Sinzing–Alling railway

The railway line Sinzing - Alling in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg was one of the shortest local railway lines in Bavaria.

History

Only a little more than a year after the opening of the Danube valley route Regensburg -Ingolstadt opened the Bavarian State Railways on December 20, 1875 a four- kilometer-long Vizinalbahn that ushered from the station Sinzing in the valley of the Schwarze Laber. She ended up in the village Alling, which itself 35 years later - before the start of the First World War - was one of only 116 inhabitants. It belonged to the rural community Viehhausen with about 800 inhabitants, which was about three kilometers from the railway station and belonged to the district office Stadtamhof.

Correspondingly low was the emergence in passenger, were sufficient for the three pairs of trains, all of wrong and to Regensburg Main Station. But in 1914 there were on Sundays and public holidays additional trains for the tourist traffic in the Upper Palatinate Jura. Over the years - interrupted by setbacks - the number of pairs of trains increased to Alling in 1950 to nine, some of them only from Sinzing. Then she took off again, because now buses were used directly to cattle camp. On March 1, 1967, the passengers ended up on the rail.

Much more important was the freight for the small distance. After all, had Alling before 1914, a filter fabric and a paper mill and a sawmill. In addition to 1959 transported a mine train zoom into 600 - mm gauge lignite, which was funded in cattle camp. The freight was operated until the end of 1985. The track is now closed and was converted into a bike and pedestrian path in the early 1990s.