Rottershausen – Stadtlauringen railway line
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| Route length: | 16.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rottershausen – Stadtlauringen railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It connected the Stadtlauringen market in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt with the Schweinfurt – Meiningen main line .
history
The 17 km long, standard gauge “Lauertal Railway ” was opened on August 6, 1900 by the Bavarian State Railway. It began in the Rottershausen train station and followed the main line two kilometers north, with which it also ran through the 400 m long Rottershausen tunnel. It was only at the Rannungen junction, where a connecting line to the ammunition plant branched off at the Rottershausen forest settlement during the Second World War , that it got its own route; she crossed a ridge until she reached the Lauertal at Poppenlauer, which she followed up in the foothills of the Haßberge. At the end of the line in Stadtlauringen, there was a separate locomotive shed with a water house as a branch of the Schweinfurt depot .
Passenger traffic was always weak and for decades was limited to three pairs of trains a day. After a rail bus line had already taken over the service on Sundays from 1958, passenger traffic by rail was also discontinued on weekdays with the end of the summer schedule in 1959, on October 4, 1959. Its early end is mainly due to the route, which had been controversial for years before the opening and which did not meet the needs of traffic. Because the destination of most travelers was the city of Schweinfurt, which since 1948/49 could be reached by a shorter distance by bus. Freight traffic also ended on April 1, 1960. The line, on which only steam locomotives were used, was dismantled the following winter.
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis, Ekkehard Martin: Franconian branch lines then and now - Middle and Lower Franconia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1987, ISBN 3-922138-30-6 .
Web links
- Searching for traces of the railway: pictures of the current state
- Private website about the former Lauertalbahn