Bad Neustadt – Bad Königshofen railway line

Neustadt – Königshofen

Route number :

5241

Course book section (DB) :

815

Route length:

23.2 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Maximum slope :

18.2 ‰

Minimum radius :

171 m

Legend

	from Schweinfurt
0.00	Bad Neustadt (Saale)	232.4 m above sea level NN
	Kastanienallee
	B 279 new
	to Meiningen
	Franconian Saale
	Weather road
3.9	Hay loaf until 1961
5.82	Hollstadt
	A 71
	Bundesstrasse 279 old
	Franconian Saale
	Franconian Saale
9.6	Taubachsmühle until 1963
	Bundesstrasse 279
	Franconian Saale
10.99	Wülfershausen (Saale)
12.68	Hall (hall)
	Franconian Saale
	Großeibstädter Strasse
16.53	Kleineibstadt
19.23	Großeibstadt
	Kleinbardorfer Strasse
	Schweinfurter Strasse?
23.24	Koenigshofen i. Grave field	275.8 m above sea level NN

In Lower Franconia, the Bad Neustadt – Bad Königshofen railway was a 23-kilometer long branch line from Bad Neustadt an der Saale to Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld . The railway line along the Franconian Saale was also called Grabfeldbahn according to the area . In 1997 the line was dismantled.

history

On April 30, 1888, the Bavarian State Parliament passed the law to build and operate a local railway that connects Königshofen with Neustadt, where it connects to the main railway towards Schweinfurt, which was opened in 1874 . Construction finally began in March 1892 and one year later on October 1, 1893, the Bavarian State Railroad officially opened the local railway .

On May 30, 1976 the passenger train service was stopped, on December 30, 1994 the freight train service. The Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the line on May 11, 1995, which was then completed on August 1, 1995. The dismantling of the track system was completed in June 1997. The Saale Valley cycle path was later built on the route.

Former reception building in Bad Königshofen

traffic

Among other things, the steam locomotives of the 98.8 series and later DR series 98.11 were used on the line . The V 100 diesel locomotive was in service from December 1968, and the rail bus followed in 1972 for passenger transport .

literature

Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in Lower Franconia . Eisenbahn-Fachbuchverlag Neustadt / Coburg, 2003. ISBN 3-9805967-9-6 .

Web links

Local train from Neustadt (Saale) to Königshofen in Grabfeld Grabfeldbahn
Location and course of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
Pictures of the current state