The Grünstadt–Altleiningen railway or Leiningen Valley Railway was a 10.7 kilometre long

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from

Grünstadt Grünstadt () is a town in the Bad Dürkheim (district), Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – but is noneth ...

Altleiningen Altleiningen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies at an e ...

in the northeastern

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of Germany. The line opened in 1903 and in 1967, all passenger services were withdrawn.In the period that followed, the section between Maihof-Drahtzug and Altleiningen was lifted. Goods traffic continued on the remaining section until the end of 2005.

References

Literature

* *Heinz Sturm ''Die pfälzischen Eisenbahnen''. pro MESSAGE, 2005

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:GrunstadtAltleiningen Standard-gauge railways in Germany Railway lines in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in Bad Dürkheim (district) Transport in Rhineland-Palatinate