Lower Ruhr Valley Railway

Lower Ruhr Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Untere Ruhrtalbahn
Line number	2185 (Kettwig–Mülheim-Styrum) 85 (Ruhrbrücke junction–Mülheim West)
Locale	North Rhine-Westphalia
Service
Route number	Most recently: 231a
Technical
Line length	14.7 km (9.1 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed	40 km/h (24.9 mph) (most recent maximum)
Route map Legend Operating points and lines[1] Ruhr Valley Railway from Essen-Werden 0.0 Kettwig (former junction north of the Ruhr) Ruhr, Kettwiger See 1.0 Kettwig Stausee Ruhr Valley Railway to Düsseldorf 1.8 Kettwig vor der Brücke 3.0 Schloßhotel Hugenpoet 4.5 Mintard 8.7 Aubergsweg 9.0 Saarn Brauerei Ibing 11.5 Mülheim-Broich Connecting curve to Speldorf Rhenish railway: Mülheim Hbf–Speldorf Ruhr 13.0 Ruhrbrücke junction Former passenger line to Mülheim BME Main line from Mülheim Hbf 14.7 Mülheim-Styrum Main line to Oberhausen and Duisburg

The Lower Ruhr Valley Railway (German: Untere Ruhrtalbahn) is a former railway in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on 24 January 1876 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) along the Ruhr to the southwest of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and connects Mülheim-Styrum on the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway and Essen-Kettwig on the Ruhr Valley Railway.