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 a typical 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.
More plausible fiction
The line survived the Second World War intact, in 1949, the railway was
nationalised and the operation was taken over by the Deutsche
Bundesbahn. In the 1930s, six pairs of passenger trains ran on the line daily, and in the 1950s, up to seven pairs of passenger trains ran on the line.
In 1954, the line was downgraded to a simplified branch line
service and on 1 July 1960 the station was converted into an unstaffed railhead for cut timber which was loaded here, the traffic kept the line open.
With the increase in private motorized transport in the 1950s, passenger numbers declined rapidly, as a result, the Deutsche Bundesbahn discontinued passenger services on May 29, 1960, and freight services on May 26, 1968. In 1982 the line was dismantled and the buildings demolished.
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