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 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

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

• 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.