Cottbus–Guben railway

Cottbus–Guben railway
Overview
Locale	Brandenburg
Line number	211
Technical
Line length	37.7 km (23.4 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	15 kV/16.7 Hz AC catenary
Operating speed	Cottbus–Peitz Ost: 140 km/h (87 mph) Peitz Ost–Guben: 120 km/h (75 mph)
Route number	Original line: 6345 Merzdorf–Peitz Ost: 6220
Route map  Operating points and lines  From Frankfurt (Oder) From Zbąszynek 211.5 Guben(island station) B 320 To Legnica 208.5 Guben Süd From Forst B 112 202.6 Kerkwitz 197.8 Grabko 195.7 Jänschwalde Ost 192.6 Jänschwalde To Preilack junction Malxe Hammergraben 188.2 Peitz Ost 186.7 11.4 end of new course 9.4 Teichland 6.1 Cottbus-Willmersdorf Nord From Frankfurt (Oder) 183.9 Neuendorf (Niederlausitz) Willmersdorf 179.0 Merzdorf (b Cottbus) 1.2 Cottbus-Merzdorf B 168 0.0 176.7 Merzdorf sidingbeginning of new course 176.0 Cottbus-Sandow Spree From Forst and Görlitz 173.9 Cottbus To Ruhland To Lübbenau To Halle (Saale)

The Cottbus–Guben railway is a two-track electrified main line in the Southeast of the German state of Brandenburg. It connects the city of Cottbus with the town of Guben, which is on the German–Polish border and the Lusatian Neisse. The line is served every hour by Regional-Express service RE 11, which connects Cottbus, Guben and continues towards Eisenhüttenstadt and Frankfurt (Oder). Starting in 2002, parts of the line were rerouted in the Cottbus area to allow the expansion of the Cottbus-Nord lignite mine.

The line was the first part of the network of the Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company (German: Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HSGE), which was opened to traffic on 1 September 1871. With the railway between Guben and Bentschen (now Zbąszynek), which had been completed one year earlier, it was part of a direct connection between Poznań and Cottbus. With the expansion of the HSGE network to the west, a direct rail line was also completed to Halle (Saale) and Leipzig. Since the railway together with the adjacent lines, created the first southern bypass of the Berlin railway node, the tracks were doubled before the end of the 19th century. In addition to the local services between Cottbus, Guben and Bentschen, expresses ran between Frankfurt (Main) and Eydtkuhnen (now Chernyshevskoye) then on the border between Germany and Russia (now on the border between Russia and Lithuania). Later pair long-distance express services operated between Leipzig and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia) and between Halle and Allenstein (now Olsztyn).

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