Betzdorf – Daaden railway line
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| Course book section (DB) : | 463 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Betzdorf – Daaden (Daadetalbahn) line is a 9.9-kilometer, single-track branch line from Betzdorf an der Sieg to Daaden in the Westerwald . The line is not electrified and has been used by Westerwaldbahn GmbH (WEBA) in local rail passenger transport since November 2, 1994 at hourly intervals, with individual clock deviations.
The Daadetalbahn originally began at the Grünebach junction , where it branched off from the formerly double-track Hellertalbahn from Betzdorf to Haiger . As a result of the single-track dismantling of this line, however, two single-track and operationally completely separate lines have since shared the route between Betzdorf station and the branch. As a result, the originally 8.520 kilometers long Daadetalbahn was extended by around 1.5 kilometers.
history
Planning and construction
With the upswing of the iron industry in the Sieg and Hellertal around 1860, efforts were made to connect the Daade valley by rail . When the Deutz-Gießener Railway was being built , a horizontal line had already been laid above the Alsdorf tunnel for a branch line to be created into the Daadetal; however, it was not financially possible to run the route at the time. The citizens of the region repeatedly asked the authorities for a branch line from the Grünebach stop up the valley to Daaden. In the spring of 1882, the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne carried out preparatory work. After negotiations the local industrialists were ready to bear the land acquisition costs of 109,000 marks; The communities contributed a further construction grant of 25,000 marks. The planned 8.35 kilometer long line should open up a traffic area of about 75 km² with about 7000 inhabitants. The transports of the pits and smelters in the Daade valley played an important role here; the production quantity in 1881 was approx. 70,600 t. The construction costs were estimated at 775,000 marks plus 120.00 marks land acquisition costs; In 1883 the building permit was granted as a single-track branch line; Construction management and later operations were transferred to the Royal Railway Operations Office in Cologne in 1885.
The Daadetalbahn was opened by the State of Prussia in 1885, initially to Biersdorf and on March 1, 1886 to Daaden. The first 1.5 kilometers to the junction at Alsdorf it runs parallel to the Hellertalbahn, which was built by the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn on July 1, 1861 . Its highest slope is 1: 54.5; the height above sea level is 186.29 m at Betzdorf and 294.96 m at Daaden.
Unrealized expansion efforts
As early as 1882 there were first considerations to extend the branch line to a point of the Oberwesterwaldbahn near Westerburg ; around 1906, citizens' committees from Bad Marienberg and Burbach also approached the authorities. A route planning Daaden - Fehl-Ritzhausen was taken into the template program of Prussia; when the First World War broke out, the project disappeared from the agenda. In 1928 there were renewed considerations to extend the Scheuerfeld - Nauroth small railway to Daaden, which, however, would have meant too high costs due to the great height difference and was therefore not implemented.
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In passenger traffic , only 13,381 tickets were sold in 1888; initially only four pairs of trains were used. It was not until 1943 that seven pairs of trains ran every working day; the increase is likely to have been due to the increasing number of workers commuting to and from the Betzdorf and Siegen areas, as well as the traffic to the grammar school in Betzdorf. The downward trend began in the 1950s with the local population using their own motorized vehicles and improved shopping opportunities in Daaden. The freight traffic for the businesses along the route, such as the Grünebacher Hütte and an iron foundry and machine factory in Grünebach, a small iron factory and two iron ore mines ( Pius and Eiserne Hardt ) in Schutzbach , the Käusersteimel quarry, the hut, remained important for the profitability of the route in Niederdreisbach , the Eiserfelder Steinwerke, the Ohliger Zug mine, the Füssenberg mine of the Krupp company in Biersdorf and the adhesive sand pits in Daaden. When planning was initially based on 70,000 to 80,000 tons of freight per year, these estimates were initially not met; The transport performance was around 50,000 to 60,000 tons by 1893 and reached around 98,000 tons in 1894, then 141,256 tons in 1905 and a total of 246,749 tons in 1913, made up of 178,535 tons of wagon loads in dispatch and 68,214 tons in receipt. Freight transport has always been more profitable and more extensive than passenger transport.
