Warburg – Sarnau railway line

Warburg (Westf) –Sarnau station
Route number (DB) :	2972
Course book section (DB) :	612 (Volkmarsen – Korbach) 622 (Korbach – Sarnau)
Route length:	100.904 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Kassel 0.000 Warburg (Westf) ⊙ to Altenbeken ⊙ to Brilon Wald ⊙ Warburg Tunnel (33 m) ⊙ 3.400 Federal road 7 ⊙ 3.700 Diemel ⊙ 4.900 Warburg old town ⊙ 6.800 Words ⊙ (1950–1964) 9.600 Welda ⊙ 10.500 State border North Rhine-Westphalia / Hesse ⊙ 13.000 Erpe ⊙ 14.400 from Vellmar-Obervellmar ⊙ 14,700 Volkmarsen ⊙ 16.700 Watter 18.517 Külte -Wetterburg (formerly Bf) 18.600 Twist 19.300 Pohlmann's Hammer ( Anst ) 19.816 Twistesee (since Dec. 2013) 21.500 Fish house 24.700 Bundesstrasse 4500 24.790 Bad Arolsen ⊙ 25.200 Bundesstrasse 252 26.500 Mengeringhäuser Viaduct 27,364 Mengeringhausen (formerly Bf) 30.900 Bundesstrasse 252 31,582 Twiste (formerly Bf) 32.900 Bundesstrasse 252 36.400 Berndorf 41.900 Brilon Wald – Wabern by Brilon Wald 42.000 Bundesstrasse 251 43.739 Korbach ⊙ to Wabern 44.863 Korbach south 47.500 Bundesstrasse 252 50.000 Bundesstrasse 252 50.400 Dorfitter (until 1982) 50.500 Itter 50.547 Tunel Itter I (200 m) 51.172 Itter II tunnel (93 m) 51.386 Vöhl-Thalitter (since 2015) 52.800 Itter 55,802 Vöhl-Herzhausen (since 2015) 56.300 Herzhausen (until 2015) 59.894 Vöhl-Schmittlotheim (formerly Bf) 63.774 Vöhl-Ederbringhausen (formerly Bf) 64.000 Orc 68.611 Frankenberg (Eder) -Viermünden 71.600 Nuhne 72.000 Schreufa 73.475 Frankenberg (Eder) -Gossberg 74.200 Edertal flood bridge 74.300 Eder (55 m) 74.933 Frankenberg (Eder) ⊙ 75.700 to Allendorf (Eder) 76.600 Bundesstrasse 253 79.300 Birch Bringhausen 79.500 At the Frankenberg air ammunition plant 79.844 Birch Bringhausen 80,405 Wiesenfelder Tunnel (185 m) 81.757 Meadow field 85.200 Ernsthausen North 85.500 Bundesstrasse 252 86.164 Ernsthausen (Kr Frankenberg) 87.000 Bundesstrasse 252 88.217 Munchausen 88.300 Bundesstrasse 236 88.500 Wollmar 90.300 Wetschaft 91.254 Simtshausen 91.800 Simtshausen 93.300 Todenhausen 96.228 Weather (Hess-Nass) 97.900 Wetschaft 98.400 Low weather 99.100 At the Au mill 100.500 Bundesstrasse 62 100.600 from Erndtebrück 100.904 Sarnau Bbf ⊙ to Cölbe Swell:

The Warburg – Sarnau railway is a 100.9-kilometer, single-track , partially disused secondary railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia and North Hesse . The middle section Korbach - Frankenberg (Eder) is called "Untere Edertalbahn" or "National Park Railway" and the southern section Frankenberg (Eder) - Sarnau (- Marburg (Lahn) ) "Burgwaldbahn".

The line between Warburg and Volkmarsen , which in this section bears the name "Twist Valley Railway", has been dismantled. Since the reactivation of the section between Korbach Süd and Frankenberg on September 11, 2015, there has been continuous train traffic from Marburg (Lahn) to Brilon Stadt (from Korbach via the Uplandbahn ).

course

The route initially goes in a double loop through Warburg down into the Diemeltal and then leads upstream along the Twiste via Bad Arolsen towards Korbach, where the Diemel-Eder / Fulda / Weser watershed is overcome. In Korbach you can change to the railway line to Brilon Wald (Uplandbahn) , which is also operated by the Kurhessenbahn. It leads through the narrow valleys of Kuhbach and Itter (two tunnels were even necessary there) down to Herzhausen, past the beginning of the Edersee . The railway line now follows the Eder upstream to Frankenberg . In the Burgwald , the Rhine-Weser watershed is another watershed that is crossed at the level of the Wiesenfelder Tunnel, until the valley of Wetschaft is reached at Ernsthausen . In Sarnau, where the Wetschaft joins the Lahn , the Burgwaldbahn also joins the Obere Lahntalbahn .

