Regensburg–Passau railway

The railway Regensburg -Passau heard as a connection to Austria and other South Eastern European countries to the main railway lines in southern Germany. It is also completely double-tracked and electrified.

History

For developing the railway loose until then eastern Bavaria, the Bavarian state left the local railway construction in 1856 the newly founded private "Royal priveligirten Actiengesellschaft the Bavarian Ostbahnen ". Under the date of 12 April 1856, the Eastern Railway Company received a concession for the construction and operation of rail lines in the east of Bavaria. The exact route had been worked out by the Bavarian government in 1851 and the Eastern Railroad Company was prescribed. A line ran from Munich to Landshut (opened on November 3, 1858) after Geiselhöring. There it branched northwards to Regensburg and south over Straubing to Passau. The sections Landshut - Geiselhöring - Regensburg and Geiselhöring - Straubing went on 12 December 1859 in operation. From Straubing 77 km stretch from September 20, 1860 went on about Plattling and Vilshofen to the border town of Passau. There, the rail line from September 1, 1861 was continued by the Austrian Empress Elisabeth train to Linz and Vienna.

Because of this route had to drive over Geiselhöring and head do there through trains from Regensburg to Passau. On July 1, 1873 direct link from Sünching was opened to Straubing, which greatly abridging the way and the journey accelerated. Between 1880 and 1897 we first put the now superfluous leg Sünching - Geiselhöring silent and later Perkam - Straubing, after they had made ​​from 30 September 1896 by Perkam the connection after Radldorf which opens there in the main route towards Straubing.

The entire route fell to the nationalization of the Bavarian Ostbahnen on 10 May 1875, the Bavarian State Railways. A law enacted on March 3, 1894 the doubling of the track to Passau was initiated. On June 1, 1959, the scheduled electrical equipment was taken.

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1985 Section plans, the project of a rail line Nuremberg -Passau was included with investment cost of 150 million DM.

Under the emergency program seaport hinterland traffic 28 new signals were built, thus increasing the line capacity.

Route description

The route runs from Regensburg together with the distance to Landshut to Oberstraubing and where you turn off to the southeast. Now guide you through the Gäuboden to Plattling. To cross the Isar Plattling they built an iron truss bridge on granite piers with a total of 162 meters width. With the flood openings, the bridge has a length of 318.35 meters. By five km wide floodplain at Plattling you also built a two to three meter high embankment with ten flood bridges.

Between Vilshofen Passau and the railway line runs for about four kilometers confined space between the Danube and lion wall parallel to the main road 8 Following the path because of the risk of flooding up to three feet above the road and was following the windings of the Danube.

1500 meters further towards Passau is spanned by the bridge over the Danube Schalding the route that leads the BAB 3 over the Danube.

Operation

Today's Services

On this route have been running since the timetable change on 9 December 2007 at two- hourly ICE T trains - a total of six pairs of trains - and an intercity train pair a day. The IC train pair begins and ends in Passau, the ICE trains continue to Vienna. Long-distance transport are holding Regensburg, Plattling and Passau.

In the transport run between Passau and Plattling regional express trains (see Danube River Isar - Express). These hold the road is in Vilshofen and Osterhofen. The regional express trains from Plattling directly to Munich. Between Plattling and Regensburg are hourly regional trains to the private railway agilis, - are bound up by Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz - weekend only every two hours. On both lines multiple units of the type Lirex be used.

Others

The section between Straubing and Plattling is used by DB Systemtechnik for test drives. Here Störstrommessungen be performed on rail vehicles. So, it happens frequently that are affecting this section railway prototypes on the road to get their approval.