Herbertingen–Aulendorf railway

Herbertingen–Aulendorf
Route number:	766
Line length:	28.0
Track gauge:	1435
Legend Danube Valley Railway from Immendingen 0.0 Herbertingen Danube Valley Railway to Ulm 1.9 Herbertingen Ort 9.0 Bad Saulgau 13.1 Hochberg 19.5 Altshausen 19.8 From Schwackenreute 23.6 Steinenbach-Blönried 27.4 Southern Railway from Friedrichshafen 28.0 Aulendorf Southern Railway to Ulm Allgäu Railway to Hergatz

The Herbertingen–Aulendorf railway is a line in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It goes from Herbertingen to Aulendorf and thus connects the Danube Valley Railway (German: Donautalbahn) with the Württemberg Southern Railway (Südbahn) and the Allgäu Railway (Allgäubahn). The 28 kilometre line is entirely single-track and non-electrified, but has been upgraded for the operation of tilting trains. Deutsche Bahn operates the line along with the line from Tübingen to Sigmaringen as the Zollernalbbahn (Zollernalb Railway). Historically, the line was often considered as part of the adjoining Allgäu Railway, which opened at the same time.

History

Aulendorf station in 1900

Herbertingen station

The Aulendorf–Bad Saulgau (then called Saulgau) section was opened on 25 July 1869 together with the adjacent Aulendorf–Waldsee section of the Allgäu Railway. The Saulgau–Herbertingen section followed on 10 October 1869.^[1] Because Herbertingen station is poorly located for the town, Herbertingen Ort was opened closer to the town before the Second World War.

Operations

The most famous train on the line was the Heckeneilzug Kleber-Express, which ran between Freiburg and Munich until 2003. Now the line is only served by Regionalbahn services at hourly intervals.

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