Dill range

Siegen – Giessen
Route number (DB) :	2881 (Siegen – Siegen Ost) 2800 (Siegen Ost – Haiger) 2651 (Haiger – Gießen)
Course book section (DB) :	445
Route length:	73 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV, 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	approx. 12  ‰
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend Victory route from Cologne −1.1 Siegen Hbf 0.0 Ruhr-Sieg route to Hagen 0.4 Ruhr-Sieg route from Hagen 0.4-1.2 Giersberg tunnel (two levels 699 m / one level 732 m) 2.0 Change of route 2.6 Siegen Ost Gbf 2.9 Siegen-Wittgenstein circuit 3.1 107.6 Connection to Mannesmann Fuchs pipe 108.3 Connection "City of Siegen" 110.9 Niederdielfen Viaduct 111.4 Niederdielfen 114.8 Rudersdorf Viaduct 115.8 Wilnsdorf - Rudersdorf 116.4 Connection to the Rudersdorf substation 117.6 Rudersdorf Tunnel 2652 m approx. 119.0 State border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse 121.4 Dill and road bridge 121.7 Dillbrecht 124.2 Dill and road bridge 124.9 Rodenbach (Dillkr) 127.0 A 45 Hellertalbahn from Betzdorf (Sieg) former line from Breitscheid 129.1 Haiger ( wedge station ) 129.6 119.3 Route change, network district border 119.3 B 277 119.4 dill 121.4 Six heroes 123.7 formerly Dietzhölztalbahn from Ewersbach 125.0 Dillenburg former Schelden Valley Railway to Wallau (Lahn) 126.6 dill 127.1 Niedereld (Dillkr) south 128.3 dill 129.0 Castle (Dillkr) north 129.3 formerly Aar-Salzböde-Bahn from Niederwalgern 129.8 former Westerwaldquerbahn formerly Westerwaldquerbahn from Montabaur 130.8 Herborn (Dillkr) 133.3 dill 134.6 Connection to Haas & Sohn 135.0 sense 137.1 Edingen (Kr Wetzlar) 139.4 Katzenfurt 143.5 Ehringshausen (Kr Wetzlar) 146.0 Werdorf 148.8 dill 149.0 Connection to the Berkenhoff & Drebes company 149.4 Asslar 150.4 former Lahn Valley Railway to Koblenz 152.8 Connection to Buderus Edelstahl I 153.2 Connection to Buderus Edelstahl II 153.3 Lahn Valley Railway from Koblenz 153.4 Wetzlar 153.9 Lahn 154.7 Wetzlar Gbf 154.8 Garbenheim, Bahnhofstrasse 155.1 Garbenheim only on the Lollar – Wetzlar line , until 1977 155.6 155.8 Garbenheim, Wannsweg 156.0 former route to Lollar 160.6 Dutenhofen (Kr Wetzlar) 161.0 to Gießen-Bergwald ( to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf ) 163.6 Giessen Pbf / Rbf transition ( Abzw ) 164.4 from Gießen-Bergwald 164.5 from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Giessen Gbf 166.0 Giessen (wedge station) to Gelnhausen to Fulda to Kassel Hbf

The Dill line is a 73-kilometer, double-track , electrified main line in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse . It leads from Siegen via Haiger , Dillenburg , Herborn and Wetzlar to Gießen and carries the KBS 445 in passenger traffic .

history

construction

Historically, the dill route consists of two parts. The southern section was built around 50 years before the northern section.

Southern section

Steam locomotive between Dutenhofen and Gießen (1870s)

The southern part is the southeastern section of the Deutz-Gießener Bahn from today's Cologne-Deutz to Gießen, built by the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and initially single-tracked in January 1862 . The population of the rural region along the Dill was initially largely hostile to the construction of the railway; However, it contributed to the region's economic upswing and was used by many commuters during rush hour. The city of Wetzlar had to accept the decentralized location of its train station , as the Dill route needed a curve to join the Lahn Valley Railway , which opened a year later . The construction management could not be won over to the proposal to place the line near Werdorf on the right bank of the Dill and to merge it with the Lahn line in Wetzlar Neustadt in order to be able to build the Wetzlar train station in a central location. Since the railway did not find a valley that would have directly connected Wetzlar with the Wetterau , the line had to be led to Gießen, which turned the local train station into a railway junction . The line quickly gained in importance and by 1870 was almost entirely double-tracked. The route of the Deutz-Gießener Bahn ran from Deutz in its central part from Betzdorf (Sieg) via Burbach and Würgendorf to Haiger , the route of today's Betzdorf – Haiger railway . In view of the difficult topography , a direct connection from Siegen to the Dill route seemed too complex. This historic route between Betzdorf and Gießen still bears route number 2651.

