The route now required an elaborate and expensive structure in Angelroda in order to be able to fulfill the promise given to Martinroda, even though Martinroda station could no longer be built in the village and instead had to be built 2 km away from it. The new complex route also avoided touching the area of the municipality of Geschwenda, whose citizens were vehement against the building of a railway. In fact, Martinroda and Geraberg (at that time still called Gera ) provided virtually all the land for the line free of charge. As a result of the new route, Geraberg also now received a station. This is only about 1.1 km in a direct line from the station in Elgersburg, also connected by a direct road, but the railway was difficult to build. It is 1.7 km-long and required an elaborate, deep cutting through rock. In Angelroda support for the 26 m high embankment on the edge of the village, which was now necessary, was anything but enthusiastic, as it was feared that there would be less good air coming down from the Thuringian Forest in down-slope winds. They therefore wanted a bridge that was as long as possible. This would have increased the cost of the project that was now estimated to cost 4,140,000 marks (M) by a further 27,000 M, which the Thüringian Railway Company did not want to raise to benefit farmers in Angelroda. The little village of Angelroda did not have the necessary financial resources to pay for the proposed change, even though this was only a fraction of the cost of the changes required to meet the special demands of the Duke of Gotha.