Winning stretch

Cologne victories
Route number (DB) :	2651 (Cologne-Deutz – Betzdorf) 2880 (Betzdorf – Siegen) 2621 (Cologne-Deutz – Steinstrasse, S-Bahn)
Course book section (DB) :	460
Route length:	100 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	(to Troisdorf) 160 km / h (from Troisdorf) 120 km / h (in sections) 140 km / h
Dual track :	Cologne Messe / Deutz – Blankenberg (victory) Merten (victory) –Schladern (victory) Rosbach (victory) –Siegen
Legend Routes from Mainz , from Aachen , from Krefeld Köln Hbf Hohenzollern Bridge 0.0 Cologne fair / Deutz from Cologne-Mülheim Route to Cologne-Mülheim Cologne Posthof (Abzw) S-Bahn line to Cologne-Mülheim 1.2 Cologne Gummersbacher Str. (Abzw) 1.9 Cologne Trimbornstr. Freight line from the south bridge 2.2 Cologne-Kalk (formerly PV) Freight route to Cologne-Kalk Nord Freight route Gremberg – Cologne-Kalk Nord Connection route from Cologne-Kalk Nord 3.9 Cologne Vingst (Abzw) Cologne Northeast Airport (Abzw) to the route to Overath , airport loop (S-Bahn) 4.5 Cologne Airport Northwest (Abzw) Airport loop (long-distance traffic) 6.1 Cologne Airport Business Park 8.0 Cologne Steinstr. Bypass route from the south bridge 7.8 Cologne Steinstr. Abzw (today start of SFS) Freight line from Gremberg Gremberg South (Abzw) 9.6 Porz (Rhine) Hp 9.6 Porz (Rhine) Airport loop (long-distance traffic) Airport loop (S-Bahn) 12.4 Porz madness Porz-Wahn South (Abzw) A 59 16.9 Speak Kleinbahn Siegburg – Zündorf Troisdorf tunnel (627 m) 18.0 Troisdorf Vorbf 18.4 Troisdorf North (Abzw) 19.7 Troisdorf Right Rhine route (originally route) Agger 24.3 Siegburg / Bonn former Siegburg – Olpe railway line High-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main victory 30.8 Hennef (victory) 32.7 Hennef Im Siegbogen 35.3 Blankenberg (victory) Victory (three crossings) 38.4 Merten (victory) Merten tunnel (235 m) victory 43.0 Eitorf victory 49.6 + 176 Herchen 49.6 + 202.1 49.8 + 0.0 victory Herchen tunnel (370 m) victory Hoppengarten tunnel (130 m) 55.0 Dattenfeld (victory) (previously train station) 58.3 Schladern (victory) victory Mauel tunnel (238 m) victory 60.1 Rosbach (victory) Victory (two crossings) Oberwesterwaldbahn from Altenkirchen 64.8 Au (victory) Sieg and state border NRW / RLP   (two crossings) 66.5 Opperzau (until May 1994) State border NRW / RLP victory 67.3 Etzbach 67.1 Awanst Krages Victory (two crossings) 69.9 Knowledge Kautex (Anst) former Wissertalbahn from Hermesdorf 71.3 Knowledge (victory) Victory (two crossings) Schönsteiner Tunnel (344 m) 73.7 Clover (closed) victory 75.3 Niederhövels victory Staader Tunnel (224 m) victory Mühlburg tunnel (32 m) victory 79.7 Scheuerfeld (victory) Westerwaldbahn from Bindweide 83.0 123.1 Betzdorf (Sieg) ( wedge station ) to Haiger and Daaden victory 121.2 Smoldering (abandoned) victory 120.7 Churches formerly Asdorftalbahn / Biggetalbahn Victory (two crossings) Freusburger Tunnel (127 m) victory 118.6 Freusburg settlement Victory (two crossings) Büdenholz Tunnel (232 m) Victory (two crossings) Brachbacher Tunnel (232 m) 115.1 Brachbach victory 114.1 Mudersbach victory 112.5 Niederelden Victory and state border RLP / NRW 111.8 Niederelden North victory Niederschelden tunnel (350 m) victory 110.6 Eiserfeld (victory) victory 106.2 Siegen Hbf victory to the dill route to Giessen Ruhr-Sieg route to Hagen Swell:

The victory route is an approximately 100 kilometer long, double-track , electrified main line from Cologne to Siegen . Both terminal stations are in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , around 28 kilometers run in Rhineland-Palatinate . The victory route was originally built as part of the Deutz-Gießener Railway .

course

The route runs from Cologne Messe / Deutz station via Porz (Rhine) , Troisdorf , Siegburg , Hennef (Sieg) , Au (Sieg) and Betzdorf (Sieg) to Siegen Hbf.

Between Cologne and Troisdorf, it takes on all regional and long-distance traffic up to the Steinstraße junction in Cologne's Porz district. At the Steinstraße junction, the ICE trains change to the high-speed Cologne – Rhein / Main line at the same level . The separate S-Bahn line ends immediately afterwards, so that the regional and S-Bahn trains remain on the winning line. Parallel is from there that of Gremberg coming freight to Troisdorf own pair of tracks available.

The right Rhine route branches off at Troisdorf station . In the area of the Siegburg / Bonn train station , the victory route separates from the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main and then reaches the eponymous Sieg valley . In the further course it follows the river, cutting its meander with the help of a multitude of tunnels and bridges . It is characteristic that, due to war damage, two five-kilometer sections are only in operation on a single track.

The track of the Oberwesterwaldbahn from the direction of Altenkirchen joins the Au (Sieg) station . The following stations from Etzbach via Betzdorf to Niederschelden (district of Niederschelderhütte in the Mudersbach municipality ) are in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Betzdorf, travelers can change to the Hellertalbahn and Daadetalbahn . With the stop Niederschelden Nord the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the district of Niederschelden of the city of Siegen are reached.

Service offer

The victory route for local rail passenger transport is operated on behalf of the three regionally responsible authorities, Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland , ZV SPNV Rheinland-Pfalz Nord and ZV Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe .

• Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) of the DB Regio ( Aachen - Cologne - Siegen ), every hour. Verkehrt mainly with pull trains of double-deck cars with electric locomotives of the 146 series . From 2012, the Bombardier Talent 2 railcars carriedthe main loadin double traction .
• Westerwald win train (RB 90) of HLB as DreiLänderBahn ( Limburg - Westerburg - Altenkirchen - Au - Betzdorf - Siegen ), runs every hour after the S 12, the rush hour half hour in the section Altenkirchen - Betzdorf. The trains consist of class 640 or 648 diesel multiple units for speeds of up to 120 km / h.
• Rothaarbahn (RB 93) of the HLB as a three-country railway ( Betzdorf - Siegen - Kreuztal - Bad Berleburg ), runs every hour following the RE 9, forms together with RB 90 every half hour in the Betzdorf - Siegen section. The trains consist of class 640 or 648 diesel multiple units for speeds of up to 120 km / h.
• S 12 of the Cologne S-Bahn ( (Horrem -) Cologne-Ehrenfeld - Cologne - Cologne-Porz - Troisdorf - Hennef - Au ), to Hennef every 20 minutes, further to Au every hour. On weekdays it forms half-hourly intervals with the S 19 in the Hennef - Herchen - Au section. Every half hour on Sundays to Au. Runs with double units consisting of class 420 electric multiple units and class 423 electric multiple units .
• S 13 of the Cologne S-Bahn ( Düren - Sindorf - Cologne-Ehrenfeld - Cologne - Cologne-Bonn Airport  - Troisdorf ), runs with double units from class 423 electric multiple units.
• S 19 of the Cologne S-Bahn ( Düren - Sindorf - Cologne-Ehrenfeld - Cologne - Cologne-Bonn Airport - Troisdorf - Siegburg - Hennef - Herchen - Au ), on weekdays to Au every hour with additional trips during rush hour to Hennef or Blankenberg, on Sundays every hour to Hennef and night traffic to Au. Runs with double units made up of class 423 electric multiple units.

Rates

The route leads through three transport associations with different tariffs, depending on the starting point and destination. The following tariffs apply to trips within the respective route sections:

• Cologne - Au: Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS)
• Etzbach - Niederschelden: Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM)
• Niederelden Nord - Siegen: Westphalian tariff (replaced the VGWS tariff in 2017)

The following rules apply to cross-network journeys:

• When driving from the VRS to the VRM area and vice versa, the VRS tariff applies (example: Betzdorf - Cologne).
• The Westphalian tariff applies to trips from the Westphalian tariff area to the VRM and vice versa (example: Siegen - Betzdorf). Westphalian tariff tickets are issued from / to Wissen.
• VRM tickets can be used to travel between Altenkirchen and Betzdorf on the Geilhausen - Au section of the Westerwald-Sieg Railway, which is in the VRS area. This means that you only need a VRM ticket between destinations within the Altenkirchen district.
• The NRW tariff applies to trips from the VRS to the Westphalian tariff area and vice versa . In terms of the NRW tariff, the section of the VRM in the Altenkirchen district, i.e. Etzbach to Niederschelden , is a transit route that can be used when traveling between destinations in NRW at the NRW tariff (example: Cologne - Siegen). Contrary to this regulation, Niederschelden Nord can be reached with the VRS tariff.
• Only for journeys Siegen - Etzbach does not apply a network tariff, the tariff of the Deutsche Bahn applies.

The following applies to flat-rate tickets for regional transport:

• The Schöne-Tag-Ticket NRW - the state ticket for North Rhine-Westphalia - as well as the Schöne-Fahrt-Ticket NRW can be used on the entire victory route, as the NRW tariff counts as a transitional tariff in the Altenkirchen district.
• The Rhineland-Palatinate Ticket and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ticket + LUX are valid on the Au - Siegen section.
• The cross-through-country ticket is a nationwide offer on the entire route to victory.

history

Emergence

Today's victory line consists of the western part of the Deutz-Gießener Eisenbahn (DGE) to Betzdorf and its branch line from Betzdorf to Siegen. The original DGE ran on the Betzdorf – Haiger railway from Betzdorf via Herdorf and Burbach (Kr Siegen) to Haiger and from there on over the Dill route via Dillenburg to Gießen . When the direct route between Siegen and Haiger went into operation in 1915, traffic shifted and Siegen became the new junction.

In 1865 four passenger trains were reported between (Cologne-) Deutz and Siegen, which required 4 hours and 11 minutes travel time in each direction. An express train that only stopped at the stations, but not at the stops, took 2 hours and 38 minutes to cover the same distance.

The victory flood in 1909 damaged numerous bridges. The bridge in Herchen was so badly damaged that it had to be rebuilt from scratch. In 1914, numerous special trains were used to transport German troops to their deployment area, the Eifel, for the First World War .

More years

1960: Passenger train from the direction of Herchen tunnel on the bridge over the Sieg

The last days of the Second World War in 1945, in which numerous bridges over the rivers were destroyed and subsequently only rebuilt on a single track, have had an impact up to the present . In 1991 the second track over the Agger was restored for the S-Bahn service in the Troisdorf - Siegburg section . As before, there are single-track sections between Blankenberg and Merten (three kilometers) and Schladern and Rosbach (two kilometers). In the single-track section near Bülgenauel , there was a serious train accident on February 18, 1956, in which two people died and 15 were injured. The collision of a freight train and an express train was caused by human error.

In 1962 the first part of the victory route from Cologne to Troisdorf was electrified together with the right Rhine route, in 1980 the remaining victory route from Troisdorf. In 1976 the steam locomotive operation in the Siegtal was stopped. It was not until 1987 that steam locomotives were allowed to drive here again. The formerly extensive freight traffic has declined sharply. Long-distance passenger transport was discontinued by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1980s . For a few months, from June 6th to October 27th, 2003, the Connex company let the InterConnex long-distance train run from Cologne via Siegen - Marburg  - Kassel  - Berlin to Rostock over the victory route . In 1990/1991 test drives with the Intercity Express were carried out in the Siegtal valley .

S-Bahn traffic

As part of the Cologne S-Bahn , trains on line S 12, which initially consisted of class 143 locomotives with converted Silberlingen , have been running every half hour from Cologne-Nippes via Cologne Hbf to Hennef (Sieg) and every hour further to Au (Sieg) since 1991 . In the spring of 2004, the stations along the S 12 were equipped with elevated platforms, in some cases with new access tunnels as a replacement for level access to the platforms. In the train stations in Porz, Troisdorf, Hennef and Blankenberg, temporary arrangements were made, at the end of 2009 the new elevated platform in Porz was the last to go into operation. Since June 13, 2004, the S 12 has been running with class 423 S-Bahn railcars from Düren via Cologne to Hennef every twenty minutes and on to Au every hour.

The new Hennef Im Siegbogen stop was built from October 2010 and went into operation on schedule in December 2011. Also in 2011, Blankenberg station received a second platform and Au (Sieg) station received separate butt tracks for S-Bahn and regional trains .

Beginning in December 2014, an increasing number of trips on the previous line S 13 via Troisdorf were extended as line S 19 into the Siegtal valley. This second S-Bahn line, in addition to the S 12, offers a direct connection to Cologne / Bonn Airport. As of 2018, it doubles the number of trips during rush hour to 6 trains per hour to Hennef, and then to Au to 2 trains per hour. In addition, there are still the trains of the Rhein-Sieg-Express, which previously could no longer meet the demand due to increased passenger numbers.

The only three platform edges in Hennef station mean an operational bottleneck. Individual trains on the S 19 line therefore continue to the double-track Blankenberg station, where they also have to turn on a main track, but also serve the Hennef Im Siegbogen stop along the way. The single-track section beginning at Blankenberg station up to the Merten stop is in turn a further bottleneck, so that the trains running to Au do not stop in Blankenberg during the day.

For trains turning in Herchen station, DB Netze equipped the nearly seven-kilometer section to Eitorf in the direction of Cologne with an additional block signal . It went into operation on June 12, 2016 with the small timetable change.

Since the timetable change in 2015, there have been at least two rounds of the 420 series between Hennef and Cologne-Ehrenfeld (Horrem) from Monday to Friday. These continue to run early in the morning and late in the evening via Hennef to Au (Sieg).

Rhineland-Palatinate Clock 2015

The timetable change in December 2015, the Rhineland-Palatinate PTA designed SPNV northern part of the Rhineland-Palatinate clock 2015 local rail passenger transport in the eastern part of the track again. After the Hessische Landesbahn started operating the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network in December 2014, the regional rail routes changed in 2015:

Trains of the Oberwesterwald-Bahn RB 90 from Limburg via Altenkirchen go beyond Au via Betzdorf to Siegen, and sometimes further to Kreuztal . In addition, the journeys of the Rothaar Railway RB 93 via Kreuztal and Erndtebrück to Bad Berleburg no longer start in Siegen, but already in Betzdorf.

Betzdorf railway station in March 2016: tracks 105, 106 and (far right) former track 107 with the pedestrian connection to the P + R facility.

In May 2015, DB Netze equipped the section between the Brachbach and Kirchen train stations at the level of the Freusburg Siedlung stop with additional block signals to enable a closer train sequence.

In connection with the new operating program, the reactivation of track 107 in Betzdorf station, which had been shut down in 2003, was initiated. The construction work was prepared, but postponed several times and is not expected until the end of 2020 at the earliest.

→ Main article : "Future" in the article Bahnhof Betzdorf (Sieg)

Planning

Two-track expansion throughout

S-Bahn multiple unit of the DB class 423 on the single-track section near Blankenberg

For the two-track expansion of the two sections between Blankenberg and Merten and between Schladern and Rosbach, the costs were estimated at 27 and 37 million euros in 2007.

As part of the integrated overall traffic planning of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the upgrading of the victory route with a cost-benefit ratio of −0.98 was rejected in 2005. In May 2012, the managing director of the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland , Reinkober, considered an expansion of the Sieg route to a continuous double track unlikely in the short term due to the high costs.

