Landshut–Plattling railway

Landshut–Plattling railway
Overview
Line number	5634
Technical
Line length	62,9 km
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
Operating speed	140 km/h
Route number	931

Route

from Munich Hbf

from Rottenburg an der Laaber

from Neumarkt-Sankt Veit

0,0

Landshut (Bay) Hbf

to Regensburg Hbf(Munich–Regensburg)

6,4

Altheim ()

11,4

Ahrain

15,1

Niederaichbach junction (Isar nuclear power station)

17,4

Wörth (Isar)

21,0

Niederviehbach

24,7

Loiching

25,8

BMW Dynamikzentrum siding

BMW factory siding

29,1

Dingolfing

32,6

Gottfrieding

37,8

Schwaigen

from Mühldorf(Mühldorf–Pilsting)

41,6

Pilsting

45,3

Landau (Isar)

to Arnstorf

52,9

Wallersdorf

to Münchshöfen

58,3

Otzing(ehem. Bf, is from Dez. 2009 aufgelassen)

from Regensburg Hbf(Regensburg–Passau)

62,9

Plattling

to Passau Hbf(Regensburg–Passau)

to Bayerisch Eisenstein

The Landshut–Plattling railway is a single-tracked, electrified main line in Lower Bavaria, in southern Germany. It runs along the Isar river and is part of the line between Munich and Passau.

The route was completed between Plattling and Pilsting on 15 October 1875 and between Landshut and Pilsting on 15 May 1880. It was intended to link Munich to Prague as the southern section of the Bavarian Forest railway, but due to the unfavourable terrain through the mountains of the Bohemian Forest, there was never a large amount of cross-border traffic on the line. Instead much of it went (as it still does today) via Regensburg and the Schwandorf–Furth in the Wald railway.

Even as the route from Landshut to Pilsting was being built, the section from Pilsting to Landau (Isar) was expanded to two tracks. This second track was lifted in 1942, due to the war, and transferred to the occupied territories.

Electric operations began on 25 May 1976 in order to avoid the time-consuming and costly change of locomotives in Landshut and Plattling for trains on the Munich–Landshut–Plattling–Passau route. This 83 kilometre-long route was electrified and upgraded at a cost of 13 million DM (6.6 M euros). Three new bridges were built, one torn down and 1,035 catenary masts erected.

There are 35 level crossings on the Landshut–Landau (Isar) section.

In the 2009 timetable the passenger trains services on route number KBS 931 are:

Passenger trains are timetabled to cross at all available crossing stations en route.

In addition, quite a few long goods trains run from Dingolfing (BMW factory) via Landshut to Munich and Regensburg.

With effect from the timetable change on 13 December 2009, passenger services are due to be exclusively providely by the Danube-Isar Express (Donau-Isar-Express), a Regional-Express line, that will connect Munich with Landshut, Plattling and Passau hourly. This was announced during the tender process to DB Regio. In addition a late weekend connexion from about 0:45 hours from Landshut to Passau will be provided. In connexion with this, the current Munich–Plattling Regionalbahn train will be scrapped. Once the Danube-Isar Express goes into service, trains will no longer stop at Otzing halt. However, the majority of trains will then call at the two other current Regionalbahn stations at Wallersdorf and Wörth (Isar). In order to provide hourly services at all stops, the route will have to be upgraded for higher speeds and longer double-tracked crossing sections.

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