Schnabelwaid–Bayreuth railway

Route number:

512, 860

Line number:

5001

Line length:

18.2

Track gauge:

1435

Maximum speed:

140

from Nuremberg Hbf(Nuremberg–Cheb)

0.0

Schnabelwaid

(472 m)

to Cheb(Nürnberg–Cheb)

5.6

Creußen (Oberfr)

(434 m)

9.1

Red Main(90 m)

9.7

B 2 and B 85

9.8

Neuenreuth (b Creußen)

12.2

A 9

15.4

B 2 and B 85

16.6

from Hollfeld(Bayreuth–Hollfeld, Kreuzstein junction)

17.2

B 22(40 m)

17.8

B 2 and

17.8

Red Main(110 m)

from Weiden (Oberpf)(Weiden–Bayreuth)

18,2

Bayreuth Hbf

(344 m)

to Weidenberg(Bayreuth–Warmensteinach)

to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg(Bayreuth–Neuenmarkt)

The Schnabelwaid–Bayreuth railway is an 18.2 km long single-track main line from Schnabelwaid via Creußen to Bayreuth in the German state of Bavaria. It is part of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line (German: Sachsen-Franken-Magistrale).

The line was built as a continuation of the Pegnitz Valley Railway from Nuremberg to Pegnitz to provide a direct connection from Bayreuth to Nuremberg that was shorter than the branch line opened in 1853 from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg on the Ludwig South-North Railway. It was opened on 15 July 1877.

The line branches off the Nuremberg–Cheb line at Schnabelwaid station and runs north next to highways B 2 and B 85 and the Red Main river to Bayreuth.

Just south of Bayreuth station the line crosses the valley of the Red Main on a 1.5 km-long embankment. On this embankment to the east of the Schnabelwaid–Bayreuth line is the parallel track of the Weiden–Bayreuth line. The two tracks cross the B 22 (Wieland-Wager Straße), the Bayreuth mill canal and finally, just before the entrance to Bayreuth station, the B 2 (Albrecht-Dürer Straße) and immediately afterwards the Red Main.

The route is single track for its entire length and has passing places for trains at Creußen and Neuenreuth stations. The line has a maximum speed of 140 km/h.

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