Ranna–Auerbach railway

Ranna–Auerbach railway
Overview
Line number5927
Service
Route number421b
Technical
Line length8.1 km (5.0 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Minimum radius250 m (820 ft)
Maximum incline1.25  %
Route map

from Nuremberg Hbf
0.0
Ranna
(398.6 m)
to Cheb
(Nuremberg–Cheb)
Pegnitz
2.0
Rauhenstein
(405.5 m)
4.3
Hohe Tanne
(bis 1960)
(430.2 m)
6.6
Welluck (Sand)
(to 1922)
(437.5 m)
B 85
8.1
Auerbach (Oberpf)
(442.4 m)

The Ranna–Auerbach railway was an 8-kilometre long branch line or Lokalbahn in Bavaria in southern Germany, which linked Auerbach in der Oberpfalz via Ranna to the Nuremberg–Cheb railway. It replaced the cable railway built in 1882 from the Maxhütte to Sulzbach-Rosenberg, which until then had transported mineral resources in the region around Auerbach to the railway.