Wutha – Ruhla railway line
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wutha – Ruhla railway was a single-track branch line in Thuringia , which branched off from the Thuringian Railway at Wutha and ran to Ruhla from 1880 to 1967 .
history
The route was built by the Ruhlaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which was founded as a stock corporation in 1880. The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha each contributed a sixth of the capital ; two thirds were in private hands. The standard-gauge branch line branched off in Wutha from the Halle – Bebra line ( Erfurt - Eisenach section ) and ran 7.29 km into the Thuringian Forest to the end point Ruhla . Passenger traffic was started on July 10, 1880 and freight traffic on September 15, 1880.
In 1901, the railway entrepreneur Herrmann Bachstein took over all the shares and ran the business through the central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein . In the economic hardship of the years after the First World War, he dissolved the company and in 1926 brought the railway into the Thuringian Railway Company, which he founded .
After the Second World War, the state of Thuringia transferred the railway into state ownership; On April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn began operating . This ended on September 23, 1967. The line was dismantled.
Today the route is partly used as a cycle path (between Wutha and Farnroda or Thal and Ruhla). The station area in Ruhla later served as a bus station , but the station building has since been demolished. The buildings in Farnroda and Thal, however, still exist. Information boards about the history of the railway line are located in the park in Wutha near the town hall.
gallery
Section of track laid as a memorial in Wutha
Thal train station
Wutha train station
The sidewalk used to be the railway line - at the Hp. Heiligenstein
literature
- Harald Rockstuhl: The History of the Ruhla Railway 1880–1967 - The "Rühler Bimmel" - Ruhla - Thal - Farnroda - Wutha, Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86777-896-1 .
- Helmut Neumann: We're going to the Rühl , Wolfgang Herdam Fotoverlag, Gernrode, 2014, ISBN 978-3-933178-31-2 .
