Esperstedt – Oldisleben railway line
| Esperstedt – Oldisleben | |||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6735 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 185f (1955) | ||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.295 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
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The Esperstedt – Oldisleben railway line (Esperstedt-Oldisleben Railway) was opened by the Central Administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein (CV) on May 4, 1907. Two concessions were required for this, because Esperstedt, the starting point of the four-kilometer route, was in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , the end point of Oldisleben in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ; There were no intermediate stops.
The railway was planned as part of a route from Esperstedt to Greußen. Because of the potash mine ( Potash Works Union of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst ) and the Oldisleben sugar factory , construction of this section was brought forward. It also initially brought the expected income. But when these declined considerably after potash mining was discontinued in 1922, the existence of the railway was endangered. It was secured by the fact that CV incorporated the - legally dependent - company in 1923 into the newly founded Thüringische Eisenbahn-AG (Theag).
After the Second World War, the state of Thuringia nationalized the Theag. Since April 1, 1949, the line belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This stopped the passenger traffic on May 31, 1959, although at that time it had taken an unprecedented boom with five to six daily train pairs. The freight was carried out until 30 June 1992nd The official decommissioning date was May 22, 1993.
After the German regional railways failed to reactivate their freight traffic in 2009, the route was de-dedicated on June 1, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maybe the train will come after all. Regional conference with the head of the regional railway. Euphoric but questionable prognoses. (No longer available online.) Thüringer Allgemeine, October 1, 2009, archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; Retrieved October 25, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Notification of the Federal Railway Authority on the exemption from railway operating purposes regarding parcels in Esperstedt and Oldisleben, Bahn-Report , Issue 5/2012, p. 60, publisher: Interest Group Rail Transport eV, Rohr, ISSN 0178-4528 . ( BAnz AT 04/25/2012 B3 ).
literature
- Harald Rockstuhl: From the history of the railway line - Esperstedt (Kyffh.) - Oldisleben 1907–1959 and the connecting railway 1959–1990 , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2005, ISBN 978-3-932554-01-8