Northern section

A special steam train with 52 8134-0 of the Eisenbahnfreunde Betzdorf on the Rudersdorfer Viadukt (December 2012)

The Siegen – Haiger section of the line was not put into operation until December 1, 1915 (route number 2800), which also directly connected Hagen , Gießen and thus the Ruhr and the Rhine-Main area and destinations in southern Germany. This shortened the route by around 30 kilometers. That was especially important in coal traffic. For this purpose, the almost 2,652 m long Rudersdorfer Tunnel and two large viaducts, the Rudersdorfer Viaduct and the Niederdielfen Viaduct , had to be built. The originally planned four-track expansion between Siegen and Dillenburg fell victim to the First World War . Due to the engineering work and these engineering structures, the entire route between the Haiger train station and the Hessian / North Rhine-Westphalian border, which runs in the Rudersdorf Tunnel, is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

expansion

In 1965 the electrification of the entire Dill and Ruhr-Sieg route was completed. The opening train Dsts 11277 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Hagen Hbf , hauled by E10 1270 of the Heidelberg Hbf , left the Gießen-Bergwald station on May 14, 1965 at 09:07 and was celebrated by numerous citizens along the route and in the stations on the way.

The route in the course book

Until 1970 the dill route was run under the KBS number 251. After that, together with the Ruhr-Sieg route from Hagen to Siegen, it became the route book route 360. Since the revision of the route book number system in 1992 as a result of reunification , the Dill route was now run under the number 445, while the Ruhr-Sieg route was number 440 received. Since the introduction of the Integral Timetable Timetable (ITF) in 1998, all local rail passenger trains have been running via Siegen.

Behind the Giersberg tunnel, the Dill route takes over the kilometers from the Ruhr-Sieg route from Hagen.

Long-distance transport

One of the last Interregios (IR 2410) on the Rudersdorf Viaduct (December 2002)

In the summer of 2012, the AZ 1357 motorail train ran from Narbonne to Dortmund Bbf over the Dill route for a few weeks. Here while driving through Herborn (Dillkr) (June 2012)

The car train AZ 1339 of the DB with 115 261-0 passing through Herborn (Dillkr) (January 2013)

The Dill route lost its former importance for long-distance passenger rail transport in 2002, at least temporarily. In the 1980s, the route still had many daily express train connections to distant destinations such as Oberstdorf . At the beginning of the 1990s, a two-hour express train connection Frankfurt (Main) Hbf –Siegen was established, which later took the route via Siegen-Weidenau and was extended to Münster (Westf) Hbf .

From 1993 these trains were assigned to the Interregio line 22 Frankfurt – Münster, making the Dill route part of a modern long-distance transport concept. The original planning of the interregional network envisaged extending the line to include the sections Hof Hbf - Würzburg Hbf - Frankfurt Hbf and Münster - Norddeich Mole . However, apart from a daily connection between Frankfurt and Norddeich Mole (IR "Norderney"), these plans were not implemented, which meant that line 22 was more of a shadowy existence. Due to a lack of passenger numbers, it soon developed into a problem child for Deutsche Bahn .

An improvement in this situation was to be achieved in 1999 with the swiveling of the north branch from Hagen Hbf via Wuppertal Hbf to Düsseldorf Hbf . In addition, an evening extension to Cologne Hbf and an early connection from Dortmund Hbf to Frankfurt Hbf with a travel time of less than three hours (stops only in Siegen-Weidenau and Wetzlar) were created, both of which consisted of InterCity wagons. At the same time, the cycle was shifted by an hour and the evening and weekend traffic was massively thinned out. These measures drove more passengers away than could be gained, since line 22 was previously the shorter, faster and cheaper alternative for through travelers in contrast to the IC and ICE trains that ran via Koblenz and Cologne . Only the IR "Norderney" continued to operate via Münster for the time being.

