Lauter Valley Railway

The Lautertalbahn follows its river out of Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken — a branch the Bundesbahn planned to close in the 1980s and never did.

Stations

1. 0 kmLauterecken-Grumbach
2. 2 kmLohnweiler
3. 4 kmHeinzenhausen
4. 7 kmReckweilerhof
5. 10 kmWolfstein
6. 12 kmRoßbach (Pfalz)
7. Show 4 more stations

   1. 15 kmKreimbach-Kaulbach
   2. 17 kmOlsbrücken
   3. 19 kmSulzbachtal
   4. 21 kmHirschhorn (Pfalz)
8. 24 kmKatzweiler
9. 27 kmLampertsmühle-Otterbach
10. 31 kmKaiserslautern West
11. 33 kmKaiserslautern Pfaffwerk
12. 34 kmKaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7538857 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RB 66
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Lauter Valley Railway?

The Lauter Valley Railway runs 33 km from Lauterecken to Kaiserslautern.

How long does the Lauter Valley Railway take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 51 min for the 33 km. That is an average of 39 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 60 km/h.

Who runs the Lauter Valley Railway?

DB Regio, with RB 66, Regionalbahn.

How old is the Lauter Valley Railway?

The line has been in service since 1883. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

How often does the Lauter Valley Railway run?

16 direct trains on a weekday (counted on 2 September 2026).

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