The Harz Narrow-Gauge Railway network today comprises the following
2 original independent railway:
Harzquerbahn: Wernigerode -
Drei Annen Hohne - Benneckenstein - Eisfelder Talmühle - Nordhausen
Selketalbahn: Quedlinburg
- Gernrode - Alexisbad - Stiege - Hasselfelde
with a branch
line from Alexisbad to Harzgerode and connecting line between Stiege -
Eisfelder Talmühle
Brockenbahn: Drei Annen Hohne
- Schierke - Brocken (1142 over sealevel)
Superlatives of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen:
Gauge: 1000 mm,
Length of network track: 140 km,
Max. gradient: 1:25,
Min. radius of curves: 60 m,
400 bridges and water passing throughs,
Only narrow-gauge railway tunnel in the new Federal states,
Mount Brocken Railway Station is 1125 m above sea level.
Through trains:
Wernigerode - Drei Annen Hohne - Nordhausen and back,
Wernigerode - Drei Annen Hohne - Brocken and return (several
times a day),
Nordhausen - Drei Annen Hohne - Wernigerode and return (daily
),
Gernrode - Hasselfelde (daily)
Nordhausen - Hasselfelde (daily),
Wernigerode - Drei Annen Hohne - Benneckenstein and
return(daily),
Gernrode - Harzgerode and return (several times a day),
(Mount Brocken can be reached from any of the stations on the Harz Narrow-Gauge
Railway by changing line!)
You can connect from the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railway network to the
DB German Railways routes at Wernigerode, Nordhausen and
Gernrode.
