Weiden–Bayreuth railway

Weiden–Bayreuth
Route number: 867
Line number: 5051
Line length: 58,1
Track gauge: 1435
Maximum speed: 120
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 from Regensburg
from Neukirchen
0.0 Weiden (Oberpf)
to Hof
2.8 A 93
11.5 Parkstein-Hütten 419 m
B 470
14.9 Schwarzenbach (b Pressath)
20.9 Pressath
to Grafenwöhr (–Kirchenthumbach)
21.7 B 299
Haidenaab
Haidenaab
26.8 Trabitz 437 m
Haidenaab
32.3 Kemnath-Neustadt 450 m
35.9 Guttenthau
from Cheb
39.3 Kirchenlaibach 462 m
to Nürnberg
45.5 Seybothenreuth 425 m
B 22
50.1 Stockau 397 m
54.3 Eremitage
55.2 A 9
55.5 B 22
57.0 B 22 (40 m)
57.6 B 22 and
57.6 Red Main (110 m long)
from Schnabelwaid
58.1 Bayreuth Hbf 344 m
to Warmensteinach
to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg

The Weiden–Bayreuth railway is a major railway in the German state of Bavaria. It connects Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Kirchenlaibach and Bayreuth.

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History

The Bavarian Eastern Railway Company (German: Bavarian Ostbahn) gained the concession to build the line was on 3 January 1862. Construction began later that year and was completed on 1 December 1863.

Route

The line branches from the Regensburg–Hof railway at Weiden station and proceeds along the B 470 highway through the Weiden suburbs of Rehbühl and Weiden-West and past the Seltmann porcelain factory. Near the Brandweiher estate the route swings to the southwest and then runs northwest through the Manteler forest and from Schwarzenbach along the Haidenaab to Pressath. In Pressath a branch line to Kirchenthumbach branched off until 1962 and there is still a siding to the Grafenwöhr training camp. Next, the line runs along the Haidenaab, passing to the east side of Rauher Kulm and meets the Nuremberg–Cheb railway at Kirchenlaibach station. After Kirchenlaibach station the line runs to the northwest along the B 22 through the Seybothenreuth forest and between the Pensenberg and Schlehenberg mountains to Bayreuth. The line passes through the Bayreuth districts of Grunau, Colmdorf and Neue Heimat and then reaches the line from Schnabelwaid. The two lines run parallel across the valley of the Red Main river on a nearly 1.5 km long embankment; the line from Weiden runs on the eastern track. Coming from the south the two lines cross the B 22 (Wieland-Wagner-Strasse), then the Bayreuth mill canal and finally, just before the entrance to Bayreuth station, it crosses the B 2 (Albrecht-Dürer-Straße) and immediately afterwards the Red Main.

Track standard

The route is single track over its entire length and not electrified.

Rolling stock

Rail services on the line are operated by Agilis with Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 diesel railcars.

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