Zwiesel–Bodenmais railway

The railway line Zwiesel - ground corn is a branch line in Bavaria. She is the last to be built in Lower Bavaria railway line.

History

The track was built in 1921 as part of relief work and put into operation on September 3, 1928. The 14.5 km long branch line has in Zwiesel Following the opened on September 16, 1877 Bavarian Forest railway platform Ling- Eisenstein and to Grafenau, opened on 1 September 1890.

On 9 August 1928 the first test run took place on the track. At the opening ceremony on September 3, 1928 were masses of people at the train stations and bus stops, and the newly opened railway carried on that day about 2,500 passengers to ground corn. All speakers expressed their hope that the track would soon be extended by the Zeller.

The planned further construction of ground corn by the Zeller to Bad Kötzting but was not realized. Reasons for this included the opened from the Regentalbahn 1927 railway God cell Blaibach that there was a connection between the forest track and the distances to the Cham railway station is only a few kilometers away. In addition, there were significant opponent, the continuing construction. Thus, the continued construction ground corn was - Kötzting painted in the early 1930s on the grounds that the communities there were not agreed because of railway construction.

Soon after the opening turned out to be the low profitability of the route. Back in the 60s there were rumors of an imminent closure path. In the 70s and 80s, this issue was taken up repeatedly in the media. In January 1984, a large television debate on the continuation of the route took place. On September 27, 1984, the Railway Board Nuremberg declared that they have been trying for 15 years to arrive at a decision on the future of particularly weak congested route Zwiesel - ground corn. Despite all the fears of the receipt of rail transport could remain on the track.

In the summer timetables from 1980 to 1987 operated on this route by the German travel agency conducted special trips from Hamburg Altona to ground corn under the name Alpen-See - Express. These were carried out with railcar class 601. Chance there was in 1983 in the industrial cycle traffic also rides from Dortmund to ground corn. This year it came by it of the unusual situation that the rail cars of the trains N 8470 and N 8475 were blocked by the two combined Alpine Lake Express trains in ground corn. Therefore, these special trips between Zwiesel and ground corn were released for general traffic in order to create a replacement. The following year, the location of the commuter train schedule has been changed so that this was no longer necessary ..

Presence

At the distance of Zwiesel to ground corn are the required breakpoints Außenried, Langsdorf and Böhmhof. Staffed is only Zwiesel station. The station area in ground corn has acquired the market in 1987 ground corn and there erected a new building that serves as the town hall and tourist info.

On the route reversed in the second half of the 20th century Uerdinger rail buses. As of 1993, the Regentalbahn sailed this route on behalf of DB with their old Esslinger railcars, since 1996 every hour. The operation is carried out since the beginning of 1997 by the Regentalbahn with railcars of the type Regio-Shuttle, the journey time is 20 minutes for a ride.

Ridership increased by the introduction of the clock node in Zwiesel and the introduction of the Bavarian Forest National Park as part of the ticket - traffic concept in the early 2000s. In Zwiesel, since there is direct connection toward the Bay. Eisenstein, Plattling (hourly) and Grafenau (every 2 hours). With Zwiesel (since 2010) and Langsdorf ( since 2011 ) resulted in two of the three neighboring towns in the distance a the guest service environment ticket.

Chance leads the congregation ground corn, in cooperation with travel agencies special trains. Since these trains on the route replace operational reasons the regular local trains, these are shared between Zwiesel and ground corn for general traffic.

In response to the invitation of the " regional trains network Eastern Bavaria " by the Bavarian railway company the traction was reassigned on this route. The winner, the former DB Regio subcontractors Netinera with its brand Forest Railway is to be operational in December 2013. This tender envisages no major changes for the train services on this route.

Others

• A proposed in Zwiesel of ProBahn in the course of setting up this clock node operation with a unified leadership of the trains in the direction of Zwiesel Plattling was not realized until today. Advantage of this concept would be transfer-free connections from Bay. Eisenstein, Grafenau and ground corn for long-distance transport nodes in Plattling station. However, this was not implemented for various technical and operational reasons.

• 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.