Schwandorf–Furth im Wald railway

Schwandorf–Furth im Wald

Route number:

875

Line number:

5800

Line length:

67.

1435

0.0

358.41 m

Bayernwerk siding

7.1

Wackersdorf (Oberpf)(passenger station until 1984)

Factory siding

12.7

Altenschwand(passenger station until 2001)

399.72 m

from Rötz

from Nittenau

20.1

Bodenwöhr Nord

378.65 m

24.5

Neukirchen-Balbini(until 1984)

389.58 m

29.6

Neubäu

387.82 m

36.4

Roding

368.30 m

39.2

364.46 m

48.7

372.99 m

51.3

Cham (Oberpf) Schwedenschanze

54.9

376.74 m

58.8

377.53 m

62.3

Arnschwang

389.44 m

B 20

67.2

Furth im Wald

404.57 m

to Plzeň (formerly Bohemian Western Railway)

The Schwandorf–Furth im Wald railway is a 67 km long mainline railway in the German state of Bavaria. It runs from Schwandorf via Cham to Furth im Wald. It is part of a long-distance connection between Germany and the Czech Republic.

The Bavarian Eastern Railway Company (German: Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) received a license from King Maximilian II to build the line on 12 April 1856. The first section from Schwandorf to Cham was opened five years later, on 7 January 1861. The section between Cham and Furth im Wald was opened on 20 September 1861. A month later, on 15 October 1861, the Plzeň–Furth im Wald line reached Furth station, completing a continuous link between Nuremberg and Prague. 15 years after the opening of the line, the Bavarian Eastern Railway was nationalised and the line became part of the Royal Bavarian State Railways. Four branch lines were built, connecting to the line. The first two lines branched off from Cham station, one to Lam (opened in 1891) and the other to Waldmünchen (opened on 1 August 1895). In Bodenwöhr Nord the branch to Rötz was opened on 3 August 1896 and on 5 November 1907 the branch to Nittenau followed. Since 2001, services have been operated by Regentalbahn AG (RAG) under the name of Oberpfalzbahn.

The line leaves Schwandorf station and passes under the A 93 autobahn to the east. In the Wackersdorf area, the Upper Palatinate lakeland lies to the right of the line; these lakes have been developed since 1982 from the excavations created by the mining of brown coal. From Altenschwand the line runs through the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park (Naturpark Oberer Bayerischer Wald), passes through the Taxölderner forest and reached the former Bodenwöhr railway junction, where the now disused railway line to Rötz branched off.

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