Nagold Valley Railway

Nagold Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Nagoldtalbahn
Line number	4850
Locale	Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Termini	Pforzheim Hochdorf (b Horb)
Service
Route number	774
Technical
Line length	56.66 km (35.21 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend from Mühlacker S 5 0.0 Pforzheim Hbf S 6 280 m to Karlsruhe S 5 1.2 Pforzheim Durlacher Straße planned 1.3 Infrastructure border DB Netz / AVG 1.9 Pforzheim Maihälden Pforzheim District Railway (until 1968) 2.8 Brötzingen Mitte 2.9 Pforzheim-Brötzingen Enz Valley Railway to Bad Wildbad S 6 3.4 Infrastructure border AVG / DB Netz Enz 3.7 Brötzing Tunnel (405 m) 4.4 Pforzheim-Dillstein 283 m 5.2 Weißenstein Tunnel (371 m) 5.6 Pforzheim-Weißenstein 287 m 7.5 Zelgenberg Tunnel 9.0 Grunbach-Salmbach 297 m 10.2 former Baden / Württemberg border 12.3 Unterreichenbach 308 m 15.7 Monbach-Neuhausen 316 m 18.9 Bad Liebenzell 319 m 21.8 Ernstmühl 335 m 23.5 Hirsau 344 m 25.9 Calw (new halt since 1988) Ziegelbach Bridge over the B 296 former Black Forest Railway from Stuttgart 26.8 Calw ((until 1989) 27.5 Nagold River 27.7 Rudersberg Tunnel (471 m) Kentheim Bridge 30.3 Bad Teinach / Neubulach 349 m 31.1 Schlossberg Tunnel (280 m) 32.7 Talmühle 35.0 Kengel Tunnel (226 m) 37.1 Wildberg 372 m 37.2 Wildberg Tunnel (253 m) 40.2 Bettenberg Tunnel (166 m) 41.7 Emmingen (reactivation planned) 403 m 45.9 Nagold 426 m former line to Altensteig (until 1967) 46.5 Nagold Stadtmitte 47.4 Nagold Steinberg 48.8 Iselshausen 450 m 52.0 Gündringen 482 m 53.8 Hochdorf Tunnel (1557 m) Gäu Railway from Freudenstadt S 8S 81 56.66 Hochdorf (b Horb) 511 m Gäu Railway to Eutingen S 8S 81 Eutingen connecting curve Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Nagold Valley Railway (German: Nagoldtalbahn) is a railway line in the northern part of the Black Forest in Germany which links Pforzheim with Horb am Neckar and, for most of its route, follows the valley of the River Nagold.

Trains on the non-electrified, single-tracked main line are operated by DB Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee. Since 2005, the line has been designated and operated as a Kulturbahn ("cultural line"), together with the Upper Neckar Railway from Horb to Tübingen.