Plausible fiction

 Pottendorf - the reason why

The blog is about building a small fictitious terminus based on a location in Oberfranken,  it is merely an amalgam of features of existing locations in the area, in short, a plausible fiction. Sekundärbahn means a secondary line, in this case only 19 kms, it was a normal gauge line to Pottendorf, it was served by tiny trains and lasted from 1912 to 1965. 

The layout is based on Pottendorf, a planned but not built train station which is one of those stations in Franconia (and elsewhere) that were built at a time when it was still believed that the railway would continue to make mobility and the development of the area possible in the future. However, the station was always a loss-maker throughout its life and was finally shut down and demolished in the late 1960s. Things were supposed to be different...

 

Apparently the route was extended at the instigation of the town of Pottenstein however, the extension was no longer funded by the town when it opened,  consequently it was named Pottendorf. I can't say to what extent this is true, but there were plans of a continuous connection through to Pegnitz. However due to the First World War and the subsequent development of the automobile as an essential mode of transport, all of these ideas were abandoned.

 

During the DB's steam locomotive era, the following series ran here: 98.8 (Bavarian GtL 4/4), 64, 86. Later: Vt 95.9, V36 and of course the V100. The route belonged to the management area of BD Nurnburg.

Streitberg filmed in 09/2014