page_title: Koblenz–Trier railway
section_title: Route
hierarchical_section_title: Koblenz–Trier railway / Route
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof Cochem
context_page_description: The Koblenz–Trier Railway is a railway line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, located mostly on the left bank of the Moselle, connecting Koblenz via Bullay to Trier. It is known in German as the Moselstrecke, i.e. "Moselle line". It is often called the Moselbahn links der Mosel to distinguish it from the Moselle Railway or Moselle Valley Railway, which ran on the right bank of the Moselle from Bullay to Trier, but was abandoned in the 1960s. The line was built as part of the Cannons Railway and opened in 1879.
context_section_description: The line leaves Koblenz Hauptbahnhof and diverges from the Left Rhine line, which leads to Cologne, and three km later it crosses the Moselle on the Güls railway bridge. It then runs for about 55 km on the left side of the river to Cochem.
  Immediately after Cochem, it runs through the most important structure of the line, the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel, to Ediger-Eller to bypass a meandering section of the Moselle known as the Cochemer Krampen. The 4,205 metre long tunnel was the longest railway tunnel in Germany from 1877 until the opening of the Landrücken Tunnel in 1985.
  After the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel the line crosses the Mosel near Eller on a 281 metre long, five span steel plate girder bridge. The line runs through another tunnel to Neef and Bullay before it returns to the northern bank of the Moselle, running over the Alf-Bullay double-deck bridge, which is shared by a roadway on the lower deck. This steel truss bridge has six spans and is 314 metres long with a maximum span of 72 metres.
  Immediately after the Alf-Bullay bridge the line runs through a 458 metre long tunnel under the Prinzenkopf mountain, thus avoiding the Zell loop of the Moselle.
  Near Pünderich the line runs over the longest Hangviadukt ("slope viaduct", that is a viaduct built on the edge of a hill requiring much higher supports on the downside that on the upside) on a railway line in Germany with a total length of 786 metres. The viaduct has 92 spans, each with internal diameter of 7.2 m. In Pünderich there was formerly an access point for passengers at the depot where the line to Traben-Trarbach branches off.
  The railway leaves the Moselle Valley through another tunnel and continues to Wittlich. After about 40 km at Schweich the line again returns to the Moselle Valley and at Pfalzel in the city of Trier it crosses the Moselle for the fourth time. After a total of 113 km, including 6,845 m in six tunnels, the line ends at Trier Hauptbahnhof.
caption: Cochem station
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