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Finnentrop–Freudenberg railway

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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)
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)

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.

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

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