Decline
With the closure of the Füssenberg iron ore mine in 1965 and the closure of the basalt quarries and kaolin pits along the route, which had previously begun , freight traffic fell sharply. Also the passenger traffic had to be restricted more and more by the increasing individual traffic and was partly replaced by rail buses . Shunting and sidings were no longer needed and were dismantled one after the other. In 1989, the last siding in Niederdreisbach (stone loading) was given up. From then on there was only a transfer to Daaden and back with a class 290 locomotive when required , which was also discontinued later.
Resumption of passenger traffic
After the German Federal Railways had set passenger on October 2, 1993, was on 31 May 1995 between the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , the district Altenkirchen (Westerwald) , the association of municipalities Daaden , the Westerwaldbahn GmbH and Deutsche Bahn AG a contract with the Objective of resumption of passenger traffic by Westerwaldbahn GmbH closed. The line was completely renovated by Deutsche Bahn AG and then transferred to Westerwaldbahn GmbH.
Access offer / connections
- The Daadetalbahn is used by the Westerwaldbahn GmbH's RB 97 every hour of the day (with individual intervals and deviations in school traffic). 2016 two were employed to May diesel railcars of series 628.4 and since 9 May 2016, following announcement of the operation two Stadler GTW 2/6 that and previously used on the Hellertalbahn and modernized before your new use in Euromaint Rail GmbH (EMR) in Delitzsch have been fully examined. The modernized VT 24 and VS 23 originally acquired for school traffic were sold to the IGEBA Ingenieurgesellschaft Bahn in Krumbach and left in September 2009 from the Westerwald.
- At the northern end point in Betzdorf you can change to the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) in the direction of Siegen and Aachen , to the Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn (RB 90) in the direction of Limburg (Lahn) and Siegen or Kreuztal and to the Hellertalbahn (RB 96 ) in the direction of Dillenburg . There are also connections to the BRS bus line R41 (Betzdorf - Niederfischbach - Freudenberg ) and to the VRM lines 270 and 271 in the Betzdorf-Gebhardshain community . The Alsdorf (Westerwald) stop is also suitable for changing to the RB 96 trains, as the Grünebacherhütte stop of the Hellertalbahn is only about 100 meters away on foot.
- The southern end point Daaden is an important transfer point to the BRS line R23 (Daaden– Herdorf - Neunkirchen ) as well as to the VRM lines 259 (Daaden– Nisterberg ) and 455 (Daaden – Bad Marienberg).
- The Daadetalbahn trains run on behalf of the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate North (SPNV Nord) according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .
Rates
Since the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) joined the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM ) on January 1, 2009 , the tariffs of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein- Rhein- Mosel apply on the Daadetalbahn as well as for journeys within the district and to other districts that are members of the VRM. Moselle (VRM). For trips with start or finish in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS), its tariffs apply, as the VRS tariff in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district is recognized as a transitional tariff for trips to / from the VRS area. Although the entire route is in Rhineland-Palatinate , it can also be used with flat-rate tickets for the NRW tariff , such as the NRW ticket or the Schöne Fahrt NRW offer . The Quer-Durch-Land-Ticket , the Rhineland-Palatinate Ticket and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ticket + LUX (including Luxembourg) are also valid on the Daadetalbahn.
Web links
- Homepage of the Westerwaldbahn
- The Daadetalbahn celebrates its 125th birthday. Siegener Zeitung , February 25, 2011, archived from the original on February 28, 2011 ; accessed on December 23, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lothar Brill: route number . eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de, accessed on December 23, 2016 (pdf, 214 kB).
- ↑ Daadetalbahn description . ( Memento from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Westerwaldbahn GmbH, accessed on December 23, 2016.
- ↑ W. Merzhäuser: 100 years Daadetalbahn. Homeland yearbook of the Altenkirchen district 1986.
- ↑ Westerwaldbahn introduces the "new" Daadetalbahn. In: Altenkirchener Kurier. May 9, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 .