Gundelfingen – Sontheim-Brenz railway line
| Gundelfingen (Bay) –Sontheim-Brenz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5352 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 411h (as of 1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8.697 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 5.00 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gundelfingen – Sontheim railway was an 8.7 kilometer long branch line connecting Gundelfingen on the Danube in Bavaria and Sontheim an der Brenz in Baden-Württemberg , bypassing Ulm Hbf . Six kilometers lay on Bavarian and 2.7 kilometers on Württemberg territory.
history
In 1899 there were plans for an electric local railway between the two communities.
The line was opened on May 1, 1911 on the basis of a Bavarian-Württemberg State Treaty of April 12, 1905. Passenger traffic ended after 45 years of operation on June 2, 1956. Until the beginning of 1959, the line still served as a bypass route, from June to July of the same year it was dismantled. According to various sources, the formal shutdown did not take place until September 15 or December 31, 1964.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book Description der Bahn
- ↑ Electric Railway Gundelfingen -. Sontheim a.Br. in the main state archive ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Handbook of the German Railway Lines: Opening dates 1835-1935, line lengths, concessions, ownership structure . Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 .
- ^ Siegfried Baum: Swabian Railway . Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969.
- ↑ The Brenz Valley Railway: D'r Gähsmetzger. April 27, 2011, accessed October 8, 2011 .
- ^ Opening times of the railways in the area of the Stuttgart Federal Railway Directorate . In: Memories of the Swabian Railway. A collection of publications about the railways of yore . Federal Railway Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1978, p. 7-15 .
