Ulm–Augsburg railway

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.

Augsburg–Ulm railway
Overview
Owner	DB Netz
Line number	5302
Service
Route number	980
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 (125 mph)
Route map 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 Ingolstadt 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 Sigmaringen to Aalen to Stuttgart Source: German railway atlas

History

Main article: Bavarian Maximilian's Railway

The line was constructed as part of the Bavarian Maximilian 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:

• 1 May 1854 – Mitte Donaubrücke Ulm–Neu-Ulm, 1.3 km.
• 26 September 1853 – Neu-Ulm–Burgau, 38.1 km.
• 1 May 1854 – Burgau–Dinkelscherben, 17.9 km.
• 26 September 1853 – Dinkelscherben–Augsburg, 26.4 km.

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.

References

• Ücker, Bernhard, 150 Jahre Eisenbahn in Bayern, Fürstenfeldbruck 1985 (in German)
• Wolfgang Klee/Ludwig v. Welser, Bayern-Report, volumes 1–5, Fürstenfeldbruck, 1993–1995. (in German)
• Dt. Reichsbahn, Die deutschen Eisenbahnen in ihrer Entwicklung 1835–1935, Berlin, 1935. (in German)

External links

• NBS/ABS Augsburg-Olching-München project at Deutsche Bahn (in German)