Since the trains, especially in the Siegen – Hagen section, continued to be poorly used, all long-distance trains were removed from the offer for the 2001 summer timetable with the exception of the connection to Norddeich. Since the timetable change in 2002/2003, the pair of trains has been running between the Main and the North Sea as InterCity on the left Rhine route , with the result that IR line 22 has been completely closed. Long-distance traffic has also been temporarily abandoned on the Ruhr-Sieg route.

After the discontinuation of the Interregio, the Lahn-Dill-Sieg region had great expectations in the announcement of the former Connex (now Veolia Verkehr ) that it would offer an offer on a new route. From June 6, 2003, the InterConnex operated once a day from Rostock via Berlin , Halle (Saale) , Kassel , Marburg , Gießen, Wetzlar, Dillenburg, Siegen and Cologne to Neuss . On October 27, 2003, the connection was closed again due to insufficient use. In the weeks before, Connex had announced the opposite development and increased the number of cars from four to six. It is considered likely that the locomotives and wagons used in the independently operated InterConnex were needed for the takeover of the Flensburg Express , which was subsidized as a local transport line by the state of Schleswig-Holstein and was therefore economically more interesting for Connex.

On December 13, 2009, long-distance traffic returned to the Dill route. For the first time a leading daily EUR City -Zugpaar of victories over Wetzlar, Giessen, Frankfurt, Heidelberg , Stuttgart , Ulm , Augsburg , Munich and Salzburg to Klagenfurt , with coaches to Zagreb . The connection belonged to the EC line 62. The morning train to Austria left Siegen at 6:18 am; the return hit in the 21:57 crown city one. The offer was discontinued on December 10, 2011. Since December 11, 2011, after two years of service by a single EuroCity couple, the Dill route has again been "free of long-distance traffic".

On March 18, 2015, Deutsche Bahn (DB) announced in a press release that it would expand its long-distance services by 25 percent . The Dill and Ruhr-Sieg routes also benefit from this . The DB originally intended to run an IC line from Frankfurt via Wetzlar and Siegen to Dortmund or Münster from the 2019/2020 timetable change . According to current plans, this should happen in December 2021. This is to run every two hours with new double-decker Intercity wagons ( Bombardier Twindexx ), also known as Intercity 2 . After the EC connection to Carinthia and Croatia was discontinued in December 2011, long-distance traffic would return to the Dill route, which would also give Central Hesse better connections to North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the DB, these lines are to be set up mainly to react to competition from long-distance buses and to reconnect other cities to the long-distance network. However, because no counter-offer should be made to RE line 99 , Wetzlar and Gießen are too close to each other and Gießen already has long-distance traffic connections, Liebigstadt an der Lahn should not be served by this IC line.

Operations and interlocking technology

On the Dill route, extensive track systems were shut down in many stations in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of the decline in regional freight traffic . In Haiger, Herborn, Sinn, Ehringshausen and Aßlar as well as the Dillenburg and Wetzlar freight yards, only part of the original track system is still in operation today. There are overtaking and passing tracks on the route in the stations Rudersdorf, Haiger, Dillenburg, Herborn, Wetzlar and Dutenhofen as well as in the freight yard Siegen Ost. In Niederdielfen, Sinn and Ehringshausen, there are still track changes that can be used in the direction of Siegen for occasional overtaking on the main track in the opposite direction.

With the construction of two modern signal boxes in Siegen and Wetzlar in 1984 and 1986, the Dill line between Siegen and Haiger and between Ehringshausen and Dutenhofen was upgraded for track switching, which, if necessary, enables trains to travel over the left-hand track with comparatively few restrictions on line capacity perform. At least the signaled wrong-way operation can be used between Herborn and Sinn . Driving on the opposite track between Haiger and Herborn, between Sinn and Ehringshausen and between Dutenhofen and Gießen is only possible after having sent a written order .

Mechanical signal boxes can no longer be found on the Dill route. The oldest technology in operation is in Dillenburg in the form of three electromechanical signal boxes (see Dillenburg station ). All other stations have more modern track diagram interlockings. Simple relay interlockings that only control operation in their own train station are located in Haiger and Herborn (type Sp Dr S 60 ), in Sinn and Ehringshausen (type Dr S 2 ) and in Dutenhofen (type Dr S ). With the help of the aforementioned Sp Dr S 600 interlockings, the Siegen Ost, Niederdielfen and Rudersdorf stations are also remote-controlled from Siegen, as well as the Asslar station from Wetzlar. The only electronic signal box along the route is located in Giessen, but is controlled from the Frankfurt operations center.

