- Munich–Augsburg railway
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Munich–Augsburg Route number: 980, 999.4 Line length: 61.9 Gauge: 1435 Voltage: 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC Maximum speed: 230 Legend
from Nuremburg, from Ulm 
61.9 Augsburg Hbf 
Gögginger Brücke (planned station) 
to Buchloe 
and Landsberg am Lech 
60.2 Augsburg Haunstetter Straße 
Lochbach 
B 300 Spitalbach 
Augsburg local railway freight railway 
59.1 Augsburg-Spickel (closed 1974) Augsburg Eiskanal 
Lech 
56.9 Augsburg-Hochzoll Keilbahnhof 
Paar Valley Railway to Ingolstadt 
52.0 Kissing 48.0 Mering-St Afra Paar 46.1 Mering 
Ammersee Railway to Weilheim 
39.8 Althegnenberg 36.7 Haspelmoor 
31.0 Mammendorf (beginning of 
)
27.8 Malching (Oberbayern) 
24.8 Maisach (S-Bahn double track) 21.6 Gernlinden 20.4 Esting 19.0 Olching 
Munich North ring 15.6 Gröbenzell 12.3 Munich-Lochhausen A 99 10.0 Munich-Langwied 
from Munich-Pasing Bbf Allgäu Railway from Buchloe München-Pasing Nord junction from Herrsching, from Garmisch-Partenkirchen 
7.4 Munich-Pasing München-Pasing freight yard Würm to München-Laim marshalling yard 
from Ingolstadt, from Regensburg 
(Flying junction of the S-Bahn) 
4.1 München-Laim München Südbf–München-Laim yard freight railway 2.8 München Hirschgarten 2.2 from ICE-Werk München 2.0 München-Neuhausen junction from Rosenheim from Lenggries 1.6 München Donnersbergerbrücke 0.8 München Hackerbrücke 
City-Tunnel entrance (S-Bahn trunk line) 
0.0 München Hbf 
to München Ost The Munich–Augsburg line is a German railway line. It was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (German: Munich-Augsburg Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and opened in 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and extended to Ulm in 1854. The line between Augsburg and Munich is a major traffic axis and part of the Magistrale for Europe from Budapest through Vienna to Paris.
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History
Main article: Munich-Augsburg Railway CompanyAfter the opening of the first German railway, the private Ludwigsbahn railway from Nuremberg to Fürth in 7 December 1835, local committees for the building of railways were formed all over Bavaria. The committees of Augsburg and Munich soon united and agreed to build a line between the two cities. The engineer Paul Camille Denis, who had completed the line between Nürnbergand Fürth, was given the job of finalizing the route and building the line.
The München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was established on 23 July 1837 under Bavaria's railway law enacted on 28 September 1836, although it had already received a royal concession on 3 July to build the line. The beginning of construction of the line was delayed to 1838 after some trouble in selling shares.
The 62 km line was opened in four stages:
- 1 September 1839 Munich – Lochhausen 12.5 km
- 27 October 1839 Lochhausen – Olching 6.6 km
- 7 December 1839 Olching – Maisach 5.7 km
- 4 October 1840 Maisach – Augsburg 37.1 km
The Lech was crossed for over 20 years by a 95 m-long timber bridge. It is said that king Ludwig I specified the last opening date on the beginning of the Octoberfest.
The Munich-Augsburg Railway Company was nationalised on 1 June 1846 and taken over by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen). The line became part of Bavarian Maximilian’s Railway (Bayerische Maximiliansbahn) and was extended to Ulm on 1 May 1854.
Between 26 June 1965 and 3 October 1965, two pairs of trains per day using Class E 03 locomotives ran at 200 km/h on the line for the 1965 International Transport Exhibition in Munich, taking 26 minutes to complete the run. From May 1968 two trains, "Blauer Enzian" and "Rheinblitz", ran on the same route at a scheduled speed of 200 km/h.
In 1977 the 42.7 km long section between Lochhausen and Augsburg-Hochzoll, was put into operation with a regular permitted speed of 200 km/h. For the first time in Germany numerous trains could reach this speed in regular commercial operations.
Development
Freight train passes to new work at Mammendorf, February 2010.
New work near Hattenhofen
New line being built on sand embankment at HaspelmoorThe line is double-track and electrified. Between Dinkelscherben and Munich-Pasing the line is equipped with LZB train control and certified for speeds up to 200 km/h. Between Mammendorf and Munich there are separate tracks for the S-Bahn. The stations between Ulm and Nersingen belong to the Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund public transport federation (DING); between Dinkelscherben, Augsburg and Mammendorf to Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (AVV) and from Mammendorf to Munich to the Münchener Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV).
