Pronsfeld – Waxweiler railway line
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| Route number : | 3103 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 248t (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pronsfeld – Waxweiler line was a single-track, standard-gauge state branch line that connected Waxweiler to the Westeifelbahn at Pronsfeld station .
course
The railway line ran from the Pronsfeld station on the western edge of the village, sloping slightly in the Prüm valley , initially parallel to the railway line to Neuerburg . The federal highway 410 crossed near Lünebach . Shortly before the terminus, the Prüm was crossed on a bridge. The terminus with a locomotive shed and water tower was on the northwestern outskirts of Waxweiler.
history
The line was opened together with the line to Neuerburg on July 6, 1907 as a branch from the Westeifelbahn.
For the winter timetable 1922/23, the (old) 2nd class was no longer available on all trains. They only led the 3rd and 4th grade.
On August 27, 1938, Adolf Hitler visited the Siegfried Line . At the Waxweiler train station, lunch was taken in a train dining car that had been brought up specially.
The line was severely damaged in the Second World War . Traffic was resumed on October 17, 1949.
Passenger traffic ended on January 1, 1966. Approval to close the line had been in place since 1975 , but was not implemented until 1987. The maximum permissible speed was last in sections only 10 km / h. In May 1987 the last little freight traffic was stopped and the tracks dismantled in the same year.
In 2002, a cycle path was built on the former railway line.
The former station building station Waxweiler bought from a construction company and to July 2018 for historical monuments renovation. The locomotive shed, which is also located on the station premises, was sold to private by the local community in 2020; apartments are being set up there. In the earlier years when the locomotive shed was deedicated, it was used as a discotheque.
literature
- Thomas Palaschewski: New life in Waxweiler. A renovated train station in the Eifel . In: Eisenbahngeschichte 90 (October / November 2018), p. 38f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palaschewski, p. 39.
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 2, 1922, No. 72. Announcement No. 1380, p. 825.
- ^ Christian Speidel: route report . In: RAIL . No. 2/1987 , p. 32 .
- ↑ Worldsoft AG Atif (Worldsoft User) Ghaffar: local community Pronsfeld. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Palaschewski, p. 38.
- ↑ PRÜM eifelstark - city marketing and trade association: Prüm Aktuell - Internet daily newspaper of city marketing and trade association. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .