Koblenz-Lützel – Mayen Ost railway line

Koblenz-Lützel-Mayen East
Track remains at Koblenz-Rübenach train station, 2018
Course of the Koblenz-Lützel – Mayen Ost railway line
Route number (DB) :	3015
Course book section (DB) :	formerly 603 (1983)
Route length:	34.14 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Eifelquerbahn from Daun 34.140 Mayen East Eifelquerbahn to Andernach B 262 31,500 Hausen (b Mayen) Nice Viaduct (115 m) 30.100 Hausen II tunnel (253 m) Lehnen Viaduct (82 m) 29.400 Hausen I tunnel (499 m) 28,450 Nice nice A 48 former route from Münstermaifeld 26.044 Polch 21,640 Notches A 48 15.887 Attention 9.738 Bassenheim A 61 A 48 6.277 Koblenz-Rübenach 3.000 Koblenz-Metternich 2.2 00 1.700 Kilometers jump after realignment (Re-routing since ???) B 9 Left Rhine route from Andernach 0.000 Koblenz-Lützel North ( DB Museum ) (former route to ???) 0.000 Koblenz-Lützel Left Rhine route to Koblenz Swell:

The Koblenz-Lützel-Mayen Ost railway line was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Former reception building of Koblenz-Rübenach train station, 2018

As early as March 1890, a company from Koblenz tried to obtain a concession for a railway line from Kobern-Gondorf via Münstermaifeld and Polch to Mayen , but this was unsuccessful. In 1892 both the Brohltalbahn and Lenz & Co. planned to build a railway line from Koblenz to Mayen. The company Lenz & Co., which was awarded the contract, had already started preparatory work when, on the instructions of the War Ministry, the line was to be expanded for military trains. Lenz & Co. then lost interest, so that on May 25, 1900, the Prussian State Railways received the concession for the railway line from Lützel via Polch to Mayen Ost.

On October 1, 1904, the Koblenz-Lützel-Polch section was officially opened. The section to Mayen Ost, which was originally supposed to be inaugurated on the same day, could not go into operation until November 12, 1904 due to a landslide on September 30, 1904. In 1916 Münstermaifeld also received a rail connection with the Polch – Münstermaifeld line.

As early as the 1970s, the Polch – Mayen Ost section was closed to freight traffic due to damage to the superstructure and the poor condition of the two Hausen viaducts . After the suspension of passenger traffic on the entire route on December 9, 1983 and the simultaneous end of goods traffic between Kerben and Mayen, only residual goods traffic remained from Koblenz to Kerben (until July 30, 1988) or Ochtendung (until 2000), where there was still a quarry was served. The official shutdown took place on September 15, 2003.

Today (as of 2019) the tracks from the expanded switch on the left Rhine line to Bassenheim station still exist. A railway cycle path ( Maifeld cycle path ) runs the rest of the way . In 2008 the association Bahn-Initiative Koblenz-Ochtendung e. V. founded with the aim of reactivating the remaining route.

In March 2012, DB Netz applied for the exemption from railway operations for the section from kilometer 10.05 (intersection Kreisstraße 66 in Bassenheim) to kilometer 33.17.

Web links

Commons : Koblenz-Lützel – Mayen Ost railway line  - collection of images

• KBS 603 - The railway line from Koblenz via Polch to Mayen
• Pictures of the Maifeld cycle path Ochtendung – Mayen
• Course book from 1944
• Website of the railway initiative Koblenz-Ochtendung e. V. (BIKO e.V.)
• Is the train going back to Bassenheim soon? (PDF file; 3.2 MiB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ Federal Railway Office - Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch office -: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act - Exemption from railway operations relating to the route 3015 Koblenz-Lützel – Mayen Ost - from March 30, 2012 (Az. 55170 - 551pf / 127 - 2011 # 009; BAnz AT 04/11/2012 B5 )