Coburg–Sonneberg railway

The railway Coburg- Sonneberg is a single-track, electrified, 20 -mile main track to standard gauge from Coburg via Neustadt Sonneberg.

History

Private railway

1841 included the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach and the duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen a treaty establishing the Werrabahn. This also included the construction of the line from Coburg to Sonneberg, which Sonnenberg got a rail connection with the city of Meiningen and south to the Bavarian Ludwig South - North Railway.

1855 was the newly founded this Werra Railway Company the concession to build and operate the routes. The railway Coburg- Sonneberg was dedicated on November 1, 1858 together with the Werrabahn. 28 years later, on 1 October 1886 was an extension with a 19.2 km long stretch part of Sonneberg to Lauscha ( see: Railway Sonnenberg Probstzella ).

State Railway

On October 1, 1895 went with the routes of the Werra Railway Company also this section in the Prussian State Railway, and was until 1945 the Prussian railway department, later Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt. In the course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn -Gesellschaft drove on the track with the number 164k in 1939 14 daily passenger trains and one express train in each direction, the latter. , With a journey time of 20 minutes

Caesura after 1945

After the occupation of Thuringia by Soviet troops in July 1945, the company at the Bavarian- Thuringian border between Neustadt and Sonneberg at Wildenheid was interrupted. As of September 1, 1947, with an interruption during the Berlin blockade, but wrong again freight trains. Two daily freight train couples to Kokstransport of Neustadt Sonneberg had approved the occupying powers, but the traffic was low and irregular. On September 30, 1951, the last transfer trip took place in the spring of 1952, the dismantling of the tracks followed Thuringian page. In the west, the tracks remained lying and were - for shunting movements - from the Neustadt train station to just behind the wild Heider road traversing bridge used. The remaining portion to the limit feral as derelict railway without many years held a deconstruction.

German Federal Railroad

The track had in the timetable of the German Federal Railroad until 1970 the number 419b, then until December 2007, the number 830 ( railway Neustadt- Coburg- Lichtenfels and after reunification: Railway Sonnenberg- Coburg- Lichtenfels ) and then 820 The section Coburg -Neustadt was 1975, electrified by a financial grant from the State of Bavaria. This enabled the locomotive changes to the Steam Locomotive BR 86 or Diesel Locomotive BR 280 accounts in Coburg and the E -Lok BR passed through 144 of Lichtenfels to Neustadt. 1979, the station was renamed Oeslau Rödental and a new railway station building opened a year later on the weekend of the train operations set. In 1975, the disused remaining distance between the Neustadt train station and the inner German border was mined. After 1988, a truck had rammed the north of Neustadt railway station Wild Heider bridge on the remaining part of the course and significantly damaged, the bridge was removed and shortened the remaining section accordingly. The terrain of the route north of it was sold in part to the Bavarian forest administration.

Reunification

After the fall of the inner German border immediately closing the gap between Neustadt and Sonneberg was tackled. This, however, had to be bought back previously sold part of the route by the Bavarian forest administration. On September 28, 1991 was finally the 3.5 km section to Sonnenberg - now electrified - put back into operation.

In the years 2004-2006 the platforms in Neustadt, Mönchröden and Rödental were rehabilitated disabled in modular construction along the route by DB Station & Service. In addition, the breakpoints Coburg -Nord, and Rödental center were refurbished and put into operation on December 11, 2005. DB Netz renewed from 2005 next sections, the roadbed, sleepers and rails on the Bavarian side. Boasting lovely views Thuringia stretch operates the Thüringer Eisenbahn GmbH.

The private siding of Rödentaler Anna work on Rödental station was partially dismantled in 2004.

Operation

On the route operate alternately in the approximate one-hour clock regional rail and regional express trains of Deutsche Bahn AG. The latter usually drive over Bamberg to Nuremberg, while the regional trains usually end in Lichtenfels. Total run a week from 4:30 clock and 22 clock zwanzig pairs of trains that require 22 minutes for the route as a rule and stop at all stations.

The regional express trains as Franken -Thuringia Express. The regional trains run during the week covered by the BR 143 Scheduled freight traffic can now be screened again. If required, Monday to Friday reversed a Containerzugpaar the IntEgro traffic GmbH day from Hof ​​to Sonnenberg East and back.