Bad Vilbel–Glauburg-Stockheim railway

The Bad Vilbel–Glauburg-Stockheim railway (also called the Niddertalbahn—Nidder Valley Railway) is a non-electrified branch line in the Wetterau and the Main-Kinzig districts of the German state of Hesse. It connects the Main-Weser Railway in Bad Vilbel with the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway in Glauburg-Stockheim.

Bad Vilbel–Glauburg-Stockheim railway
class 218 with double-deck cars on the Büdesheim curve
Overview
Native nameNiddertalbahn
Line number3745
LocaleHesse, Germany
Service
Route number634
Technical
Line length31 km (19 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed80 km/h (50 mph)
Route map
elev (M)
or length (m)
in metres
Oberwald Railway
to Lauterbach Nord
31.0
Glauburg-Stockheim
131 M
28.9
Glauburg-Glauberg
27.4
Enzheim
until c.
1927/39
Nidder
26.0
Altenstadt-Lindheim
B 521
23.3
Altenstadt (Hess)
20.8
Altenstadt-Höchst
Nidder
19.0
Nidderau-Eichen
closed
1988
14.8
Nidderau
127 M
Nidder
13.7
Nidderau-Windecken
Nidder
Büdesheim tunnel
200 m
10.9
Schöneck-Büdesheim
closed
1999
8.6
Schöneck-Kilianstädten
Nidder
7.2
Schöneck-Oberdorfelden
6.1
Niederdorfelden
B 521
4.1
Bad Vilbel-Gronau
Nidda
Main-Weser Railway
to Friedberg
0.0
Bad Vilbel
122 M
Main-Weser Railway
to Frankfurt
Source: German railway atlas

It was used as an access route to the line now referred to as the Oberwaldbahn (Oberwald Railway) between Glauburg-Stockheim and Lauterbach, which connected to the Vogelsberg Railway. The section between Heldenbergen-Windecken (now Nidderau) and Stockheim was opened on 1 October 1905 and the section between Vilbel Nord (now Bad Vilbel) and Heldenbergen-Windecken was opened on 1 June 1907. It was operated by the Prussian-Hessian Railway Company (Preußisch-Hessische Eisenbahngemeinschaft).

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