Nuremberg–Feucht railway

Nuremberg Hbf – Feucht
Route number:	890.2, 890.3
Line length:	12.5
Track gauge:	1435
Voltage:	15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC
Maximum speed:	120
Operating points and lines
Line 5902 from Crailsheim S 4 Line 5971 from Roth S 2 Line 5320 from Augsburg Hbf Line 5900 from Bamberg S 1 0.0 Nuremberg HbfTerminus of S 3 S 4 (312 m) Line 5903 to Cheb Line 5850 to Regensburg Hbf 1.1 Nürnberg-Dürrenhof Line 5904 to Schwandorf S 1 Nuremberg–Cheb railway 2.3 Nürnberg-Gleißhammer 3.2 B 4 R 3.2 Nürnberg-Dutzendteich Hp 4.4 Nürnberg Frankenstadion Ring Railway 8.1 Fischbach (b Nürnberg) Üst(End of track 2; until 15.4.2011) 8.2 Fischbach (b Nürnberg) (345 m) A 6 A 9 Line 5850 from Nuremberg Hbf KBS 420f from Wendelstein 12.5 Feucht (368 m) Line 5850 to Regensburg Hbf S 3 Line 5933 to Altdorf (b Nürnberg) S 2

The Nuremberg–Feucht railway is a 12.5 km-long main-line railway in the German state of Bavaria, running from Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof to Feucht. It was built parallel with the Nuremberg–Regensburg railway during the first construction phase of the Nuremberg S-Bahn and opened on 21 November 1992.

The first demands for an S-Bahn network in greater Nuremberg were made in 1966. Deutsche Bundesbahn made a step in this direction in 1969 with increased services on the main lines during peak hours. The changes were applied to the Nuremberg–Feucht (–Altdorf) line and after that it was served at 30 minute intervals (Nuremberg–Feucht) or 60 minute intervals (Feucht–Altdorf). This service had to be withdrawn in the following years for operational reasons and also because of poor patronage, but Deutsche Bundesbahn still sought an improvement in services. In 1971, the then Bundesbahndirektion (railway division, BD) of Nuremberg was granted permission to develop solutions to improve services. The results were presented on 20 March 1975 as a "framework plan for the Nuremberg S-Bahn", which included an S-Bahn line from Nuremberg via Feucht to Altdorf. This was included as part of the "first stage” of construction of the Nuremberg S-Bahn adopted on 29 June 1979, as well as in the financial agreement closed on 2 November 1981, which allowed detailed planning to begin.

The realisation of the planned "mainline replacement line" between Roth and Fischbach through the Nuremberg Reichswald (imperial forest) would have relieved the Nuremberg–Roth line and thus made room for S-Bahn services on the existing double track line. After the adjacent municipalities and citizens groups expressed opposition to the Reichswald route, the Nuremberg BD examined the plans between 1980 and 1985 on behalf of Deutsche Bundesbahn. At the same time, the BD proposed the construction of a new line from Nuremberg to Ingolstadt as an alternative option. There was resistance to this option in Swabia, leading to Deutsche Bundesbahn commissioning an investigation of the two options on behalf of the government of Bavaria. As a report could not be expected quickly and the start of construction for line S 2 could not be delayed indefinitely, most of the S-Bahn project participants developed an option-neutral solution for the S-Bahn tracks in 1987, on which construction was able to commence in June 1988, after the completion of the approval process.

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