history

Twista Valley Railway (Warburg – Korbach)

Reception building of the train station Warburg (Westf)

Twiste cycle path at the former Warburg Altstadt train station

The almost 44 km long northern section, also known as the “Twist Valley Railway” , runs between Warburg and Welda in North Rhine-Westphalia . The section from Warburg to Arolsen (not Bad at that time ) was opened on May 1, 1890. The continuation to Korbach followed on August 15, 1893. The railway line was classified as a line of minor importance in the German Empire . The 25.2 km long railway line from Warburg to Arolsen had land acquisition costs of 300,000 m, i.e. H. one kilometer cost 11,900 M and the construction costs without land acquisition amounted to 2,550,000 M or 101,200 M per kilometer.

After the opening of the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway in 1897, a direct connection to Kassel was created. Since the travelers mostly had Kassel as their travel destination and wanted to save themselves the detour via Warburg and a change, the traffic Volkmarsen – Kassel developed more strongly than Volkmarsen – Warburg. Therefore, passenger traffic on this section was stopped on May 28, 1967. The freight was followed on March 10, 1977. Since the receipt of this section did not pay, he was decommissioned 31 December 1982 and dismantled 1,983th Today the Twiste cycle path partly runs on the former route .

The Volkmarsen – Korbach section also saw a decline in the number of travelers in the 1980s. On May 30, 1987, when passenger traffic on the Lower Edertal Railway was stopped, it also ended on the Volkmarsen – Korbach section. However, freight traffic continued. In the 1990s, voices were then in favor of reactivating this section. Therefore, passenger traffic was resumed on October 4, 1998. It was one of the first reactivations in Hessen. In the meantime, the traffic has been taken over by the DB subsidiary Kurhessenbahn and the number of passengers has increased. From May 28, 2006 to December 9, 2006, the route was converted to electronic interlockings and extensively renovated. With the 2013/2014 timetable change in December 2013, the new Twistesee crossing station was opened east of Bad Arolsen (no boarding and alighting options), which enables a new timetable concept with transfer nodes in Korbach and shorter travel times between Kassel and Korbach.

Lower Edertal Railway (Korbach – Frankenberg)

Korbach main station

The Untere Edertalbahn , also known as the National Park Railway since 2015 , is the 31-kilometer middle section of the Warburg – Sarnau line. It opened on May 1, 1900. Passenger traffic was largely made up of commuters who wanted to go to Frankenberg (Eder) , Marburg or Korbach . In Frankenberg there were transfer options to Winterberg , Bad Berleburg and Bestwig . Brilon-Wald and Bad Wildungen could be reached by train from Korbach . A pair of hedge cable trains (E 2832/2833) traveled on this route until around 1982 on the way from Bremerhaven (temporarily Hamburg ) via Bielefeld , Brilon and Marburg to Frankfurt am Main .

Steam locomotive special train exiting Frankenberg (Eder) station (2010)

Since no further railway lines branched off between Korbach and Frankenberg, most of the train stations were outside of the towns, the well-developed federal highway 252 runs parallel and the region is only sparsely populated, passenger transport was less and less profitable. Therefore, the Federal Railroad neglected investments in infrastructure and vehicles and reduced the timetable offer more and more. In the years before the shutdown, for example, the first passenger train from Frankenberg to Korbach did not run until ten o'clock, making the offer unusable for schoolchildren and professionals. The personnel-intensive signaling and security technology caused high operating costs. Therefore, on May 30, 1987, passenger traffic was stopped. Until June 1, 1991 there was still freight traffic between Frankenberg and Ederbringhausen . The rest of the route was only occasionally used by freight trains. There were also some special trips on the section, but these were discontinued in 1991. Only during the Hessentag in 1997 in Korbach was there special traffic on the entire section for this occasion.

