Gottleuba Valley railway
| Pirna–Gottleuba | |||
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.jpg) Section of the 1902 Saxon rail map | |||
| Overview | |||
| Line number | 6603; Saxon PGl | ||
| Service | |||
| Route number | 313 (1971) | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 17.610 km (Line class: CM4 (1999)[1]) | ||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm | ||
| Minimum radius | 180 m | ||
| Maximum incline | 2.7 % | ||
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The Gottleuba Valley railway (German: Gottleubatalbahn) was the second railway line to be built in Saxony as a Sekundärbahn. It ran along the Gottleuba valley from Pirna via Berggießhübel to Bad Gottleuba and was closed in 1976.
Sources
- Moritz Fischer: Wanderungen durch das Gottleubatal. Verlag Friedrich Axt. Dresden 1881.
- Rainer Fischer: Pirna – Gottleuba und Pirna – Großcotta. in: Wolf-Dieter Machel (Hrsg.): Neben- und Schmalspurbahnen in Deutschland. GeraNova Zeitschriftenverlag. München 1996.
- Rainer Fischer: Sekundärbahnen von Pirna nach Großcotta und Gottleuba. Verlag Kenning. Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 3-927587-38-9.
- Tobias Nitsche, Jens Herbach: 100 Jahre Eisenbahn Pirna – Gottleuba. Dresden 2005. (Eigenverlag)
- Erich Preuß, Rainer Preuß: Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. Berlin 1991.
External links
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- The former branch line in the Gottleuba valley[permanent dead link]
- Information about the line at www.sachsenschiene.de
- Information about the line at www.lokomotive.de
- Society for the Preservation of Verein Langenhennersdorf Station
References
- ^ STREDA – Gesamtstreckenverzeichnis der DBAG; as at 1 February 2003
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