Leipzig-Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway

Overview

Locale

Saxony, Germany

Line number

6375

Technical

Line length

7.299 km (4.535 mi)

Number of tracks

2: Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz

Track gauge

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

Minimum radius

350 m (1,150 ft)

Electrification

15 kV/16.7 Hz AC catenary

Operating speed

80 km/h (49.7 mph) (maximum)

Maximum incline

1.0%

Route number

501.1, 501.3

Route map

from Dresden-Neustadt

1.582

Leipzig-Engelsdorf

Leipzig Hbf–Geithain

to Leipzig-Wahren via Leipzig-Schönefeld

Watzdorfstraße

2.323

Cunnersdorfer Straße

2.480

Zweenfurther Straße

2.771

Östliche Rietzschke

3.037

Theodor-Neubauer-Straße

from Eilenburg via Leipzig-Schönefeld

3.382

Anger junction

3.577

Zweinaundorfer Straße

3.700

Leipzig Anger-Crottendorf

Leipzig Hbf–Leipzig-Connewitz

4.095

Oststraße

Papiermühlstraße

from Leipzig Hbf

4.779

Leipzig-Stötteritz

to Leipzig-Connewitz

Prager Straße

5.543

Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal

Straße des 18. Oktober

Richard-Lehmann-Straße

6.493

Tabakmühle junction

to Leipzig Bayer Bf

Zwickauer Straße

Arno-Nitzsche-Straße

from Leipzig Bayer Bf

7.299

Leipzig-Connewitz Stw W1

from Leipzig-Stötteritz

ca. 7.7

Leipzig-Connewitz

to Hof (Saale) Hbf

Source: German railway atlas

The Leipzig-Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway is a double-track, electrified main line in the Leipzig area in the German state of Saxony. It was originally built as part of the Leipzig Freight Ring (Leipziger Güterring), but since December 2013 it has also been mainly used for the operations of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland. At the former Tabakmühle junction the line now transitions into the Tabakmühle junction–Leipzig Bayer Bf railway and the approximately 800 m-long section from Tabakmühle junction to the beginning of Leipzig-Connewitz station is closed.

During the reconstruction of the Leipzig railway node after the turn of the twentieth century, including, among other things, the construction of the central Leipzig passenger station and the creation of a Freight Ring, the Royal Saxon State Railways built the Engelsdorf–Leipzig Stötteritz link. The line was intended to connect the former Stötteritz halt, which developed into an important suburban passenger station and freight yard, the Saxon marshalling yard in Engelsdorf and the Prussian transfer station at Leipzig-Schönefeld. With the construction of six bridges and the expansion of the Stotteritz halt, this link was the most elaborate project built by the Royal Saxon State Railways at that time.

Together with further sections in the surrounds of the Engelsdorf marshalling yard, the 4.78 km-long Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Stötteritz railway was opened on 1 May 1906. The line had two tracks from the beginning. A double-track extension of the line to Leipzig-Connewitz station was opened on 1 October 1912—although at the time the 3.87 km-long section was formally considered to be the third and fourth track of the (parallel) Leipzig Hbf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway. The planned reconstruction of the Stötteritz station was implemented up to 1914.

...
Wikipedia