Biederitz–Trebnitz railway

Overview

Locale

Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Line number

6410

Technical

Line length

30.3 km (18.8 mi)

Track gauge

1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge

Electrification

15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary

Route number

254

Route map

from Magdeburg

0.0

Biederitz Keilbahnhof

4.4

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

Güterglück Cannons Railway

27.4

from Güsten

30.3

0.0

Trebnitz

(line change: 6410/6411)

To Leipzig Hbf

Source: German railway atlas

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 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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