The Hof–Bad Steben railway runs from Hof through the Franconian Forest to the Bavarian state spa town Bad Steben in southern Germany. The line was opened in two stages between 1887 and 1898.
Hof Hauptbahnhof
Train crossing at Selbitz - in the background to the left are the exit signals to Hof, on the right the former trackbed to Helmbrechts
Bad Steben terminal station with Regioshuttle in July 2011
Last station building in Hof-Neuhof
Hof Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Hof in southern Germany and is situated at the intersection of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line and the Munich–Regensburg–Leipzig–Berlin line. When it wa
Hof–Bad Steben railway
…the Deutsche Bahn lost the bid for the Diesellines of upper Franconia. The branch line to Bad Steben leaves the main line from Nuremberg to Dresden at Hof Hauptbahnhof, the main station in the city of Hof. Immediately next to the historic 'Signal Box 8' it climbs steeply uphill to the station of Hof-Neuhof in the city…
Former Saxon (northern) roundhouse, later storage shed for regional buses
Platform (tracks 4 and 6)