page_title: Engers–Au railway
section_title: Upper Westerwald Railway, Altenkirchen-Au
hierarchical_section_title: Engers–Au railway / Upper Westerwald Railway, Altenkirchen-Au
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Triebwagen (Stadler GTW) der vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft nach Au (Sieg) im Bahnhof Altenkirchen (Westerwald). Die Triebwagen gehören der HLB und sind an die vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft als Reservefahrzeuge ausgeliehen.
context_page_description: The Engers–Au railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line and consists of three sections, which are treated separately here. It is the mainly in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, although the section near Au is in North Rhine-Westphalia.
context_section_description: The section from the Altenkirchen to Au (Sieg), also known as the Upper Westerwald Railway (Oberwesterwaldbahn) was opened on 1 May 1887. After the Second World War, as in many places, Uerdingen railbuses operated on the line. Up to 1975, steam locomotives regularly operated on the line; the last steam locomotives were Betzdorf-based locomotives of class 50, hauling gravel trains from Erbach towards Troisdorf or Cologne. On 23 May 1993, the line between Au and Altenkirchen was converted to a simplified form of signalling and train control known as Zugleitbetrieb.
  With the take over of operations by Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft on 12 December 2004, the class 628 diesel multiple units, which had operated since 1986, were replaced by modern LINT DMUs and the request stops between Altenkirchen and Au became regular stops again.
  At the timetable change on 14 December 2014, Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) took over operation of services on the Upper Westerwald Railway from Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft for a period of 16 years. The current services run under the name of Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn (RB 90), generally from Siegen via Westerburg to Limburg. In the Altenkirchen-Au (-Betzdorf) section there are some additional services at busy times.
caption: DMU of vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft in Altenkirchen station
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