Glan Valley Railway

Glan Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Glantalbahn
Line number	3281 (Homburg – Staudernheim)
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Termini	Homburg Bad Münster am Stein
Service
Route number	last 641, before 1970 272d
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend from Saarbrücken from Neunkirchen from Sarreguemines 0.0 Homburg (Saar) Hbf to Mannheim 3.4 Erbach until 1905 6.2 Jägersburg Saarland/Rhineland-Palatinate state border 10.5 Schönenberg-Kübelberg 11.9 Sand from 1961 13.7 Elschbach station 14.5 Elschbach Ort (village) from 1961 Glan Elschbach Tunnel (150 m) 13.9 Glan 16.1 Dietschweiler Glan 18.0 Nanzweiler Glan 19.3 A 62 from Landstuhl 21.8 Glan-Münchweiler 23.7 Rehweiler 25.4 Eisenbach-Matzenbach 28.5 Theisbergstegen 31.9 Altenglan draisine operations to and from Kusel 33.1 56.9 Kilometrage change 58.2 Bedesbach-Patersbach 60.8 Ulmet 62.8 Niederalben-Rathsweiler 64.4 Eschenau (Pfalz) 66.0 St. Julian 68.1 Niedereisenbach-Hachenbach 70.7 Offenbach-Hundheim 72.8 Wiesweiler from Kaiserslautern 75.2 Lauterecken-Grumbach 77.4 Medard 81.4 Odenbach Meisenheim Tunnel (70 m) 85.1 Meisenheim (Glan) 86.8 Raumbach 89.4 Rehborn Glan 93.3 Odernheim (Glan) Glan Nahe Valley Railway from Saarbrücken 96.9 Staudernheim draisine operations Nahe Nahe Valley Railway shown incompletely Glan Kinnsfels Tunnel (284 m) 100.4 Duchroth at Oberhausen an der Nahe 103.8 Niederhausen power station siding Nahe from Kaiserslautern 109.7 Bad Münster am Stein to Bingen Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Glan Valley Railway (German: Glantalbahn) is a non-electrified line along the Glan river, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It consists of the Glan-Münchweiler–Altenglan section, which was built as part of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway and sections that were built later for military reasons: Homburg–Glan-Münchweiler, Altenglan–Staudernheim and Odernheim–Bad Münster am Stein. The line had strategic importance, otherwise traffic was rather low, except on the Glan Munchweiler–Altenglan section.

The line runs right next to the river for 60 km of its 85 km length from Homburg to Bad Münster. The line is closed, except for the ten km section from Glan-Münchweiler to Altenglan that forms part of the Landstuhl–Kusel line. It is used for tourism and draisine rides have been offered on the section between Altenglan and Staudernheim since 2000. In contrast, the Waldmohr–Glan-Münchweiler section has been dismantled.