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Bruhrain Railway

Bruchsal–Germersheim railway
Karte Bruhrainbahn.png
Overview
Locale Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Line number
  • 3450 (Rheinsheim–Germersheim)
  • 4132 (Bruchsal–Rheinsheim)
Technical
Line length 25.62 km (15.92 mi)
Number of tracks 2 from Bruchsal to Graben-Neudorf
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius 300 m
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Maximum incline 1.2%
Route number 665.33
Route map
from Bietigheim-Bissingen
from Karlsruhe
-0.079 Bruchsal
Baden-Kurpfalz Railway to Heidelberg
1.309 Bruchsal Sportzentrum
2.457 Bruchsal Feuerwehrschule siding
3.334 Bruchsal Am Mantel
4.483 Karlsdorf
from Karlsruhe
Hardt Railway from Karlsruhe (to 1967)
9.470 Graben-Neudorf
9.4+821
9.500
overlap 721 m
10.665 Graben-Neudorf Nord
Rhine Railway to Mannheim
13.801 Huttenheim
18.017 Philippsburg
Branch to
Philippsburg Nuclear Power Station
21.021 Rheinsheim
22.1
0.0
Baden-Württemberg/
Rhineland-Palatinate border
22.347 former Reichsbahn divisional boundary
1.700 Rhine Bridge, Germersheim (268 m)
from Wörth (Rhein)
2.228 Germersheim Mitte/Rhein
3.500 Germersheim
to Schifferstadt
to Landau (to 1998)
Source: German railway atlas

The Bruhrain Railway (German: Bruhrainbahn) is a railway line running from Bruchsal to Germersheim in the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Whilst it was formerly part of a national trunk line (Magistrale) and handled long-distance traffic; today the line is exclusively worked by local trains.

It takes its name from the Bruhrain, a region in the northwestern part of Karlsruhe district, which it passes through.

The line is entirely within the Rhine valley and it forms an almost a straight line between Bruchsal and Graben-Neudorf. The two largest engineering structures are the bridge over the Rhine Railway north of Graben-Neudorf and the Rhine bridge between Rheinsheim and Germersheim.

The line runs from Bruchsal through the municipalities of Karlsdorf-Neuthard and Graben-Neudorf. The line runs from Huttenheim to Rheinsheim along the boundaries of the town of Phillipsburg, before finishing at Germersheim. From Bruchsal to the Rhine, the line runs within the district of Karlsruhe. Across the Rhine, the line runs through the district of Germersheim.

A treaty between the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Bavaria authorised the building of a railway line from Bruchsal to Germersheim.

On 15 August 1870, a temporary "war railway" (Kriegsbahn) was opened between the two towns as a supply line for the Franco-Prussian War, but it was closed on 12 August 1871. Some of it was used for later the Bruhrain Railway, but in other parts its route is used for roads that still exist.


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