Schwarzbach Railway

Goßdorf-Kohlmühle–Hohnstein (Sächs Schweiz)
Line number:Saxon KH
Line length:12.133 km (7.539 mi)
Track gauge:750 mm (2 ft 5 12 in)
Maximum incline: 3.3  %
Minimum radius:100 m (328 ft)
Maximum speed:30 km/h (19 mph)
Legend
0,000 Goßdorf-Kohlmühle 146 m
(junction with Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway)
0,097 Sebnitz bridge (12 m)
0,472 Sebnitz bridge (15 m)
1,018 Sebnitz bridge (15 m)
1,372 Sebnitz bridge (33 m)
1,494 Tunnel 1 (63 m)
2,674 Tunnel 2 (38 m)
4,760 Lohsdorf 256 m
6,721 millrace bridge (11 m)
7,180 Unterehrenberg 311 m
8,600 Oberehrenberg 335 m
9,820 summit 358 m
10,820 Rittergut Wittig siding 346 m
11,698 Brücke Hohnstein (27 m)
12,133 Hohnstein (Sächs. Schweiz) 330 m

The Schwarzbach Railway (German: Schwarzbachbahn) was a 750 mm (2 ft 5 12 in) Saxon narrow gauge railway in Saxon Switzerland. It began in Goßdorf-Kohlmühle station on the Sebnitz Valley Railway and ran along the valley of the Schwarzbach to Hohnstein.

Overview

The line was opened in 1897 and closed and dismantled in 1951 in order to supply material for the Berlin Outer Ring.

Since 1995 the Schwarzbachbahn Society has endeavoured to rebuild a section of the line and run it as a museum railway. The former station ins Lohsdorf has been redecorated and new tracks laid there. The society has its headquarters in the station building at Goßdorf-Kohlmühle.

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