Railway line Dettelbach Bahnhof – Dettelbach city
| Dettelbach train station - Dettelbach town | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book section (DB) : | 416c (1960) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.54 km | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 5 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 264 m | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dettelbach Bahnhof – Dettelbach Stadt railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway line at Dettelbach station and led to Dettelbach . The line was operated from August 30, 1900 to October 2, 1960 in passenger traffic and until 1966 in freight traffic.
history
The member of the Reichstag and later mayor Luitpold Baumann had campaigned for the construction of the five-kilometer route early on . In 1896 the construction of the line from Dettelbach Bf via Bibergau to Dettelbach Stadt was approved. The railway line was opened on August 30, 1900. “In the early morning”, according to a contemporary report, “the firecrackers crashed, announcing the happy event to the whole Main Valley. From the city tower the music played 'Great God we praise you', the royal anthem etc. and to the brisk sounds of the Prince Regent-Luitpold March the first scheduled train set off at 6.09 a.m. against Würzburg. At 7 o'clock a solemn thanksgiving service with Te Deum (Great God, we praise you) took place on the occasion of the successfully completed train. "
The local railway was popularly called the Baumann-Bähnle or Schnäfterle after its initiator , because the locomotives "puffed" so hard up the slope from Dettelbach. Seven pairs of trains were supposed to travel the route daily, but in the end it was just a steam locomotive with a few passenger and freight cars. The Dettelbachers could only enjoy this luxury of their own, only five kilometers long railway line for a good 60 years.
On October 2nd, 1960 the passenger traffic was stopped. In 1966 the weak freight traffic ended and in 1968 the track systems were dismantled.