A special operational feature can be found in the section from Siegen Ost to the Rudersdorfer Tunnel. There, due to a relatively steep incline, heavy freight trains are pushed with a second locomotive at the end of the train as planned , as the pulling power of the leading locomotive might not be sufficient to carry the train load alone over the incline section. The corresponding push-pull locomotives , especially those of the 110 , 140 and 151 series , are usually available for use in Altenhundem and Kreuztal on the Ruhr-Sieg route.

Dillbrecht station was closed for operational purposes in October 2004 after all switches were removed and the third station track was closed, and it was downgraded to an unoccupied stop. The last gatekeeper on the route was at the Katzenfurt stop and was only made superfluous in September 2006 by a newly built underpass at the other end of the platform. The railway stations Siegen Ost and Niederdielfen, which are now used as freight and operating stations, were closed as passenger train stops in the 1980s .

Furthermore, in 2011 the overhaul tracks in Ehringshausen station were dismantled and a new platform was built in the direction of Gießen . This means that train travelers in the direction of Giessen can now board the trains directly and no longer have to cross the tracks. At the same time, however, this also means that there are no longer any opportunities to overtake between Wetzlar and Herborn. However, due to the low utilization of the route, this is not necessary.

Service offer in passenger transport

Rudersdorf station building (June 2007)

The Dill line is used daily in local rail passenger transport

• from the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99) Siegen – Gießen – Frankfurt Hbf, which runs between Siegen and Gießen usually every hour,
• from the Sieg-Dill-Bahn (RB 95) Siegen – Dillenburg (only on working days),
• from Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40) Dillenburg – Gießen – Frankfurt Hbf and
• individual regional trains as rush hour amplifier between Dillenburg and Gießen (Dill-Bahn, RB 40).

A RE 9 with a class 111 drives over the Niederdielfen viaduct (December 2002)

Local rail passenger transport is carried out

• from the Hessische Landesbahn , which for the Sieg-Dill-Bahn (RB 95) diesel multiple units of the DB series 640 and 648 (Alstom Coradia LINT 27 and LINT 41) and for the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99) electric multiple units of the series 427 and 429 ( Stadler Flirt ) and
• from DB Regio Mitte , which uses electric multiple units of the DB class 442 (Bombardier Talent 2) for the Mittelhessen-Express and the Dill-Bahn (RB 40) .

At the 2006/2007 timetable change in December 2006, the Mittelhessen-Express began operating. The regional trains coming from Dillenburg and Treysa will be combined in Gießen and will then continue as a regional express on the Main-Weser-Bahn to Frankfurt. For the inhabitants of the smaller communities north of Giessen, this concept means for the first time an hourly connection to the Rhine-Main area without changing trains . Class 425 and 426 electric railcars were used until April 2013 , replacing the Dillenburg – Gießen – Marburg (Lahn) – Kassel Hbf regional railways , which had previously operated with the 143 series and n-type cars . Since April 2013, new Talent 2 railcars (DB class 442) from Bombardier operated by DB Regio Mitte have been in use.

In addition, the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) offers a fast connection for commuters from the Dill route to Frankfurt. On weekdays, except Saturdays, there is a RE-Sprinter in each direction (in the morning towards Frankfurt, in the evening in the direction of Siegen) , which runs between Siegen Hbf and Frankfurt Hbf only in Haiger , Dillenburg , Herborn , Ehringshausen , Wetzlar , Ostheim (only in the morning), Bad Nauheim , Bad Vilbel (only in the morning) and Frankfurt West stops. Since it travels in both directions on the Dutenhofen – Gießen-Bergwald connection, which is otherwise only used by freight trains, there is no stop and the time-consuming change of direction in Gießen. With a total travel time of approx. One hour and 40 minutes each, this pair of trains was the unrivaled fastest way to get from Siegen and from the Dilltal to the Main metropolis and back until the 2009/2010 timetable change in December 2009.

