The Bayreuth municipal department (today the BEW) had a direct rail link to the gas works southwest of the Hofgarten.

This railway link branched off from the main line in the vicinity of the present-day university between the halts of Kreuzstein and Röhrensee, roughly where the bridge over the Emil-Warburg-Weg is situated today.

From there it ran northwards, crossed the Sendelbach stream, swung westwards and reached the gas works on Birkenstrasse after a good 800 metres.

Its dismantling presumably followed the closure of the coal-to-gas plant at the end of the 1960s and before the construction of the Bayreuth city ring road.

The last train – a special hauled by steam locomotive 064 415-3, the last of a type once commonly used on the line[1] – took place to a great reception from the local population on 28 September 1974.

At the end of the 1980s when Bayreuth University underwent a major expansion, there were serious discussions about the construction of a "Universität" halt.

It would have been built immediately east of the bridge over the Emil-Warburg-Weg and would have become an excellent link to local public transport services.