse

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

completely dismantled:

a track dismantled:

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg

Thuringia

Austria

Single track dismantled routes:

  • Lower Austria :
    • Railway line Vienna – Gmünd : Absdorf-Hippersdorf - state border next to Gmünd, Lower Austria (119.1 km)
    • Junction Sugar Factory (Tulln-Stadt) - Moosbierbaum - Heiligeneich (15.1 km)
    • Herzogenburg - Viehofen (6.2 km)
    • Marchegger branch line : Stadlau - Marchegg - beginning of Marchbrücke (37.9 km)
  • Vienna :
    • Vienna Freudenau Harbor - Vienna Donaukaibahnhof (2.7 km)
    • Vienna Brigittenau - Nussdorf (0.3 km)
    • Vienna - Nussdorf Kahlenbergbahn (4.9 km, completely dismantled)
  • Styria :
    • Austrian Southern Railway : (Puntigam) - Werndorf - state border next to Spielfeld-Straß (29.4 km).
      The double-track reconstruction is divided into seven construction phases: The first expansion phase comprises the Lebring - Kaindorf section, which went into operation on November 22, 2009, and the Leibnitz - Wagna section, which was completed at the end of 2012. The second expansion stage is still in the planning stage and includes the sections Werndorf - Wildon, Wildon - Lebring, Wagna - Retznei, Retznei - Ehrenhausen and Ehrenhausen - state border.
    • Leoben Hbf - Leoben Donawitz - St. Peter Freienstein (5.8 km)
    • Erzbergbahn : Hieflau - Hieflau transfer station (0.7 km)

Switzerland

Single track dismantled routes:

Belgium

Flanders

Wallonia

Denmark

France

Great Britain

Single track dismantled routes:

Italy

Luxembourg

Poland

The list below contains (probably) all former double-track lines from 1993.

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Hungary

United States

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schwarzwaldbahn-calw.de  
  2. ↑ Steffen Lüdecke: The Inclined Plane . 4th edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88255-594-3 , p. 289 .
  3. ↑ Eisenbahnkurier 12/2016, p. 56
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abstract.lib-ebook.com
  5. ↑ Railway operations until 1945 ( Memento from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ ÖBB Infrastruktur AG: Leibnitz_Wagna. In: www.oebb.at. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ grewamm.demon.co.uk