Deggendorf–Metten railway

The railway Deggendorf - Metten was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in eastern Bavaria. Built and operated was the railway line from the local railway Deggendorf - Metten AG.

The company was founded, on the one hand the well-known by Metten Abbey Metten place to provide a rail connection and the other to the products located in the vicinity of the place granite quarries able to transport by rail.

The concession was granted on September 7, 1890, the same year could be started with the construction and opening of the operation on 17 October 1891. The route length of the railway Father, as it was popularly called, was 4.22 km, this came in Metten still a 1.1 -kilometer-long railway siding to the quarries. The two steam locomotives of this railway had the names and Metten Deggendorf ( Krauss, model years 1891, 2451 and 2452 factory numbers, series B N2T, scrapped 1965 and 1953).

The train was taken on February 1, 1928 by Regentalbahn AG and is now operated by it. From it the stronger locomotives Osser ( Maffei, built in 1922, serial number 5478, Type C H2T ) and the new Deggendorf came ( Maffei, built in 1927 serial number 5684, Type D H2T ). The last locomotive was the Bavarian Forest (identical to Deggendorf, factory number 5683 ), from 1975, a railcar (Dessau, built in 1937) was only used for freight. After adjusting the movement of persons, the German Federal Railroad took delivery of the car.

On November 6, 1975, the last steam train ran on the track. On September 23, 1983, the last passenger train was traveling. The freight was posted on June 1, 1991 and finally shut down the route on August 1, 1993. On the railway line today is a bicycle track between Deggendorf and Metten.

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• The track is in its stage of construction from 1983 some of the published on 22 October 2006 Expansion " German Railroads Volume 7 The Bavarian Forest " of the Microsoft Train Simulator.