Olef Valley Railway

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.

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 Eifel Railway from Trier 0,0 Kall Eifel Railway to Cologne 2 Kall-Anstois-Mastert (from 1953) 5 Gemünd-Mauel (1953 - 81) 5,9 Gemünd (previously a station with loading strip) Gemünd Tunnel (130 m) 8 Gemünd-Nierfeld (1953 - 81) 9,0 Olef Olef through route 10,3 Schleiden-Höddelbusch (old tank loading point) 11,7 Schleiden-Rathaus (dismantled 2006/07) 12,0 Schleiden (Eifel) 13 Schleiden-Wiesgen 14 Oberhausen (Eifel) 15,6 Blumenthal (Eifel) 17,8 Hellenthal

Literature

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

External links

• 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.

References