Möhnetalbahn

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Soest – Brilon city
Route number (DB) : 9217, 9218
Course book section (DB) : ex 232n (1958)
Route length: 53.2 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 20 
Route - straight ahead
from Hamm (Westf)
Station, station
0.0 Soest 98 m
   
to Paderborn
Station, station
1.4 Soest Thomätor
   
3.1 Soest south
   
3.7
   
5.9 Elves
   
8.0 Neuengeseke - Hackeloh
   
9.7 Schallloh
   
12.7 Really drop 278 m
   
13.4 Vertex 280 m
   
17.0 Wamel 218 m
   
18.7 Völlinghausen
   
Möhne
   
Möhne
   
21.0 Niederbergheim
   
Möhne
   
22.0 Westendorf
   
22.8 Allagen Dorfstrasse
   
23.8 Allages
   
25.5 Visually
   
29.0 Belecke Rbf
   
to Warstein
   
from Warstein
Station without passenger traffic
29.8 Licking 265 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
Möhne
   
to Lippstadt
Station without passenger traffic
35.4 Altenrüthen
   
38.0 Rüthen 290 m
   
41.8 Kneblinghausen
   
44.0 Heidberg
   
48.1 Scharfenberg
   
50.0 Hurled
   
Almetalbahn to Paderborn
Station, station
54.2 Brilon city 426 m
Route - straight ahead
Almetalbahn to Brilon Wald

The Möhnetalbahn was a standard-gauge, essentially single-track railway line operated by the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (WLE) from Soest to Brilon , which was opened in 1898. In 2008 only remnants were in operation. In the Soest - Belecke and Rüthen - Brilon sections, the tracks were dismantled and cycle paths were created along the route. Today the Pengel-Anton-Radweg and MöhnetalRadweg run over these sections .

history

After the WLE had achieved positive results on its main line ( Münster - Beckum - Lippstadt - Warstein ), it also tried to develop a Möhnetal railway from Brilon to Soest, which had been initiated by the districts of Brilon and Soest . After the Westphalian provincial parliament had decided in 1896 to take over half of the share capital for the construction of the line, and the concession was granted on December 16, 1896, construction work could begin. On December 1, 1898, the line from Belecke to Brilon was put into operation by the railway company now trading as the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn , and exactly one year later the rest of the Belecke – Soest section too. In Belecke, the railway used the main station of the WLE, in Brilon (city) and in Soest the Möhnetalbahn flowed into the state railway stations.

Because of the construction of the Möhnsee from 1908 to 1913, the line had to be relocated in the area of ​​the Wamel station, a new Wamel station built higher up on the slope and the station that had only recently been in use (since 1899) demolished. In 1933, the WLE set up a lido on the lakeshore in the area of ​​the previous train station, which ensured a corresponding volume of traffic in the summer months. The course of the old route can still be traced today, 100 years later, using the road to Wamel. The laying took place in Wamel approx. Six meters above the old route and required a cut in the west mountain.

passenger traffic

VT 1033 on the Möhnetalbahn near Rüthen

The district town of Brilon was the preferred destination for passenger transport. In 1938 six pairs of passenger trains ran on the route; In 1954 ten pairs of trains ran between Soest and Belecke on weekdays, and six from Belecke to Brilon. A special feature on this route was the Kiepenkerl Express from Münster via Soest and Brilon to Bad Wildungen . This train of DB vehicles ran from June 2, 1957 to May 28, 1960.

The rest of the scheduled passenger traffic was stopped on September 26, 1958 between Belecke and Brilon; on May 28, 1960 it also ended between Belecke and Soest.

Passenger traffic along the route was taken over by WLE's parallel bus lines after the closure, which later went to the sister company Regionalverkehr Ruhr-Lippe . The lines R 51 Soest - Warstein and R 71 Belecke - Rüthen (- Brilon) still run along the former railway line today. In the Rüthen - Brilon section, the range of buses has now been reduced to just three bicycle buses on Sundays in the summer season.

Freight transport

Möhne bridge on the former railway line between Niederbergheim and Völlinghausen, today used by the Pengel Anton cycle path

In addition to the limestone and cement traffic typical for the WLE, there were several connections, especially in the Soest area. Timber loading tracks were set up at many train stations, as timber removal played a major role in freight transport. A fuel store was set up in Heidberg during World War II; after the war it was operated by the Belgian armed forces and served until the 1990s. The industry that later settled there had no significant volume of rail traffic.

Freight traffic between Belecke and Soest Süd was stopped on April 17, 1970 and the tracks from Belecke marshalling yard were dismantled in 1972 and 1973. The operation of the connections in Soest was handed over to the AG Ruhr-Lippe-Eisenbahnen (RLE) in 1973 . From 1987 the Deutsche Bundesbahn took over the operation; on December 31, 2001 this residual traffic was discontinued.

Freight traffic between Brilon and Heidberg was stopped on February 28, 1979; the tracks were dismantled the following year. Freight traffic between Heidberg and Rüthen was still possible until December 31, 1994. In 2008 only the remnant Belecke – Rüthen was served; it is mainly used to remove wood and feed the sawmill.

Because of the extensive timber transports as a result of the Kyrill hurricane (January 2007), the remainder of the Belecke – Rüthen section was redeveloped for 1.2 million euros, contrary to the original planning for closure, with rolling traffic.

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 6: North Rhine-Westphalia, northeastern part. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-664-1 , pp. 240-278.
  • Karlheinz Hauke: The Westphalian State Railway. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-71120-6 .
  • Josef Kückmann, Burkhard Beyer: From Warstein to the Münsterland. The history of the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (WLE). DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2009, ISBN 978-3-937189-39-0 .
  • Josef Högemann: The railway in the old district of Brilon. Verlag Uhle & Kleimann 1988, ISBN 3-922657-70-2 .
  • Working group of the home associations of the middle Möhnetal: The railway in the Möhnetal 1899–1999. 100 years of traffic history. Memorial.
  • Westfälische Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ed.): Full steam ahead into the 20th century. 1883–1983: One hundred years of the Westphalian State Railway. 2 volumes. Muenster.

Web links

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