Kurwaldbahn

The Kurwaldbahn (also Kurwaldbahn Bad Ems ) is opened in 1979, fully automatic controlled funicular between Bad Ems and the spa area on the Bad Emser Bismarck height.

History

The commissioned in 1979 train experienced in the spring of 2005 before Rheinland -Pfalz- day for about 1.5 million euros a fundamental renovation. Here, the car of the first generation were replaced by new vehicles of the Swiss company Garaventa ( Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group ). The valley station is hidden behind a listed facade of a hotel and residential complex. The hill station is located on the Bismarck height, a spa area with a hotel complex and Bismarck Tower. The circulating among locals popular name of the track is asthma slide or Röchelexpress (this is alluded to located at the mountain station hospitals for respiratory diseases ).

The train runs daily between 6:15 and from 8:00 am clock clock every seven minutes and from 8:00 bis 22:30 clock clock every 10 minutes. It lies opposite the 1979 disused railway Malberg on the other bank of the river Lahn.

Technology

The Kurwaldbahn is an electrically powered and fully automatically controlled funicular to the Abt system, it is designed to meter gauge. At the top station there is the control center of the cable car, which is usually occupied. The track is attached to a steel structure, which in turn rests on foundations 21. Each of the two cars has unilaterally wheels with double flanges and opposite each flangeless loose pulleys that allow for crossing the tongueless turnout ( Abt'sche switch). The track is 220 meters long and covers with a maximum gradient of 78 % a height difference of 132 meters. The journey time is 70 seconds at a speed of 14 km / h In the two cars a maximum of 25 people can be transported. Approximately 100,000 passengers transported per year.