From my latest bicycle tour easter monday. All in all I pedaled appr. 70 km through Saxony-Anhalt, I think it's a good start. Maybe it would have been more, but I stepped into a rusty nail at that photo location and got too much pain to continue the travel on the planned route... Yes, I went to see a doctor afterwards. No infection so far, everything is well.

That nice station building here belongs to a small town called Barby.

Train service was cancelled in 2004, when most of the whole line was abandoned, including a 751 meter long bridge from 1878 across the Elbe river. The once beautiful station building burned down some years ago and the roof collapsed.

The railway line was once planned as a military railroad by the german emperor in the 1870s as the shortest connection between Berlin and the french border near Metz. To reach that, he just placed a ruler on the map and draw a straight line where the tracks should be layed. It was the second most expensive railway project ever built in Germany before WW I, and due to the military needs, it was traced far away from every big city. The station buildings often were placed far away from the cities or villages, sometimes even deep in the forest with no settlement within 3 km radius. While the rural parts of the line are abandoned and partially removed, some other parts are still in use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berli.....enheim_railway