Bröl Valley Railway

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Bröl Valley Railway
Bröltalbahn/ Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
Bröltalbahn Strecken.png
Technical
Line length87.3 km
Track gauge785 mm (2 ft 6+29⁄32 in)
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Hennef–Waldbröl (actual Bröl Valley Railway)
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Legend
 0.0 km Hennef passenger station
 67.32 m above NN
1.0 Hennef goods station
 68.00 m
1.0
to Asbach
 68.00 m
Sieg
 2.2 Allner
 70.22 m
4.4 Bröl
 79.59 m
9.7 Ingersauel Mill
 98.69 m
12.5 Herrnstein
 114.48 m
13.6 Büchel
 120.16 m
14.7
126.35 m
Paper factory (refuge siding)
 17.0
140.17 m
Saurenbach (refuge siding)
 20.3 Ruppichteroth
 164.40 m
24.0
188.64 m
25.4
200.98 m
27.8
223.77 m
31.1 Waldbröl
 262.5 m
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 0.0 Siegburg
 57.90 m
0.7
Sieg
 Jointly used
with the und der Straße
Brück
 1.5
58.60 m
3.3
to Beuel
 68.90 m
3.3
68.90 m
3.3 68.90 m
5.9
75.60 m
7.3 Dambroich
 81.60 m
8.2 Scheuren Mill
 88.82 m
9.7 -Jüngsfeld
 101.71 m
11.9
119.42 m
13.3 Herresbach
 133.45 m
15.2
157.00 m
17.1 Quirrenbach
 194.00 m
17.8
205.60 m
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 0.0 Beuel
 52.00 m
1.8
60.10 m
4.5
66.00 m
6.7 Großenbusch
 67.45 m
8.2
to Siegburg
 68.90 m
8.2
68.90 m
8.2
to Rostingen
 68.90 m
10.4
63.20 m
11.9
65.00 m
14.0 Geistingen
 68.45 m
14.8 Hennef passenger station
 68.20 m
15.8 Hennef goods station
 68.00 m
15.8
to Waldbröl
 68.00 m
17.8
74.15 m
19.8 Kuchenbach
 90.70 m
23.6
121.25 m
24.9
130.00 m
25.9 Eudenberg
 142.44 m
27.9
167.00 m
30.9 Mendt
 212.63 m
Steineberg (refuge siding)
 33.7 Buchholz
 247.30 m
36.5
228.98 m
38.4 Asbach
(today the RSE Museum)
 245.70 m

The Bröl Valley Railway (German: Bröltalbahn) was the first public narrow gauge railway in Germany and had a track gauge of 785 mm (2 ft 6+29⁄32 in). It was the heart of a railway company, which from 1925 also ran bus services and from 1956 its passenger services only ran by road. Goods trains continued to run until 1967, when the remaining trackage was lifted.

The firm was founded on 3 February 1869 as the Bröl Valley Railway Company (Brölthaler Eisenbahn-Actien-Gesellschaft) or BTE. On 10 June 1921 it was renamed as the Rhine-Sieg Railway (Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn-AG) or RSE. The company headquarters was moved in 1917 from Hennef (Sieg) to Beuel. In 1983 the RSE went into the . It should not be confused with the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn GmbH founded in 1994 by the .

The 785 mm gauge railway network of the Bröl Valley Railway was, at its peak, a total of 87.3 kilometres long and, towards the end, was mainly worked by goods services. With the take over of the in 1901 an isolated section of 750 mm gauge line also belonged to the BTE.

In the old Bröl Valley Railway engine shed in Asbach is a railway museum about the old railway that was founded in 2000.

Literature[]

Sources

  • Adolf Becker (1988), Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ed.), Die Bröltalbahn – Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (in German) (1. ed.), Niederkassel-Mondorf: Verlag Kersting, ISBN 3-925250-05-0
  • Sascha Koch: Eisenbahnen im Oberbergischen und die Geschichte des Bahnbetriebswerkes Dieringhausen. Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht, 2005. ISBN 3-89909-050-0.

Others

  • Manfred Frickhöfer: Die Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (Bröltalbahn). Druck: quickprint grube & speck, Karlsruhe 1979.
  • Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: Die Heisterbacher Talbahn und Industriebahnen im Siebengebirgsraum. Freiburg im Breisgau 2006. ISBN 978-3-88255-456-4.

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