Sinn Valley Railway

This article is about the line from Jossa to Wildflecken. For the line that also runs along the Sinn Valley for part of its way, see Flieden–Gemünden 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 number	5211
Service
Route number	801 (1988)
Technical
Line length	30.7 km
Track gauge	1435 mm
Route map Flieden–Gemünden railway from Gemünden 0.0 Jossa L 2304 L 2304 Flieden–Gemünden railway to Fulda L 2304 2.4 Altengronau Süd Sinn 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 B 27 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.

Literature

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

External links

• Sinn Valley Railway-Kreuzberg Railway Society (IG Sinntalbahn-Kreuzbergbahn)
• Eisenbahnfreunde Sinn Valley Railway (private)
• Sinn Valley Railway at Vergessene Bahnen
• Sinn Valley Railway at spurensuche-eisenbahn.de
• The History of the Sinn Valley Railway, from Jossa to Wildflecken (accessed on 15 September 2011)