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Across the Kirnitzsch valley

„The journey from Schandau to the waterfall should have taken 32 minutes; it was, however, prolonged by several derailments which were born in good humour.“
Thus reports the newsletter of the mountaineers society in 1898 about the opening of the railway from Bad Schandau to Lichtenhain waterfall across the Kirnitzsch valley. The plan to extend the rails to the border between Saxony and Bohemia was frustrated by the lack of funding. The railway was a success anyway – in the year of its opening it already transported 80 000 passengers across the romantic valley.