Olef Valley Railway

Kall–Hellenthal

Route of the Olef Valley Railway

Overview
Line number| 2635
Service
Route number| 432
Technical
Line length| 17.8 km
(Line class: CE)
Track gauge| 1435 mm

Route map

Legend

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Eifel Railway from Trier

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0,0

| Kall
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Eifel Railway to Cologne

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| Kall-Anstois-Mastert

(from 1953)

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| Gemünd-Mauel

(1953 - 81)

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5,9

| Gemünd

(previously a station with loading strip)

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Gemünd Tunnel (130 m)

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| Gemünd-Nierfeld

(1953 - 81)

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9,0

| Olef
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Olef through route

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10,3

| Schleiden-Höddelbusch

(old tank loading point)

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11,7

| Schleiden-Rathaus

(dismantled 2006/07)

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12,0

| Schleiden (Eifel)
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| Schleiden-Wiesgen
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| Oberhausen (Eifel)
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15,6

| Blumenthal (Eifel)
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17,8

| Hellenthal
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The Olef Valley Railway (German: Oleftalbahn or Flitsch) or OTB is a 17.8-kilometre-long, single tracked, unelectrified branch line from Kall through the Schleiden Valley above Schleiden to Hellenthal. The line is currently used by tourists; travelling on the heritage railway in the summer months or occasionally by goods trains. However, there are attempts to reactivate passenger services that were ceased in 1981.

## Literature[edit]

* Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Stillgelegte Bahnstrecken im Rheinland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9.

## References[edit]

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oleftalbahn.

* Olef Valley Railway
* Schleiden Valley rail and bus initiative
* Rhein-Sieg Railway
* Gutachten Oleftalbahn des Rheinisches Amtes für Denkmalpflege at the Wayback Machine (archived June 26, 2015) (pdf; 121 kB)
* Carsten Klinger (photos), Lothar Brill (text) (2009-08-22). "Bilder der Gemünder Tunnelportale mit Schienenbus, June 2006" (in German). Retrieved 2010-07-28.