Amberg–Schnaittenbach railway

The railway line Amberg- Schnaittenbach, popularly known also Hirschenauer Bocklin, is a 22 km long branch line in the district of Amberg- Sulzbach, which was opened by the Bavarian State Railway on 8 October 1898.

It follows from Amberg first Vils up and then bends to the east and reaches over Hirschau its end point in Schnaittenbach. Here are today three significant Kaolingruben who ensured the survival of this path today. In recent decades they had temporarily the highest volume of goods of all Bavarian branch lines and the " economically optimal network " of the German Federal Railroad was attributed. In the period after the Second World War, there were unsuccessful attempts to still build the connection of Schnaittenbach into Naab at Wern mountain which would have considerably shortened the rail to the porcelain factories in Upper Franconia, the main buyers of Kaolinproduktion. Since 1996, the Kaolintransport is the exclusive task of this track.

The passenger who could be dealt with in all the years with three to four pairs of trains a day, suffered early from the competition of railway-owned buses and then the private motorization. After 1960, they confined him to a pair of trains for school transport and on 30 May 1976, he was entirely at an end.