After the Korbach – Volkmarsen section was reactivated in 1998, plans began to use the Untere Edertalbahn again for passenger traffic in order to create a continuous connection to Marburg and the Rhine-Main area . As of September 29, 1999, the 1.5-kilometer section from Korbach Central Station to Korbach Süd was the first to be offered for passenger transport again. In 2005, the Frankenberg – Herzhausen section was cut open for reactivation. In 2007, however, a profitability report was completed that did not certify the route to be of any economic benefit, whereupon the NPV made use of its right of withdrawal in the implementation contract. At that time, plans included investments of 43 million euros to accelerate the Cölbe – Korbach route, in order to establish short connections to the RE to Frankfurt in Marburg and to the RE 17 to Hagen in Brilon Wald . The passenger potential between Korbach and Frankenberg of 1150 passengers per day was not enough to justify these costs.

An interest group is also dedicated to the subject of reactivation. It is part of the working group for the promotion of rail transport in the Marburg area. V.

Excursion train at the former end point Herzhausen (2006)

As a lead-up to the planned reactivation, a Sunday and public holiday excursion from Frankenberg to Herzhausen was offered in 2006 and 2007; However, this was not continued in the following years due to cuts by the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . After the first setback, the framework conditions changed in North Rhine-Westphalia as a result of the planned connection to Brilon's city center ( Brilon Stadt train station ). With the new line RE 57 Dortmund – Brilon, good connection conditions can be created in Brilon Wald towards the Sauerland and Ruhr area without having to accelerate the route between Korbach and Cölbe. In this variant, there could also be an optimal connection node in Korbach on the hour towards Kassel. A new reactivation attempt was started with this stripped-down variant.

On September 25, 2008, the Hessian state parliament decided on the initiative of the Greens to reactivate the Frankenberg – Korbach railway line, whose tracks had not yet been dismantled, for regular rail traffic. A continuous connection from Marburg via Korbach to Brilon was to be created. From summer 2009 regular traffic should take place again between Frankenberg and Herzhausen. A continuous connection to Korbach should be aimed for in the long term. However , this decision was initially not implemented by the state government consisting of the CDU and FDP that followed in 2009 .

From May to October 2011, April to October 2012 and April to October 2013 there was another excursion service. On Sundays and holidays, five pairs of trains commuted between Marburg and Herzhausen every two hours. The section between Herzhausen and Korbach Süd remained closed to all traffic because of the heavy vegetation and its poor condition. The Goßberg and Schreufa stops were still not served.

On September 29, 2011, the local daily newspapers " Frankenberger Zeitung " and " Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine " announced that the Waldeck-Frankenberg district was making 2.8 million euros available for the restart of the section from Herzhausen to Korbach. In December 2011, the NVV announced that it would consider reactivating the section in passenger and freight traffic. A positive result of the profitability as well as a financing concept for the operation are necessary in order to decide to restart operations. The result of the profitability audit confirmed that the route had a positive value above 1. At the beginning of July 2012, the NVV decided to reactivate it. Thereupon this was also decided by the Deutsche Bahn and the state of Hesse . After the district council of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district also voted for the reactivation on September 17, 2011 and agreed to contribute a good three million euros to the costs, the resumption of traffic was finally decided.

On June 30, 2014, construction work to reactivate the line began in Vöhl-Herzhausen. For this purpose, the route between Frankenberg and Korbach was modernized from 2014 to 2015 and new platforms were built. The Schreufa and Itter stations were not reactivated because they are far from localities. The costs for these measures totaled 31.9 million euros, of which the State of Hesse took over 23 million euros. The two tunnels at Vöhl-Thalitter had to be completely renovated and eight level crossings technically secured. It was originally planned to allow trains to run over the route again at a maximum speed of 60 km / h for the 2014/2015 timetable change in December 2014. The travel time from Korbach to Frankenberg is 38 minutes. However, the start of construction work was delayed until June 30, 2014.

Modernized train station Frankenberg (Eder) at the celebrations for the reactivation of the route (2015)

On September 11, 2015, after 15 months of construction, the railway line was officially put back into operation in the presence of the Hessian Transport Minister Tarek Al-Wazir . Opened to the public with a course festival on September 2015. Scheduled passenger traffic was resumed on September 14, 2015.

Just three months after the start of operations, the NVV reported that the number of passengers Monday through Friday, at 400, was well above the originally planned development horizon of 250 passengers.

