Finnentrop – Freudenberg railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 2864 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 442 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 43.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 80 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Finnentrop – Freudenberg railway was 44 kilometers long and consists of two parts:
- The Finnentrop – Olpe railway is a 24-kilometer, single-track , non-electrified branch line from Finnentrop via Attendorn and Olpe in the Bigge valley . It is used every hour by the Biggesee Express ( route book route 442) for local rail passenger transport .
- The former Olpe – Freudenberg railway line , its 20-kilometer southern extension, was shut down and is now dismantled.
history
Construction (1875 to 1907)
The line was built by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn and put into operation on November 1st, 1875 from Finnentrop to Olpe. Originally it was planned to build it with the Aggertalbahn as part of a Cologne – Kassel main line, which would have been expanded to two-track as the main line, but this project failed. On December 1, 1880, it was extended to Rothemühle via Gerlingen. On November 1, 1907, until Wildenburg-Bahnhof continued following the valley of the Bigge, traffic to Freudenberg (Westf) began, where the line merged into the Asdorftalbahn via Niederfischbach to Kirchen (Sieg) with a connection to the victory route .
Another route, the Aggertalbahn , ran from Olpe via Drolshagen , Bergneustadt and Dieringhausen to Siegburg .
Re-alignment (around 1964)
When the Bigge lake was built, it was initially planned to shut down the entire route. Ultimately, however, due to the importance of the lake for tourism, the railway was completely re-routed along its banks. Three new tunnels were required, of which the Bausenberg tunnel (1071 m) and the Erbscheid tunnel (1034 m) are the longest openings in the connection.
All bridges and tunnels were prepared for future electrification when they were built , but this was never carried out. The new section went into operation on May 31, 1964.
Reductions (from 1983)
Passenger traffic from Olpe to Freudenberg ceased on May 29, 1983. At the same time, freight traffic between Freudenberg and Rothemühle was discontinued, while freight traffic between Rothemühle and Olpe was maintained until May 22, 1993. The Freudenberg – Rothemühle section was closed in 1987, the Rothemühle – Olpe section in 2000 and dismantled in 2005. In the city of Olper, the former railway line is now being used as a temporary parking lot. In the future it will be included in a bypass.
There was a depot in Olpe, but it was only of local importance. With entry into the Uerdinger railcars in the German Federal Railroad that characterized the image of the railroad track to 1984, which was Bw Olpe meaningless and dissolved.
Freight traffic in Olpe continued until around 1992, and the Rothemühle train station and a siding in the industrial park two kilometers south of the station were occasionally served until the early 1990s. Freight trains continued to run to Drolshagen until around 1992, and then only to Eichen (Kr. Olpe) until 1994. Freight traffic to Attendorn was withdrawn from the mid-90s and has been permanently suspended there since MORA C.
In 1994, the locomotive-hauled wagon trains were replaced by class 628 multiple units . At the same time, the range was expanded and a regular schedule was introduced. The local transport line, which was advertised as the "Biggesee Express" when it was launched, has been running every hour between Finnentrop and Olpe since then. At the turn of the millennium, multiple units of the 640 series were used on the line , which were retained even after the Dreiländerbahn was first awarded.
In 2005, the former train station in Olpe was severely dismantled, which has only been a stopping point since then and was finally abandoned in 2013. As a replacement, a new platform with a bus station was built north of the original Olpe station. The former station area will be fully incorporated into urban development projects. The station used to be a railway junction of the Aggertalbahn , Asdorftalbahn and the Finnentrop – Freudenberg railway. Originally the Meinerzhagen – Krummenerl railway was also supposed to lead here, but the extension was not built. Today only the line to Finnentrop is preserved.
Today there is only a possibility of crossing in Attendorn, where there are two tracks. The last additional siding / freight track was removed there in 2014 as part of the modernization work at Attendorn station. During this modernization, the platforms were also provided with guide strips for the blind and the entrances made barrier-free.
At the Sondern stop (formerly the train station), the last remnants of the former second track (formerly local track 1) as well as the former, associated house platform were removed in 2017 as part of a redesign of the Biggesee shore.
The entire route, including Attendorn station, is remote-controlled from the Finnentrop interlocking.
Route description
The single-track route runs on the Finnentrop – Attendorn section through meadows and over dams, but also partly through the forest . Between Attendorn and Kraghammer, the route runs on a dam through the adjacent industrial areas and on the Kraghammer – Olpe section in forest areas as an incision track .
