The Lohr–Wertheim railway, also known as the Ostspessartbahn, was a branch line in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. It ran mostly along the Main from Lohr am Main to Wertheim. In Wertheim there was a connection to the railway lines to Miltenberg and Lauda.

The operation of the 37.1-kilometer line was started on October 1, 1881 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways, 1.6 kilometers of the line lay in Baden territory. However, as early as 1885 the Bavarian railway administration designated the connection as one of the worst frequented routes in its network, and this did not change significantly in the decades that followed.

In the years after the Second World War, a large part of the trains started in Gemünden, some also drove through Wertheim to Miltenberg. The route experienced an upswing in freight traffic from 1959 for about ten years to supply the A 3 motorway construction sites and for transports from the Faulbach gravel works to the construction sites of the A 7 federal motorway.

Passenger traffic was discontinued between Lohr Stadtbahnhof and Wertheim on May 30, 1976, the Lohr Bahnhof–Lohr Stadt section followed on May 22, 1977. Freight traffic is still carried out there today, primarily to supply the local glass factory (as of 2020). Freight traffic between Lengfurt-Trennfeld and Wertheim was discontinued on May 26, 1979, and between Lohr Stadt and Lengfurt-Trennfeld on September 29, 1991. The route was dismantled there in 1980/81 and 1993.

The three tunnels of the railway line - the Bettingberg tunnel, the Kaffelstein tunnel and the Schlossberg tunnel in Wertheim - were closed in 1980/81. The Bettingberg tunnel was used by Daimler-Benz AG for a while after the line was closed for trials with the gauge bus.

The railway bridge over the Main from Kreuzwertheim to Wertheim was dismantled in 1984 and installed 175 kilometers further up the Main near Schweinfurt on the Kitzingen–Schweinfurt railway line. The railway bridge over the Tauber in Wertheim was shut down.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Lohr-Wertheim

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