Olef Valley Railway

Kall–Hellenthal
Route of the Olef Valley Railway
Route number:	432
Line number:	2635
Line length:	17.8 km
Track gauge:	1435 mm
Eifel Railway from Trier 0,0 Kall Eifel Railway to Cologne 2 Kall-Anstois-Mastert(from 1953) 5 Gemünd-Mauel(1953 - 81) 5,9 Gemünd(previously a station with loading strip) Gemünd Tunnel (130 m) 8 Gemünd-Nierfeld(1953 - 81) 9,0 Olef Olef through route 10,3 Schleiden-Höddelbusch(old tank loading point) 11,7 Schleiden-Rathaus(dismantled 2006/07) 12,0 Schleiden (Eifel) 13 Schleiden-Wiesgen 14 Oberhausen (Eifel) 15,6 Blumenthal (Eifel) 17,8 Hellenthal

The Olef Valley Railway (German: Oleftalbahn or Flitsch) or OTB is a 17.8-kilometre-long, single tracked, unelectrified branch line from Kall through the Schleiden Valley above Schleiden to Hellenthal. The line is currently only used by tourists, travelling on the heritage railway in the summer months, and occasionally by goods trains. However, there are attempts to reactivate passenger services that were ceased in 1981.

Literature

• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Stillgelegte Bahnstrecken im Rheinland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olef Valley Railway.

• Olef Valley Railway
• Schleiden Valley rail and bus initiative
• Rhein-Sieg Railway
• Gutachten Oleftalbahn des Rheinisches Amtes für Denkmalpflege at the Wayback Machine (archived June 26, 2015) (pdf; 121 kB)
• Carsten Klinger (photos), Lothar Brill (text) (2009-08-22). "Bilder der Gemünder Tunnelportale mit Schienenbus, June 2006" (in German). Retrieved 2010-07-28. 

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