Großkorbetha – Deuben railway line
| Großkorbetha – Deuben (near Zeitz) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Bridge over the Saale near Dehlitz (City of Lützen)
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| Route number : | 6812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 554 (1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 23.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Groß Korbetha – Deuben railway is a branch line that is only partially in operation in the Burgenland district in southern Saxony-Anhalt . The most important city on the route is Hohenmölsen .
history
The connection was opened on November 25, 1897 by the Prussian State Railways. The railway line has been without passenger traffic since May 30, 1999. It is still used for coal transports from the Profen lignite mining area from Wählitz to Korbetha for the Schkopau power plant . The section from Deuben to Wählitz was closed on January 1, 2002.
Route
The route runs from Großkorbetha via Hohenmölsen to Deuben . It connected the Halle – Bebra railway , next to which it runs parallel to Schkortleben, with the Weissenfels – Zeitz railway to the south . Coming from the north, the Leipzig-Plagwitz-Pörsten railway , which has been closed since June 1998 and dismantled since 2005, converged at Pörsten station .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 152.