Railway line Brüchermühle – Wildbergerhütte
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| Route number : | 2683 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 240p (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Brüchermühle – Wildbergerhütte , locally called Hütter Bahn , was a branch line in the Oberbergisches Land in North Rhine-Westphalia . It branched in the upper Wiehltal in Brüchermühle from the Wiehltalbahn and led the Wiehl along by Wildbergerhütte . It was the railway line with the shortest operating time in the Oberbergisches Land.
history
In 1906, permission to build the line was granted. The construction of the line was based on requests from mine operators in Wildbergerhütte. Construction work did not begin until 1909. In 1910 the line was opened, making it the penultimate railway line opened in the region (the last was the Bielstein – Waldbröl small railway ). The delay in construction, however, meant that the pits connected to the route were not competitive with the other pits in the region. In 1911 the Ufersmühle and Niederodenspiel stops opened.
The original plan was to extend the line to Rothemühle on the Finnentrop – Freudenberg railway line . Due to the First World War , this was no longer implemented, although preliminary work had already started.
Thus, from the beginning, no satisfactory income could be achieved with this railway line. The sparse passenger traffic to the terminus in Wildbergerhütte could not compensate for this either. The connections to the Wiehltalbahn were poor and the slow freight trains with passenger transport introduced from 1923 made the situation even worse.
In the mid-1920s there was so much vandalism along the route that the Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld threatened to suspend passenger traffic. Another attempt to build on to Rothemühle in the early 1930s was finally rejected by the Reich Railway Directorate.
In March 1945 operations came to a complete standstill due to the Wehrmacht's scorched earth tactics during World War II , after a bridge was blown up on March 9, 1945. Due to the economic situation, the repair of other routes had priority; trains did not run again until 1947/1948. As early as 1952, the train offer was significantly reduced; a train bus introduced at the same time further reduced the number of passengers. Therefore, on October 3, 1953, after 43 years, passenger traffic was stopped.
Due to an upcoming, expensive superstructure renovation, which was too uneconomical for the operators, freight traffic was also ended on November 30, 1959. The line was closed on May 30, 1960. By the end of September of the same year, all the tracks were removed. Maintenance of the route was abandoned in 1962.
Today, with the exception of small remains such as a kilometer stone near Nespen, only the station building in Wildbergerhütte still exists . The station building in Auchel was demolished in 1970, and large parts of the former line disappeared in the Wiehl dam in 1971 .
See also
literature
- Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski u. a .: Railways in Oberberg and the history of the Dieringhausen depot. Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Bergisches Land. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt April 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-147-7 .
Web links
- Description of route 2683 in the NRWbahnArchiv by André Joost
- Timetable 1944
