The Naila–Schwarzenbach am Wald railway was a small branch line in the state of

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

in southern

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. It ran for 9.88 kilometres from

Naila Naila is a town in the Frankenwald hills, in the Hof district of Bavaria. Naila is from the larger city of Hof, on both banks of the Selbitz river. History The earliest documentation of Naila dates at 9 January 1343. The first settlements i ...

alongside the Culmitz stream to

Schwarzenbach am Wald Schwarzenbach am Wald is a town in the district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 21 km west of Hof, and 23 km northeast of Kulmbach Kulmbach () is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. The town i ...

. The single-tracked, standard-gauge railway line was built by the

Royal Bavarian State Railways The Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.Bay.Sts.B.'') was the state railway company for the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was founded in 1844. The organisation grew into the second largest of the German ...

and opened on 1 July 1910.

History

On 30 September 1973, passenger services were withdrawn and, in 1994, it was finally closed and dismantled. The timetable route number (''Kursbuchnummer'') for this line was ''420g'' up to 1970 and ''838'' from 1970 to 1992. Since Spring 2010 there is a cycle path along much of the old line.

Gallery

Naila-Bahnhof.jpg, Naila station Naila-Bahnbruecke-ueber-Selbitz.jpg, The Selbitz bridge at Naila

References

Sources

* Andreas Kuhfahl, Wolfram Alteneder: ''Die Nebenbahnen der BD Nürnberg''. Verlag C. Kersting, Bonn 1986, * Siegfried Bufe: ''Eisenbahn in Oberfranken''. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, München 1982, * Robert Zintl: ''Bayerische Nebenbahnen''. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, * Deutsche Reichsbahn, Horst-Werner Dumjahn: ''Die deutschen Eisenbahnen in ihrer Entwicklung 1835-1935''. Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1935, Nachdruck mit Vorwort von Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984,

External links

1944 timetable
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naila-Schwarzenbach am Wald railway Branch lines in Bavaria Buildings and structures in Hof (district) Franconian Forest

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