Küntzig – Autel railway line
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| Route length: | 4.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Küntzig – Autel railway line is now a disused railway line in Luxembourg and Belgium .
history
The route was built by the Prinz-Heinrich-Eisenbahngesellschaft without state aid in order to obtain independent access to the Belgian route network from the Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Eisenbahngesellschaft (WL). The 4.1 km long route was opened on July 3, 1874.
Just four years after the opening in 1878, an anonymous Luxembourgish Prinz-Heinrich-Eisenbahn- und Erzgrubengesellschaft (successor company after the bankruptcy of the first Prinz-Heinrich-Eisenbahngesellschaft, which had taken over all routes and operating resources) and the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine - which the routes of the WL operated - closed in agreements. Since from now on the wagons were exchanged between the PH and the WL without a surcharge, the construction purpose of the line was no longer applicable. After that, the route was only used for freight trains. Around 1900 the tracks were dismantled.
Web links
- www.rail.lu route Künzig – Autel / Belgium
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