Since December 13, 2009 the travel time of one hour and 40 minutes on the RE 99 line (Frankfurt – Siegen) has been the rule, even with a change in Gießen. The reduction in travel time was made possible by relocating the IC between Frankfurt and Gießen. The RE 99 is now on the road in the old days of the IC and accelerates accordingly between Frankfurt and Giessen. The travel time of two hours, which existed until December 2009, was repeatedly criticized, especially because the travel relation with a change in Gießen was approx. 20 minutes faster than the direct connection without a change. As part of these changes, the travel time with the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40) has been increased by around 20 minutes every 2 hours, because it has now taken over the tasks of the regional train between Friedberg and Gießen and earlier routes through the S-Bahn operations south of Friedberg are blocked.

Until the 2009/2010 timetable change in December 2009, the regional express lines RE 9 and RE 99 ran between Siegen and Gießen every hour. The RE 99 line ran under the direction of DB Regio Hessen from Siegen via Gießen to Frankfurt. The RE 9 line ran under the direction of DB Regio NRW from Aachen via Kön and Siegen to Gießen. Electric locomotives of the class 111 and five to six double-decker cars of the third generation were mostly used . Since the 2009/2010 timetable change, this line has been running as RE 40 only from Siegen to Gießen and every two hours to Frankfurt / M. Since then, these services have been provided by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) with electric multiple units of the 427 and 429 series (Stadler Flirt). Since then, there has only been a short connection to line RE 9, which has been shortened to Siegen, which is often not reached in the event of delays. With the 2015/2016 timetable change on December 13, 2015, the line will operate as RE 99, as in the North Rhine-Westphalian section. However, nothing has changed on the route of the train.

With the winning tender for the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network, the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) took over the operation of the RB 95 (Au (Sieg) –Siegen – Dillenburg) 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 HLB operations is better than an extension of the contract with DB Regio, the transfer of operations was brought forward accordingly. Since December 2014, the RB 95 has not been operated on Sundays. The reason for this is the required savings by the Rhein-Main transport association. The line has been running since December 2015 in favor of a continuous regional line Limburg - Au - Siegen (–Kreuztal) (RB 90) only in the Siegen – Dillenburg section. With the timetable change in December 2017, the RB 95 trips will be ordered again on Sundays.

Rates

On the section running in North Rhine-Westphalia (Siegen – Wilnsdorf / Rudersdorf) the tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd (VGWS ) applies , on the section in Hesse (Dillbrecht-Gießen) the tariff of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) applies . The Schöne-Tag-NRW-Ticket and the Schöne-Fahrt-NRW-Ticket are valid on the North Rhine-Westphalian section, in the Hessian section the HessenTicket. The Quer-durch-Land-Ticket is valid on the entire Sieg-Dill route. The tariffs of the Deutsche Bahn apply to journeys across associations.

Freight transport

Arrival of a coil train with coils for the Dillenburg steelworks. The coil trains to Dillenburg are often pushed by a second locomotive, 140 353-4 is doing pushing service here (March 2012)

A coal train (GM 48700) with two class 140 locomotives on the Rudersdorfer Viaduct (June 2012)

Private RUs can also be found in freight traffic on the Dill route: Since spring 2011, a HGK coal train has been running on schedule on the Dill route on Wednesdays and Sundays. Here the DGS 88822 with DE 67 of the HGK on the slope near Dillbrecht near the Rudersdorf tunnel (June 2012)

In addition to the left and right Rhine route and the north-south route , the Dill route is one of the most important routes in western Germany for national and international freight traffic between northern and southern Germany and between central and southern Europe. After building measures to increase capacity on the other routes, the Dill route has lost some of its original importance in recent years, but is still mainly used by trains running between the Rhineland, the Ruhr area and the Netherlands in the north and the Rhine-Main -Neckar area, Austria, Switzerland and Italy in the south. In the event of a malfunction or major construction work on the other north-south axes, the Dill route is often used as a diversion route due to sufficient free capacity, with usually only a slight loss of time for the diverted trains. An important example of continuous freight traffic are freight trains chartered by Audi , which transport brand-new cars from the headquarters in Ingolstadt to the port of Emden almost every day so that they can be shipped overseas there.

