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The Chiemgau Railway (German: ''Chiemgaubahn'') is a single-tracked, railway line between
In 1875 after
The Chiemgau Railway (German: ''Chiemgaubahn'') is a single-tracked, railway line between Prien am Chiemsee
Prien am Chiemsee (official: , High German [], Bavarian (local) dialect []) is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian Rosenheim (district), district of Rosenheim in Germany. The town is a certified Luftkurort, air and Sebastian Kneipp, Kneipp spa o ...
and Aschau im Chiemgau
Aschau im Chiemgau is a municipality and a village in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany.
Transport
Aschau im Chiemgau station is on the Chiemgau Railway.
Personalities
* Hans Clarin (1929-2005), actor and synchronist
* Loca ...
in the state of Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
in southern Germany. It is timetabled as route no. 952.
Operation and History
In 1875 after Theodor von Cramer-Klett
Theodor von Cramer-Klett (born September 27, 1817, in Nuremberg; died April 5, 1884, in Aschau im Chiemgau
Aschau im Chiemgau is a municipality and a village in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany.
Transport
Aschau im Chie ...
had purchased Hohenaschau Castle and its associated property in the valley of the River Prien, he financed the construction of a railway line to Aschau. It was opened on 18 August 1878 and opened up the Prien valley to the main line from Munich to Salzburg.
In the post-war period the line was worked by railbus
A railbus is a lightweight passenger railcar that shares many aspects of its construction with a bus, typically having a bus (original or modified) body and four wheels on a fixed base, instead of on bogies. Originally designed and developed d ...
es of Class VT 98. In 1987 these were modernised by the repair shop at Kassel and painted in white and mint-green livery.
These modernised Chiemgau Railway railbuses were the only ones in the Bundesbahn fleet to be given a special paint scheme - all the others were painted in the red livery, then typical of multiples operated by the DB. The former Chiemgau Railway vehicles are in service today in tourist trains on the Kleinengstingen
Engstingen is a municipality in the Tübingen administrative region ('' Regierungsbezirk'') in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies in the Swabian Jura (plateau), about south of Reutlingen.
It was formed on January 1, 1975 from the former inde ...
–Münsingen
Münsingen ( Highest Alemannic: ''Münsige'') is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Trimstein merged into Münsingen, and on 1 Jan ...
–Schelklingen
Schelklingen is a town in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated 10 km north of Ehingen, and 20 km west of Ulm. Schelklingen and 82% of its territory form part of the Swabian Jura Biosphere Reserve.
...
– Ulm Hbf route (KBS 759) and known as the ''Ulmer Spatz'' (Ulm sparrows). As a result of this uniqueness there are several models by model railway
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, t ...
manufacturers of the Chiemgau railbuses.
In 1996 the Chiemgau Railway railbuses (798 652 and 798 653) were replaced by Class 628.4 units. At present '' RegionalBahn'' trains work the line from Aschau to Prien (one or two pairs of trains per hour). The 628s need 15 minutes for the long line. In the mornings and evenings there are trains that run via Prien to Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn at the confluence of th ...
on the Munich–Salzburg line. In addition one train runs through each evening from Salzburg via Traunstein to Aschau.
See also
* Royal Bavarian State Railways *Bavarian branch lines
Bavarian branch lines comprised nearly half the total railway network in Bavaria, a state in the southeastern Germany that was a kingdom in the days of the German Empire. The construction era for branch lines lasted from 1872, when the first rou ...
Sources
* :de:Chiemgaubahn {{Authority control Branch lines in Bavaria