Kronach–Nordhalben railway

The railway line Kronach North Half, also called Unterrodach Valley Railway, in the Franconian Forest, is a single-track branch line from the 1435 mm gauge ( standard gauge ) of Kronach over stone meadows to Nordhalben with an original route length of 24.88 kilometers.

The branch line was opened on 26 July 1900. The passenger was set on 30 May 1976 goods trains ran until September 25, 1994, after Nordhalben. By 1 August 2002, the work of Loewe AG was connected to the rail network over the track yet, then rested the whole traffic. After the decommissioning of the infrastructure between Kronach and stone meadows, the tracks were dismantled on this section in 2005. On a majority of the race a bike lane has since been applied to the bridges have been restored over the Unterrodach or newly built.

On the remaining Eleven kilometers of section between stone meadows and the terminus Nordhalben the club Eisenbahnfreunde Unterrodach Valley Railway operates eV since September 15, 2007, a heritage railway. The museum train consists of the rail bus Uerdinger 798 731 with the control car 998 744 operating days are Sundays and holidays in summer and autumn.

Since the main study due to the two vehicles is carried out, the museum operation is carried out until 2012 arrives back at the museum vehicles with a borrowed Schienenbus the high forest path.

The breakpoint Dürrenwaid was taken in 2008 again. He is just four kilometers from the town district of the municipality Geroldsgrün removed and still has the original, recorded in the monument list the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation reception building.