The Brilon Wald station is a station on the

Upper Ruhr Valley Railway The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway (german: Obere Ruhrtalbahn) is a 138-kilometre-long, non-electrified line from Schwerte (Ruhr) station) through the Hochsauerland (high Sauerland) to Warburg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the mos ...

(german: Obere Ruhrtalbahn) in the German state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

. It was opened 5.5 km south of

Brilon Brilon (; Westphalian: ''Brailen'') is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany, that belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis. Geography Brilon is situated on the Brilon Heights at an altitude of about 450 m on the upper reaches of the r ...

in the forest (''Wald'') with the construction of the line on 10 February 1873, as it was impractical to build the railway through Brilon. The station was called ''Brilon-Corbach'' until 1880, when the current name was adopted. The

Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company The Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company (german: Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME), also referred to as the Berg-Mark Railway Company or, more rarely, as the Bergisch-Markische Railway Company, was a German railway company that togethe ...

(''Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') created the small town of Brilon Wald at the same time. The station is classified by

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

as a category 5 station. Brilon Wald station is served by passenger services by line RE 17(''Sauerland-Express'') every 60 minutes, line R 42 (''Upland-Bahn'') every 120 minutes and by some RE 57 (''Dortmund-Sauerland-Express'') services extended from Winterberg: Brilon Wald station is also served by bus line 482 running between Brilon and Gudenhagen every 60 minutes.

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{{Reflist Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Railway stations in Germany opened in 1873 Buildings and structures in Hochsauerlandkreis