Plausible fiction
Please note the layout is NOT a copy of any particular location but it is influenced by elements of the branch lines of Oberfranken. I am building a loose interpretation of Leupoldsdorf station, my model should show the station in the summer of 1954, at the time up to the end of the 1960s all the tracks were still in place.
Reality
The
railway survived the Second World War, in 1949, the railway was
nationalised and the operation was taken over by the Deutsche
Bundesbahn. In 1954, the line was downgraded to a simplified branch line
service and on 1 July 1968, Pottendorf station was converted into an unstaffed stop, cut timber and Zuckerrübe or Sugar Beet was loaded here, the traffic kept the line open.
Passenger
traffic was discontinued on September 29, 1974. Freight traffic
followed in stages, the line was ultimately used in the autumn and
winter during the beet harvest season. In 1998 the line was dismantled
and the former roadbed is accessible as a Wanderweg.
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