Weiden–Bayreuth railway
The Weiden–Bayreuth railway is a major railway in the German state of Bavaria. It connects Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Kirchenlaibach and Bayreuth. History The Bavarian Eastern Railway Company (Bavarian Ostbahn) gained the concession to build the line was on 3 January 1862. Construction began later that year and was completed on 1 December 1863. From Schwandorf station to Irrenlohe station its single track ran parallel with the also single-track Regensburg–Schwandorf–Amberg–Nuremberg line of the Eastern Railway. It ended in its own station in Bayreuth south of the former Brandenburger Thor (Brandenburg Gate, the location of the station of the state railway, the current Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof), which had a roundhouse, a goods shed, a carriage shed and a residential block for railway officials. To reduce costs, however, passenger traffic was handled from the beginning at the platform of the Bayreuth–Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway. With the commissioning of the Eastern Railway line, the former Bayreuth terminus became a through station on the Hof–Bayreuth–Weiden–Regensburg–Munich route, which at first required changes in Bayreuth and Irrenlohe. As a result, the line from Bayreuth to Munich was 40 Bavarian miles long, 12.5 miles shorter than via Augsburg (a Bavarian mile equalled 7,420.4 or 7,414.9 metres). Train crossings were scheduled