The Jagst Valley Railway () is a 39.1-kilometre-long, single tracked
narrow gauge
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
railway in the north of the German state of
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
that was closed between 1988 and 2021. It has a
railway gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible with the track gauge. Since many different track gauges exist worldwide, gauge dif ...
of 750 millimetres.
In the meantime, the narrow gauge railway was run by the
German Railway Operating Company
The German Railway Operating Company (German: ''Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft'') or DEBG was a public limited company (''Aktiengesellschaft'') that was founded on 15 November 1898 in Berlin. It was founded by the Vering & Waechter railw ...
(''Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft'' or DEBG), later the
Southwest German Railway Company (''SWEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehr-GmbH'' or SWEG) and then the
German Railway History Company
The German Railway History Company (''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte'') or DGEG is a society concerned with the history of the railways. The objectives of the society are:
* to generate and maintain interest and understanding for t ...
(DGEG). The latest inaugural service as a museum railway, this time under the leadership of the "Friends of the Jagst Valley Railway (''Jagsttalbahnfreunde''), took place in November 2021 on the first section of the route in Dörzbach.
The Jagst Valley Railway and the
Öchsle (former DB narrow-gauge railway from Biberach (a.d. Riß) via Warthausen to Ochsenhausen) are the last surviving operational routes of the once extensive Württemberg 750 mm narrow-gauge railways.
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Film
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Eisenbahn-Romantik
Eisenbahn-Romantik () is a German television programme, broadcast by Südwestrundfunk, SWR. It portrays railway-related reports, whose content covers modern railway systems, Heritage railway, museum railways and their facilities as well as items ...
'', Folge 243: ''Die Jagsttalbahn'', (
SWR)
Film Eisenbahn-Romantik
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External links
Website des Jagsttalbahnfreunde e. V.
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Kursbuchauszug von 1944
* ttp://www.vergessene-bahnen.de/Ex778.htm Streckenbeschreibung bei vergessene-bahnen.de
References
Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg
Hohenlohe (district)
Heilbronn (district)