A structural specialty of the route are the two double-deck bridges over the Dumicket valley and the Listertal on the Biggesee, which are used together with the parallel streets on two floors. The trains run on the lower floors, the street is on the upper floors. In addition to the two-story bridge at Bullay, these structures are almost unique in Germany . Since the trains run on the lower floor, they have to get below the level of the street using two tunnels at either end of the bridges.
At the stop in Sondern there is a direct transition to the excursion boats operating on the Biggesee (“Seebahnhof”). This is the only "Seebahnhof" in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Service offer
The railway Finnentrop-Olpe is in rail transport (SPNV) daily every hour from the regional train RB 92 (Bigge-Express) , with links to regional express RE 16 (Ruhr-Sieg-Express) in Finnentrop direction Hagen / food traveled and direction Siegen .
The SPNV on the Biggesee-Express is carried out by the three-country railway of the HLB Hessenbahn , which uses LINT diesel multiple units in single and double traction and, on special occasions (such as the Attendorn Carnival ), triple traction for speeds of up to 120 km / h. The entire route is in the Westphalian tariff area , the NRW tariff and the Deutsche Bahn local transport tariff also apply.
Some of the stops on the Biggesee Express are on-demand stops, Attendorn-Hohenhagen was not approached at all for years, then only in summer. This is due to the purely tourist use of the stop on the one hand, but also to the lack of platform lighting on the other. The train from one end of the line to the other takes a little more than half an hour.
The number of passengers on the Biggesee Express is 900 kilometers per day per kilometer of operating length.
With the tender won in the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network, the Hessische Landesbahn took over the operation of the RB 92 line at the timetable change in December 2014. The start of operations was originally planned for August 2015. However, since negotiations on a necessary transition concept showed that an early start of operations by HLB is better than a contract extension with DB Regio, the handover was brought forward accordingly.
Picture gallery
Finnentrop station building
Attendorn station building
Olpe station building
Train at the Olpe stop (2010)
One of the two double deck bridges over the Biggesee
future
As part of the modernization offensive for train stations, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia invested over one million euros in Finnentrop train station . In the first phase of construction, the unkempt reception building was torn down despite numerous protests from Heimatfreunde. Then, the main platform was raised to 76 centimeters, as a cross-platform interchange rebuilt for the bus station and tactile the visually impaired provided so that people with disabilities or reduced mobility largely unassisted accessible once the trains or to disembark.
As part of the Regionale 2013 , various station measures will be implemented along the route. The Kraghammer stop will be closed and replaced by a new Attendorn-Biggestaudamm stop in a different location. Lighting is installed at the seasonal stop at Attendorn-Hohen Hagen. The stop in Sondern is being modernized and made barrier-free.
2003 accident
On October 18, 2003, shortly before 11 a.m., a train accident occurred in Attendorn. During the construction work on the car floor of the Listertal Bridge near Hohenhagen, two material wagons from the construction company started rolling and covered the sloping route via Listerscheid and Kraghammer to Attendorn. Shortly before the train station, the cars collided with a car and several pedestrians on a level crossing, two people were killed and several injured. One of the two cars rolled a kilometer further down the valley. All level crossings were deactivated due to the construction work, the railway line was only used to transport materials for the construction work.
simulation
The route between Finnentrop and Olpe along the Biggesees as well as the former routes Dieringhausen – Olpe and Olpe – Kirchen (Sieg) - Betzdorf were released by a software provider as a railway simulation for the Microsoft Train Simulator and have been continuously developed since then. The simulation takes place in the 1970s, when the entire route network on the Bigge was still navigable and in operation. At that time there was also extensive freight and connecting traffic. However, steam locomotive activities on the Dieringhausen – Olpe route were already history in the 1970s. Since 1969 were in the depot Dieringhausen (now Railway Museum diesel locomotives stationed only).
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Bergisches Land. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt April 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-147-7 .
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-580-2 .
Web links
- Description of route 2864 in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
- Pictures of the tunnel portals, as well as a map with abandoned and newly built section of the route
- Finnentrop - Freudenberg route on www.sauerlandbahnen.de
- Comparison of images of Freudenberg train station, earlier and today at DSO, accessed on February 5, 2010
- Film about the laying of the railway during the construction of the Biggetalsperre
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway line is upgraded ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ come-on.de: The lakeside invites you to stroll. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Local traffic plan Westphalia-Lippe , p. 280, (PDF; 59 MiB)
- ^ HLB - Our local rail transport services ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Line overview of the HLB
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Association meeting of the SPNV Nord in July 2014, p. 5
- ↑ Overview of current station funding programs in the NWL