Untersteinach – Stadtsteinach railway line
| Untersteinach – Stadtsteinach | |||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5004 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 418g | ||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.8 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20.8 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||
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The Untersteinach – Stadtsteinach railway is a branch line in Bavaria . It connects the former district town of Stadtsteinach with the main Bamberg – Hof line in the Upper Franconian administrative region .
The standard-gauge, single-track local railway is 4.8 kilometers long and was opened for freight traffic on November 26, 1913 by the Bavarian State Railway. For almost thirty years, crushed stone was mainly transported for railway construction. Only when the lack of fuel in the Second World War did not allow buses to travel any more, from July 19, 1943, passenger cars were also carried on the freight trains . This happened at the instigation and risk of the municipality until April 13, 1945, the courses were therefore not listed in the German course book. There were no intermediate stops.
After the war, the Nuremberg Railway Directorate started using three pairs of passenger trains on weekdays from January 16, 1947. In the summer of 1949, there was also a service on Sundays, with two pairs of trains that ran from and to Kulmbach . As the economic situation improved, passengers switched back to buses and private vehicles, so that in the 1956 summer timetable only two pairs of trains were offered on weekdays. They also disappeared from September 30, 1956, and since then the line has been a pure freight railway again. The siding to a sawmill is no longer used, only gravel trains run on the route. The rock is mined east of the city and already broken up and brought to the loading silo by truck .
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Untersteinach railway station (near Stadtsteinach)
Ostkopf of the Untersteinach train station, to the left the Stadtsteinacher track
Stadtsteinach station entrance, the right track to the loading silo was recently renewed (2012)
A short platform was enough in Stadtsteinach, behind the trees is the station building
Ballast loading facility in Stadtsteinach
Stadtsteinach station building
Web links
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis, Ekkehard Martin, Stefan Winkler: Franconian branch lines then and now - Upper Franconia. Egglham and Munich 1986
- Bernd Schmitt, Gerald Hoch: Branch lines in Upper Franconia . 1st edition. Michael Resch, Coburg 1999, ISBN 3-9805967-4-5 , p. 117 ff .