The Watermill trail - Ehrbachtal

"Boppard Town Centre"

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Germany Picture by Dorian Speakman
Travel story: The Watermill trail - Ehrbachtal

Today the plan was to travel up the Hünsrucker bahn (Hünsruck railway) out of Boppard and into the hills for a walk down the wooded Ehrbachtal.


I had been looking forward to this because as railways go, this one is nuts. The gradient is around 1:13. So it is the railway equivalent of going the hard way up a ski jump. Without a rack rail. The engines that are used are standard heavy diesel locomotives, (class 218, all you DB fans) which can be seen speeding expresses along... More