In March 2014, it was decided by the politicians and the transport operators that a meeting station should be built in Frankenberg-Viermünden . This crossing station is necessary due to the planned connection in Brilon Wald to the RE 57 line to Dortmund. Since this line will run every two hours between Brilon City and Dortmund in the future and has an unusual symmetry minute at: 30, the journeys towards Brilon have to be postponed by one hour in order to establish a connection. Here, however, the trains in both directions meet in Viermünden. Before the completion of the Viermünden junction, most trains ran to Bestwig due to a lack of connections . The turn of the hour has the additional advantage that the trains ending in Frankenberg do not have to wait for more than an hour. The meeting station was originally supposed to go into operation in December 2016. The completion finally took place in December 2017. At the same time as the construction work, the pedestrian underpass in Korbach was renewed. The new platform at the Korbach Süd stop was completed in October 2017. For example, on the Hessentag 2018, which took place again in Korbach, special traffic could be offered again on the entire route. With the timetable change on December 15, 2019, the two-hour service was condensed so that the trains largely run every hour from noon.

Burgwaldbahn (Frankenberg – Sarnau train station)

Light signals dismantled in Münchhausen in autumn 2010

The Burgwaldbahn is the 26 km long southern section of the Warburg – Sarnau railway line. It opened on July 1, 1890. In Sarnau , the Burgwaldbahn branches off from the upper Lahn Valley Railway and runs through the Wetschaft valley to Frankenberg (Eder) , where the railway lines to Bad Berleburg and Winterberg branched off. Most of the passenger traffic consisted of commuters who wanted to go to Marburg , Korbach , Frankenberg or the Rhine-Main area . The mostly only regional freight traffic sometimes had to record a considerable volume of freight. The most important railway junction on the line was Frankenberg, but from the 1960s onwards it became less and less important and after the closure of the Upper Edertal Railway in 1981 and the Lower Edertal Railway in 1987 it was only the end of the trains from Marburg. Passenger and freight traffic also decreased significantly on the Burgwaldbahn. Since then there have been repeated reports that the Burgwaldbahn will be shut down. In 2002, when the Kurhessenbahn integrated the Burgwaldbahn into its network and then used modern railcars of the DB class 628 , the decline in passenger traffic could be stopped; however, freight traffic continues to decline sharply. Until 2005 it was the only branch line in Hessen with daily freight traffic, today it is still served by individual wooden trains to Frankenberg (Eder) and Battenberg (Eder) as well as from a siding in Allendorf (Eder) . It is likely that it will be completely discontinued in the next few years, as the technical continuity of the line to Battenberg (Eder) will only be guaranteed for four years and the trains will be slowed down by numerous speed limits.

Burgwaldbahn in the Wetschaft valley next to the Lahn-Eder cycle path .

In 2007 the traffic should then be completely stopped. The NVV wanted to initiate the shutdown. It could only be averted again through pressure from the DB and the Kurhessenbahn. Since then, the very dilapidated superstructure has been renewed and the accessibility improved. At the end of the work, the route was completely closed from July 2 to October 4, 2010. During this time, the route was converted to electronic signal boxes and the Birkenbringhausen and Simtshausen stops were moved closer to the locations. In addition, all platforms were raised to 55 centimeters and brought to a uniform length of 95 meters. There are tactile visually impaired on installed and set up modern bus shelters. The technical continuity of the line is now secured for 20 years. The Kurhessenbahn emphasized, however, that the Burgwaldbahn can only have a secure future if the Untere Edertalbahn to Korbach is finally reactivated. The renovation of the line to mark its 120th anniversary was celebrated with the Burgwaldbahn Festival on October 23 and 24, 2010. On the occasion of this event, the Marburg – Frankenberg – Herzhausen line was operated by special trains with different hauls. In 2009 there were already three special traffic, namely to the dragon boat race on the Edersee (23 and 24 May), steam train rides for the Treysa Railway Friends (May 31) and to the Eder bike tour (June 14).

Railway stations / stops

The Burgwaldbahn has seven stations today. However, the trains stop at nine because the stations in Cölbe and Marburg (Lahn) , which are also served, are no longer on the Burgwaldbahn. There used to be the Todenhausen and Niederwetter stations , but these were closed in the 1980s .

