page_title: Alme Valley Railway
section_title: Gradual closure of line and residual traffic
hierarchical_section_title: Alme Valley Railway / History / Gradual closure of line and residual traffic
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Südportal des Wewelsburger Tunnel mit einer Länge von 143 Meter.
context_page_description: The Alme Valley Railway was an approximately 60 km long, mostly single-track branch line from Paderborn via Buren to Brilon in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is named after the Alme river and runs through its valley in a north–south direction. The line is disused and dismantled between Paderborn and Büren-Weiberg, but it has not been formally closed. The remaining line between Büren-Weiberg and Brilon Wald was for a long time only used for freight and museum trains, but the section between Brilon Stadt and Brilon Wald has been back in use by regional services since 2011.
context_section_description: Regular passenger service between Büren and Brilon was closed on the section on 29 September 1974 due to superstructure defects. The Heckeneilzug service continued for some years from Brilon Wald via Warburg towards north Germany. On 30 May 1981, the remaining passenger services on the line were finally closed. There were still regular passenger services on the sections between Paderborn and Büren and Brilon Stadt and Brilon Wald.
  The freight traffic had already been partially closed on 30 May 1965 between Büren and Ringelstein. Freight traffic ended between Ringelstein and Alme on 14 April 1975. Freight traffic ran to Alme until 31 July 1991 and to Thülen until 30 May 1992. North of Büren, the line was still in use for freight until the end of 1995, but it was then closed. The 10-km stretch between Brilon Wald and the Egger company in Brilon is still regularly used for freight transport and since the timetable change in December 2011 and the line between Brilon Wald and Brilon Stadt is again used for passenger services. The line between Brilon Egger and Büren-Weinberg, which is now used by the RWE company for the transport of transformers to the Brilon substation, has been sold and continues to be operated as a branch line.
caption: South portal of the Wewelsburg Tunnel with a length of 143 m
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