Großenhain–Cottbus railway

Großenhain–Cottbus

The line south of Senftenberg
Overview
Locale Saxony and Brandenburg, Germany
Line number 6253
Technical
Line length 79.7 km (49.5 mi)
Number of tracks 2 (Ruhland–Cottbus)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC
Overhead catenary
Route number 208
Route map

Legend
 Operating points and lines[1] 
 from Frankfurt (Oder)
 from Forst
 from Görlitz
 79.7 Cottbus 75 m
 to Berlin and Halle (Saale)
 76.9 Cottbus Südwest
 73.9 Hänchen
 A 15
 71.4 Leuthen (b Cottbus)
 66.3 Drebkau 90 m
 59.3 Neupetershain
 to Welzow
 55.0 Bahnsdorf
 54.7 Sornoer Buden Nord junction
to Knappenrode
from Knappenrode
53.0 Sornoer Buden West junction
to Lübbenau
from Lübbenau
49.9 Sedlitz Ost
 from Lübbenau (old route)
 45.3 Senftenberg
 to Finsterwalde
 to Kamenz (old route)
 42.5 Brieske
 to Kamenz
 36.3 Victoria III mine
 35.4 Schwarzheide Ost
from Lauchhammer Ost
now BASF siding
 Black Elster
 from Węgliniec
 32.9 Ruhland 99 m
 to Roßlau
 21.2 Ortrand 115 m
 Saxony–Brandenburg border
 A 13
 11.5 Lampertswalde 150 m
 from Großenhain Berlin station
 0.0 Großenhain Cottbuser station
 to Priestewitz

The Großenhain–Cottbus railway is an electrified main railway in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. It is double track between Cottbus and Ruhland and elsewhere single-track. It runs from Großenhain via Ruhland and Senftenberg to Cottbus.

History

The Großenhain–Cottbus line was built by the Cottbus-Großenhain Railway Company (German: Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft).

The Großenhain–Cottbus line was opened on 20 April 1870. With the subsequent opening of the Berlin–Dresden railway, Großenhain had two railway stations. The existing station on the line to Cottbus was renamed Großenhain Cottbuser Bahnhof and the new station was named Großenhain Berliner Bahnhof.

The end of the runway of the Großenhain military airfield used to be shortly east of Großenhain station towards Lampertswalde. Therefore, in the period between the electrification of the line in 1992 and the withdrawal of the Soviet/Russian armed forces in the autumn of 1993, a 660 metre long section was not electrified (route km 3.76 to 4.42). Electric locomotives coasted on this section of track with pantographs lowered. In addition, at the beginning of this section of the line from either direction progress was controlled from a signal, operated not by the railway dispatcher, but from the airfield. Thus, trains could be brought to a stop for the takeoff or landing of an aircraft without an earlier warning of a stop, leading to trains stopping in the catenary-free section and requiring them to be towed by a diesel locomotive based in the station.[2]

Today the line is the main line between Dresden and Cottbus. The line is served by Regional-Express services on the Dresden–Cottbus, Dresden–Hoyerswerda and Cottbus–Falkenberg/Elster routes.

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann (1997). "Flugzeug kontra Zug? Über ein Kuriosum der Sicherungstechnik der Eisenbahn". Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter (in German) (1): 18.


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