Itz Valley Railway

The Itzgrundbahn is a former eight -kilometer branch line from the district of Coburg Creidlitz after Rossach (municipality Großheirath ).

The single track of 1435 mm gauge ( standard gauge ) was not electrified.

History

For eight years continued the efforts of the communities of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg in Itzgrund before they, too, on December 4, 1900 its railway connection, starting from the Werrabahn at Creidlitz received. The required land they had to provide free of charge.

The line was owned at the beginning of the Prussian State Railways and was until 1945 administered by the Reichsbahn Erfurt. Efforts to extend the route to Kaltenbrunn in the lower Itz valley to the Bavarian railway Breitengüßbach Dieter village, which had been opened in 1913, were never implemented despite just 6.7 kilometer gap. The reasons were initially the competition to 15 km long main railway Lichtenfels, Bamberg. Later lacked the financial resources and, finally, the distance light rock -Coburg was electrified.

In the course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn -Gesellschaft, the route with the number 165e sailed in 1934, four passenger trains daily in each direction at a travel time of about 30 minutes for the 13 km between Coburg and Rossach.

In the course book of the German Federal Railroad until 1970, the route number was 419 e assigned, then applied until 1992, the 832, were used in the DB to 1970 the steam locomotive BR 86 and the railcar BR VT 70, and later diesel locomotives BR 280 and BR 211, as well as the railcar. Since 1982 the train has been set at the weekend, on June 2, 1984 ended the passenger trains.

Freight ruled by the loading of the clay brickworks Gottfried in Großheirath, including an elevated loading road and a railway scale was available. There were in Niederfuellbach sidings for a trucking company and a steel trader. Until June 10, 2001 the steel traders were approximately 15,000 tons of steel annually delivered by rail. The two-kilometer long section Großheirath - Rossach was shut down on 1 September 1995, followed in April 2001 the license for decommissioning and the suspension of operations on the rest of the track and 31 July 2001, the total decommissioning. In 2005, the railway was dismantled, on the former route, a cycle path was built in sections.

Route

The most authoritative inclination was 1:100, the smallest curve radius 300 meters. The railway stations in Siemau - Scherneck Großheirath and Rossach were carried out uniformly with red brick masonry. Due to the proximity to the train station Creidlitz the breakpoint Niederfuellbach was abandoned soon after opening track again.