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to promote industry in SĂĽmmern, Kalthof and Hennen. After the death of
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The opening ceremony took place on 30 September 1910, coinciding with the last stagecoach ride from
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The construction of the railway was relatively expensive; 200,000 cubic metres of limestone were blasted just for a cutting in
Iserlohn, where numerous fossils were found. Several embankments and bridges had to be built on the course of the line. The recently completed bridge over the Ruhr were
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The average speed is highly directional. So trains to
Dortmund from Iserlohn have an average speed of only 44 km/h, while trains from Dortmund to Iserlohn average 51 km/h. This is partly due to the out-dated signalling in Kalthof, which does not allow the simultaneous entry and exit of trains,
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the signalling in Kalthof will be modernised so that simultaneous entrances to the station are possible, allowing the running time to be reduced by up to seven minutes (possibly by 2015).
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1486:10 November
1447:10 November
1421:10 November
1298:) operates
266:to Duisburg
111:Track gauge
94:Line length
38:Line number
1521:Categories
1295:Ardey-Bahn
1169:Haltepunkt
757:Wandhofen
1316:class 628
1232:class 624
1198:Landkreis
1117:Ardeybahn
571:from Unna
172:Route map
89:Technical
71:, Germany
1274:Services
1258:and the
1236:DB Regio
1202:Baarbach
1194:Elsebach
1129:Iserlohn
1125:Schwerte
1121:Dortmund
1013:Iserlohn
927:SĂĽmmern
904:Kalthof
709:to Hagen
134: in
33:Overview
1348:Notable
1179:History
1161:Bahnhof
1061:Former
881:Hennen
497:to Unna
129:⁄
76:Service
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1322:Future
1254:, the
1244:German
1190:Altena
1157:Menden
1113:German
834:Ergste
187:Legend
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65:Locale
1492:(see
1357:Notes
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1186:Lenne
1143:Route
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1288:The
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804:15.9
782:Ruhr
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703:19.2
673:19.7
668:10.3
1225:RWE
1133:KBS
1127:to
1008:0.0
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923:5.4
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592:7.5
543:6.0
518:3.8
464:0.0
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