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Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.
West Rhine railway, near Remagen Map of railway lines in the Koblenz area Ludendorff Bridge on 17 March 1945 four hours before the collapse. The first section of the line opened on 15 February 1844, by the Bonn–Cologne Railway Company (Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) between the former station of Cologne St. Pantaleon Cologne and Bonn.
Route 465 extends from Cologne to Koblenz, via Troisdorf, Bonn-Beuel, Unkel, and Neuwied. From Koblenz, Route 466 extends to Wiesbaden, via Rüdesheim am Rhein. Together with the Taunus railway (Route 645.1), the line is used by Stadt-Express line SE-10 of the Rhine-Main Transport Association, which runs from Frankfurt to Koblenz and Neuwied.
Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins. This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.
The station was designed by the architect Heinrich Velde of Diez and built in the years 1854–1856, and was opened on 11 August 1856 as the first terminus of the Nassau Rhine Railway (Nassauische Rheinbahn) from Wiesbaden to Rüdesheim.
Built in the 15th century, boat owners used the Drosselgasse to move items from the river to homes in the town. St. Jakobus, the parish church from the 15th century, rebuilt after World War II; Burg Ehrenfels, a ruined castle in the vineyards; Brömserburg, the oldest castle in the Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site.
The first section of the Lahn Valley Railway was opened from Oberlahnstein to Bad Ems on 1 July 1858, but shortly afterwards it was buried by a landslide. The Nassau Rhine Railway Company (Nassauische Rhein Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1856, the first section of the Nassau Rhine Railway (Nassauische Rheinbahn) from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim, which was authorised in 1853.
The Bingerbrück–Rüdesheim train ferry was operated as a train ferry from 1862 (162 years ago) () to 1900 (124 years ago) () across the Rhine between Bingerbrück now in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and Rüdesheim now in the state of Hesse.