43-542: The Brilon Wald station is a station on the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway ( German : Obere Ruhrtalbahn ) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It was opened 5.5 km south of Brilon in the forest ( Wald ) with the construction of the line on 10 February 1873, as it was impractical to build the railway through Brilon. The station was called Brilon-Corbach until 1880, when the current name
86-561: A branch line. In 1999, the Westphalian Almetalbahn GmbH (WAB) took over the Paderborn–Büren section in an attempt to revive the freight traffic and operate excursions with a historic steam train. However, it was only used for individual freight operations and steam excursions. This section of the line was closed on 30 June 2006 as remediation work was necessary and it was dismantled shortly afterwards. The line
129-549: A commitment for a licence. This explains how the licence was formally granted as early as 1 October 1866. The Schwerte–Arnsberg section was opened on 1 June 1870, the Arnsberg–Meschede section was opened on 18 December 1871, the Meschede– Nuttlar section was opened on 1 July 1872. On 6 January 1873, the last section was opened from Nuttlar to Warburg, which had been connected since 1849 to Kassel . The town of Brilon
172-468: Is also served by bus line 482 running between Brilon and Gudenhagen every 60 minutes. Upper Ruhr Valley Railway The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway ( German : Obere Ruhrtalbahn ) is a 138-kilometre-long, non-electrified line from Schwerte (Ruhr) station ) through the Hochsauerland (high Sauerland ) to Warburg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It is the most southerly of
215-597: Is also supplemented with an hourly service of the RE 57 (the Dortmund-Sauerland-Express ), continuing to Winterberg. As a result, the Fröndenberg–Bestwig section is served at 30-minute intervals on weekdays. The line is operated with RegioSwinger (class 612) sets between Schwerte and Wickede at 140 km/h, continuing through Warburg to Kassel at a maximum speed of 140 km/h. Earlier the RE 17
258-669: Is electrified and double track, additional parallel tracks between Hagen and Schwerte belong to the Ruhr–Sieg railway and to the freight line from Hagen to Hagen-Vorhalle . The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway branches from the Hagen–Hamm line in Schwerte station and in Schwerte Ost station it is joined by a connecting curve, which is used by the RE 57 service from Dortmund. The line is double track, winding and relatively steep to Bestwig. This
301-588: Is no longer served by long-distance trains. There used to be a D-Zug express train on the Amsterdam – Bad Wildungen route, using the line, and express trains to Kassel , Leipzig and Berlin . In 1941 a holiday express train ran on the Brest-Litovsk – Bebra –Arnsberg– Aachen – Brussels – Ostend route. An express train ran until 1991 from Amsterdam to Korbach ; it reversed in Brilon Wald and ran on
344-746: Is now in the Mooskamp Tram Museum ( Nahverkehrsmuseum Dortmund ) in Dortmund-Nette. DB Schenker Rail Germany and the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (WLE) operate freight for the Egger company on the section from Brilon Wald via Brilon Stadt to Brilon Egger. The section between Thülen and Büren, which is leased to RWE AG, is used for the transport of transformers between Buren and the Nehden substation. In 2007,
387-489: Is run down between Paderborn and Büren-Weinberg, but it has not been closed, and there were considerations of using it for a connection to Paderborn Lippstadt Airport . In 2011, the Nahverkehrsverbund (local transport association) Paderborn-Höxter decided not to proceed with this on cost grounds. The Büren-Weiberg–Thülen section was used in the summer months from 1981 for the operations of museum trains. This
430-471: The Bremen – Paderborn –Büren–Brilon– Frankfurt route. Regular passenger service between Büren and Brilon was closed on the section on 29 September 1974 due to superstructure defects. The Heckeneilzug service continued for some years from Brilon Wald via Warburg towards north Germany. On 30 May 1981, the remaining passenger services on the line were finally closed. There were still regular passenger services on
473-598: The Schönen-Wochenende ("beautiful weekend") tickets. On the section from Hagen to Schwerte VRR fares apply. From Schwerte to Westheim VRL fares apply, from there to Warburg nph fares apply and finally the Warburg-Kassel section NPT fares apply. On the section from Dortmund to Schwerte (which is not served) the fares of the VRR apply. VRL fares apply from Schwerte to Winterberg. The operation of freight on
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#1732798838516516-531: The Upland Railway ( Uplandbahn ) to Korbach, with through coaches continuing on the Edersee Railway ( Ederseebahn ) to Bad Wildungen. In the 1990s, trains ran from Duisburg and Cologne to Willingen and Korbach on autumn weekends. The last pair of express trains were D 2641 and D 2640, which ran once a week between Düsseldorf and Willingen until December 2003. Long-distance trains coming from
559-499: The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, VRR), Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe (Ruhr-Lippe Transport Company, VRL), Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn-Höxter (Paderborn-Höxter Local Transport Association, nph) and Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (North Hessian Transport Association, NVV). It is operated by DB Regio NRW with class 612 and 628.4 sets and is popular with tourists and users of
602-572: The Zweckverband SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (association for rail passenger transport of Ruhr-Lippe, ZRL) also funded the line from Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt. The ZRL decided on 23 June 2009 to resume scheduled regional services on this section from the timetable change of December 2011. A central bus station was also established in Brilon Stadt. A passenger train ran again on the section between Brilon Stadt and Brilon Stadt for
645-491: The 1980s but it is now only served by Regional-Express services on the Hagen –Schwerte–Warburg– Kassel ) and Dortmund – Fröndenberg – Bestwig (– Winterberg / Willingen ) every hour and there are also some extra services in the peak hours and special services. In 1856, a committee of representatives of the then districts of Meschede , Brilon , Arnsberg , Soest and Iserlohn and the independent cities of Dortmund and Hamm
688-648: The Bestwig–Winterberg Regionalbahn service. Originally it was operated with class 624 and 628 sets. After a European-wide tender as part of the Sauerland network, DB Regio NRW was chosen to operate the service almost exclusively with class 648.1 ( Alstom Coradia LINT 41 ) sets since the summer of 2008; it is partly operated during the weekend with mixed sets including rebuilt 640 (LINT 27) sets. The so-called Säuferzüge ("boozer trains"), which are particularly popular with bowling clubs, are operated on
731-584: The Hagen–Willingen route using triple class 648.1 sets and on the Dortmund–Willingen route with class 628.4 sets. On Fridays a section of RE 57 services that end every two hours in Bestwig continues to Willingen. The line also used by many special trips with steam trains and rail buses . The Sauerland-Express is a Regional-Express services that runs from Hagen to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and is funded by
774-510: The RE 17 service from Hagen to Kassel from three hours to around two and a half hours. This proposal was estimated to cost €31.1 million. The need for the planned works was reviewed in 2010 and the project was shown to have a benefit-cost ratio of less than one. Therefore, the inclusion in the project in the period up to 2015 was rejected in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan of 2010. Its realisation in
817-641: The Ruhr valley. Alme Valley Railway The Alme Valley Railway ( German : Almetalbahn ) was an approximately 60 km long, mostly single-track branch line from Paderborn via Buren to Brilon in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It is named after the Alme river and runs through its valley in a north–south direction. The line is disused and dismantled between Paderborn and Büren -Weiberg, but it has not been formally closed. The remaining line between Büren-Weiberg and Brilon Wald (forest)
860-548: The Ruhr with the supply lines far to the east and because the line's cuttings and tunnels made it difficult for low-flying aircraft to find. Traffic was so thin that at times the line was driven on sight. As a result, the route to the east became known as the Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung ( Mid-Germany connection ). As traffic to the east fell away after the Second World War, less trains ran on
903-564: The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway gives access via branch lines to accommodate excursions to mountain resorts in the winter. The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway between Hagen and Warburg is now served every hour by the RE 17 ( Sauerland-Express ) service. Every two hours these trains continue to/from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe . In Hesse , the Sauerland-Express is however numbered as the RE 3. The Fröndenberg–Bestwig section
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#1732798838516946-506: The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway long acted as an extension of the Mid-Germany Connection . This meant that the industry of the Ruhr was connected with supply points to the east. This east-west traffic increasingly fell away after the Second World War and it was used almost entirely for local freight traffic. Today, scheduled freight traffic is hauled by class 294 locomotives. In the early morning hours, two trains operate along
989-604: The east-west lines that run from the Ruhr to eastern Germany and it connects the rural Hochsauerlandkreis with the Ruhr. The line is included in the German railway timetable as line 435, which continues on the line from Schwerte to Hagen, which is part of the Hagen–Hamm railway . The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway is named after the Ruhr valley , which it follows between Olsberg and Schwerte. Long-distance services ran on this route until
1032-494: The lack of platforms, the museum trains have operated only as far as Thülen since 2008. Since 11 December 2011, Regionalbahn services have extended beyond Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt again. Its realisation has previously been postponed several times, but at the end of 2008 the Ministry for Construction and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed to add Brilon Stadt station to its infrastructure financing plan on condition that
1075-578: The line at Ringelstein station. In the Second World War, the Alme Valley Railway was more frequently the target of strafing by the Allies from the beginning of 1945. For instance on 13 February 1945 Alme station was raided. Two locomotives were destroyed. Two buildings caught fire and several buildings were hit. From 1950 onwards, the line was connected even to the long-distance network via the daily Heckeneilzug (hedgerow) service, running on
1118-533: The line falls about 165 metres over a length of around 18 kilometres. The section to Warburg has no more significant grades. The Brilon Wald–Warburg section is now only a single track with crossing loops in Messinghausen, Marsberg and Scherfede. Speed limits on each section are as follows: Listed here are the only interlockings that are regularly staffed. The electronic interlocking in Hagen opened in 1995
1161-512: The line. From autumn 1944 to April 1945 the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway was repeatedly attacked at low altitude by bombers and later by fighter-bombers and fighters. The main target on the line in 1945, the Arnsberg viaduct, was attacked seven times between 9 February and 19 March 1945. On 10 October 1945 by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey published a secret report entitled "Railway viaduct at Arnsberg, Germany", which listed 1,818 bombs dropped on
1204-511: The near future is unlikely. The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway begins in Schwerte and ends in Warburg. The line between Hagen and Schwerte is part of the Hagen–Hamm line and is used by trains on both lines 455 and 435 in the German railway timetable. The latter is operated by Deutsche Bahn as the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway. The line runs from Hagen to Olsberg along the Ruhr, which also gives the line its name. The line from Hagen via Schwerte to Hamm
1247-404: The rest of the line between Büren and Brilon was completed on 1 April 1901. The line was used by passengers and freight traffic, originally hauled by steam locomotives and later by diesel locomotives. Passenger services were eventually operated with diesel multiple units. The large air ammunition depot of Harth, which was concealed in the forest near Ringelstein from 1936 to 1945, was connected to
1290-410: The sections between Paderborn and Büren and Brilon Stadt and Brilon Wald. The freight traffic had already been partially closed on 30 May 1965 between Büren and Ringelstein. Freight traffic ended between Ringelstein and Alme on 14 April 1975. Freight traffic ran to Alme until 31 July 1991 and to Thülen until 30 May 1992. North of Büren, the line was still in use for freight until the end of 1995, but it
1333-402: The surrounding buildings. A proposal for rail electrification in the early 1990s omitted the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway because of the immense cost of producing the necessary clearance profile for the overhead line in its many tunnels. In addition, it was proposed that the line be rebuilt by the end of 2006 for higher speeds using tilting technology , which would have reduced the travel time of
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1376-560: The track between Brilon Wald and Brilon Egger was restored because the Egger company had to increase its operations and rehabilitation of the line was a condition for expanding its site in Brilon. In 2008, platform tracks 1 and 4–8 in Brilon Stadt station were demolished and the Brilon Arkaden shopping centre was built on the former railway land. Brilon Stadt now retained only two tracks and these were required for freight. Because of
1419-427: The viaduct. On 19 March the viaduct was destroyed in an attack with only 18 bombs. Avro Lancaster bombers dropped six Grand Slam bombs , which at 10 tons were the largest and heaviest type of bomb used in war to date, and 12 Tallboy bombs , weighing 5.4 tons. In addition to the Arnsberg viaduct bridges and then larger stations such as Bestwig, Meschede and Schwerte were subject to massive attacks and destroyed along with
1462-484: The west had to change to diesel traction at Hagen station as the line is not electrified. The non-electrified line was for a long time served with diesel hauled regional trains. In 2002, the regular use of locomotives ended and the trains have since been operated with multiple units. These regional services connect the Higher Sauerland District with the urban centres of the Ruhr area. In addition,
1505-496: Was adopted. The Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company ( Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) created the small town of Brilon Wald at the same time. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station . Brilon Wald station is served by passenger services by line RE 17 ( Sauerland-Express ) every 60 minutes, line RE 97/RB97 ( Lahn-Sauerland-Express ) every 60 or 120 minutes and by RE 57 ( Dortmund-Sauerland-Express ) services every 120 minutes: Brilon Wald station
1548-926: Was established to lobby for the construction of a railway line through the Sauerland . Among others, the Mayor of Werl, Franz Wilhelm Clöer supported the Werl–Arnsberg–Meschede–Warburg route, but the president of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg , Friedrich Wilhelm von Spankeren preferred the Hagen–Warburg route. The General Assembly of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company ( Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , BME) decided at its General Assembly of 30 June 1866 to construct this section, for which it already had
1591-527: Was for a long time only used for freight and museum trains, but the section between Brilon Stadt (town) and Brilon Wald has been back in use by regional services since 2011. The line was opened between 1898 and 1901. At the same time the Geseke–Büren railway , which connected to the Hamm–Warburg railway , was planned and built. The northern section from Paderborn to Büren was opened on 20 October 1898 and
1634-417: Was not connected to the line (topographical reasons made this impossible), but instead Brilon-Wald station was created about seven kilometres south of it. On 1 July 1900, a connection was opened to the centre of Brilon, from which there were rail connections to Paderborn and Geseke (via Büren ) and to Soest and Lippstadt (via Belecke). During the Second World War the line was busy because it linked
1677-610: Was one of the first electronic interlocking systems of DB and used in the first stage Hp-Kompakt signals (the compact version of the colour light signal system developed in Germany in the 20th century) instead of the usual system now used for electronic interlocking, the Ks-Signalsystem . On the line there are in normal operation, there is currently one permanent speed restriction at a level crossing between Brilon Wald and Hoppecke (20 km/h). The Schwerte–Warburg section
1720-595: Was operated by Dortmund railway enthusiasts as the Westfälische Almetalbahn e. V. (WAB), using an old Dortmund GT4 431 tram together with a generator wagon . In 2001, the tram set was replaced by railcars. The association, however, ceased operations on the line several years ago, when the Waldbahn Almetal e. V. took over heritage railway operations on the lower Alme Valley Railway. It operates two Uerdingen railbuses of class 798. The tram
1763-511: Was operated with Class 218 locomotives hauling three to six Silberling carriages together with class 624 diesel multiple units and later with class 628 DMUs . Today the services to and from Kassel are operated with class 612 sets and the services that turn back at Warburg with class 628.4 sets. The RE 57 in the first years of its service operated on the Meschede–Schwerte section. It was then extended from Schwerte to Dortmund and joined to
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1806-591: Was the location of Bestwig depot, which is still used for train parking, refuelling and cleaning. In Bestwig the climb begins to Brilon Wald, the high point of the line. Over a length of 14 kilometres, the line climbs about 155 metres. In Elleringhausen tunnel at Olsberg it crosses the watershed between the Rhine and Weser . The line then runs through the Hoppecke valley and later through the Diemel valley. After Bredelar
1849-621: Was then closed. The 10-km stretch between Brilon Wald and the Egger company in Brilon is still regularly used for freight transport and since the timetable change in December 2011 and the line between Brilon Wald and Brilon Stadt is again used for passenger services. The line between Brilon Egger and Büren-Weinberg, which is now used by the RWE company for the transport of transformers to the Brilon substation, has been sold and continues to be operated as
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