page_title: Ruhr–Sieg railway
section_title: Long-distance passenger services
hierarchical_section_title: Ruhr–Sieg railway / History / Long-distance passenger services
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn verlässt den Bahnhof Lennestadt-Meggen, Lennestadt, Deutschland. Die Silberlinge (N-Wagen) des Zuges werden von einer Lokomotive der Baureihe-143 gezogen. Verwendung überprüfen English: Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn leaves Lennestadt-Meggen station, Lennestadt, Germany check usage
context_page_description: The Ruhr–Sieg railway is a 106 km long double-track, electrified main line from Hagen to Siegen via Iserlohn-Letmathe, Finnentrop and Kreuztal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The line, which has many tunnels, runs primarily through the valley of the Lenne. South of Altenhundem it crosses the watershed between the Lenne and the Sieg. The line was opened between 1859 and 1861 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.
context_section_description: As late as 1980, express trains ran from Munich via Stuttgart and Frankfurt, over the Ruhr–Sieg line to Norddeich Mole. There were also individual coaches running from north Norddeich-Mole to Friedrichshafen on the Ruhr–Sieg line. Traditional stops for express trains were Hagen, Letmathe, Altena, Finnentrop, Lennestadt-Altenhundem, Kreuztal and Hüttental-Weidenau (now called Siegen-Weidenau).
  In 1993 long-distance passenger traffic was converted from express trains to InterRegio trains, stopping regularly only in Hagen, Werdohl, Finnentrop, Altenhundem and Siegen-Weidenau. The long-distance passenger services were made up of several pairs of express train each day and later an Inter-Regio service from Norddeich Mole to Frankfurt, which was discontinued in the summer 2001 timetable.
caption: A locomotive-hauled train of the Ruhr-Sieg line leaves Lennestadt-Meggen station
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