Dessau–Leipzig railway

Dessau–Leipzig railway
Dessau–Leipzig Hbf
Route number: 251
Line number: 6411
Line length: 58.3
Gauge: 1435
Voltage: 15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC
Maximum speed: 200
Legend
Straight track
from Magdeburg
Station on track
23.0 Dessau
Junction to right
to Köthen
Underbridge
B 184, B 185
Unknown BSicon "eABZrf"
to Radegast
Stop on track
27.3 Dessau Süd
Unknown BSicon "eHST"
29.6 Haideburg
Underbridge
A 9
Stop on track
34.3 Marke
Station on track
37.7 Raguhn
Stop on track
40.9 Jeßnitz
Station on track
43.3 Wolfen
Stop on track
45.5 Greppin
Unknown BSicon "ABZdg"
from Stumsdorf and from Berlin
Underbridge
B 183
Station on track
48.5 Bitterfeld
Underbridge
B 100
Junction to right
to Halle (Saale)
Stop on track
55.0 Petersroda
Unrestricted border on track
SaxonySaxony-Anhalt state border
Small bridge
B 183a
Station on track
60.4 Delitzsch low level station
Junction to right
to Halle (Saale)
Unknown BSicon "KRZu"
Halle–Cottbus railway
Junction from right
from Halle (Saale)
Stop on track
65.1 Zschortau
Unknown BSicon "eKRZu"
Delitzsch light railway
Station on track
70.0 Rackwitz
Unknown BSicon "eABZrg"
Connecting curve from light railway
Underbridge
B 184
Underbridge
A 14
Junction from right
from Halle (Saale)
Station on track
74.3 Leipzig Messe
Unknown BSicon "ABZrd"
from Leipzig-Wahren (freight ring)
Small bridge
B 2
Unknown BSicon "ABZld"
to Engelsdorf (freight ring) and to Eilenburg (–Cottbus)
Small arched bridge over water
Parthe
Junction from right
from Halle (Saale) and from Großkorbetha
Junction from left
from Dresden
End station
81.3 Leipzig Hbf

The Dessau–Leipzig railway is a double track electrified main line in the German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony built and originally operated by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company. The section from Bitterfeld to Leipzig is part of Line 1 of Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).

Contents

History

Planning and Construction

The Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (German: Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was for more than four decades in the 19th century one of the major railway companies in Germany. It built during this period a network of major rail links between Berlin and the northern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and the Prussian Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt, including the Anhalt trunk line. Its trunk line ran from Berlin via Wittenberg and Dessau to Köthen, where it connected with the Magdeburg-Leipzig line to Halle and Leipzig. In order to shorten the route to Halle and Leipzig, the company built direct lines from Dessau via Bitterfeld to Leipzig and Halle in the late 1850s. The section from Dessau to Bitterfeld was opened on 17 August 1857. On 1 February 1859 this was followed by the opening of the sections from Bitterfeld to both Halle and Leipzig. On 3 August 1859, a shorter line was opened between Berlin to Leipzig on a direct route between Wittenberg and Bitterfeld.

Part of the Bitterfeld-Dessau section was electrified experimentally in 1911 and on 5 June 1914 the Bitterfeld-Leipzig section was electrified. This was switched off on 1 August 1914, following the oubreak of World War I. In 1922 electrification was restored. In March 1946 electrification was discontinued as the equipment had been demanded by the Soviet Union as reparations for World War II. On 9 July 1958 electrification was again restored on the line.

After 1990

High-speed switch at the southern end of Bitterfeld station, longest in the world when installed in January 1998

With German reunification the line became less important. The Städteexpress (city express) trains that had run under the Coummunist regime were discontinued on 31 May 1991 and replaced by Intercity and InterRegio services.

In 1991, upgrading of the line from Berlin to Halle and Leipzig commenced as part of the German Unity Transport Projects—rail project 8.3. In the mid-1990s, the upgrade was sufficiently advanced for speeds on a section of it to be raised to a maximum of 160 km/h. For the raising of speeds to 200 km/h, further work was required, in particular the elimination of many level crossings. Completion of this work, in 1999, at a cost of 3.5 billion Deutsche Marks cut travel time between Halle/Leipzig and Berlin to under an hour.[1] Various improvements had been made to the line, including the eliminating of all crossings and the modernisation of all stations. A radio-based train protection system was installed.[2] A timetable change in May 2006 raised speeds largely to 200 km/h on the upgraded section of the line between Bitterfeld and Leipzig.

References

  1. ^ "... und ab 1999 in einer Stunde von Berlin nach Halle/Leipzig (... and from 1999 in an hour from Berlin to Halle/Leipzig)" (in German). Eisenbahn-Kurier (278): 21. November 1998. ISSN 0170-5288. 
  2. ^ (in German) Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit. Sachstand: 1997 (German Unity Transport Projects. Assessment: 1997). Bonn: Federal Ministry of Transport. 1997. pp. 20 f.. 

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