The Munich–Regensburg railway line is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria. It runs from Munich via Freising and Landshut to Regensburg. Details: Line length: 138.131 km Track gauge: 1435 mm (standard gauge) Line class: D4 Power system: 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ Maximum gradient: 6.67 ‰ Minimum radius: 400 m Maximum speed: 160 km/h Train control: PZB Double track: throughout History - Construction: The Munich-Regensburg railway line was built by the "Royal Privileged Joint Stock Company of the Bavarian Eastern Railways" founded on April 12, 1856, and went into operation in two sections. First, the line from Munich to Freising was built. The first test run took place on June 28, 1858 with members of the administrative board of the Eastern Railways. Only after the section from Freising to Landshut had been completed could the newly built track be officially opened for "passenger and luggage traffic" on November 3, 1858 at seven o'clock in the morning with a two-hour journey time, and on November 15, 1858 also for freight traffic. The stops on the line from Munich were the newly built stations Feldmoching, Schleißheim, Lohhof, Neufahrn, Freysing, Langenbach, Moosburg and Bruckberg. From December 12, 1859, the route continued via Geiselhöring to Regensburg. Together with the opening of the Nuremberg–Hersbruck/Pegnitz lines on May 9, 1859, as well as the Hersbruck–Schwandorf–Regensburg and Geiselhöring–Straubing lines on December 12, 1859, as well as the Straubing–Passau line on September 20, 1860, they formed the basic network of the Bavarian Eastern Railway. In the summer of 1870, construction work began on the Neufahrn (Niederbay)–Eggmühl–Obertraubling line, which opened on August 6, 1873. The Geiselhöring–Sünching section was thus made redundant and was dismantled in 1896. In Landshut, a new through station was built outside the city to speed up traffic, which replaced the old terminus on May 16, 1880. The double-track expansion was put into operation in several stages. On November 3, 1891 from Feldmoching to Lohhof, on November 19, 1891 to Freising, on November 25, 1891 to Moosburg and on September 28, 1892 to Landshut. On the same day, the line was also relocated from its old single-track route, on which the Landshuter Allee is now located in Munich as part of the Mittlerer Ring, to a double track west via Moosach. Moosach station was opened on December 1, 1892. Regional transport Bridge over the route near Langenbach In the early years, regional transport consisted of individual trains that met demand, the number of which increased steadily over the years, and the travel time was constantly shortened by line repairs and new, more powerful vehicles. Since the introduction of regular service in 1991, regional express trains have run from Munich to Passau and Regensburg-Nuremberg every two hours. Regional trains, on the other hand, initially ran irregularly, on the one hand as a shuttle between Freising and Landshut and on the other hand between Landshut and Plattling. In 1998, this became a continuous regional train line, which, together with the Munich-Passau regional express, created an hourly hub for Plattling. The regional express line to Nuremberg and the Interregio to Hof provided an almost hourly service for the Munich-Regensburg route, which, with the discontinuation of the Interregio and the introduction of regional express trains and, since 2007, the alex, has become an exact hourly service for Freising, Landshut and Neufahrn (Lower Bavaria). Until 2009, the alex ran on the entire route as a basic daily service with ten pairs of trains to Hof (five pairs of trains), Schwandorf and Prague (two pairs of trains) with the 183 or 223 series with modernized compartment cars and dining cars of the Regentalbahn. In addition, the regional express to Nuremberg ran with seven pairs of trains with the 111 series with five double-decker carriages (built in 1997) as push-pull trains. Both lines together provided an hourly service between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. for the Munich main station, Freising, Landshut, Neufahrn (Lower Bavaria) and Regensburg stations. In addition, there was a pair of regional express trains on weekdays during rush hour, pulled by the 110 series with seven n-cars. On the northern section, a regional train ran from Eggmühl to Regensburg (occasionally from Neufahrn (Lower Bavaria) or Landshut) every hour, and at weekends every two hours with the 143 series with two n-cars as a push-pull train or a 628 series railcar. From Munich to Landshut and on to Passau, a regional express ran every two hours from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with the 111 series with n-cars and double-decker carriages (built in 1993) in mixed use, mostly as a push-pull train. In between, a regional train also ran from Munich via Landshut to Plattling every two hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (but sometimes only from Freising) with push-pull trains made up of class 143 locomotives with five n-carriages. During rush hours, additional regional trains were used from Munich to Landshut to handle peak traffic. This resulted in a 20-minute cycle from Monday to Friday between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. to Munich and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. from Munich. From Monday to Friday, five pairs of regional trains ran between Freising and Landshut during the day as push-pull trains, made up of class 143 locomotives with two, four or five n-carriages. Long-distance traffic Route between Langenbach and Moosburg Although the route has traditionally been of great importance for long-distance passenger traffic due to the continuous connections from Munich via Regensburg and Hof to Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Rostock as well as via Furth im Wald to Prague, it has not been used by long-distance trains since 2002. Since the introduction of the Interregio in 1991, the route has been part of the IR line 25 Oberstdorf–Munich–Regensburg–Hof–Dresden/Leipzig–Berlin. This line was discontinued in its northern and southern sections at the timetable change in June 2001, so that only a shuttle service from Munich to Regensburg remained. The Deutsche Bahn AG justified the restriction of the line with its lack of capacity. This was helped in particular in the last few years of operation by increasingly longer journey times with excessively long stops at the stations along the way. This last section of line 25 was finally discontinued with the timetable change in December 2002, when the "InterRegio" product was officially discontinued. After the federal states of Bavaria and Saxony had agreed on an IR replacement concept, the traffic was provided by the DB from 2002 to 2007 by a regional express line that operated hourly between Munich and Regensburg together with the RE trains on the Munich-Nuremberg route. North of Regensburg, the traffic was more closely adapted to actual demand, so that only a few through trains ran here, which bore the name Vier-Länder-Express. Initially, this line was operated entirely with former InterRegio carriages, but due to their small number of seats, these were increasingly replaced with modernized n-cars. In 2007, there were often no IR carriages of the Bim(d)z type in the train. Until long-distance traffic was discontinued in 2002, the route was initially served by a pair of express trains from Munich to Regensburg to Prague, which were operated as EuroCity (Zurich to Munich to Prague) from 1992 until long-distance traffic was discontinued, which was operated by DB on a commercial basis. From 2002 to 2004 there was no longer a direct connection from Munich to Prague. Passengers had to change from slow local trains in Regensburg, Schwandorf and Furth im Wald to the Czech regional trains that were still running. In 2003 and 2004, two pairs of trains were extended from Prague to Regensburg. From 2005 to 2007, two pairs of regional express trains ordered by the Free State of Bavaria ran again daily as the Bavaria-Bohemia Express, leaving Munich at 6:43 a.m. and 4:44 p.m. and reaching Prague after a scheduled six-hour journey time. The return trains also arrived in Munich at 3:16 p.m. and 11:26 p.m. after a six-hour journey. These trains have been operated as alex since 2008. I would be very happy if the München - Regensburg could be built in de Train Simulator Classic 2024 and the old oneHead station could be remembered as a new underground main station is currently being built. Best regards BR430
