Pleinfeld sand track

Sand runway at Pleinfeld train station

Route length:

2 km

		Route from Mühlstetten
	2	Pleinfeld sand pits
	1	District road WUG 16
	0	Pleinfeld loading ramp
		Route to Gunzenhausen
		Route to Weißenburg

The Pleinfeld sand railway was a commercial railway line in the area of the market town of Pleinfeld in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It was built in 1925 and was popularly known as the Sandbockelbahn .

history

Sand railway train in the sand pit

The approximately two kilometer long track with a gauge of 600 mm was built by private operators to bring sand from the local sand pits to a loading ramp at Pleinfeld station . The sand was transferred from the dump trucks to the freight wagons via this ramp. The route ran right next to the Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg railway line .

The only engineering structure on the railway was a bridge that was built next to the arched bridge on the Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg railway line that still exists today . When this bridge became dilapidated in 1964, it was not renewed and operations were stopped.

At a green area near the Pleinfeld train station and in today's building materials factory at the sand pits (at the former ends of the line), there are still diesel locomotives with dump trucks. The locomotive on the station forecourt comes from Orenstein & Koppel .

Web links

Sandbockelweg