Simbach am Inn–Pocking railway
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 The station of Pocking
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| Line number: | 5727 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line length: | 28.38 km (17.63 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge: | 1,435 mm (4.708 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Simbach am Inn–Pocking railway was a single-tracked branch line between Simbach am Inn and Pocking in the province of Lower Bavaria in southern Germany.
On 9 April 1894 the market town of Rotthalmünster and the communities to Simbach asked the head office of the Royal Bavarian State Railways for a branch line (Lokalbahn) to be built from Simbach am Inn to Rotthalmünster. Because that came to nothing, they pressed instead for a railway from Vilshofen to Simbach.
This proposal was presented by a delegation in Munich. Although this generated little enthusiasm with the head office, they did show a degree of interest in the original desire for a railway from Simbach to Rotthalmünster. So, on 3 December 1896 a new application for this line was submitted. On 30 January 1897 the Ministry for the Royal Household and Foreign Affairs announced their approval for the scoping of a Lokalbahn from Simbach am Inn to Rotthalmünster. In 1897 the state construction engineer, Ernst Arnold, started to plan a line to run alongside the River Inn to Rotthalmünster.
But at this point the market town of Kößlarn entered the scene. On 7 December 1897 Kößlarn's railway committee proposed a line from Simbach through the Lower Bavarian Hills via Wittibreut to Kößlarn and then from there to Rotthalmünster. The mayor, Johann Abtmaier, justified this on the grounds that otherwise Kößlarn would be isolated, a situation that would force them to oppose any project for a railway alongside the Inn.
The Royal Bavarian State Railways (K.Bay.Sts.B.) decided that only one railway could be built and that the line alongside the River Inn would be more promising than the one proposed by Kößlarn. This resulted in a protracted tug-of-war over the route. In 1899 Kößlarn sent in a list of the goods that would be handled by their proposed line and calculated that 61,260 tonnes of freight would be transported on it annually. On 6 May 1899, the undersecretary, Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim, rejected this assessment of the data on the grounds that it was significantly overestimated. The Kößlarn railway was seen as less economical because it was about 3.7 kilometres longer and had 153 metres of additional height to overcome.
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