- Dürrenwaid station
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Railbus forming a museum train at Dürrenwaid station
Dürrenwaid station is a former railway station on the Rodach Valley railway or Rodachtalbahn in southern Germany. It was built in 1901 at kilometre 23.37, about 3 kilometres outside the village of Dürrenwaid in the area of the market town of Nordhalben in Bavaria.
The station building is a single-storey, wooden-boarded affair. It is topped with a flat, slate-covered, saddleback roof.
The loading sidings at the station were used until the 1980s as a loading point for the school furniture factory of AMA and the television manufacturer Graetz.
On 30 May 1976 passenger services on the line were withdrawn, the loading sidings were dismantled on 29 April 1985.
For a long time the building was used as a holiday home by a family from Berlin, which protected it from being knocked down. Since its acquisition by the Rodach Valley Railway Society (Eisenbahnfreunde Rodachtalbahn) it has served as a home for the society and an operations building for the museum railway that has been in operation on the line since September 2007.
External links
- Station description on the Eisenbahnfreunden Rodachtalbahn website
- Dürrenwaid station at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historic Buildings and Monuments
- There is an English-language discussion forum at Railways of Germany
Heritage railways in Germany Baden-Württemberg Dampfbahn Kochertal, Killesbergbahn, Ulmer EisenbahnfreundeBavaria Bahnpark Augsburg, Bayerische Eisenbahnmuseum, Bayerischer Localbahnverein, Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz, Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum, Eisenbahnfreunde Rodachtalbahn, Fränkische Museums Eisenbahn, Lokwelt Freilassing, Rodachtalbahn, Streutalbahn,Berlin Hesse Historische Eisenbahn FrankfurtLower Bavaria Passauer EisenbahnfreundeLower Saxony Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein, Moor Express, Verden-Walsroder EisenbahnMecklenburg-Vorpommern North-Rhine Westphalia Bergische Museumsbahnen, Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen, Eisenbahnmuseum Dieringhausen, Hespertalbahn, Museumseisenbahn Minden, Sauerländer KleinbahnRhineland Palatinate Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt/WeinstraßeSaxony Döllnitzbahn, Lößnitzgrundbahn, Preßnitztalbahn,Saxony-Anhalt Eisenbahnfreunde Traditionsbahnbetriebswerk Staßfurt, Harzer Schmalspurbahnen, Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn,Thuringia Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
Coordinates: 50°21′26″N 11°31′02″E / 50.357222°N 11.517116°E
Categories:- Railway stations in Bavaria
- Heritage railways in Germany
- Registered historic buildings and monuments in Bavaria
- Bavaria railway station stubs
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