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 includes a summarized measure “Corridor Middle Rhine: Target Network I” under the item New Projects, Urgent Needs . This includes u. a. the full doubling of between Hennef and Au and the production of the KV - Profile P / C 400 at all tunnels between Au and victories. In June 2013, politicians in the Altenkirchen district advocated the inclusion of the expansion in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, also accepting increased freight traffic.

Expansion measures for improving the connecting tracks in Siegen to the Dill line and in Troisdorf to the freight line to Gremberg are not listed in the federal transport infrastructure plan. As of 2012, the route between Cologne and Troisdorf is fully occupied. Additional timetable routes can only be constructed for long-distance traffic between Cologne Messe / Deutz and Cologne Steinstrasse.

The two-track expansion is blocked by the district committee for planning and traffic of the Rhein-Sieg district. Corresponding applications for expansion were rejected by a majority in June 2015 and December 2019. The local transport plan 2020 of the Rhein-Sieg district is, however, under point 7.8.2. "Measures to increase capacity on the rail route" can be seen that the district and the city of Bonn have registered for the public transport demand plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, among other things, the expansion of the victory route for the local railroad.

Sankt Augustin-Buisdorf stop

A request made to the Sankt Augustin city ​​council in summer 2017 for a new S-Bahn station in the Buisdorf district between Siegburg and Hennef was rejected by the Rhineland Local Transport Association. This was justified with the expected low number of passengers as well as the "not yet foreseeable [s]" double-track expansion. In the local transport plan 2020 of the Rhein-Sieg district, point 7.8.5. noted that around 5100 residents live in a catchment area of ​​1.5 kilometers from a possible Buisdorf S-Bahn station.

Germany clock

In conjunction with the Deutschland-Takt schedule concept, regional traffic on the Sieg line outside the S-Bahn area could also be reorganized by the transport authorities. Any improvement over the previous state must combine several, sometimes contradicting goals:

• Establish a reliable connection between Cologne and Siegen with enough transfer time in Siegen in the direction of Hagen and the Ruhr area ( Ruhr-Sieg route ) or Gießen and Frankfurt (Dill route), especially with regard to a possible long-distance traffic connection, which according to the German cycle is full Hour to arrive and depart from Siegen Hbf
• Ensure the fast service of as many stations as possible outside the S-Bahn area of ​​the route, also in terms of the most attractive possible commuter relationships to Cologne without changing trains
• not to overload the S-Bahn area of ​​the Sieg line from Cologne to Au and the Cologne railway junction with additional train journeys

One solution could be a pull wing in Eitorf. There, the parts of the train coming from Cologne would travel separately and in quick succession towards Siegen. The front part of the train as an express train with intermediate stops only in Au and Betzdorf, the rear part of the train with stops at today's RSX stops in Herchen and Schladern, as well as from Au as a replacement for today's RB90 with stops at all stations to Siegen Hbf The now short changeover time in Siegen Hbf (Main Station) can be significantly relaxed thanks to the shorter travel time between Eitorf and Siegen, and there were no changes in Au. However, a slightly longer travel time would be disadvantageous due to the wing in Eitorf for travelers from Cologne to Herchen, Schladern and Wissen. After Kirchen and Brachbach the travel time would be extended by approx. 10 minutes due to the operation of all stops from Au. The half-hourly service of all stops between Betzdorf and Siegen would be taken over in this concept by the RB91 line, which is to be extended to Betzdorf during the day. At the full hour, both tracks in Eitorf station would be occupied for about 5 minutes at the same time. The long block section Eitorf - Herchen would have to be shortened by new signals so that the two newly separated parts of the train can leave one behind the other.

Picture gallery

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  Cologne-Porz, looking towards Cologne: left the right Rhine route , right the victory route, in between the high-speed route .

