Pfungstadt Railway

The line was finally built by the State Railways of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzoglich Hessischen Staatseisenbahnen).

The line was opened as a Secundärbahn (secondary railway) on 20 December 1886 and Pfungstadt was incorporated as a municipality at the same time.

Deutsche Bundesbahn abandoned passenger services on 30 April 1955, but freight traffic (mainly wood and sugar beet) continued to 31 May 1997.

Initially scheduled for competition in December 2007, the reactivation was delayed due to necessary signalling changes at Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof and difficulties with a level crossing in Pfungstadt.

The annual operating cost, which is estimated to amount to €900,000, is shared by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main transport association, RMV) and Dadina.

[5] An order for four more diesel multiple units for the Odenwald Railway, placed by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund in November 2007, provided an additional Itino set for the extension to Pfungstadt.

Of the total costs of €2.8 million, the state of Hesse assumed €170,000 and the rest was shared by the town and the federal government.

Exit of a T3 locomotive from the grounds of the brewery. Taken by Ernst Büchner, ca. 1914
The former siding to the brewery in 2011 from about the same camera location as in 1914. The track had been removed on the right-hand side of the road.
Darmstadt-Eberstadt station
The track of the Pfungstadt Railway, which branches off from Darmstadt-Eberstadt station to Pfungstadt
Pfungstadt station in December 2011