Blankenstein
Not your average rural branch line. The 39km single-track route from Hockeroda to Blankenstein has only a 2-hourly passenger service - but this village of just 650 inhabitants also houses a cellulose factory employing 400 people and generating two DB freight trains daily! Seen here on 8th July 2013, an Erfurter Bahn single-unit railcar awaits departure while one of two diesel shunting locos from the giant Zellstoff Rosenthal plant rests in the DB exchange sidings.
Location: Blankenstein
Original line: Deutsche Bahn
Photographer: David Spaven
Contact photographer: David Spaven
Date: 08/07/2013
Image number: 44239
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