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The line was re-electrified shortly after the First World War. Electric train operations commenced as far as Schönefeld on 25 January 1921. Electrical operation on the entire line to
Engelsdorf commenced on 8 October 1922. This was the first former Saxon railway line to be electrified.
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during the reconstruction of the
Leipzig railway node after the turn of the twentieth century. The section from Leipzig-Wahren to Schönefeld was built for the Prussian state railways and the remaining section to Engelsdorf was built by the Royal Saxon State Railways. The whole line was opened on
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Shortly before the First World War, the line was electrified as far as
Leipzig-Schönefeld. Electric operations started on 1 May 1914. Due to the war, electrical operations were soon abandoned and the catenary was dismantled.
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The catenary was dismantled again after the Second World War. Electric train operations ended on 31 March 1946 and all facilities were dismantled shortly afterwards to provide
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is used for freight operations. In
February 2016, a contract was let for the rebuilding of the Leipzig-Mockau yard and the renewal of several railway bridges.
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991:"Deutschland-Frankfurt am Main: Bau von Eisenbahnbrücken"
1024:(in German). Berlin: transpress Verlagsgesellschaft.
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1020:Erich Preuß; Reiner Preuß (1991).
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806:to Dresden
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950:Footnotes
143:Route map
51:Technical
46:, Germany
891:and the
646:K.S.Stb.
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88: in
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