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Zittau–Oybin–Jonsdorf railway

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Type
  
narrow gauge rail way

Opened
  
November 25, 1889

Track gauge
  
750 mm (2 ft 5 ⁄2 in)

Terminis
  
Zittau, Oybin, Jonsdorf

Line number
  
6960/6961

Line length
  
16.1 km (10.00 mi)

Depot
  
Bertsdorf-Hörnitz

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Operator(s)
  
Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf Railway Company, Royal Saxon State Railways, Deutsche Reichsbahn, DR, DB, Saxon Oberlausitz Railway Company

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The Zittau–Oybin–Jonsdorf railway (German: Zittauer Schmalspurbahn) is a narrow gauge railway system employing steam locomotives and serving the mountain spa resorts of Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains in southeast Saxony (Germany). The track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).

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Literature

  • Gustav W. Ledig: Linie Zittau-Reichenau-Markersdorf in Die schmalspurigen Staatseisenbahnen im Königreiche Sachsen, S. 88 ff., Leipzig 1895. Reprint: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-7463-0070-3
  • Erich Preuß: Die Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71107-9

    • References

    Zittau–Oybin–Jonsdorf railway Wikipedia
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