page_title: Regensburg–Weiden railway
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Regensburg–Weiden railway / Route description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof Irrenlohe
context_page_description: The Regensburg–Weiden railway is a two-track main line railway in Bavaria, Germany. It connects the Upper Palatinate district capital of Regensburg via Schwandorf with Weiden in der Oberpfalz.
context_section_description: The line begins at Regensburg Hauptbahnhof and from there runs to the east parallel to the line to Passau. The lines separate at the Safferling footbridge. The line to Passau turns south, while the line to Weiden heads north through the Regensburg port area and crosses bridges over the Westhafen and the Danube. The line runs east of the Regensburg districts of Konradsiedlung, Wutzlhofen and Haslbach, swings to the northwest and follows the Regen to Regenstauf. After Regenstauf the line crosses the Regen, continues to the northwest, crosses the A 93 and loops through the Ponholz forest. After Ponholz, the line continues north to Maxhütte-Haidhof, where the line to Burglengenfeld branches off, and continues between the Naab and the A 93 to Schwandorf.
  Schwandorf station is an important railway junction in the Upper Palatinate. There the north–south connection from Dresden via Hof to Regensburg and Munich meets the east–west connection from Frankfurt via Nuremberg to Furth im Wald and Prague. The line from Furth runs from the east to meet the Regensburg–Weiden line south of the station, while the line to Nuremberg branches off four kilometres north at Irrenlohe station to run to the west.
  After crossing the Naab and leaving Irrenlohe station, it runs past Schwarzenfeld and meets the remnants of the railway from Schönsee at Stulln. This former local railway crossed the Naab and the main line to Weiden and then ran on its western side to Nabburg, where the branch line had its starting point until 1994. The main route continues along the right bank of the Naab past Pfreimd, Wernberg-Köblitz and Luhe-Wildenau to Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Like Schwandorf, the station is a hub because the lines to Nuremberg (via Neukirchen) and to Bayreuth branch off there. In addition to a former locomotive depot that existed until the 1990s, there is a repair shop for passenger coaches (PFA Weiden) in Weiden, which now belongs to Stadler Rail.
caption: Irrenlohe station, between the tracks from Nuremberg, 2009
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