Bröl Valley Railway

Bröl Valley Railway; Bröltalbahn/ Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
Technical
Line length	87.3 km
Track gauge	785 mm (2 ft 6 29⁄32 in)
Hennef–Waldbröl (actual Bröl Valley Railway)

The Bröl Valley Railway (German: Bröltalbahn) was the first public narrow gauge railway in Germany and had a track gauge of 785 mm (2 ft 6 ²⁹⁄₃₂ in). It was the heart of a railway company, which from 1925 also ran bus services and from 1956 its passenger services only ran by road. Goods trains continued to run until 1967, when the remaining trackage was lifted.

Siegburg–Niederpleis–Rostingen

0.0

Siegburg

57.90 m

0.7

Sieg

Jointly used
with the SSB und der Straße

Brück

1.5

Siegburg-Mülldorf

58.60 m

3.3

to Beuel

68.90 m

3.3

Niederpleis

68.90 m

3.3

to Hennef

68.90 m

5.9

Birlinghoven

75.60 m

Pleisbach

7.3

Dambroich

81.60 m

8.2

Scheuren Mill

88.82 m

9.7

Uthweiler-Jüngsfeld

101.71 m

refuge siding

11.9

Oberpleis

119.42 m

13.3

Herresbach

133.45 m

15.2

Nonnenberg

157.00 m

refuge siding

17.1

Quirrenbach

194.00 m

17.8

Rostingen

205.60 m

Dachsberg (refuge siding)

Himberg (refuge siding)

Beuel–Niederpleis–Hennef–Asbach

0.0

Beuel

52.00 m

1.8

Pützchen

60.10 m

Vilich

4.5

Hangelar

66.00 m

6.7

Großenbusch

67.45 m

8.2

to Siegburg

68.90 m

8.2

Niederpleis

68.90 m

8.2

to Rostingen

68.90 m

10.4

Buisdorf

63.20 m

11.9

Quadenhof

65.00 m

14.0

Geistingen

68.45 m

14.8

Hennef passenger station

68.20 m

15.8

Hennef goods station

68.00 m

15.8

to Waldbröl

68.00 m

17.8

Geisbach

74.15 m

19.8

Kuchenbach

90.70 m

23.6

Dahlhausen

121.25 m

Eulenberg (refuge siding)

24.9

Hanfmühle

130.00 m

25.9

Eudenberg

142.44 m

refuge siding

27.9

Krautscheid

167.00 m

30.9

Mendt

212.63 m

Steineberg (refuge siding)

33.7

Buchholz

247.30 m

Bennau-Berg (refuge siding)

36.5

Bennau-Thal

228.98 m

38.4

Asbach

(today the RSE Museum)

245.70 m

The firm was founded on 3 February 1869 as the Bröl Valley Railway Company (Brölthaler Eisenbahn-Actien-Gesellschaft) or BTE. On 10 June 1921 it was renamed as the Rhine-Sieg Railway (Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn-AG) or RSE. The company headquarters was moved in 1917 from Hennef (Sieg) to Beuel. In 1983 the RSE went into the Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft. It should not be confused with the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn GmbH founded in 1994 by the Verkehrsclub Deutschland.

The 785 mm gauge railway network of the Bröl Valley Railway was, at its peak, a total of 87.3 kilometres long and, towards the end, was mainly worked by goods services. With the take over of the Heisterbach Valley Railway in 1901 an isolated section of 750 mm gauge line also belonged to the BTE.

In the old Bröl Valley Railway engine shed in Asbach is a railway museum about the old railway that was founded in 2000.

Literature

Sources

Adolf Becker (1988), Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ed.), Die Bröltalbahn – Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (in German) (1. ed.), Niederkassel-Mondorf: Verlag Kersting, ISBN 3-925250-05-0
Sascha Koch: Eisenbahnen im Oberbergischen und die Geschichte des Bahnbetriebswerkes Dieringhausen. Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht, 2005. ISBN 3-89909-050-0.

Others

Manfred Frickhöfer: Die Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (Bröltalbahn). Druck: quickprint grube & speck, Karlsruhe 1979.
Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: Die Heisterbacher Talbahn und Industriebahnen im Siebengebirgsraum. Freiburg im Breisgau 2006. ISBN 978-3-88255-456-4.

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