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Lahntal railway
Summary
The Lahntal railway (German: Lahntalbahn) is a railway line between Niederlahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate to Wetzlar in Hesse. Its western terminus was originally in Oberlahnstein. Trains now mostly operate between Koblenz and Gießen. The line was opened by the Nassau Rhine and Lahn Railway Company and the Nassau State Railway between 1858 and 1863 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.
The railway follows the largely winding course of the valley of the Lahn river. It is only a few metres above the river’s surface and is characterised by numerous bridges and tunnels. It is therefore extremely scenic. As the line has never been fundamentally modernised, its numerous engineering structures, semaphore signals and accompanying telegraph lines have been preserved. The Hessian section of the line is a listed monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. The signalling of the section in Rhineland-Palatinate was modernised in 2015. The line is listed by Deutsche Bahn as timetable route number 625 and track route number 3710.
After the Taunus Railway (Taunus-Eisenbahn) from Frankfurt was completed to Wiesbaden in 1840, a private company was founded to continue the line along the Rhine. This was originally called the Wiesbadener Eisenbahngesellschaft (Wiesbaden Railway Company). In 1853 it was renamed the Nassauische Rhein Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (Nassau Rhine Railway Company) when it received a concession to build and operate the Nassau Rhine Valley Railway between Wiesbaden and Niederlahnstein. The Nassau government initially opposed the construction of a line in the Lahn valley because it had invested massively since 1844 in the development of the Lahn as a waterway. In 1855 the company received a provisional concession for the Lahn Valley Railway and it was renamed the (Nassauische Rhein- und Lahn Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (Nassau Rhine and Lahn Railway Company).The permanent concession for the Lahn valley line was issued on 31 March 1857. The first plan for the line was prepared by the Belgian railway engineer, Frans Splingard from 1849 to 1851.
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