Ahr Valley Railway

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Ahr Valley Railway
A passenger train travelling on the Ahr Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Ahrtalbahn
Line number	3000
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate
Termini	Remagen Adenau
Service
Route number	477
Technical
Line length	42.4 km (26.3 mi)
Number of tracks	2: Remagen–Walporzheim crossover
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend Left Rhine line from Bonn 0.0 Remagen Left Rhine line to Koblenz from Viktoriaberg junction (– Ludendorff Bridge) Reisberg junction Remagen curve to Ahrbrücke junction Hellenberg junction Strategic Railway to Kirchdaun (unfinished) 4.7 Bad Bodendorf 8.0 Heimersheim A 61 Strategic Railway from Ringen (unfinished) 10.2 Bad Neuenahr 12.9 Ahrweiler 14.0 Ahrweiler Markt 15.6 Walporzheim Ahr (several crossings) 17.5 Marienthal (1939–1950) 18.3 Dernau Ort (1955–1960) 18.9 Dernau (–2021) 20.5 Rech (–2021) Strategic Railway from Holzheim (unfinished) 21.2 Rech junction (unfinished) Ahr Saffenburg Tunnel (219 m, disused bore: 235 m) 21.8 Mayschoß (–2021) Laach Tunnel (384 m) Reimerzhov Tunnel (156 m) Krähardt Tunnel (89 m) Ahr Engelslay Tunnel (66 m, disused bore: 75 m) Ahr 25.2 Altenahr (–2021) Ahr Ahr Ahr 26.7 Kreuzberg (Ahr) (–2021) Ahr 29.0 Ahrbrück (until 1996: Brück (Ahr); –2021) Ahr Ahr 31.4 Hönningen (Ahr) Liers junction (called Ladestelle (Lst) until 1945) Dümpelfeld curve, to Insul junction Line from Lissendorf 35.8 Dümpelfeld 40.2 Leimbach 42.4 Adenau (approved under a law of 1914, but not built) Cross Eifel Railway from Gerolstein Rengen Cross Eifel Railway to Andernach Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Ahr Valley Railway (German: Ahrtalbahn), Remagen–Ahrbrück, is currently a 29 km-long, partly single-track and non-electrified branch line, which runs through the Ahr valley from Remagen via Ahrweiler and Dernau to Ahrbrück in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is served by Regionalbahn services on lines RB 30 and RB 39 (Deutsche Bahn timetable route number 477).