Vilshofen–Aidenbach railway
The railway line Vilshofen ( Niederb ) Aidenbachstraße was a branch line in Bavaria. It was opened on 21 November 1898. The passenger was set in 1962, the total traffic in 1988. The line was dismantled afterwards.
History
Background and construction
On January 6, 1883 meeting was held in Aidenbachstraße which deliberated on the construction of a railway line from Vilshofen on Aidenbachstraße by parish churches. Encouraged, she had the Gutsinspektor the Aretin'schen goods in heath castle, Baron of Hafenbrädl. Under the direction of Imperial Council Aretino was decided to submit a petition to the Royal State Government in Munich. On February 29, 1884, the competent railway committee discussed this secondary track. According to the Committee speakers, Freiherr von Soden, but in 1869 a plan had been completed, in which this variant did not matter. Rather was the Rottalbahn between Neumarkt- St. Veit and pocking been built in 1879; the route Pocking -Passau was built in 1888.
On May 17, 1885, representatives from the surrounding communities in Aidenbachstraße gathered to form a comitees for the construction of a local train, which provided for a branch line of Vilshofen after Aidenbachstraße. The incentive gave farmers and retailers. They argued that they could transport their products conveniently by train. Again there was the entry of a resolution to the Royal Ministry of Transport in Munich for the design of this 12.5 km long route, and were offered financial support. The Circle, District and private sponsors presented 31,000 marks available. In addition, Aidenbachstraße agreed to provide, among other things on the ground and 100,000 bricks for the construction of the station Aidenbachstraße and the track available for free.
On March 16, 1896 according to the project, the purchase of land and the acquisition of property and gifts of Aidenbachstraße Vilshofen for the railway, the profitability calculation and many other planning processes, the Royal State Railway of Munich approved the construction of the track. With the technical test drive of the state railway administration on 12 November 1898, the line was tested and released on November 21, 1898 to the public. The total cost of the route, including buildings amounted to 744 086 Mark.
Operation
The trains took about 35 minutes for the 12.5 km. The dedicated freight maintenance Taferl served with its subsequent extensive field railway facilities as a hub for the adjacent granite factory and was serviced daily with freight trains. The cost of the route had been paid off in less than ten years. Plans until after Alder creek carry on the railway line, completed in 1915 Aufhausen - Kröhstorf, making a rail-based transport network and bypass system should be implemented, were not realized.
Closure
The increasing individual traffic in the second half of the 20th century led to a sharp drop in passengers numbers. The German Federal Railroad responded with a thinned offer. So wrong from the summer timetable 1960 only still a factory daily pair of trains on the railway line. On October 12, 1961, the competent Bundesbahndirektion Regensburg initiated the procedures for the decommissioning of passenger traffic, which on July 18, 1962, the Board of Directors and, finally, on 14 September 1962 agreed to the Minister of Transport. The setting of the passenger traffic was completed September 30, 1962.
The conditions for the transport of goods, however, were initially significantly better. Although since the setting of the granite transports almost exclusively agricultural goods were transported, but their advent was so strong that the German Federal Railroad in 1985 to decided to put the part already strong run-down superstructure repaired. Invested DM - In the first almost two kilometer section were 700,000. Construction on the second section was omitted, however, when the sugar beet Verladegemeinschaft announced the existing contract with the Federal Railroad. Because it grows transports had now identified about half of the annual transport volume and were now repealed, was initiated the closure procedures for the overall traffic in the spring of 1987. So went the last Übergabezug of Aidenbachstraße to Vilshofen on 30 December 1987. On 31 December 1987, the closure of this branch line was completed.
Today, about half of the former route is developed as a pedestrian and bicycle path.