Dill Railway

Dill Railway
Siegen–Gießen
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Route number: 445
Line length: 73
Voltage: 15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC
Maximum speed: 140
Legend
Straight track
Sieg Railway from Cologne
Station on track
−1.1 Siegen
Junction to left
0.0 to Hagen
Junction from left
0.4 from Hagen
Enter and exit tunnel
0.4–1.2 Giersberg Tunnel (one line 732 m/other 699 m)
Unknown BSicon "KMW"
2,0 Chainage change
Non-passenger station/depot on track
2.6 Siegen Ost goods yard
Junction from right
2.9 Kreisbahn S-W
Junction to left
3.1
107.6
Mannesmann Fuchs Rohr siding
Junction to left
108.3 "Siegen town" siding
Large bridge
110.9 Niederdielfen Viaduct
Non-passenger station/depot on track
111.4 Niederdielfen
Large bridge
114.8 Rudersdorf Viaduct
Station on track
115.8 Rudersdorf (Siegen)
Junction to right
116.4 Rudersdorf substation siding
Enter tunnel
117.6 Rudersdorf Tunnel 2652 m
Unknown BSicon "etGRENZE"
ca. 119.0 NRW–Hesse state boundary
Exit tunnel
Small bridge
121.4 Dill river and road bridge
Stop on track
121.7 Dillbrecht
Small bridge
124.2 Bridge over Dill and road
Stop on track
124.9 Rodenbach (Dillkr)
Underbridge
127.0 A 45
Junction from right
from Betzdorf (Sieg)
Unknown BSicon "eABZlg"
from Breitscheid
Station on track
129.1 Haiger (Keilbahnhof)
Unknown BSicon "KMW"
129.6
119.3
km change, network boundary
Small bridge
119.3 B 277
Bridge over water
119.4 Dill
Stop on track
121.4 Sechshelden
Junction from left
123.7 from Ewersbach
Station on track
125.0 Dillenburg
Junction to left
to Wallau (Lahn)
Bridge over water
126.6 Dill
Stop on track
127.1 Niederscheld (Dillkr) Süd
Bridge over water
128.3 Dill
Stop on track
129.0 Burg (Dillkr) Nord
Junction from left
129.3 from Niederwalgern
Unknown BSicon "eKRZu"
129.8 Westerwald Cross Railway
Unknown BSicon "eABZrg"
from Montabaur
Station on track
130.8 Herborn (Dillkr)
Bridge over water
133.3 Dill
Junction from left
134.6 Firma Haas & Sohn siding
Station on track
135.0 Sinn
Stop on track
137.1 Edingen (Wetzlar)
Stop on track
139.4 Katzenfurt
Station on track
143.5 Ehringshausen (Kr Wetzlar)
Stop on track
146.0 Werdorf
Bridge over water
148.8 Dill
Junction from left
149.0 Firma Berkenhoff & Drebes siding
Station on track
149.4 Aßlar
Junction to right
150.4 to Koblenz
Junction from right
152.8 Buderus Edelstahl I siding
Junction from right
153.2 Buderus Edelstahl II siding
Junction from right
153.3 from Koblenz
Station on track
153.4 Wetzlar
Bridge over water
153.9 Lahn
Non-passenger station/depot on track
154.7 Wetzlar freight yard
Unknown BSicon "eABZlf"
156.0 to Lollar
Station on track
160.6 Dutenhofen (Wetzlar)
Junction to right
161.0 to Gießen-Bergwald
Junction to left
163.6 to Gießen Gbf
Unknown BSicon "KRZu"
164.0 Main-Weser Railway
Junction from left
from Frankfurt/Main
Station on track
166.0 Gießen (Keilbahnhof)
Junction to right
to Gelnhausen
Junction to right
to Fulda
Straight track
to Kassel

The Dill Railway (German: Dillstrecke) is a 73 km-long double-track electrified railway line, which runs from Giessen in Hesse to Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 2002 InterRegio trains operated the connection to Düsseldorf, Norddeich, and Münster. Nowadays the line is only worked by regional trains, including diesel multiples of the DreiLänderBahn, but there is one exception. The EuroCity Line 112/113 from Siegen to Klagenfurt via Frankfurt, Stuttgart, München and Salzburg with a destination coach to Zagreb. This train starts every day from Siegen in the morning at 6:17 pm, the train von Klagenfurt arrives at 9:57 am at Siegen. The southern section between Haiger and Gießen was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1862 as part of its line from Deutz and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section from Haiger to Siegen was opened in 1915 by the Prussian state railways.

