Strube Railway

Route length:

(Eilenstedt – Wirtschaftshof) 3.6 km;

(Eilenstedt – Granary) 3.3

(Total length) 3.9 km

		Eilenstedt station connection of
		Jerxheim – Nienhagen railway line
		Rimpau Railway

		Beet seed storage

		Fertilizer storage
		Farm yard
		End of track

		Engine shed
		Granary West
		from the granary
		Granary

The Strube-Bahn was a field railway of the still existing seed breeding company Strube in Schlanstedt in Saxony-Anhalt , which linked the Eilenstedt station on the Jerxheim – Nienhagen railway with several farm buildings of the company. It was single-track and not electrified. Today it is shut down and mostly dismantled except for a section that is still operated as a museum railway.

history

In 1879, the Strube seed breeding company was founded in Schlanstedt. It soon became apparent that a means of transport was needed to transport the produce. At this time the Rimpau Railway , which was also a field railway in and around Schlanstedt, had already been built. The standard gauge state railway Jerxheim – Nienhagen, however, was three kilometers away, so there was still no direct track connection. Finally, in 1915, a field railway was built that led from the farm buildings of the seed breeding company in Schlanstedt to Eilenstedt station, from where the products could be loaded onto freight wagons on the standard-gauge railway. The line was operated with steam locomotives, later diesel locomotives of the type Deutz OMZ 117 took over . Since operations were increasingly shifted to the road over time, the line was closed at the end of the 1960s and most of it was dismantled.

Schlanstedt Museum Field Railway

Route length:

1.0 km

Gauge :

600 mm ( narrow gauge )

Legend

		End of track
		from the granary
	0.0	Museum station
		from the beet seed store
		to the Eilenstedt train station
	1.0	Terminus

Old route of the Strube railway

Todays situation

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Strube-Bahn was revived by friends of the Feldbahn. In July 1993, trains ran again for the first time in trial operation on the line. In 1996 the Strube-Museumfeldbahn was officially opened with a route length of one kilometer. Most of the tracks are still on the old route. The museum railway also became an agriculturally oriented field railway museum.

Route

From the Eilenstedt train station, the route led north to Schlanstedt. After crossing with the Rimpau Railway, the old route reached today's route. Then a connecting line to the beet seed storage branched off with a connection to the fertilizer store. Finally, the line reaches the museum station, where the old field railway left the current route, the track of which ends after a few meters, and passed a connecting line to the granary, where the main track itself also ended.