Mödrath – Liblar railway line

Mödrath-Liblar
Route number (DB) :	2606 (Mödrath – Liblar) 2609 (Liblar Dorf – Liblar)
Course book section (DB) :	last 247a
Route length:	13.0 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Track width up to 1904:	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Track until 1913:	1000 mm and 1435 mm ( three-rail track )
Legend from Horrem from Benzelrath 12.98 Mödrath formerly after Nörvenich 8.59 Türnich-Balkhausen ( bus stop ) 6.72 Brüggen (Erft) Kierdorf 5.10 Zieselsmaar 3.64 Köttingen 1.82 Liblar village from Vochem from Cologne 0, 00 Erftstadt (formerly Liblar ) to Trier Euskirchener Kreisbahnen Swell:

The Mödrath – Liblar line was a branch line in North Rhine-Westphalia . It ran along the Erft on the western edge of the Ville .

history

In continuation of the main line of the Bergheimer Kreisbahn via Horrem to Mödrath, the line to Liblar (today Erftstadt ) was initially built in meter gauge by the West German Railway Company (WeEG) . On June 24, 1898, the first section to Türnich-Balkhausen was opened for passenger traffic; the rest of the route to Liblar followed on March 1, 1899.

On August 4, 1903, the Mödrath-Liblar-Brühler Eisenbahn (MLBE) was founded, which in addition to this route also took over the Liblar – Vochem railway . At the instigation of the MLBE, the line was converted to standard gauge in 1904 by adding a third rail .

On January 1, 1913, the MLBE was nationalized along with its lines and transferred to the Prussian State Railways .

From 1904 the line was planned as part of a strategic railway (“Ruhr-Mosel relief line”). A further construction from Liblar via Rheinbach to Rech an der Ahrtalbahn was planned, but was not carried out.

In 1949, the Frechen opencast mine was the first large open-cast mine in the Rhenish lignite mining area . This initially required the relocation of the section between Mödrath and Türnich-Balkhausen, which was completed on December 16, 1956. Five years later, this section fell completely victim to the expanding opencast mine and was shut down on May 28, 1961.

At the same time, passenger traffic on the entire route to Liblar was suspended. The cessation of freight traffic finally followed on June 1, 1965.

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2606 Mödrath ↔ Liblar
• Description of the route 2609 Liblar Dorf ↔ Liblar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .