Württemberg branch lines
The Württembergische Nebenbahnen AG (WN) was a railway company based in Stuttgart .
history
The company emerged on May 29, 1905 from the Filderbahn-Gesellschaft (FBG). By 1910, the network taken over by the FBG was supplemented by three more - albeit spatially separate - branch lines, increasing the total network length to 95 kilometers. It was the Strohgäubahn from Korntal to Weissach , the Härtsfeldbahn from Aalen via Neresheim to Dillingen and Reutlingen – Gönningen .
When the earnings situation in the main network deteriorated, the WN sold the Filder routes on March 1, 1920 to the city of Stuttgart, which transferred the management of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB), whose ownership then passed in 1934. Both technically and operationally, however, these routes remained largely independent until around the 1960s.
The non-electrified, standard gauge Leinfelden – Neuhausen was connected to the state railway by means of the Rohr – Echterdingen railway line in connection with the construction of the Siebenmühlentalbahn . The line remained the property of the SSB, but the Deutsche Reichsbahn , or after the Second World War, the Deutsche Bundesbahn , took over the management.
In the years 1928/1929, the main shareholders of Württembergische Nebenbahnen AG and Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG) came under the umbrella of the AG for Transport Group. This led to a close cooperation between WN and WEG, which were now led in personal union. In 1966, both companies were converted into the legal form of a GmbH . Finally, on August 13, 1984, the bodies of both companies decided to merge to form the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft mbH (WEG), which is now based in Waiblingen .