Leinefelde–Treysa railway

Leinefelde–Treysa railway
Overview
Line number6710
LocaleThuringia, Hesse, Germany
Service
Route number
  • 613 Bebra–Göttingen – Eschwege line
  • formerly 522 Waldkappel–Eschwege
  • formerly 525 Treysa–Waldkappel
Technical
Line length130.0 km (80.8 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Route map

0.0
Leinefelde
3.4
Birkungen
8.2
Silberhausen
10.1
Dingelstädt (Eichsfeld)
12.7
Kefferhausen
Unstrut viaduct (53 m)
Highway (40 m)
17.1
Küllstedt
Büttstedt Viaduct (40 m))
Küllstedt Tunnel (1530 m)
Mühlenberg I Tunnel (155 m)
23.8
Effelder
Mühlenberg II Tunnel (343/345 m)
Heiligenberg Tunnel (198 m)
25.9
Großbartloff
Entenberg Tunnel (288 m)
Lengenfeld Viaduct
31.4
Lengenfeld unterm Stein
34.7
Geismar
37.4
from Heiligenstadt
37.5
Sankt Frieda junction
38.8
Frieda viaduct (100m), demolished in 1945
39.3
40.4
Frieda tunnel (1066 m)
40.7
from Wanfried
41.3
Schwebda
43.3
Grebendorf
45.9
Eschwege
48.3
Eschwege-Niederhone
49.3
Eschwege West
(wedge station, until Dec 2009)
51.2
Niddawitzhausen
53.7
Reichensachsen West
55.4
Oetmannshausen
57.1
Bischhausen
62.3
Waldkappel
to Kassel
66.1
Friemen-Mäckelsdorf
68.6
Burghofen
Bischofferod Tunnel (1503 m)
73.4
Bischofferode
75.1
Pfieffe
77.5
Beieröde
80.0
Spangenberg
81.2
Bergheim
84.2
Mörshausen
86.4
Adelshausen
87.4
Pfieffewiese siding
89.7
Malsfeld
97.2
Niederbeisheim
101.3
Oberbeisheim
Oberbeisheim Tunnel (917 m)
103.9
Remsfeld
108.9
Homberg (Kr. Kassel)
112.4
Sondheim
113.5
Wernswig
117.6
Frielendorf
122.0
Leimsfeld
126.1
Ziegenhain Nord
line from Bad Hersfeld
130.0
Treysa
Source: German railway atlas

The Leinefelde–Treysa line is a former railway line in the German states of Thuringia and Hesse, connecting the towns of Leinefelde, Eschwege, Spangenberg, Malsfeld, Homberg (Efze) and Treysa with one another. It was mostly opened in sections between 1875 and 1880 as part of the Cannons Railway (German: Kanonenbahn), a military strategic railway.