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 number9278 (Scheuerfeld–Emmerzhausen)
9279 (Bindweide–Nauroth new Bf)
Service
Route number194j (1949)
Technical
Line length20.2 km (12.6 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Maximum incline2.5 %
Route map

Scheuerfeld (Sieg)
175 m
0.0
Scheuerfeld WEBA
177.45 m
Scheuerfelder Tunnel (302 m)
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
(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
33.0
Lippe Airfield

Literature

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

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