Drahthammer – Lauterhofen railway line
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 The station building of the Lauterhofen terminus
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| Route number : | 5064 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 426b (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 26.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 26 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Drahthammer – Lauterhofen line was a branch line in Bavaria that connected the Drahthammer station with Lauterhofen . It originally began in Amberg, with the first section later assigned to the Amberg – Schmidmühlen railway line . The route was popularly known as the “Lauterhöfer Bockl ”.
history
The line was opened on December 7, 1903 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways .
Even before the Second World War were given Kastl and Lauterhofen to their district town of Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate a force postal service . The Reichsbahn responded to this as early as the 1930s with the use of railcars . Since the 1950s, these were Uerdingen rail buses of the VT 98 series . They were eventually replaced by the Amberg – Neumarkt rail bus line . Passenger traffic ceased on July 1, 1962, freight traffic on April 1, 1972. The last freight train had already run on March 29, 1972.
The line was then shut down and dismantled. Today it is part of the Schweppermann cycle path from Neumarkt to Schwarzenfeld . A stele artistically designed by Christa Torge and Karl-Heinz Torge reminds of the route on the former station area of Ursensollen .
Route description
From the Drahthammer train station, the route led over the Köferinger Heide through the landscape , where it descended with a fairly steep gradient into the Lauterach valley, which it then followed up to Kastl. At the end point in Lauterhofen, a quarry created additional traffic in addition to the usual freight in an agricultural area.
literature
- Gerald Hoch, Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in the Upper Palatinate . 1st edition 2000. Resch-Verlag, Neustadt bei Coburg, 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-7-X .
Web links
- Schweppermann cycle path (railroad cycling )
- Schweppermann cycle path (Bavarian network for cyclists)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NN: The old station in Ursensollen: "Careful handling of the historical character" . In: City and Space . December 2016. ISSN 1437-5974, title and pp. 324-326.