page_title: Langelsheim–Altenau (Oberharz) railway
section_title: The Innerste Valley Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Langelsheim–Altenau (Oberharz) railway / The Innerste Valley Railway
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ehemaliges Bahnhofsgebäude der Station Lautenthal an der Oberharzbahn English: Former Railway Station, Lautenthal, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Germany
context_page_description: The Langelsheim–Altenau (Oberharz) railway was a railway line, that ran through the Upper Harz in Central Germany. It was also called the Upper Harz Railway or Harz Railway. It was built in order to enable the Magdeburg-Halberstadt Railway Company to access the mines in the Harz mountains.
context_section_description: The Innerste Valley Railway was built between 1874 and 1914 and linked several formerly isolated mountain villages in the Upper Harz to the existing railway network in the northern Harz Foreland.
  The railway was built in 1875 by the MHE from its marshalling yard at Vienenburg through Grauhof and Langelsheim to Lautenthal. Its original passenger services to Langelsheim on the Vienenburg–Langelsheim railway via Grauhof ended as early as 1884 and all traffic ceased in 1954; a direct line to Goslar being employed instead.
  Until the cessation of regular services in 1976 the line branched off at Langelsheim station from the existing Neuekrug-Hahausen–Goslar railway and ran past the halt of Innerstetalsperre (before the construction of the dam there was a halt at Lindthal, now under water) to Lautenthal, from there through the Innerste valley via Wildemann, Silbernaal-Grund halt and Silberhütte station, later renamed Frankenscharrnhütte, to Clausthal-Zellerfeld. From 1914 trains were able to run from there to the terminus of  Altenau passing through the station at Clausthal Ost.
caption: Former railway station in Lautenthal
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