Train station / stop	Municipality / state	Tariff	Distances - km	annotation
Marburg (Lahn)	City of Marburg Hessen	RMV	108.3	Transfer nodes in the direction of Frankfurt am Main , Kassel , Gießen , ...
Cölbe	Community of Cölbe Hessen	RMV	104.4	Branch from the Main-Weser-Bahn
Sarnau	Community of Lahntal Hessen	-	100.9	Branch from the upper Lahn valley railway ; in July 2010 by the breakpoint Lahntal-Sarnau replaced
Weather (Hessen)	City weather Hessen	RMV	96.1	until July 2010 weather (Hess-Nass)
Simtshausen	Munchhausen Hesse community	RMV	91.3 (91.8)	In 2010 the train station was moved towards the center of the village
Munchausen	Munchhausen Hesse community	RMV	88.2	Central point of the route Most of the time train crossings take place here.
Ernsthausen	Burgwald Hesse community	NVV	86.1	by May 1994 last goods loading on the route from the former station
Meadow field	Burgwald Hesse community	NVV	81.7	Needs stop
Birch Bringhausen	Burgwald Hesse community	NVV	79.8 (79.3)	Relocated in 2010 towards the town center
Frankenberg (Eder)	City of Frankenberg (Eder) Hesse	NVV	74.9	earlier branch of the Ruhr-Eder-Bahn and the Upper Edertalbahn

Use today

former water tower in Korbach Hbf

All trains on the route are operated by the DB subsidiary Kurhessenbahn . The tariff of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV) applies for the most part , and that of the Rhein-Main Transport Association (RMV) between Münchhausen and Marburg .

Railcar of the Kurhessenbahn in Volkmarsen

Regional trains run hourly from Korbach via Bad Arolsen and Volkmarsen to Kassel . These are mostly with diesel railcars of series 646 down. There is also little freight traffic to Korbach.

The trains between Korbach and Frankenberg run every two hours, which are increased to an hourly rate in the morning and afternoon. Since the travel time between the Korbach and Viermünden intersections is too short for stable operation, the stops in Ederbringhausen, Schmittlotheim and Thalitter have to be omitted for the additional trains in addition to the two-hour basic offer. Most of the trains are connected from Brilon Stadt to Marburg. According to the North Hessian Transport Association, an average of 440 passengers per day used the reactivated section of the route, up to 700 at peak times such as on weekends. Since the reactivation, the number of passengers on the connecting routes has also increased. In 2020 the Kurhessenbahn estimates the demand at 600 passengers a day.

Between Frankenberg (Eder) and Marburg (Lahn) there is an hourly regional train service on weekdays with an intersection in Münchhausen . The transport associations run the Brilon Stadt – Korbach – Frankenberg – Marburg line under the name RB 42.

In March 2016, the Kurhessenbahn won the tender for the diesel network Northwest Hesse and has been operating its previous line network for another 15 years since December 2017. The operation was originally to be converted to used low-floor multiple units of the type Stadler GTW (number: 13) and Siemens Desiro (number: 14). Since the modernization of the class 642 multiple units was not implemented on schedule by the AW Kassel , the Kurhessenbahn initially used class 642 and 646 vehicles from the sister companies Erzgebirgsbahn , Westfrankenbahn and Usedomer Bäderbahn . From 2019 the vehicles of the 628 series were replaced by vehicles of the 642 series . The vehicles will be serviced in the Kurhessenbahn maintenance workshop in Korbach from December 2018.

Future development

Due to the good use of the reactivated Korbach – Frankenberg section from the perspective of the NVV, the latter is aiming to introduce an hourly basic service between Marburg and Brilon in the medium term. When the timetable was changed in December 2017, additional trains were ordered every hour in the afternoon. By technically securing level crossings and increasing the speed in partial sections, an hourly cycle should be increased between Frankenberg and Korbach with stops at all intermediate stations. The quality of operations is also to be improved and new traffic stations are to be built in Lelbach, Todenhausen and Niederwetter.

literature

• Lutz Münzer: Origin and early days of Prussian secondary branch lines in rural areas - the lines (Marburg–) Sarnau - Volkmarsen - Warburg and Volkmarsen - Obervellmar (–Kassel). In: Yearbook for Railway History. 29, 1997, ISSN  0340-4250 , pp. 5-54.
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 690 ff . (Route 052).
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 704 ff . (Route 054).
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 822 ff . (Route 078).

