page_title: Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf railway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf railway / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Vor dem Beginn der Bauarbeiten für die S-Bahn Leipzig–Halle. Seit 1946 ist die Strecke eingleisig, seit 1990 wird sie wegen der Schließung der Ortsgüteranlagen im Bf Leipzig MTh kaum mehr befahren. Die Fahrleitungsmasten wurden um 1960 gleich für zweigleisigen Betrieb aufgestellt. Zusätzlich tragen sie die Speiseleitungen vom Unterwerk Wahren zum Schaltposten Leipzig. Das Vorsignal ist das Einfahrvorsignal vom Bahnhof Leipzig MTh.
context_page_description: The Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf railway is an electrified main line in the German state of Saxony. It runs from Leipzig-Wahren to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof and is part of the original route of the Magdeburg–Leipzig railway. Today it is used exclusively by services of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland.
context_section_description: The current Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf line was opened on 18 August 1840 as part of the Magdeburg–Leipzig railway built by the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway Company (Magdeburg-Leipziger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). The terminus of the line in Leipzig was the Magdeburger Bahnhof.
  The Magdeburg–Leipzig line was rebuilt, starting in 1906, as part of the comprehensive reconstruction of the Leipzig railway network, on a new route parallel to the Leipzig freight ring (Leipziger Güterring) and the old line between Wahren and Leipzig was subsequently used only for freight traffic.
  With the construction and commissioning of the new Leipzig Hauptbahnhof on 1 October 1912, the Magdeburger Bahnhof was closed and later demolished.
  In 1 April 1920, the Prussian state railways were absorbed by Deutsche Reichsbahn. From then on, the line was administered by the Reichsbahndirektion Halle (railway division of Halle). Although the main line from Halle to Leipzig via Wiederitzsch was operated electrically from 1922, the direct line was not electrified until the middle of the 1930s. The first train was hauled by an electric locomotive on 2 July 1934.
  The electrical installations and the second track were dismantled for reparations to the Soviet Union in 1946. The re-electrification of the line was not commissioned until 15 May 1959. The route remained single-track, but the overhead masts were designed for double-track operations. Each sets of masts also carried two 15 kV supply lines from the Wahren substation to the switching station at Leipzig Hbf.
  After 2000, the line was extensively modernised as part of the S-Bahnstrecke Leipzig–Halle (Leipzig–Halle S-Bahn line) project. In addition to the establishment of the new Leipzig Slevogtstraße, Leipzig Olbrichtstraße and Leipzig-Gohlis station, the line between Wahren and Wiederitzscher Straße was restored to two tracks. At the same time, Leipzig-Wahren station was converted from a classic marshalling yard to a yard for handling combined transport and it received new main line tracks connecting lines 6403 from Halle and 6382 to Leipzig with platforms in Wahren and Lützschena.
  The line was put back into operation on 5 December 2004 and was initially used by the regional trains of the RB 56 service, running as a trial operation with passengers. From 12 December 2004, it was operated with the new sets of the Leipzig-Halle S-Bahn (line S10).
  Line S3 of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland has served the stations on the line since December 2013.
caption: Track towards Leipzig MTh before its conversion for S-Bahn operations
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