100 years Railway line Giesing - Aying





At May 22 and 23, 2004, the 100th anniversary of the Railway line Giesing-Aying was celebrated.

The first steam engines, which ran at this line, were the barvarian state railway series D XI (later German state railway serial number 98.4-5), B V (not taken over by the "Deutsche Reichsbahn"), B VI (34.74) and D I (88.70). Some years later, additionally the series C VI (54.13) and Pt 2/3 (70.0) came to the line.

Since 1926, the accumulator railcars of type Wittfeld (designated as ETA 177 and ETA 178 by the "Deutsche Bundesbahn") as well as the successor type ETA 179 were used. Furthermore, steam engines of the series 50, 52 and 64 could be found in the years afterwards. In the 1950th and 1960th, the railcars ETA 150 and the Diesel engines V100.20 appeared at the line Giesing-Aying.

The last ones survived here until the line was electrified in context of the introduction of the Munich commuter railway system in 1972. Because not enough electric railcars of the series 420 were available at this time and the railway control centers were not adapted well timed for the complete line up to Kreuzstraße, the end of the new commuter line, firstly push-pull trains are used between Hohenbrunn and Kreuzstraße, which consisted of electric locomotive types 144 and B3y coaches.

Occationally, one could meet at this line a sporadical V60 with a short freight train to Neubiberg or the "glass train" 491, when making its very popular excursions "Around Munich".

Today, the line is normally quite only driven by the new electric cummuter railcars 423. The former standard commuter railcars of type 420 are today completely disappeared from this line.
For celebration of the jubilee on both days, a historic train, connected with the steam engine TAG 7 from the former "Tegernseebahn" and the electric locomotive E69 05 (many years running at the line Murnau-Oberammergau) at the both ends of the train, shuttled between the railway stations Perlach and Aying.

The following photos were made at these days and subsequently prepared for the BahnLand program.
 
Between Dürrnhaar and Aying
H.-M. Hebsaker
2004-08-12
Between Dürrnhaar and Aying
Photo: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker
 
Between "Neuperlach Süd" and Neubiberg
H.-M. Hebsaker
2004-08-12
Between "Neuperlach Süd" and Neubiberg
Photos: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker
H.-M. Hebsaker
2004-08-12
Between "Neuperlach Süd" and Neubiberg
Photo: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker
H.-M. Hebsaker
2004-08-12
Between "Neuperlach Süd" and Neubiberg
Photos: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker