Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway

Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway

Line near Schuld
Overview
Locale Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Line number 3002
Technical
Line length 44 km (27 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map

Legend
 Operating points and lines[1][2] 
 former Ahr Valley Railway from Adenau
 0.0 Dümpelfeld 223 m
 former Ahr Valley Railway to Remagen
 Dümpelfeld curve from Liers junction
 Insul junction
 Insul Tunnel (91 m)
 Schuld Tunnel (142 m)
 4.7 Schuld 248 m
 Ruppenberg Tunnel (275 m)
 Schellenberg Tunnel (151 m)
 8.2 Fuchshofen 274 m
 11.7 Antweiler (Ahr) 296 m
 14.4 Müsch 306 m
 Müsch Tunnel (289 m)
 Dorsel Tunnel (220 m)
 RP / NRW state border
 18.4 Ahrdorf (Ahr)
 former line to Blankenheim-Wald
 NRW / RP state border
 22.5 Ahütte 367 m
 26.3 Niederehe 401 m
 29.4 Kerpen (Eifel) 430 m
 33.6 Walsdorf 469 m
 37.7 Hillesheim (Eifel) 459 m
 former line to Gerolstein
 Eifel Railway from Trier
 43.8 Lissendorf 414 m
 Eifel Railway to Hürth-Kalscheuren

The Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway was a non-electrified branch line that lay mostly in what is now the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Only a few kilometres of the line near Ahrdorf station ran through North Rhine-Westphalia, which was created in 1946.

History

The railway line was planned together with the Jünkerath–Weywertz railway (also called the Vennquerbahn, “Cross-Venn Railway”) in 1900 as a strategic railway to connect the Ahr Valley Railway (Ahrtalbahn) with the Eifel Railway. The actual construction started in April 1909. On 30 June 1912, the 44 km route was opened, with the Dümpelfeld–Insul junction section built as a single-track line and the Insul junction–Jünkerath section built as a double-track line. The construction costs totalled 13.2 million marks.

Except during the two world wars, the line never had national importance, therefore it has been operated at times under Signalisierter Zugleitbetrieb (SZB, a system of train control for low-speed branch lines using simplified signalling technology).

At the end of the Second World War, many bridges were blown up by the Wehrmacht. The reconstruction went on for several years until 1948, when the whole line had been fully restored to traffic. The Lissendorf–Jünkerath section was shut down and dismantled after 1945, with traffic directed over the parallel Eifel line. Henceforth the remaining line was only one track, the second track had been dismantled to provide reparations.

The Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf passenger service was abandoned on 3 June 1973. Freight traffic on the Dümpelfeld-Hillesheim route ended on 30 September 1973 and the line was then dismantled. The remaining Hillesheim–Lissendorf section was finally closed in late 1982 and later dismantled.

The Insul–Schuld and Dorsel–Fuchshofen sections are now used as a rail trail, the Ahr-Radweg (Ahr Cycleway).

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ Lothar Brill. "Tunnel portals on line 3002" (in German). Tunnelportale. Retrieved 11 June 2013.

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