854:. The freight and part-load goods traffic also suffered heavy losses. As a result, the line was closed little by little. First to go were the passenger services that were withdrawn between Eging and Kalteneck on 1 October 1972. On 3 June 1973 goods traffic from Tittling to Kalteneck ceased too. Of note is that this section was used for occasional diversions to or from Freyung and remained operational for over 20 years. The next closure again affected passenger services, this time from Deggendorf to Eging on 25 September 1981. It was followed by the cessation of goods traffic from Eging to Tittling and, with that, the closure of the entire Eging–Kalteneck section on 2 April 1995. On 2 September 2002 the same fate met the Hengersberg–Eging part of the line. After the removal of the tracks the trackbed was turned into a cycle path, which was fully opened in 2006. On the 11.6 km long remaining section from Deggendorf Hbf via Deggendorf Hafen to Hengersberg only goods traffic now plies. The Deggendorf Hafen (exclusively)–Hengersberg section was transferred on 1 September 2007 as a private industrial line to the ownership of the
842:) of Plattling and Passau were made available. On the Deggendorf-Hengersberg line three pairs of trains ran daily for the first few months and, between Eging and Kalteneck, four pairs. The four pairs of through trains initially deployed once the line was fully opened were gradually reduced during the First World War to two pairs. Because these trains also had to take goods wagons with them the journey times on the line were long. In 1936 five pairs of trains worked the route, with trains from both directions ending in Eging in the evening and returning in the morning. In 1976 the five train pairs only ran on weekdays. On Sundays they were replaced by three bus services.
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Construction began in summer 1910 at both ends of the line. As a result, the 11.62 km long section from
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907:List of closed railway lines in Bavaria
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887:Nebenbahnen im Passauer Land
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661:Passau–Freyung railway
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912:Bavarian branch lines
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773:Bayerisch Eisenstein
717:Bayerisch Eisenstein
16:Rail line in Germany
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822:without much ado.
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154:from Zwiesel
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749:Vorwaldbahn
733:Waldkirchen
614:to Freyung
433:Außernzell
387:Schöllnach
364:Iggensbach
69:Track gauge
60:Line length
32:Line number
1079:Categories
769:Deggendorf
725:Ilztalbahn
637:Kalteneck
479:Nammering
272:Halbmeile
49:former 876
852:railbuses
833:Lokalbahn
793:Vilshofen
765:Plattling
719:with the
709:Plattling
664:to Passau
525:Englburg
55:Technical
901:See also
846:Closures
789:Tittling
745:Waldbahn
410:Gunzing
295:Seebach
92: in
27:Overview
866:Sources
860:sawmill
808:Landtag
781:Freyung
737:Freyung
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87:⁄
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777:Passau
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456:Eging
124:Legend
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109:Route
891:ISBN
877:ISBN
767:via
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