Augsburg–Munich upgraded line
The 43 km section between Augsburg and Olching line is being rebuilt to four-tracks and will be able to carry significantly more traffic. One pair of tracks will be dedicated to regional services (RB, RE) and goods traffic and the other to (IC/EC) and high-speed traffic (ICE) services. Heavy and more slowly running freight trains will no longer obstruct the passage of faster ICEs. The permitted speed on the high-speed tracks will be 230 km/h. Infrastructure for regional trains will be able to run at 160 km/h. On the line between Olching and Munich, freight, regional trains, and the Munich S-Bahn have their own tracks. The planned Augsburg S-Bahn will also have its own lines.
The railway upgrading work is divided into six sections for planning purposes. Work began on the western section between Augsburg and Kissing in 1998 and the new tracks were brought into service in 2003. A new bridge was built over the Lech in Augsburg in 2002 and in the same year work began on the eastern section between Mering and Olching.
On 6 June 2011, the conversion of the line to four-track operation was completed,[1] but the two high-speed tracks are not yet passable at 230 km/h.
Dates and facts
- Length of the Augsburg–Munich line: 61 kilometres
- Length of the line being upgraded: 44 kilometers
- Line speed: 230 km/h for ICE traffic; 160 km/h for regional and goods traffic
- Estimated completion date: 2011
The upgrading involved: acquisition of 95.3 hectares of land, 43 km of additional railway embankment, 7.5 km of new retaining walls, 116 km of new track and 104 points moved, 52 railway and 19 road bridges reconstructed or adapted, 46 km of noise barriers, nine island platforms and three passing lines adapted or rebuilt
In the federal transport investment plan for 2010, federal funding for the project is estimated to be euro 556 millions for the first stage of development (2006 prices). euro 303.5 millions had been spent up to 2005. 215 millions euro of federal funds are to be invested between 2006 and 2010. Beyond this period a shorthfall of euro 37.6 millions needs to be made up.[2]
Operations
The line between Augsburg and Munich is a major traffic axis and part of the Magistrale (trunk line) for Europe from Budapest through Vienna to Paris. It is used daily by about 300 trains and is one of Germany’s busiest line with a mixture of goods trains, regional passenger trains and long-distance high-speed trains.
Each hour an Intercity-Express train and a InterCity train run from Munich via Ulm to Stuttgart. Additional ICE trains run from Munich to Augsburg, branching to Nuremberg or Würzburg and on to further destinations. A similar service pattern also operates in the reverse direction.
Regional-Express trains also run hourly between Munich and Augsburg, alternating to/from Ulm and Donauwörth.
From Mammendorf to Munich central station the line runs parallel to line S3 of the Munich S-Bahn of the MVV.
Notes
- ^ "München–Augsburg quadrupling". Today's Railways Europe (188): 53. August 2008.
- ^ Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung: Investitionsrahmenplan bis 2010 für die Verkehrsinfrastruktur des Bundes, April 2007 (German)
References
- Ücker, Bernhard, 150 Jahre Eisenbahn in Bayern, Fürstenfeldbruck 1985 (German)
- Wolfgang Klee/Ludwig v. Welser, Bayern-Report, volumes 1–5, Fürstenfeldbruck, 1993–1995. (German)
- Dt. Reichsbahn, Die deutschen Eisenbahnen in ihrer Entwicklung 1835–1935, Berlin, 1935. (German)
External links
- Deutsche Bahn site for the NBS/ABS Augsburg-Olching-München project (German)
- There is a relevant English language discussion forum at Railways of Germany
Bavarian State Railways Bavarian railway lines: Bavarian Ludwig Railway • Bavarian Maximilian’s Railway • Ludwig South-North Railway • Ludwig's Western Railway
Bavarian railway companies: Royal Bavarian State Railways • Bavarian Ostbahn • Munich-Augsburg Railway CompanyPalatine railway lines: Palatine Ludwig Railway • Palatine Maximilian Railway • Palatine Northern RailwayPalatine railway companies: Palatinate Railway • Palatine Ludwig Railway Company • Palatine Maximilian Railway Company • Palatine Northern Railway Company • Neustadt-Dürkheim Railway CompanyParis–Strasbourg · Strasbourg–Appenweier · Appenweier–Bruchsal · Bruchsal–Stuttgart · Stuttgart–Augsburg · Augsburg–Munich · Munich–Rosenheim–Salzburg / Munich–Mühldorf–Salzburg · Salzburg–Vienna · Vienna–Bratislava / Budapest
Categories:- Railway lines in Bavaria
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