Bad Krozingen–Münstertal railway
railway line
The Bad Krozingen and Münstertal Railway, also the Münstertal Railway (German: Münstertalbahn), is a branch line in Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, running from Bad Krozingen to Münstertal (Schwarzwald) in the Black Forest. In Bad Krozingen the link has a junction with the Rhine Valley Railway. The owner and operator of the Münstertal Railway is the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG). Its depot is located in the station at Staufen. Passenger traffic on the former branch to Sulzburg was closed in 1969.
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The line runs mostly through fields, meadows and woodlands. The line begins in Bad Krozingen and runs via Oberkrozingen to Staufen. There the line formed two branches. The southern branch (which was the original branch and is now disused) ran via Grunern and Ballrechten-Dottingen to Sulzburg. The northern branch runs via Etzenbach and Dietzelbachstraße to Münstertal.
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