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Biederitz–Dessau railway

Biederitz–Trebnitz
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Route number: 254
Line number: 6410
Line length: 30.3
Track gauge: 1.435
Voltage: 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC
State: Saxony-Anhalt
Operating points and lines
from Magdeburg
0.0 BiederitzKeilbahnhof
to Potsdam
to Magdeburg-Buckau
to Loburg
Bundesstraße 1
4.4 Königsborn
Bundesstraße 246
8.0 Wahlitz
Bundesstraße 184
Bundesstraße 246a
13.2 Gommern
to Loburg (Light railways in Jerichow district)
to Pretzien (Gommern–Pretzien light railway)
19.8 Prödel
22.3 Lübs (b Magdeburg)
26.1 to Wiesenburg
26.9 GüterglückCannons Railway
27.4 from Güsten
30.3
0.0
Trebnitz (line change: 6410/6411)
To Leipzig Hbf

The Biederitz–Trebnitz railway is a double-tracked, standard gauge, electrified railway line in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt timetabled as (KBS) 254 and 256. The line begins in Biederitz near Magdeburg and runs via Güterglück towards Dessau. According to Deutsche Bahn, the line ends at Trebnitz on the former border between the Duchy of Anhalt and Prussia.

In order to link the town of Zerbst to the rapidly growing railway network, the parliament of the Duchy of Anhalt decided to build a 13 kilometre long railway from Roßlau an der Elbe to Zerbst. This was opened on 1 November 1863. The operator was the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company who purchased the line on 1 October 1871 for a million marks and extended it on 1 July 1874 to Magdeburg. Until 1871 the section from Zerbst to Roßlau was called the Anhalt Leopold's Railway (German: Anhaltische Leopoldsbahn). In 1882 the Prussian state railways took over the route.

The Biederitz–Trebnitz was opened eleven years later together with the Roßlau–Trebnitz section of the Trebnitz–Leipzig railway. Both sections are operated today as one route with timetable number  254.

The two-track line was electrified in 1923 as part of the Leipzig–Dessau–Magdeburg route. In 1946, the electrification was restored throughout the central German rail network, but the infrastructure was abruptly dismantled and delivered together with the locomotives to the USSR as war reparations. At the same time the second track was dismantled.


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