Haßfurt–Hofheim railway

The railway line Haßfurt - Hofheim was a single-track good 15 -kilometer branch line from Haßfurt to Hofheim in Lower Franconia. In the vernacular, the railway line was also called Hofheimerle. The line was closed in 1995. The subsequent degradation of the track was completed in 1997. On the former railway line area, a bike path has been established, which is part of Haßfurt -Meiningen cycle path.

History

On August 1, 1852, the railway reached with the Ludwigs- west railway Haßfurt. It was not until forty years later, on 15 March 1892, the 15.5 km long secondary railway was opened to Hofheim by the Bavarian State Railways. Was based on the distance a treaty between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which ensured a co-financing by the Saxon enclave of Kaliningrad and a corresponding lines. Therefore, the track alignment was not performed directly from Haßfurt to Hofheim along the Nassach, but it was a detour via Königsberg elected by a more complex route. In 1965 came a new school center the breakpoint Haßfurter -Gymnasium, which made for high ridership long. On 24 September 1994, the passenger service was the freight train traffic, on 31 July 1995 and decommissioned set the track on December 1, 1995. The dismantling of the track was completed in January 1997. The former station building in Hofheim home since a small museum about the route history.

Traffic

At first drove on the branch line two pairs of passenger per day. For Among other components, the steam locomotives of the series 9810 and later 9811th From December 1959, the railcar in passenger rail service to the control vehicle was. In 1976, there were eight pairs of trains on weekdays, which had about 24 minutes driving time. In freight transport, the Class 86 and the diesel locomotives V 100 and V 80 were observed.