Scheuerfeld–Emmerzhausen railway

The Scheuerfeld and Emmerzhausen railway, also known as the Westerwald Railway (German: Westerwaldbahn), is a railway line in the northernmost part of the German federated state of Rhineland-Palatinate. There was a pit railway here as early as the last decades of the 19th century, used to transport ore and other minerals, but after the turn of the century, a standard gauge railway was built for public transport.

Scheuerfeld–Nauroth/Emmerzhausen
Overview
Line number	9278 (Scheuerfeld–Emmerzhausen) 9279 (Bindweide–Nauroth new Bf)
Service
Route number	194j (1949)
Technical
Line length	20.2 km (12.6 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Maximum incline	2.5 %
Route map Line from Siegen Scheuerfeld (Sieg) 175 m Line to Cologne 0.0 Scheuerfeld WEBA 177.45 m Scheuerfelder Tunnel (302 m) Elbbach 5.6 Elben 297.32 m 7.3 Gebhardshain-Steinebach 334.75 m 10.6 Bindweide 410.32 m 1.8 Rosenheim (Westerwald) / Rosenheim Bk 427.08 m 3.8 Luckenbach 391.04 m 4.4 Nauroth (new station) 11.7 Dickendorf 12.0 Buchenkopf (junction) (original line) 13.7 Elkenroth 16.8 Nauroth (old station) 14.0 Elkenroth (new halt) 457.08 m 14.9 Elkenroth Gbf 15.8 End of industrial siding 1926 16.7 Weitefeld 473.1 m 18.2 Oberdreisbach 487.0 m 20.3 Friedewald 495.95 m 22.5 Derschen 24.0 Mauden 26.4 Emmerzhausen 597.2 m Rhineland-Palatinate/North Rhine-Westphalia state border 33.0 Lippe Airfield

Literature

• Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen. Band 1: Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-88255-651-X, S. 264–284.

External links

• "Güterverkehr nach über 100 Jahren endgültig eingestellt". AK-Kurier.de (in German). MVV Medienverlag Westerwald-Sieg UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG. 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2017-10-09.