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  Au (Sieg) until 2011: Left electric multiple unit of the S 12 ( DB class 423 ), right diesel multiple unit of the Sieg-Dill Railway ( DB class 648 )

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  Au (Sieg) from 2014, with new head tracks: On the left, railcars of the S12 ( DB class 423 ), in the background railcars of the DB class 648 of the Sieg-Dill-Bahn (RB 95)

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  Siegtal between Eitorf-Merten and Hennef-Bülgenauel with the single-track victory route

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  East portal of the Merten tunnel

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  Station building in Hennef

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  Railway station in Betzdorf

Web links

Commons : Victory route  - collection of images, videos and audio files

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2651 : Cologne-Deutz ↔ Betzdorf
• Description of route 2880 : Betzdorf ↔ Siegen

www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill:

• Pictures of the tunnel portals, section 2651
• Pictures of the tunnel portals, section 2880

further evidence:

• Photos of the Siegtal route
• The construction of the Deutz-Giessen railway
• Argumentation for the inclusion of the Ruhr-Sieg route or the victory route in a future BVWP. (PDF) (No longer available online.) INTRAPLAN Consult GmbH, December 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 20, 2015 (report for the Siegen Chamber of Commerce and Industry).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  

literature

• Klaus Strack: 150 years of the railway in the Siegtal . Galunder-Verlag 2010, ISBN 3-89909-100-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Historical: When the smallpox epidemic prevailed in Wisserland, on ak-kurier.de on June 9, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020
4. ↑ Julia Hohenadel: An additional stop in the east. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . October 5, 2010, archived from the original on December 13, 2010 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Blankenberg gets a new platform. In: bahnaktuell.net. July 4, 2011, archived from the original on December 1, 2013 ; accessed on December 1, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Stephan Propach: Bahn is building a new "turning system". In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . August 11, 2011, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 2, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Moebahn.de: NVR: path applications annual timetable 2016. March 5, 2015, accessed on 30 September 2015 . 
8. ^ Special purpose association for local rail passenger transport Rhineland-Palatinate North: Award decision in the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network. October 31, 2010, archived from the original on December 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 2, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Commissioning for or in the 2015 network timetable (PDF; 69 KiB) In: fahrweg.dbnetze.com. P. 1 , archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 28, 2013 . 
10. ↑ SMA and Partner AG (ed.): Expansion options for the victory route . Zurich 2007. quoted from Jürgen Steinbrecher: Freight traffic study Dreiländereck Südwestfalen * Lahn-Dill * Altenkirchen. (PDF; 9.1 MiB) June 2011, p. 133 , archived from the original on May 11, 2013 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Integrated overall traffic planning of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. (PDF) Ministry of Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 4, 2006, p. 89 , accessed on November 9, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Stefan Hennigfeld: Interview with NVR boss Norbert Reinkober (part 3): Planning for the next decades. In: Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de. May 18, 2012, archived from the original on January 2, 2013 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030. (PDF) p. 164 , archived from the original on December 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 11, 2016 (project no. 2-004-V03): “2 tracks continuously Blankenberg - Merten u. Schladern - Rosbach " 
14. ↑ District wants expansion of the victory route. (No longer available online.) In: Siegener Zeitung. Vorländer & Rothmaler GmbH & Co. KG, archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; accessed on April 19, 2018 . 
15. ↑ node investigation Cologne "version of 1-00". (PDF) (No longer available online.) Nahverkehr Rheinland GmbH , SMA and Partner AG , January 24, 2012, p. 19 , archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; accessed on December 30, 2017 (derived abridged version). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
16. ↑ Judith Nikula: Double-track expansion of the victory route rejected again. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. General-Anzeiger Bonn GmbH, December 6, 2019, archived from the original on January 28, 2020 ; accessed on January 28, 2020 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b} Local transport plan Rhein-Sieg district, version 2.3, April 2020. Rhein-Sieg district, April 2020, archived from the original on July 17, 2020 ; accessed on July 17, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Cordula Orphal: Sankt Augustinian district Buisdorf dreams of a rail connection. In: Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau. M. DuMont Schauberg Expedition of the Kölnische Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, May 30, 2017, archived from the original ; accessed on April 19, 2018 . 
19. ↑ NVR rejects station in Buisdorf. Probably no further stop between Siegburg and Hennef. In: Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau. M. DuMont Schauberg Expedition of the Kölnische Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, August 1, 2017, archived from the original ; accessed on April 19, 2018 .