Deggendorf–Kalteneck railway

Overview

Line number

5841

Technical

Line length

54.0 km (33.6 mi)

Track gauge

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

Route number

former 876

Route

Bavarian Forest railwayfrom Zwiesel

0,0

Deggendorf Hbf72,0

Deggendorf–Metten railway

to PlattlingKBS 905

2,5

Deggendorf Hafen

6,2

Halbmeile

7,4

Seebach

11,6

Hengersberg

16,6

Schwanenkirchen

20,2

Iggensbach

24,2

Schöllnach

26,5

Gunzing

29,2

Außernzell

33,3

Eging

37,2

Nammering

41,0

Fürstenstein

43,0

Englburg

44,6

Tittling West

45,6

Tittling Markt

49,3

Witzmannsberg

to Freyung

54,0

Kalteneck20,3

Passau–Freyung railwayto Passau

The Deggendorf–Kalteneck railway linked the railway line running through the Bavarian Forest from Plattling via Zwiesel to Bayerisch Eisenstein with the Ilz Valley railway (Ilztalbahn) from Passau via Waldkirchen to Freyung. In keeping with the naming of the Bavarian Forest railway or Waldbahn from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein, it was called the Vorwaldbahn (lit: pre-Forest railway).

Following the construction of the Bavarian Forest railway from Plattling via Deggendorf to Bayerisch Eisenstein, completed in 1877, and the Ilz Valley railway from Passau to Freyung, finished in 1892, the local communities situated between these routes, including Aicha, Eging and Tittling, also strove to have a railway. They favoured a stub line from Vilshofen to the north. But there was a realisation that against that, one the one hand, the land rose steeply from the Danube valley and, on the other, it would need a bridge across the Danube. After wrestling with the problem for a long time the Royal Bavarian State Railways decided to build a cross-country route between the two existing railways as the most cost-effective solution.

So the Bavarian state parliament, the Landtag, decided to build a single-tracked cross-country line from Deggendorf via Eging to Kalteneck with a junction to the Ilz Valley railway, passing the requisite law on 26 June 1908. This route could also link up the harbour at Deggendorf and the market at Hengersberg to the railway network. The liability for contentious land acquisition was taken on by Deggendorf, Hengersberg and Passau on behalf of the state railway.

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