Warburg–Sarnau railway

Warburg–Sarnau railway
Overview
Line number2972
LocaleHesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Termini
Service
Route number
  • 612 (Volkmarsen–Korbach)
  • 622 (Korbach–Sarnau)
Technical
Line length100.904 km (62.699 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Route map

km
0.000
Warburg (Westf)
51°29′35″N 9°09′50″E / 51.492953°N 9.163845°E / 51.492953; 9.163845 (Warburg Bf)
3.4
3.7
4.9
Warburg Altstadt
6.8
Wormeln
9.6
Welda 51°27′10″N 9°07′00″E / 51.452683°N 9.116692°E / 51.452683; 9.116692 (Welda Bf)
10.5
13.0
14.4
14.700
Volkmarsen
16.7
18.517
Külte-Wetterburg
18.6
19.3
Pohlmannshammer (siding)
19.816
Twistesee
(since Dec. 2013)
21.5
Fischhaus
24.7
B4500
24.790
Bad Arolsen
25.2
B252
26.5
Mengeringhäusen Viaduct
27.364
Mengeringhausen
30.9
B252
31.582
Twiste
32.9
B252
36.4
Berndorf
41.9
42.0
B251
43.739
Korbach
44.863
Korbach Süd
47.5
B252
50.0
B252
50.4
Dorfitter
(until 1982)
50.5
50.547
Itter I tunnel (200 m)
51.172
Itter II tunnel (93 m)
51.386
Vöhl-Thalitter
52.8
Itter
55.802
Vöhl-Herzhausen
56.3
Herzhausen
(until 2015)
59.894
Vöhl-Schmittlotheim
63.774
Vöhl-Ederbringhausen
64.0
68.611
Frankenberg (Eder)-Viermünden
71.6
72.0
Schreufa
73.475
Frankenberg (Eder)-Goßberg
74.2
Flutbrücke Edertal
74.3
Eder (55 m)
74.933
Frankenberg (Eder)
75.7
76.6
B253
79.3
Birkenbringhausen
79.5
Luftmunitionsanstalt (air munitions
plant) Frankenberg siding
79.844
Birkenbringhausen
80.405
Wiesenfeld tunnel (185 m)
81.757
Wiesenfeld
85.2
Ernsthausen Nord
85.5
B252
86.164
Ernsthausen (Kr Frankenberg)
87.0
B252
88.217
Münchhausen
88.3
B236
88.5
Wollmar
90.3
91.254
Simtshausen
91.8
Simtshausen
93.3
Todenhausen
96.228
Wetter (Hess-Nass)
97.9
98.4
Niederwetter
99.1
Au-Mühle siding
100.5
100.6
100.904
Sarnau Bbf
Source: German railway atlas

The Warburg–Sarnau railway is a 100.9 kilometre-long, single-track, partially disused secondary railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia and North Hesse. The middle section, KorbachFrankenberg, is called the Untere Edertalbahn (Lower Eder Valley Railway) or the Nationalparkbahn (National Park railway) and the southern section, Frankenberg–Sarnau(–Marburg), is called the Burgwaldbahn (Burgwald railway).

The line between Warburg and Volkmarsen, which is known as the Twistetalbahn (Twiste Valley Railway), has been dismantled. Since the reactivation of the section between Korbach Süd and Frankenberg on 11 September 2015 there has been continuous rail traffic from Marburg to Brilon Stadt (from Korbach via the Wabern–Brilon Wald railway).