Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway

Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway
Overview
Line number2700
LocaleNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Service
Route number228a, 229a, last: 411
Technical
Line length41.3 km (25.7 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed70 km/h (43 mph) (max)
Route map

Main line from Wuppertal Hbf
0.0
Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
Former route to the west of the Wupper
Wupper
Main line to Hagen Hbf
to Wuppertal-Langerfeld freight yard
Rauenthal Tunnel (256 and 265 m)
and Langerfeld Tunnel (239 m)
1.5
Wuppertal-Rauenthal
Wupper
Wupper Valley Railway to Remscheid-Lennep
7.0
Wuppertal-Ronsdorf
former connection to Ronsdorf-Müngsten Railway
8.5
Großhülsberg
(siding)
9.4
Remscheid-Lüttringhausen siding
9.9
Remscheid-Lüttringshausen
A 1
13.0
Remscheid-Lennep
Line to Remscheid Hbf
Wupper Valley Railway to Wuppertal-Rauenthal
14.3
Klöckner Silesia
(siding)
14.3
Volksbank Remscheid (Schürmann)
(siding)
17.3
Bergisch Born
(until 1909: Born)
Wipper Valley Railway to Marienheide
21.2
Wermelskirchen
22.5
Wermelskirchen West
24.5
Tente
26.1
Unterstraße
27.8
Hilgen
29.3
Burscheid Dünweg
31.2
Burscheid
31.8
Burscheid Rathaus
33.0
Pattscheid Schmitz & Schulte
(siding)
34.0
Kuckenberg
35.8
Pattscheid
36.5
Pattscheid
37.4
Grund
38.2
Bergisch Neukirchen
Main line from Solingen
41.3
Opladen
Main line to Köln-Deutz
Source: German railway atlas

The Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway was a line built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in the Bergisches Land of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, running from Wuppertal via Remscheid-Lennep, Bergisch Born and Wermelskirchen to Opladen.

The only part of the original line still in operation is the section between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Remscheid-Lennep, which is now part of the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen line and operated as Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 7. This is classified as a main line and it is double-track and non-electrified.

The section of the line from Remscheid-Lennep to Opladen was known as the "Balkan Express" because it ran through a sparsely populated area. Services in this section were discontinued in 1994. The line ran between Lennep and Burscheid parallel to federal highway 51 and from Burscheid to Opladen parallel with former federal highway 232. It descends from the Bergisches land to the Rhine Valley between Lennep (337 m above sea level) and Opladen (61 m above sea level).