Railway line Floß – Flossenbürg
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| Route number : | 5055 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 425h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Floß – Flossenbürg railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Neustadt (Waldnaab) –Eslarn railway line in Raft and led to Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate Forest .
history
The line was put into operation on May 1, 1913 for freight traffic. The main cargo was the granite broken in Flossenbürg .
Passenger traffic was only started after the beginning of the Second World War . However, the 1941 summer timetable only contains two pairs of trains on Sundays “by special order”. A sad chapter of the route is its use for the transport of prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp, which opened in 1938 . In 1944 and 1946 no trains are given. In 1948 there was a freight train with passenger transport in the timetable on weekdays. In 1949 five pairs of trains are offered, some even from and to Weiden. Now the - relatively strong - Sunday traffic ceased immediately and from May 31, 1959, only freight trains ran until May 27, 1973. After that, the line was dismantled.
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 .