page_title: Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway / History / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: Massenbetrieb beim Kartoffelversand in Neuburg-Donau
context_page_description: The Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway is a single-track, electrified mainline railway in Bavaria, Germany. It runs in the Danube valley from Ingolstadt via Neuburg an der Donau, Donauwörth and Dillingen an der Donau to Neuoffingen, where it joins the Augsburg–Ulm railway. The Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway and the Regensburg–Ingolstadt railway together form the Bavarian Danube Valley Railway.
context_section_description: The railway had plans to fuel the steam locomotives with peat. The material was obtained from the nearby Old Bavarian Donaumoos. The area of Weichering station would serve as a loading area. As a result, Weichering station was built with an exceptionally large station area, twelve km from Ingolstadt. The railway company had already signed a contract with the municipality of Obergrasheim for the purchase of 500,000 cubic metres of peat to be delivered in 1874. The first deliveries were made between 1 April and 30 June and amounted to 141,000 cubic metres. The dry pieces of peat could be a maximum of 25 cm long and 8 cm wide. However, the peat had too low a calorific value and therefore did not provide the locomotives with the required power. So this contract had to be cancelled.
  The company eventually switched from steam to diesel operation. The construction of the Bertoldsheim power station in 1967 allowed the electrification of the line. The 97.5 km-long Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen section was electrified on 5 May 1980 and electric operations were officially inaugurated on 24 May 1980.
  The line between Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof and Weichering station was completely rerouted from 1990 to 1995. The line previously ran north out of the station and ran in a loop across the city, but the line now runs south from Ingolstadt. The line initially runs with one track on each side of the Ingolstadt–Munich railway. The Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen services run regularly on the eastern track in both directions. The western track is mainly used by trains on the Ingolstadt–Augsburg railway, which runs together with the Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway to Seehof operations station. Seehof station has two tracks and various transfer options between the two lines. After leaving Seehof, the Ingolstadt–Augsburg railway branches off and the line now continues as a single track to Weichering station, where it returns to the original route from the entry signal. The old line has been completely dismantled up to that point. On 29 May 1995, a regional train running from Ingolstadt via Weichering to Donauwörth was the first train to use the new route.
  The carriage of freight between Ingolstadt and Donauwörth was discontinued on 15 December 2002.
  After the takeover of the transport services by agilis and an expansion of the train service, the train crossings that used to take place almost exclusively in Unterhausen only occur there on weekends. Under the current timetable, train crossings now take place every two hours in Unterhausen and every two hours in Neuburg. There are three pairs of express trains between Ulm and Regensburg on weekdays, which do not serve all stops. Due to these additional journeys, the stations of Rain, Burgheim and Weichering are also used for scheduled train crossings. Unterhausen station is also important as a connecting point for the private freight wagon repair shop there, mainly for tank wagons. The braking distance between Weichering and Rain is reduced to 700 m, otherwise it is 1000 m. The top speed is 140 km/h.
  Since the timetable change on 13 December 2015 the Agilis trains have also been arriving in Ingolstadt Nord from both directions (Donauwörth and Regensburg) from Monday to Friday in order to improve connections to the Audi plant. There are some express trains that are not busy.
  Platform 3 in Weichering station, which was dismantled in 2003, was reinstalled in 2016. This allowed freight traffic to be handled outside the Ingolstadt node. Due to the passenger level crossings to platform 1 that have existed in both Weichering and Rohrenfeld stations, crossings with freight trains has always been a cause of delay for the Agilis local trains. The reconstruction of these stations needs to take into account the increasing freight traffic. The first work on clearing the old track bed and the first survey work were carried out at Weichering station in the autumn of 2012.
  A new, modern and disabled-friendly platform was put into operation in Schwenningen at the timetable change on 10 December 2006. Previously, Schwenningen had a sp
caption: Potato loading
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