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Brandleite Tunnel
Railway tunnel in Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brandleite Tunnel is a single-bore, double-tracked railway tunnel between the stations of Gehlberg (598 m a.s.l.) and Oberhof (639 m a.s.l.) in Thuringia. It leads the Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen railway beneath the Brandleite massif, a part of the ridge of the Thuringian Forest that reaches a height of 897 m a.s.l. in this area.[1] The tunnel is mostly straight, only at the Oberhof end the tracks curve slightly towards the south. With a length of 3,039 m (9,970 ft) it is the longest railway tunnel in Thuringia, and was the longest in the network of Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR. The maximum rock cover amounts to 237 m (778 ft).
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![]() Western portal seen from Oberhof station | |
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Line | Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen railway |
Location | between Gehlberg and Oberhof, Thuringia |
Coordinates | Western Portal: 50°41′5″N 10°42′42″E Eastern Portal: 50°41′15″N 10°45′16″E |
Operation | |
Work begun | 28 May 1881 |
Opened | 1 August 1884 |
Rebuilt | 2004/2005 |
Operator | DB Netz |
Technical | |
Length | 3039 m |
No. of tracks | double throughout |
Track gauge | 1435 mm |
Electrified | no |
Tunnel clearance | 5.85 m ... 6.05 m |
Width | 8.20 m ... 9.00 m |
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