Dill Railway

Dill Railway
Overview
Native name	Dillstrecke
Line number	2881 (Siegen–Siegen Ost) 800 (Siegen Ost–Haiger) 2651 (Haiger–Gießen)
Locale	Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Termini	Siegen Gießen
Service
Route number	445
Technical
Line length	73 km (45 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed	140 km/h (87 mph)
Route map Legend from Cologne −1.1 Siegen 0.0 from Hagen 0.4–1.2 Giersberg tunnel Siegen Ost goods yard (station until 1992) 2.9 Siegen-Wittgenstein District Railway Mannesmann Fuchs Rohr siding 108.3 Siegen town siding 110.9 Niederdielfen viaduct 111.4 Niederdielfen 114.8 Rudersdorf viaduct 115.8 Rudersdorf (Siegen) 116.4 Rudersdorf substation siding 117.6 Rudersdorf tunnel (2652 m) 119.0 state boundary 121.4 Dill river and road bridge 121.7 Dillbrecht 124.2 Bridge over Dill and road 124.9 Rodenbach (Dillkr) 127.0 A 45 from Betzdorf (Sieg) from Breitscheid 129.1 Haiger (Keilbahnhof) km change, network boundary 119.3 B 277 119.4 Dill 121.4 Sechshelden 123.7 from Ewersbach 125.0 Dillenburg to Wallau (Lahn) 126.6 Dill 127.1 Niederscheld (Dillkr) Süd 128.3 Dill 129.0 Burg (Dillkr) Nord 129.3 from Niederwalgern 129.8 from Montabaur 130.8 Herborn (Dillkr) 133.3 Dill 134.6 Firma Haas & Sohn siding 135.0 Sinn 137.1 Edingen (Wetzlar) 139.4 Katzenfurt 143.5 Ehringshausen (Kr Wetzlar) 146.0 Werdorf 148.8 Dill 149.0 Firma Berkenhoff & Drebes siding 149.4 Aßlar 150.4 to Koblenz 152.8 Buderus Edelstahl I siding 153.2 Buderus Edelstahl II siding 153.3 from Koblenz 153.4 Wetzlar 153.9 Lahn 154.7 Wetzlar marshalling yard 155.1 Garbenheim (until 1977, Lollar– Wetzlar railway only) to Lollar 160.6 Dutenhofen (Kr Wetzlar) 161.0 to Gießen-Bergwald 163.6 Gießen passenger station/ marshalling yard transition (junction) 164.4 (Gießen-Bergwald) from Frankfurt 164.5 from Frankfurt Gießen marshalling yard 166.0 Gießen to Gelnhausen to Fulda to Kassel Source: German railway atlas[1]

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The Dill Railway (German: Dillstrecke) is a 73 km-long double-track electrified railway line, which runs from Gießen in Hesse to Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The line is mainly worked by regional trains, including diesel multiples of the DreiLänderBahn, except for the IC 34, which runs between Frankfurt and Siegen, stopping in Dillenburg. The southern section between Haiger and Gießen was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1862 as part of its line from Deutz and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section from Haiger to Siegen was opened in 1915 by the Prussian state railways.