Black Forest Railway (Württemberg)

Black Forest Railway (Württemberg)
(Schwarzwaldbahn (Württemberg))
Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen–Calw
Route number: 790.6
Line number: 4810
Line length: 48.5 km (30.1 mi)
Track gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Voltage: to Weil der Stadt: 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC
Maximum incline: 1.8  %
Minimum radius: 335 m (1,099 ft)
Maximum speed: 120 km/h (74.6 mph)
Legend
Franconia Railway from Stuttgart Hbf
0.0 Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen 281 m
Franconia Railway to Würzburg
Goods line to Kornwestheim Rbf
high-speed railway to Mannheim
1.2 Neuwirtshaus (Porscheplatz)
Goods line from Kornwestheim Rbf
3.6 Korntal 300 m
Strohgäu Railway to Weissach
5.8 Weilimdorf
7.7 Ditzingen
11.0 Höfingen
14.4 Leonberg 366 m
17.9 Rutesheim
from Malmsheim Airfield (from ca. 1937)
20.5 Renningen 411 m
Rankbach Railway to Böblingen
22.7 Malmsheim
22.8 to Malmsheim quarry (1900–1960)
from the Weil der Stadt industrial estate (1970–1990)
25.7 Weil der Stadt S6 404 m
29.6 Schafhausen (Württ)
33.6 Ostelsheim
Forst Tunnel (696 m long)
37.8 Althengstett 511 m
41.6 Calw Ost (1944–1945)
41.7 Calw-Heumaden (ab 1974)
Hirsau Tunnel / Welzberg Tunnel (554 m long)
45.35 to the Welzberg quarry (1872–1975)
47.8 Ziegelbach Bridge over the B 296
Nagold Valley Railway from Pforzheim
48.5 Calw (until 1989) 348 m
Nagold Valley Railway to Nagold

The Black Forest Railway (German: Schwarzwaldbahn) – also known as the Württemberg Black Forest Railway (Württembergische Schwarzwaldbahn) to distinguish it from the railway of the same name in Baden is a railway line in southern Germany from Stuttgart to Calw that was opened in stages between 1868 and 1872. The section from Weil der Stadt to Calw was closed to passenger services in 1983 and goods traffic ceased in 1988.

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