Classic route
Oberbergische Bahn
Cologne → Lüdenscheid · Germany
Cologne into the Bergisches Land through the Hoffnungsthal tunnel of 1910 and up the Agger valley to Gummersbach and Marienheide; trains came back to Meinerzhagen in late 2013 and to Lüdenscheid in 2017.
- Distance
- 96 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 2 min
- Average speed
- 47 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmKöln Hansaring
- 1 kmKöln Hauptbahnhof +7
- 2 kmCologne Trade Fair/Deutz
- 4 kmKöln Trimbornstraße
- 8 kmKöln Frankfurter Straße
- 16 kmRösrath-Stümpen
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- 19 kmRösrath
- 20 kmHoffnungsthal
- 24 kmHonrath
- 29 kmOverath
- 40 kmEngelskirchen
- 45 kmRünderoth
- 53 kmGummersbach-Dieringhausen
- 58 kmGummersbach
- 66 kmMarienheide
- 75 kmMeinerzhagen
- 79 kmKierspe
- 88 kmHalver-Oberbrügge
- 90 kmLüdenscheid-Brügge (Westf.)
- 96 kmLüdenscheid
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the RB 25 on 17 November 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1988238: 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RB 25
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Oberbergische Bahn?
The Oberbergische Bahn runs 96 km from Cologne to Lüdenscheid.
How long does the Oberbergische Bahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 2 min for the 96 km. That is an average of 47 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Oberbergische Bahn?
DB Regio NRW, with RB 25, Regionalbahn.
How old is the Oberbergische Bahn?
The line has been in service since 1910. 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.
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