Mühldorf–Freilassing railway

Mühldorf–Freilassing railway
Overview
Locale	Bavaria
Line number	5723 Mühldorf–Freilassing 5724 Wiesmühl–Tittmoning
Technical
Line length	65.6 km (40.8 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed	120 km/h (75 mph) (maximum)
Route number	945
Route map  Operating points and lines  from Munich and Rosenheim 0.0 Mühldorf (Oberbay) 411 m above sea level (NN) to Simbach and Pilsting Inn 3.7 Mühldorf-Ehring former route 7.0 Tüßling 401 m above NN to Burghausen 11.0 Mauerberg to SKW Trostberg 16.4 Garching (Alz) 460 m above NN to Traunstein Alz 24.3 Kirchweidach 499 m above NN 28.4 Tyrlaching 31.7 Lanzing 6.0 Tittmoning 383 m above NN 3.9 Kirchheim (Oberbay) 35.8 0.0 Tittmoning-Wiesmühl 430 m above NN 41.9 Fridolfing 414 m above NN 46.1 Kirchanschöring 416 m above NN 53.6 Laufen (Oberbay) 441 m above NN 57.8 Gastag 60.8 Surheim siding from Rosenheim and Berchtesgaden 65.6 Freilassing 421 m above NN to Salzburg

The Mühldorf–Freilassing railway is a major railway in Bavaria. The line, which is operated by the Südostbayernbahn (SOB) (part of Deutsche Bahn), runs from Mühldorf to Freilassing in the German state of Bavaria.

The rail link between Mühldorf and Freilassing was opened on 1 December 1908 as one of the last sections opened by Royal Bavarian State Railways. The line, which was conceived as an approach line to the Tauern Railway and was designated therefore as the "Bavarian Tauern Railway" (bayerische Tauernbahn), was created by linking and upgrading existing local line segments:

Two options were available: a route from Burgkirchen (on the Mühldorf–Burghausen line) to Wiesmühl (on the existing line to Tittmoning) and, on the other hand, the Tüßling–Garching–Wiesmühl route. The latter, which was implemented, also had, apart from providing a railway connecting Kirchweidach and Garching, the advantage that the former branch line from Traunstein to Trostberg could be connected with the new line in Garching.

In Tüßling a change in the route of the line to Burghausen was made because it was originally planned to build the junction with the branch of the Tauern Railway in Ehring. Tüßling would then have a station on each line, which would have made transfers much more difficult. Therefore, the stations at Tüßling and Heiligenstatt were moved, a new section was built from the new Tüßling station to the line to Burghausen and the old section was abandoned.

The route was taken over by the Bavarian Group Administration (Gruppenverwaltung Bayern) of Deutsche Reichsbahn on 24 April 1920 and it is now operated by Deutsche Bahn.

While the national significance of the line was always relatively small despite some long-distance services in the first half of the 20th century, it is still of major significance for local connections. Several smaller intermediate stations were abandoned in the second half of the 20th century. Kirchweidach station, which was abandoned on 29 May 1988, was reopened on 2 June 1996.

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