Finnentrop–Freudenberg railway

The Bigge Valley Railway (German: Biggetalbahn) is a 24-kilometre-long, single-tracked branch line from Finnentrop station via Attendorn and Olpe to Freudenberg in western Germany. It is non-electrified and the section of line from Olpe to Freudenberg is now closed. The section between Olpe and Finnentrop is regularly worked by local railway passenger services (SPNV). The line runs from Finnentrop to Wenden in the valley of the River Bigge.

Finnentrop–Freudenberg
Overview
Line number2864
Service
Route number442
Technical
Line length43.6 km
Route map
0,0 Finnentrop station
2,4 Heggen
(request stop)
 8,1
Scrap merchant industrial siding
 8,4 Attendorn
 8,5
Industrial siding
 11,9 Kraghammer
(former station)
 13,8 Listerscheid
(request stop)
Bausenberg Tunnel (1071 m)
Lister valley double-deck bridge
Tunnel
 15,9 Attendorn-Hohen Hagen
(seasonal May–Sept, request stop)
Tunnel
Dumicke valley double-deck bridge
Erbscheid Tunnel (1034 m)
 18,0 Sondern
(former Bf)
Hanemick Tunnel (219 m)
 19,8 Eichhagen
(request stop)
2x Obersee
23,6 Olpe
(former station)
 27,4 Sassmicke
 28,5
Tunnel under the A4 (150 m)
 29,1 Gerlingen
 30,6 Wendenerhütte
 31,9 Brün
 33,0 Rothemühle
(last used as industrial siding)
 35,0
Industrial estate siding
NRW/RLP state border
 37,1 Wildenburg
RLP/NRW state border
 38,9 Hohenhain
 39,2
Hohenhain Tunnel (400 m)
 43,6 Freudenberg (Siegen district)
Asdorf Valley Railway to Betzdorf

From Finnentrop to Olpe the Bigge Valley Railway is operated as Route no. 442.

See also
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