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Zollhaus-Blumberg Station – Sauschwänzlebahn Museum Railway

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Location: Blumberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Bahnpeter

June 15, 2025

The Wutach Valley Railway is a 61.7-kilometer-long, standard-gauge, single-track railway line. It connects Lauchringen station, on the High Rhine Railway, with the Hintschingen junction near Immendingen, where it joins the Black Forest Railway.

The winding route of the middle section, and especially the reversing tunnel in the Stockhalde, gave it its nickname, the Sauschwänzle Railway.

The line was built for strategic military reasons and opened in 1890. Because the standard railway line partially runs through Switzerland, the plan was to bypass it.

Because the geography of the Wutach Valley in the middle section, from Weizen to Blumberg, resulted in an elevation difference of over 230 meters, the line had to be artificially extended. At just 9.6 km as the crow flies, the railway line is 25 kilometers long. This artificial extension was achieved with several bridges, a circular reversing tunnel, and a double loop. The circular tunnel is the only structure of its kind in Germany. With a gradient of only 10 ‰, heavy (military) trains could be transported without additional traction.

Since this artificial extension of the line also increased ticket prices and travel times, passenger traffic was insignificant and was discontinued on the central section in 1967.

Today, the central section is used for heritage traffic, usually with steam locomotives.

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Christian

September 9, 2022

This is where the Sau Schwänzle Bahn starts... also called "Cannon Railway"...

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Location: Blumberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Zollhaus-Blumberg Station – Sauschwänzlebahn Museum Railway

1. Danube bend – Danube Crossing Near Geisingen loop from Donaueschingen Allmendshofen

2. View of the Huchnegg Foothills – Danube Crossing Near Geisingen loop from Blumberg-Zollhaus

3. Wutach River Nature Views – Cycle Path Along the Wutach loop from Koblenz Dorf

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