Ulm–Augsburg railway

Augsburg–Ulm railway
Overview
Line number 5302
Technical
Line length 85.0 km (52.8 mi)
Number of tracks 2
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC catenary
Operating speed 200 km/h (120 mph) (maximum)
Route number 980
Route map

 Operating points and lines[1] 
 from Munich and from Ingolstadt
 from Buchloe
 0.0 Augsburg Hauptbahnhof
 Augsburg Local Railway
 Wertach
 2.0 Augsburg-Oberhausen
 to Gleisbauhof and Welden
 to Nuremberg
 Augsburg–Nuremberg railway
 4.4 Augsburg Hirblinger Straße
 6.3 Neusäß
 to Welden
 Augsburg–Welden railway (old)
 from Oberhausen and Gleisbauhof
 7.9 Westheim (Schwab)
 12.4 Diedorf (Schwab)
 16.6 Gessertshausen
 Schmutter
 to Türkheim
 19.4 Kutzenhausen
 from Thannhausen
 27.8 Dinkelscherben
 Zusam
 33.3 Gabelbach
 37.7 Freihalden
 42.5 Jettingen
 A 8
 45.7 Burgau (Schwab)
 49.4 Mindelaltheim
 53.2 Offingen
 from Regensburg
 55.9 Neuoffingen
 61.4 Günzburg
 61.8 Günz
 62.0 to Mindelheim
 66.5 Leipheim
 Danube Bridge, Leipheim; A 8
 69.4 Biber
 71.0 Unterfahlheim
 72.2 Roth
 74.2 Nersingen
 75.4 Leibi
 A 7
 78.4 Burlafingen
 81.1 EvoBus siding
 from Memmingen
 Neu-Ulm Ost cut and cover (200 m)
 83.8 Neu-Ulm
 Neu-Ulm West cut and cover (250 m)
 85.0
Danube
Bavaria–Baden-Württemberg state border
 from Friedrichshafen
 94.0 Ulm Hauptbahnhof
 to Tuttlingen
 to Aalen
 to Stuttgart

The Ulm–Augsburg line is a German railway line. It was constructed as part of the Bavarian Maximilian's Railway. It was built for the Royal Bavarian State Railways as part of the east-west connection between Neu-Ulm in the west via Augsburg, Munich and Rosenheim to the Austrian border at Kufstein and Salzburg in the east.

History

The line was constructed as part of the Bavarian Maximilian's Railway (German:Bayerische Maximiliansbahn), named after Maximilian II, king of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864. In 1851, it was decided to build a line connecting the German states and Italy via the Brenner Pass and via Salzburg towards Vienna and the Semmering Pass. It promised good traffic flows to and from the Austrian Adriatic port at Trieste. Appropriate conventions were agreed with the Kingdom of Württemberg and with the Austrian government in 1851. The Munich–Augsburg line, which had been opened by the Munich–Augsburg Railway Company (München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) in 1839 and 1840 and nationalised in 1846 was included in the new line.

The line connected to the Württemberg Southern Railway in Ulm and ran for 84 kilometers to Augsburg.

Construction

The 83.7 km line from Augsburg to Ulm was opened in four sections:

The line today

The line is a major traffic axis. Every hour or two Intercity-Express and InterCity trains run from Munich via Augsburg and Ulm to Stuttgart and from there to various other destinations.

Ulm–Augsburg upgraded line

The line between Ulm and Augsburg is part of the Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded line project. Eventually this line should be part of the Magistrale for Europe from Paris via Strasbourg, Stuttgart and Ulm to Munich, Salzburg and Vienna.

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

References

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