Elz Valley Railway

Elz Valley Railway
Overview
Line number4311
Service
Route number726
Technical
Line length19.3 km (12.0 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Minimum radius450 m (1,476 ft)
Operating speed100 km/h (62 mph) (max)
Route map

km
Rhine Valley Railway from Basel
0.0
Denzlingen
Rhine Valley Railway to Mannheim
Elz
3.6
Buchholz (Baden)
5.3
Batzenhäusle
7.1
Waldkirch
Elz
8.5
Kollnau
Gütermann narrow-gauge railway
10.2
Gutach (Breisgau)
Gutach
12.0
Bleibach
14.2
Niederwinden
16.4
Oberwinden
19.3
Elzach
Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Elz Valley Railway (German: Elztalbahn) is a 19.3 km (12.0 mi) long, single-tracked, standard gauge branch line in the Black Forest area of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The line branches off the Freiburg im Breisgau to Offenburg section of the Rhine Valley Railway at Denzlingen and runs up the valley of the River Elz to Waldkirch and Elzach.[1]

Whilst the track is owned by DB Netz AG, passenger services on the Elztalbahn are provided by the Breisgau S-Bahn, whose trains continue over the Upper Rhine Valley line to Freiburg Central Station. Typical service is two trains per hour from Freiburg to Waldkirch, with one train continuing to Elzach.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c Railway Atlas 2017, p. 102.
  2. ^ "Freiburg - Elzach" (PDF). Breisgau S-Bahn Gmbh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-03-13.