kilometre-long section, adjacent rock walls were secured with a special system of nets. The free steel trusses of the viaduct at Angelroda were lifted with mobile cranes and then repaired. A total of €13 m was allocated for these works. Due to heavy corrosion of the bridge’s superstructure, this could not be completed by the end of October 2012 as planned. The recommencement of services was postponed initially from 19 November 2012 to 16 May 2013. The renovation of the section between Elgersburg and Ilmenau, which had originally been planned to be done separately was, however, brought forward and was also intended to be completed by May 2013. After the reconstruction of the bridge superstructure was carried out in the middle of July 2013, the line was re-commissioned on 11 August 2013. Accidents and incidents The temperature fell to -38 °C in the winter of 1928/29. This led to several days without operations because of the icing of the water supply, the locomotives and the points on the line. On 9 January 1935, a freight train derailed in Martinroda at the exit towards Ilmenau. Locomotive 94106 derailed and remained leaning on a gradient of about 45°. It was recovered and repaired. Arnstadt locomotive depot was bombed on 6 February 1945. This raid killed 70 forced labourers, who were lodged in barracks near the depot. Shortly before the end of the war a Lockheed P-38 Lightning strafed a passenger train from Arnstadt at Geraberg killing passengers, including a pregnant woman. German soldiers senselessly blew up still isolated bridges at the end of the war, like the small bridge over the B88 behind Elgersburg. This was replaced on 1 July 1945 by a temporary timber bridge and finally repaired in 1948 by installing a steel structure. Current operations Today the Plaue–Ilmenau section is served hourly by the Erfurter Bahn line 46 (Erfurt–Arnstadt–Ilmenau, timetable line 566). Two Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 diesel multiple units (150 seats) are normally used, occasionally Bombardier Itino sets (120 seats) are also used. Since the timetable change in June 2014, Erfurter Bahn services have run on weekends and holidays to Rennsteig station. Four train pairs run on operating days between Ilmenau and Rennsteig. Ilmenau–Schleusingen (Rennsteigbahn) Route The Ilmenau–Schleusingen section has a length of 31.8 km. The line to Großbreitenbach, which was closed in 1998, branched off just after Ilmenau station. The line runs on a gentle curve to the