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.

Bröl Valley Railway
Bröltalbahn/ Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
Technical
Line length87.3 km
Track gauge785 mm (2 ft 6 29⁄32 in)
Hennef–Waldbröl (actual Bröl Valley Railway)
 0.0 km Hennef passenger station
 67.32 m above NN
 1.0 Hennef goods station
 68.00 m
 1.0
to Asbach
 68.00 m
2.2 Allner
 70.22 m
 4.4 Bröl
 79.59 m
 9.7 Ingersauel Mill
 98.69 m
 12.5 Herrnstein
 114.48 m
 13.6 Büchel
 120.16 m
 14.7 Felderhoferbrücke
 126.35 m
17.0 Schönenberg
 140.17 m
Saurenbach (refuge siding)
 20.3 Ruppichteroth
 164.40 m
 24.0 Benroth
 188.64 m
 25.4 Berkenroth
 200.98 m
27.8 Rossenbach
 223.77 m
 31.1 Waldbröl
 262.5 m
Siegburg–Niederpleis–Rostingen
 0.0 Siegburg
 57.90 m
 0.7 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 68.90 m
 5.9 Birlinghoven
 75.60 m
7.3 Dambroich
 81.60 m
 8.2 Scheuren Mill
 88.82 m
 9.7 Uthweiler-Jüngsfeld
 101.71 m
11.9 Oberpleis
 119.42 m
 13.3 Herresbach
 133.45 m
 15.2 Nonnenberg
 157.00 m
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
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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