Munich–Augsburg railway

Munich–Augsburg
Route number: 980, 999.4
Line length: 61.9
Track 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 S3)
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 Company

After 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:

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

The 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 was not yet passable at 230 km/h. On 10 December 2011 the railway was dedicated with a new speed limit of 230 km/h after 13 years of building.[2]

Dates and facts

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 was estimated to be € 556 millions for the first stage of development (2006 prices). € 303.5 millions had been spent up to 2005. € 215 million of federal funds were to be invested between 2006 and 2010. Beyond this period a shortfall of € 37.6 millions had to be made up.[3]

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

  1. ^ "München–Augsburg quadrupling". Today's Railways Europe (188): 53. August 2008. 
  2. ^ "München - Augsburg: Ein Feuerwerk für die "Rennstrecke"" (in German). 10 December 2011. http://www.br.de/themen/aktuell/inhalt/bahnstrecke-augsburg-muenchen100.html. Retrieved 15 December 2011. 
  3. ^ "Investitionsrahmenplan bis 2010 für die Verkehrsinfrastruktur des Bundes" (in German) (PDF). Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung. April 2007. http://www.bmvbs.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/28080/publicationFile/125/investitionsrahmen-plan-bis-2010-fuer-die-verkehrsinfrastruktur-des-bundes-irp.pdf. Retrieved 15 December 2011. 

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