Riesa–Chemnitz railway

The railway line Riesa- Chemnitz is a two-track and electrified main line in Saxony, which was originally built and operated by the Chemnitz- Riesa Railway Company. The route runs from Riesa chub and Mittweida to Chemnitz and is part of the long-distance link between Berlin and Chemnitz.

• 2.1 History
• 2.2 Operating points

History

Background and construction

In 1837 plans were made for a rail link from Riesa, a major freight transshipment point on the Elbe, to Chemnitz and on to Zwickau, which was significant as coalfield submitted. After the Leipzig- Dresden Railway was opened, was a connection of stuck in the industrial city of Chemnitz to Leipzig and Dresden, if awarded only by a detour via Riesa, highest priority. On 8 May 1845, the construction work could begin, although not even a precise route was decided between chub and Waldheim. On the northern section of Riesa after chub construction work progressed smoothly. There was on 29 August 1847, the official opening, on September 22, 1847 and the short piece by Limmritz could be opened. Chub was initially only a railway station in the northern district of Großbauchlitz. Today's station chub Hbf received his position only in the course of the completion of the Dresden- Leipzig route chub - 1868.

The section of Limmritz to Waldheim, however, caused great problems. The cost of construction of the viaducts and retaining walls in Zschopautal brought the company into financial fast. Because without a continuous operation to Chemnitz no profitable rail operation was possible and a bond did not materialize, the Chemnitz- Riesa Railway Company had to offer to the State on May 29, 1848. Based on the 1848/49 revolution took over this society until December 31, 1850 and continued to build, so that eventually the entire route was opened on 1 September 1852. In addition to King Friedrich August II and numerous political figures attended the opening. Even today, the section Limmritz - Waldheim is known as bankruptcy mile. Overall, the track with construction of more than 100,000 thalers per kilometer was one of the most expensive railway buildings at that time at all.

Operation

When people began to extend the railway to Zwickau ( with a branch of Glauchau to Goessnitz ), the entire path was designated Niedererzgebirgische State Railways. After they had not only created the connection to the Saxon- Bavarian State Railways, but also to Obererzgebirgischen State Railways ( Schwarzenberg -Zwickau ) with the track opening in 1858, the three were summarized on January 1, 1859 to the Western State Railways.

In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 the Ostrava viaduct was blown up by Prussian pioneers. In Großbauchlitz ( since 1932 chub North ) was from 1905 after the mill web Großbauchlitz, it was in 1914 replaced by a siding.

The biggest turning point in its history learned the route to the end of World War II, 1945. Reparation of the Soviet Union led to the complete degradation of the second track, which caused in the following 45 years for an extremely difficult operating situation on the heavily traveled main route. Only in 1990 was the second track to be put back into operation. Prior to the electrification of 1991, the two "non-genuine " tunnel were cut, which were built in the early years of the track to avoid rock falls and snow drifts.

In June 2001, the two-hour cycle of the inter-regional line from Chemnitz to Berlin and Rostock were thinned out to three pairs of trains and set on 26 June 2006. Until December 9, 2006 temporarily reversed two through regional express train pairs between Chemnitz and Berlin- Zoologischer Garten. These were replaced in December 2006 by a traffic forming in days outskirts pair of trains Vogtlandbahn, which was set in the spring of 2009 in the meantime for a few weeks. By 2011, weekdays from 5 clock clock bis 9 and from 14 bis 19 clock clock the hour between Chemnitz and Mittweida was compressed to a half hour. These services were canceled due to budget cuts in the Free State of Saxony of VMS.

The Roadmap 2012, the RB 45 ( - Riesa - Elsterwerda Chemnitz ) operates weekdays every hour, on the weekends and public holidays every two hours. In section Mittweida - Chemnitz daily is an hourly service. The Vogtland- Express operated only on selected days now he has been replaced by a bus.

Also freight there on the KBS 520, where especially the coal trains to Chemnitz and the tank car trains of MEG to name the section between Riesa and chub Central Station.