See also

• Railways in Northern Hesse

Web links

Commons : Warburg – Sarnau railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of route 2972 in the NRWbahnarchiv (NRW part)
• Information about the Burgwaldbahn in the HNA RegioWiki
• Historical photos of the route
• Documentation of the disused Warburg – Volkmarsen section ( Memento from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• IG Edertalbahn
• Documentation of the Itter – Frankenberg section on www.pro-schiene.de
• Photos of the route (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 2972 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
4. ↑ Korbach-Frankenberg railway line - a real experience. Deutsche Bahn AG, accessed on March 30, 2017 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 690 ff . (Route 052).
6. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, February 7, 1885, No. 6, p. 55
7. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 777 ff . (Route 068).
8. ^ Andreas / Twistesee crossing station, route 2972 ​​Warburg - Sarnau, new construction and renovation. (No longer available online.) In: bahnmarkt.eu. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; accessed on November 14, 2013 (public invitation to tender). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Interest group Edertalbahn
10. ↑ CDU district parliamentary group makes a major request to reactivate the railway line between Korbach and Frankenberg. CDU Waldeck-Frankenberg, February 27, 2013, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Pro Bahn Passenger Newspaper No. 71 November December 2008 (PDF; 423 KiB)
12. ↑ Excursion traffic on the Edertalbahn again. (PDF; 2.27 MiB) Pro Bahn & Bus eV, May 1, 2011, p. 7 , accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Excursion traffic to Herzhausen 2012. (PDF) Archived from the original on February 1, 2012 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 . 
14. ^ District council: The Korbach - Frankenberg railway line is to be reactivated. In: HNA. September 29, 2011, accessed November 14, 2013 . 
15. ↑ District wants to invest € 2.8 million. In: WLZ. September 29, 2011, accessed November 14, 2013 . 
16. ↑ The Supervisory Board supports efforts to reactivate the railway line between Korbach and Frankenberg - the cost-benefit study is updated. (No longer available online.) NVV, December 19, 2011, archived from the original on August 23, 2013 ; accessed on November 14, 2013 (press release). 
17. ↑ Niklas Luerßen: VCD welcomes the planned reactivation of the Korbach - Frankenberg railway line. In: zughalt.de. September 19, 2012, accessed November 14, 2013 . 
18. ↑ Large majority in favor of reactivating the Korbach – Frankenberg railway line
19. ^ Bernd Schünemann: Korbach – Frankenberg railway line: construction work begins. In: HNA. June 30, 2014, accessed March 1, 2015 . 
20. ↑ Clear the way for train operations between Frankenberg and Korbach . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , September 11, 2015. Accessed on September 11, 2015.
21. ↑ 400 passengers on average daily between Korbach and Frankenberg - the first balance sheet from NVV and KHB is positive after 100 days. (No longer available online.) NVV, December 7, 2015, archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; accessed on August 14, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Despite the second track, only every two hours. In: WLZ. March 20, 2014, accessed March 1, 2015 . 
23. ↑ Jörg Paulus: Frankenberg – Korbach railway line: second track planned at Viermünden. In: HNA. March 20, 2014, accessed March 1, 2015 . 
24. ↑ NWL, 40th Association Assembly , Item 3 - Changes in local rail transport services in 2017 ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
25. ↑ New barrier-free platform in Korbach Süd. Kurhessenbahn, October 20, 2017, accessed on December 20, 2018 . 
26. ↑ Relaxed by train and bus to Hessentag. Retrieved February 12, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Matthias Mayer: Between Abrisszug and hope. In: Upper Hessian Press. October 22, 2010, accessed August 28, 2018 . 
28. ↑ 2010 on the HP of the Kurhessenbahn ( Memento from October 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
29. ↑ The reactivated route Korbach-Frankenberg is well received by passengers - the balance after a year is positive ( memento from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ Positive balance after reactivation . In: railway magazine . No. 6 , 2018, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 27 .
31. ↑ Philipp Daum: "Make the route faster". In: hna.de. August 12, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 . 
32. ↑ Kurhessenbahn (KHB) wins EU-wide tender for transport services in the north-west Hessian network - operations start in December 2017 when the timetable changes, Kurhessenbahn. Kurhessenbahn, March 2016, accessed on July 24, 2016 . 
33. ↑ Kurhessenbahn, you can look forward to modern, air-conditioned low-floor vehicles
34. ^ Kurhessenbahn, construction of a maintenance workshop in Korbach
35. ↑ 44th Association Assembly of the NWL, Item 3, Annex 1, SPNV service changes 2018. NWL, July 13, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 . 
36. ^ Kurhessenbahn - Successful reactivation of the Korbach-Frankenberg section and further development of the infrastructure and transport services, DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur GmbH, Kurhessenbahn, Hans-Martin König, Infrastruktur, August 24, 2019
37. ^ Project sheets for local and long-distance transport, Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Housing

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