Frose–Quedlinburg railway

Frose–Quedlinburg (to 2004)
Crossing to Gernrode station looking towards Quedlinburg
Route number:	332 (2004)
Line length:	30,2
Track gauge:	1,435 mm / Gernrode–Quedlinburg since 2006 1,000 mm
Legend -0,70 from Halberstadt -0,30 Frose to Aschersleben B 6n B 6 3,27 Reinstedt B 185 7,84 Ermsleben 10,56 Meisdorf 13,51 Ballenstedt Ost B 185 15,38 Ballenstedt West 19,43 Rieder (Harz) 20,85 Gernrode (Harz)(standard gauge) 210 m Selke Valley Railway from Hasselfelde (metre gauge) 22,29 Bad Suderode(formerly a station) 187 m Quarmbeck Barracks siding (Kaserne Quarmbeck) 24,90 Quedlinburg-Quarmbeck 152 m from Thale (standard gauge, parallel route) formerly from Blankenburg 29,52 Quedlinburg(end of metre gauge) 122 m to Magdeburg

So-called Ferkeltaxe ("piglet taxis") in Gernrode station (looling towards Quedlinburg)

The Frose–Quedlinburg railway, also called the Balkan ("Balkans") locally, was a standard gauge branch line on the northern rim of the Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The line runs from Frose via Gernrode to Quedlinburg. It was closed in 2004. The Gernrode–Quedlinburg section was subsequently converted by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway Company to metre gauge. Since 26 June 2006 the line has been re-opened as part of the Selke Valley Railway.

Sources

• Dirk Endisch: Der "Balkan" – Die Nebenbahn Frose-Gernrode-Quedlinburg. Dirk Endisch, Leonberg-Höfingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-936893-21-2
• Josef Högemann (Dezember 2007) (in German), Eisenbahnchronik Harz - Die Geschichte der Eisenbahnen im Harz, EK-Verlag GmbH, ISBN 3-88255-722-2
• Schmalspurig nach Quedlinburg. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International. Ed. 4/2006, ISSN 1421-2811, p. 197.

External links

• History of the Quedlinburg–Gernrode section
• HSB Interest Group (Interessengemeinschaft HSB) with numerous press articles on the conversion of the Gernrode–Quedlinburg section
• Route description of the branch from Bad Suderode–Kaserne Quarmbeck
• Route description of the Frose–Gernrode section in July 2008 (with many photographs)
• 1944 timetable

References