Route description

Course

In Riesa station the route branches off along with the route of the branch line to Nossen into a slight curve to the left of the Leipzig- Dresden Railway. The Nossener distance separates then in a left turn to the south, while the Chemnitz route runs further to the southwest and the federal highway 169 follows. The northern stretch up chub passes through relatively flat terrain; the only significant engineering structures on this section of the 130 m long viaduct near Ostrava and the 80 m long trough bridge in front of the chub station. On the Gärtitz - chub section was from 1884 a three -rail track. The narrow- gauge railway from Oschatz received in 1909 with the construction of the station Gärtitz own Planum next to the main railway. Near the motorway junction chub - North BAB will pass under 14 and after crossing the Freiberger Mulde hits the track on the day single-track and non-electrified main line of Coswig to Borsdorf near Leipzig. The main railway station chub is a wedge Station. The station building is located between the tracks from Riesa and Coswig.

South of the station chub branches off the railway line Borsdorf - Coswig off to the west, then the federal roads to be crossed 169 and 175. Near Limmritz the web enters the valley of Zschopau. The section of Limmritz to Waldheim is the kunstbautenreichste section of the entire route. Since the Chemnitz- Riesa Railway Company in the construction of this section had to be financially failed and taken over by the state, it is referred to as even bankruptcy mile popularly today. Immediately behind the in the context of the preparations for electrification in 1991 slashed, 128 m long tunnel the Zschopautal Saalbach -crossing the 32 m high, 270 m long and consists of 14 arches Zschopaubrücke. This is followed by the railway on a steep and rocky slope to the left bank of the river and crosses using the 49 m high and 210 m long Dieterich of Mills bridge the Steinaer stream which here flows from a deeply incised valley in the Zschopau. In Waldheim railway station, the route then reaches, flows from the west in 1998 abandoned lines of a Rochlitz.

South of the station Waldheim, the route through the area of also prior to the electrification slit, former 170 m long Pfaff mountain tunnel. A Zschopau tributary Then with the 41 m high and 211 m long viaduct Heiligenborn again crossed. To the east of the viaduct is the 28 m high and 165 m long steel girder bridge of the disused freight track after Kriebethal at Kriebstein that crosses at this point the same tributary. The Chemnitz path turns slightly to the southwest, away thus more exposed to the south of Kriebstein accumulated Zschopau and reached shortly before Eger its westernmost point. Then she performs pretty straight south over Mittweida and Altmittweida after Oberlichtenau where the BAB 4 is crossed. With the enlargement of the A 4 to six strips in the late 1990s this bridge had to be completely replaced. In Chemnitz Central Station the route finds its southern beginning and the end, where it joins together with the west in the Leipzig route to the railway line Dresden- Werdau.

Operating points

The Riesa station exists since the opening of the section Oschatz Riesa the Leipzig- Dresden Railway in November 1838. The Chemnitz- Riesa railroad built in Riesa initially its own railway station, which was until 1879 in operation. Since then, the route Riesa- Chemnitz opens directly into the station, which has since been expanded several times.

In Döbelner main railway station, the railway lines Riesa- Chemnitz and Borsdorf - Coswig cross. It was opened on June 2, 1868 with temporary buildings. The station building of 1870 is original to this day and is a listed building. Between the station and two kilometers away downtown perverted 1892-1926 Döbelner the horse-drawn tram.

The breakpoint Chemnitz Children forest site was opened in 1911.

Today Chemnitz Central Station was built in 1852 as the endpoint of the segment Riesa- Chemnitz. With the construction of routes Chemnitz- Zwickau ( 1858), Chemnitz, Annaberg (1866 ), Neukieritzsch - Chemnitz ( 1872) and Chemnitz- Adorf (1875 ) he became one of the most important Saxon railway junction.

Vehicle use

At this time, the local engineering had little experience with steam locomotives, the first six Tender locomotives were imported from England or from Stephenson. The six 1846 vehicles delivered together cost 9,600 dollars. Hartmann 1852 also provided three vehicles. In the early years of the genera IIIb and VIb V are used, which were replaced before 1900 by the genera VIII V 1 and V 2 VIII came. These in turn were displaced after 1910 by the genus XII H2.

The traction change was carried out in the 1960s. Passenger traffic was from this series with the V 100 and V 180, in freight transport dominated the series V 200 From the 1970s also came the Series 130/131/132 both in freight and passenger to use.

Today's regional trains are mainly formed by locomotives of the series 143 and two double -decker cars. It comes from the control car of the 3rd generation of 1995/1996 and the respective intermediate cars of the 4th generation of 2008. Vogtlandbahn sat DMUs a type Siemens Desiro.