Lahntal railway

Lahntal railway
Overview
Native name	Lahntalbahn
Line number	3030 (Oberlahnstein–Hohenrhein) 3710 (Koblenz–Wetzlar)
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Germany
Termini	Koblenz Wetzlar
Service
Route number	625
Technical
Line length	104 km (65 mi)
Number of tracks	2: Koblenz–Niederlahnstein 2: Hohenrhein–Dausenau 2: Nassau (Lahn)–Wetzlar
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary (Limburg–Eschhofen:)
Operating speed	120 km/h (75 mph) (max)
Route map Legend Left Rhine line from Cologne Moselle line from Trier 103.7 Koblenz Hbf Left Rhine line to Mainz Horchheim rail bridge (Rhine) Right Rhine line from Cologne 101.2 Koblenz Horchheim Bridge junction 99.2 Niederlahnstein Right Rhine line from Wiesbaden 99.0 Oberlahnstein (original route, closed 30 May 1983) Lahn 96.7 Hohenrhein junction 93.9 Friedrichssegen (former connection to narrow gauge cog railway) 90.1 Nievern 88.2 Bad Ems West 86.4 Bad Ems 82.8 Dausenau (station and junction) 79.4 Lahn 78.6 Nassau (Lahn) 76.4 Hollerich Tunnel (319 m) 75.2 Langenau Tunnel (232 m) 74.6 Obernhof Tunnel (450 m) 74.4 Lahn 74.2 Obernhof (Lahn) 72.5 Kalkofen Tunnel (592 m) 67.9 Laurenburg Tunnel (225 m) 67.3 Laurenburg (Lahn) 61.1 Cramberg Tunnel (732 m) 61.4 Balduinstein 60.6 Lahn 60.5 Daubach Tunnel (193 m) 60.0 Kehrberg Tunnel (262 m) 58.2 Lahn 58.0 Fachingen (Lahn) 57.7 Faching Tunnel (425 m) 55.5 Diez Tunnel (105 m) 55.0 Diez former Aar Valley Railway to Wiesbaden Ost Rhineland-Palatinate–Hesse border Hesse–Rhineland-Palatinate border Rhineland-Palatinate–Hesse border 55.2 Freiendiez Tunnel (65 m) Upper Westerwald line from Au (Sieg) and Lower Westerwald line from Siershahn 52.2 Limburg (Lahn) A 3 50.3 Cologne–Frankfurt HSL 48.9 Eschhofen Main-Lahn line to Frankfurt 47.4 Ennerich Tunnel (494 m) 46.8 Lahn Kerkerbach Railway from Dehrn (originally metre or mixed gauge, now standard gauge) 46.6 Kerkerbach former Kerkerbach Railway to Mengerskirchen 44.6 Runkel 41.7 Villmar 40.9 Villmarer Tunnel (228 m) 38.1 Arfurt (Lahn) Lahn 35.0 Aumenau 31.2 Fürfurt 29.5 Gräveneck Tunnel (127 m) 28.7 Gräveneck 27.6 Schmidtskopf Tunnel (223 m) 27.1 Michelsberg Tunnel (433 m) 25.5 Kirschhofen Tunnel (495 m) 24.9 Guntersau former Weil Valley Railway from Grävenwiesbach 23.8 Gensberg junction 23.5 Weilburg Tunnel (302 m) Lahn 23.0 Weilburg 20.2 Löhnberg former Ulmbach Valley Railway from Beilstein 14.3 Stockhausen (Lahn) Lahn B 49 former Ernst Railway from Philippstein (narrow gauge) 10.7 Leun/Braunfels (former Lahn station) 7.5 Solms former Solmsbach Valley Railway from Grävenwiesbach 5.5 Albshausen 2.6 Bundeswehrverladeanlage junction Lahn former connecting curve to Dill line Dill B 49 Dill line from Siegen 0.0 Wetzlar Dill line to Gießen Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Lahntal railway or Lahn Valley Railway (German: Lahntalbahn) is a railway line between Niederlahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate to Wetzlar in Hesse, partly following the Lahn valley (Lahntal). Its western terminus was originally in Oberlahnstein. Trains now mostly operate between Koblenz and Gießen. The line was opened by the Nassau Rhine and Lahn Railway Company and the Nassau State Railway between 1858 and 1863 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.