Sinn Valley Railway

The Sinn Valley Railway (German: Sinntalbahn, Sinn pronounced "zin") was a branch line that began in the Hessian village of Jossa and ran to Wildflecken via Altengronau in the Bavarian borough of Bad Brückenau.

Jossa–Wildflecken
Train crossing in Bad Brückenau (1988)
Overview
Line number5211
Service
Route number801 (1988)
Technical
Line length30.7 km
Track gauge1435 mm
Route map
from Gemünden
0.0 Jossa
L 2304
L 2304
Flieden–Gemünden railway
to Fulda
L 2304
2.4 Altengronau Süd
Sinn
Hesse/Bavaria state border
Sinn Valley Bridge at Zeitlofs
6.7 Zeitlofs
9.2 Trübenbrunn
until 1922
9.9 Rupboden
12.3 Eckarts
13.3 Wernarz
until 1922
14.4 Brückenau Bad
15.4 Brückenau Sinntalhof
until 1922
17.1 Brückenau Stadt
18.0 Brückenau Ost
until 1942
20.3 Römershag
B 286
Sinn Valley Bridge A 7
23.5 Oberriedenberg
26.8 Oberbach
30.7 Wildflecken
Training Area
Oberwildflecken
(only goods station)

The line runs from Jossa, initially on the same railway tracks as the line from Flieden to Fulda (the Flieden–Gemünden railway). Shortly after Jossa it branches off onto its own trackbed and runs up the Sinn Valley and into the Rhön Mountains. The railway largely follows the course of the Sinn.

References

    Literature

    • Jürgen Lieb: Dampf und Diesel auf der Nebenstrecke Jossa – Bad Brückenau – Wildflecken. Eigenverlag, 2004 edition.
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