Contents

History

Regional-Express in Rudersdorf
InterRegio service in 2002
Rudersdorf station

Construction

The Dill line consists historically in two parts. The southern section was built about 50 years before the northern section.

Southern section

The southern part is the south-western section of the Deutz–Gießen line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and completed originally as a single-track in January 1862 from Köln-Deutz to Gießen. The population of the rural areas along the Dill river was initially largely hostile to the construction of the railway, although it contributed to the prosperity of the region. It quickly gained great importance for the movement of professionals between home and work. The town of Wetzlar had to accept the remote location of its station, as it was located near a curve in the Dill line built for the junction with the Lahn Valley Railway, which was opened a year later. The route soon became an important line and was almost fully duplicated by1870. The central section of the Deutz–Giessen line ran from Betzdorf via Burbach and Würgendorf to Haiger, the route of the current Heller Valley Railway. Due to the difficult terrain, construction of a direct connection from Siegen to the Dill line was too expensive at the time.

Northern section

The line between Haiger and Siegen line was opened in 1915, completing a connection from Hagen to Giessen, and thus from the Ruhr to the Rhine-Main area as well as southern Germany. The line was shortened by approximately 30 kilometres. The line was particularly important for coal traffic. This required the construction of the almost 2.7 km-long Rudersdorf Tunnel and two large viaducts, the Rudersdorf Viaduct and the Niederdielfen Viaduct. It was originally planned to build the Siegen–Dillenburg section with four tracks, but this was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War. Because of the engineering works, the entire line between Haiger station and the Hessian / North Rhine Westphalia border, through which the Rudersdorf tunnel passes, has been listed as a cultural monument under the Hessian heritage law.

Development

In 1965, the whole of the Dill line and the Ruhr-Sieg line were electrified. The first electric train ran on the line on 14 May 1965.

Operations

Passengers

The train services operating on the Dill Railway are:

RegionalBahn:

  • RB 40: DillenburgHaigerSiegen
  • SE 40: FrankfurtFriedbergGießenWetzlarSiegen
  • HTB : Dillenburg-Haiger-Burbach-Betzdorf

RegionalExpress:

  • RE 30/40: FrankfurtGießenWetzlarSiegen continuing to Cologne or Aachen

EuroCity:

  • EC 62: Siegen-WetzlarGießenFrankfurtStuttgartMunich continuing to Klagenfurt
Type Line Comments Train class Company
EuroCity (EC 62)   Siegen-WetzlarGießenFrankfurtStuttgartMunich continuing to Klagenfurt two trains per day ÖBB 1016 DB Fernverkehr AG
Regional-Express (RE 99/RE 40)   FrankfurtGießenWetzlarSiegen 60 minute frequency Stadler FLIRT HLB
StadtExpress (SE 40)   FrankfurtFriedbergGießenWetzlarDillenburg 60 minute frequency DBAG Class 425 DB Regio AG
Regionalbahn   Dillenburg-Haiger-Burbach-Betzdorf 60 minute frequency Stadler GTW HTB

There is only one long-distance train the EuroCity. The SE 40 from Dillenburg to Frankfurt via Gießen and Friedberg is a special train. From Dillenburg to Gießen this train stops at all stations from Gießen to Frankfurt via Friedberg this train stops only in Butzbach, Bad Nauheim, Friedberg and Frankfurt-West.

Freight

In Germany there are three major freight railways: the North-South railway and the East and the West Rhine Railways. The Dill Railway is very important in handling freight services from the Netherlands and Ruhr to the area around Stuttgart as well as Austria. The most important customer on the Dill Railway is the steelmaking firm of Thyssen-Krupp in Dillenburg, which receives deliveries of goods daily from Thyssen-Krupp in Bochum.

References

  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed (2005) (in German). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. pp. Vol 2.1, p. 264ff and Vol 2.2, pp. 1011ff. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6. 
  • Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) 2007/2008 edition. Schweers + Wall. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9. 
  • Krauskopf, Bernd; Vogelbusch, Reinhard (1984) (in German). Das Bw Dillenburg. Freiburg: Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-315-4. 
  • Merzhäuser, Wenzel (1996) (in German). Eisenbahnen im Westerwald. Freiburg: Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag. ISBN 3882555793. 

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