Sinn Valley Railway
The Sinntal railway was a branch line, which in the Hessian Jossa had its starting point and from there led over to the Bavarian Altengronau Brückenau and for wild spots.
The route runs from the train station first Jossa on the same tracks as the over Flieden to Fulda railway line running Flieden - Gemünden. Shortly after Jossa begins its own alignment, which passes through the Sinntal and the Rhön. The route follows the river also largely sense.
History
Construction and operation
On August 1, 1864, the City Council Brückenau filed a petition to the government of Lower Franconia on the construction of a rail link from Brückenau by Jossa in Hesse. But it was only on November 18, 1884 received the plans for the establishment of a railway committee in Brückenau again boost. The building permit for the track was issued on March 8, 1888, so that construction work could begin on 1 July 1890. Was opened the route on October 9, 1891, the operation of the intermediate stops took place from 15 October 1891.
About an extension of the line to wild spots was considered from 1902, for which the Bavarian state parliament on June 17, 1904 gave approval. The construction began on October 1 for 1907, and was completed with the opening of the line on 17 December 1908. The recordings of the scheduled traffic was two days later on 19 December 1908. A continuation of the route with a connection to the railway line Bad Neustadt - bishop 's home in Bishop home at the Rhön was prevented by the First World War, and will not be pursued further.
On 8 October 1922, the breakpoints troubled waters Brunn, Eckart, Wernarz, Sinnthalhof and Brückenau East were resolved, of which East Brückenau be taken on January 1, 1925 and on February 27, 1927 Eckarts again. About the route was made in 1937 for the construction of the autobahn Fulda -Würzburg and the military training area wild spots mostly the delivery of building materials. At the end of the Second World War the line was drawn through air attacks affected and separated on April 3, 1945 by the detonation of the Jossaer railway bridge from the remaining rail network. The island traffic could be abandoned on 27 October 1951 with the opening of the rebuilt Jossa Bridge.
Decline
The decline of the track began in the 1960s: in addition to the conversion of the weekend traffic on the railway bus were gradually disbanded after all freight traffic along the route. The setting of the passenger traffic was May 27, 1988, the freight was maintained until the 4th of February 2002. As a result, DB Netz had already advertised the route 2001 takeover by other rail infrastructure company, with only the German regional rail (DRE ) showed interest. After years of negotiations, most municipalities voted along the way eventually for their reclassification into a bike path, so no support for a resumption of rail traffic ceased to exist and the DRE withdrew.
Until the final closure of the total distance by the Federal Railway Authority on 31 March 2005 always special deliveries of railway clubs were held. Finally, put DB Netz end of 2009 the request to reduce the track.
Reactivation efforts
On March 16, 2012 train, VCD and waistband conservation groups announced the formation of the community of interest Sinntal web -Kreuzberg web in a joint press release from the regional Pro. This has the aim together with the Rhein- Sieg-Eisenbahn (RSE ) to take over the route and reactivate. As a model that also reactivated by RSE together with the local partner Ilztalbahn GmbH 2011 railway Passau in Lower Bavaria Freyung serves. How about this circuit is to train and bicycle traffic are combined. Due to these activities, the Entwidmungsverfahren has been stopped for the time being. The community Sinntal however still interested in the declassification in order to convert the path into a cycle path linking with Zeitlof and Jossa can.