The freight yards in Dillenburg and Wetzlar and the former Dillenburg depot still bear witness to the former importance of the line for domestic industry . Today only about half of the existing track systems are used in both stations. In autumn 2006, the tracks that were still needed at the Wetzlar freight station were almost completely renovated in order to be able to take over most of the train-forming tasks of Gbf Gießen from the timetable change in December. Since then, Wetzlar has been the central hub for regional freight transport in Central Hesse . As planned, three locomotives of the class 294 and one locomotive of the class 362/363 will be used for shunting in the station and for journeys to the central Hessian loading points.

Bedeutendster freight customer in the course of dill route is the steel of Thyssen Krupp stainless steel, since 2012 Outokumpu Stainless steel, in Dillenburg which Monday to Friday and Sunday with a to be finished coils loaded block train receives and individual freight cars. Transported the cars from the station Dillenburg as blocking trips over a short yet which is operating section of the former Dietzhölztalbahn after Ewersbach . In Dillenburg, a scrap dealer is also served and round wood is loaded. In addition, the Haiger train station is approached from Dillenburg, where the company Stahlo belonging to the Friedhelm Loh Group is listed as a customer. Until April 2004, the Sinn station received gas tank wagons for the Shell tank farm, which was closed at the time . The Herborn, Ehringshausen and Aßlar train stations lost their importance for freight transport as early as the 1990s and 1980s. At the end of February 2014, the tracks were removed from the former Herborn freight yard. The soil was then detoxified and a P + R parking lot with 150 parking spaces for commuters and city visitors was set up by Hessentag 2016 . A parking deck for even more parking spaces is also planned in the future. In addition to the shunting tasks in the freight yard, the stainless steel works Buderus and the scrap metal dealer Keilich are also operated at Wetzlar station .

literature

• Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, vol. 2.1, p. 264 ffu. Vol. 2.2, p. 1011ff. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
• Railway Atlas Germany. (Edition 2009/2010). Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
• Bernd Krauskopf, Reinhard Vogelbusch: The Bw Dillenburg. 3. Edition. Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1984, ISBN 3-88255-315-4 .
• Willi Merzhäuser, Hansjürgen Wenzel: Railways in the Westerwald. Between Sieg and Lahn. Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1996, ISBN 3-88255-579-3 .
• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Cologne-Mindener Railway: Railways through the Rhineland and Ruhr area. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2018, ISBN 3-9540-0972-2 .

Web links

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

• Literature on the dill route in the Hessian Bibliography
• Current railway pictures from the KBS445
• eisenbahntunnel-portal.de: Pictures of the tunnel portals route 2651 , route 2880 , route 2881

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Query of course book route 445 at Deutsche Bahn.
2. ↑ A. Schoenwerk: Historical local history of the city and district of Wetzlar . Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1954, p. 270
3. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of November 27, 1915, No. 58. Announcement No. 769, p. 377.
4. ^ Railway in Hessen , p. 1012
5. ↑ Local Association of Local Passenger Traffic Westphalia-South: Direct connection Siegen - Austria starts traffic on December 13th. (PDF; 116 kB) August 24, 2009, accessed on September 13, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Eurocity for victories. Sauerlandkurier , May 27, 2009, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on November 6, 2016 . 
7. ↑ More rail for metropolises and regions: The largest customer offensive in the history of DB long-distance transport ( Memento from March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Press release from March 18, 2015.
8. ^ IC-34 Frankfurt - Siegen - Münster, declaration of the associations. VCD Hessen eV, June 5, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Stop in Siegen and Kreuztal. Intercity connection from the end of 2019 is taking shape . In: Siegener Zeitung . December 10, 2015, p. 3 .
10. ↑ From December 11, 2011 Traction vehicles: Talent 2. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, May 26, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 11, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
11. ↑ New travel time on RE40. giessener-allgemeine.de, May 27, 2009, accessed on December 11, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Line overview of the HLB. (PDF) Hessische Landesbahn, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Association meeting of the SPNV Nord in July 2014, p. 5. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Zweckverband Eisenbahn Personenenahverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Nord, 7 July 2014, archived from the original on 24 September 2015 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 . 
14. ↑ RMV would like to cancel the Sieg-Dill-Bahn on Sundays. Zughalt.de, June 24, 2014, accessed December 11, 2015 . 
15. ↑ 44th Association Assembly of the NWL, Item 3, Annex 1, SPNV service changes 2018. NWL, July 13, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 .