Lauter Valley Railway

Lauter Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Lautertalbahn
Line number	3302
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate
Termini	Kaiserslautern Lauterecken-Grumbach
Service
Route number	673
Technical
Line length	34.5 km (21.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius	185 m (607 ft)
Maximum incline	1.4%
Route map Legend from Mannheim 0.0 Kaiserslautern Hbf to Saarbrücken 1.4 Kaiserslautern-Pfaffwerk 3.3 Kaiserslautern West 0.5 Kaiserslautern West 0.0 3.3 Lauter viaduct (Bundesautobahn 6) 4.6 Kaisersmühle until 1912 to Otterberg 7.7 Lampertsmühle-Otterbach to Reichenbach 9.0 Sambach until 1912 10.6 Katzweiler 13.0 Hirschhorn/Pfalz 15.0 Untersulzbach 17.0 Olsbrücken 19.3 Kaulbach until 2000 19.8 Kreimbach-Kaulbach 20.4 Kreimbach until 2000 22.0 Stahlhausen-Rutsweiler until 1914 22.6 Roßbach (Pfalz) 24.5 Wolfstein Eisenknopf Tunnel (91 m) 26.5 Oberweiler-Tiefenbach until 1912 27.6 Reckweilerhof 30.7 Heinzenhausen 32.2 Lohnweiler 33.2 Lauterecken until 1912 Glan from Homburg 34.3 Lauterecken Halt 1896–1904 34.5 Lauterecken-Grumbach to Staudernheim Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Lauter Valley Railway (German: Lautertalbahn)^[2] is a branch line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It runs from Kaiserslautern along the Lauter river to Lauterecken. The railway, which was opened in 1883, has only regional importance. Deutsche Bundesbahn planned in the 1980s to close the line. Its existence has now been secured since the establishment of Deutsche Bahn. While freight traffic was discontinued in the 1990s, there has been growth in passenger demand.