Elster Valley Railway

Gera Süd–Greiz–Plauen unt Bf–Weischlitz
Section of the 1902 route map of Saxony
Route number:541
Line number:6269
Line length:60.38 km
Track gauge:1,435 mm
Maximum incline: 9  %
Minimum radius:275
Maximum speed:80
Legend
 from Leipzig
 from Weimar
 -1,7 Gera Hbf
 0,1 Gera Süd
 to Gößnitz
 to Saalfeld
 2,6 Gera-Ost
 4,1 Gera-Liebschwitz
 4,6 Liebschwitz Viaduct (226 m)
 6,5 Wünschendorf Nord
 6,6 Meilitz Viaduct (130 m)
 Werdau–Weida–Mehltheuer
 from Weida
 Wünschendorf Lime Works siding
 9,4 Wünschendorf/Elster
 to Werdau
 10,2 White Elster (120 m)
 12,1 Lochgut Tunnel (53 m)
 12,2 White Elster (70 m)
 18,2 Berga (Elster)
 21,9 White Elster (60 m)
 22,1 Rüßdorf Tunnel (264 m)
 24,1 Neumühle (Elster)
 25,2 White Elster (100 m)
 26,0 White Elster (50 m)
 26,1 Bretmühlen Tunnel (118 m)
 26,3 White Elster (75 m)
 30,1 Schloßberg Tunnel (270 m)
 30,3 (20 m)
 30,4 White Elster (70 m)
 30,7 Greiz
 to Neumark
 31,9 White Elster (110 m)
 Greiz paper factory siding
 32,6 White Elster (60 m)
 32,7 Rothental Tunnel (139 m)
 32,9 White Elster (70 m)
 33,6 Greiz-Dölau
 Anst ANFC Greiz-Dölau
 Saxony–Thuringia state border
 35,9 Elsterberg
 36,1 White Elster (60 m)
 36,4 Elsterberg Tunnel (358 m)
 Enka Elsterberg siding
 37,0 Elsterberg Kunstseidenwerk
 39,6 White Elster (43 m)
 39,8 Steinicht Tunnel (88 m)
 39,9 White Elster (43 m)
 40,3 White Elster (43 m)
 40,5 White Elster (40 m)
 Rentzschmühle Quarry siding
 40,7 Rentzschmühle
 42,2 White Elster (55 m)
 42,9 Barthmühle
 Leipzig–Hof (Elster Viaduct)
 43,5 Trieb (30 m)
 45,1 Möschwitz Tunnel (206 m)
 45,2 White Elster (40 m)
 45,8 White Elster (49 m)
 47,5 White Elster (32 m)
 48,6 White Elster (65 m)
 from Lottengrün
 49,7 Plauen (Vogtl) Chrieschwitz
 Stahltechnologie Plauen, Fernheizwerk Plauen siding
 51,0 Plauen (Vogtl) Mitte(planned)
 52,7 Plauen (Vogtl) unt Bf
 Vomag siding
 54,4 Plauen (Vogtl) Zellwolle
 Köstner Stahlzentrum siding
 57,4 White Elster (38 m)
 from Plauen ob Bf
 58,1 Kürbitz
 59,9 Weischlitz
 to Cheb

The Elster Valley Railway (German: Elstertalbahn) is a main railway line in the German federal states of Thuringia and Saxony that runs along the valley of the White Elster from Gera via Greiz and Plauen to Weischlitz.

History

The construction of the line goes back to the section from Gera Hbf–Wolfsgefärth on the Gera–Saalfeld railway. The section from Wolfsgefärth to Greiz went into service on 17 July 1875. The second section was that from Greiz to Plauen Lower Station ('unterer Bahnhof) which opened on 8 September, the last section to Weischlitz followed on 20 September of the same year, and the line formed a junction with the Plauen–Eger railway. The construction of the many bridges and eight tunnels drove the operating company (Sächsisch-Thüringische Eisenbahngesellschaft) into financial difficulties in 1876, so that the line had to be sold to the Saxon State Railway (Sächsische Staatsbahn). Not until 1 December 1892 was there a direct connexion from Wünschendorf to Gera at the station of Gera Reuß, which no longer exists but was near the site of the present-day Gera Süd. On the same date traffic on the line from Wünschendorf to Wolfsgefärth was withdrawn.

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