Railway line Neuses – Weißenbrunn
| Neuses (b Kronach) -Weißenbrunn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Neuses stop (2009)
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| Route number : | 5011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 414s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 21 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 294 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neuses – Weißenbrunn railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Hochstadt-Marktzeuln – Probstzella railway line at Neuses , a southern district of Kronach , and led to Weißenbrunn . The line was closed in 1995.
history
After the completion of the Frankenwaldbahn in 1885, the first request for the construction of a branch line to Weißenbrunn was sent to the government in Munich in 1899. But it was not until 1907 that approval for a freight railway followed. On June 26, 1908, the Local Railway Act granted approval for the planning and construction of the secondary railway . Due to problems in obtaining the property, the start of construction was delayed until 1914; the opening did not take place until August 1, 1916 due to the First World War .
Up until 1947, a pair of freight trains ran on the route on weekdays. From May 1947 to May 1954 there was a passenger train service due to a new hospital in Weißenbrunn. This initially consisted of three pairs of trains on workdays, from 1950 two pairs of trains also ran on Sundays. The journey time was 12 minutes, from Kronach about 30 minutes.
Freight train traffic consisted of two pairs of trains on working days until the mid-1960s; in the mid-1980s there were still three trains per week. The line was temporarily closed on September 24, 1994 and finally closed on March 1, 1995.
literature
- Ulrich Rockelmann, Thomas Naumann: The Frankenwaldbahn. The story of the steep ramp over the Franconian Forest . EK-Verlag Freiburg, 1997. ISBN 3-88255-581-5
- Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines. History, inventory and conversion . Michael Resch, Coburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-944237-05-3 .