The Olef Valley Railway (german: Oleftalbahn or ''Flitsch'') or OTB is a 17.8-kilometre-long, single tracked, unelectrified

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from

Kall KALL (700 AM) is a sports radio station in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area licensed to North Salt Lake, Utah, though in station identifications and the FCC database, the station is listed as being licensed to "North Salt Lake City". The ...

through the Schleiden Valley above

Schleiden Schleiden is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the Eifel hills, in the district of Euskirchen, and has 12,998 inhabitants as of 30 June 2017. Schleiden is connected by a tourist railway to Kall, on the Eifel Railway between ...

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. The line is currently used by tourists; travelling on the heritage railway in the summer months or occasionally by

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s. However, there are attempts to reactivate passenger services that were ceased in 1981.

Literature

* Bernd Franco Hoffmann: ''Stillgelegte Bahnstrecken im Rheinland.'' Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2014, .

References

External links

Olef Valley Railway

Schleiden Valley rail and bus initiative

Rhein-Sieg Railway
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