Nuremberg–Feucht Railway

The Nuremberg–Feucht railway is a -long main-line railway in the German state of Bavaria, running from Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof to Feucht. It was built parallel with the Nuremberg–Regensburg railway during the first construction phase of the Nuremberg S-Bahn and opened on 21 November 1992.

History

The first demands for an S-Bahn network in greater Nuremberg were made in 1966. Deutsche Bundesbahn made a step in this direction in 1969 with increased services on the main lines during peak hours. The changes were applied to the Nuremberg–Feucht (–Altdorf) line and after that it was served at 30-minute intervals (Nuremberg–Feucht) or 60-minute intervals (Feucht–Altdorf). This service had to be withdrawn in the following years for operational reasons and also because of poor patronage, but Deutsche Bundesbahn still sought an improvement in services. In 1971, the then ''Bundesbahndirektion'' (railway division, BD) of Nuremberg was granted permission to develop solutions to improve services. The results were presented on 20 March 1975 as a "framework plan for the Nuremberg S-Bahn", which included an S-Bahn line from Nuremberg via Feucht to Altdorf. This was included as part of the "first stage” of construction of the Nuremberg S-Bahn adopted on 29 June 1979, as well as in the financial agreement closed on 2 November 1981, which allowed detailed planning to begin.

Preliminary planning

The realisation of the planned "mainline replacement line" between Roth and Fischbach through the ''Nuremberg Reichswald'' (imperial forest) would have relieved the Nuremberg–Roth line and thus made room for S-Bahn services on the existing double track line. After the adjacent municipalities and citizens groups expressed opposition to the Reichswald route, the Nuremberg BD examined the plans between 1980 and 1985 on behalf of Deutsche Bundesbahn. At the same time, the BD proposed the construction of a new line from Nuremberg to Ingolstadt as an alternative option. There was resistance to this option in Swabia