The Döllnitzbahn GmbH is a private

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company in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

in eastern

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. It is the operator of the

Oschatz Oschatz () is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is located 60 km east of Leipzig and 60 km west of Dresden. Geography Site and climate Oschatz lies in the Saxon Lowland and is located on the river Döllnit ...

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Mügeln Mügeln () is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is located 9 km southwest of Oschatz and 14 km northwest of Döbeln. The town has a population of approximately 5,808 people. Geography Mügeln lies almost equi ...

–Kemmlitz/Glossen

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line in central Saxony.

History

In November 1993 the newly founded ''Döllnitzbahn GmbH'' took over the remaining lines of the Mügeln railway network between Oschatz, Mügeln and Kemmlitz. The primary aim of the company was initially the preservation of the remaining goods traffic from the

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mine at Kemmlitz. For that purpose used narrow gauge goods wagons were bought from the

Mansfeld Mansfeld (), sometimes also unofficially Mansfeld-Lutherstadt, is a town in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Protestant reformator Martin Luther grew up in Mansfeld, and in 1993 the town became one of sixteen places ...

mining railway and a new transshipment site to the

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railway network was built in Oschatz. With the help of used PKP

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s, they succeeded initially in keeping the goods traffic going. In spite of this, the demand gradually fell so that goods services had to be closed in 2001. The ''Döllnitzbahn'' was the last narrow gauge railway in Saxony to run public freight services. Today only school trains and steam-hauled 'specials' run on the ''Döllnitzbahn'' railway, e.g. for touristic purposes. There is a local private association responsible for the organisation of respective events.

Fleet List

Steam Locomotives

Diesel Locomotives & Railcars

External links

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