The Brilon Wald station is a station on the

Upper Ruhr Valley Railway The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway () 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 most southerly of the east- ...

() in the German state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

. It was opened 5.5 km south of

Brilon Brilon (; ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis. Geography Brilon is on the Brilon Heights, at an altitude of about 450m, and the upper reaches of the river Möhne. The town lies between the Ar ...

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 (, 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 together with the Cologne-Minden Railway (''Cöln-Min ...

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

Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...

as a category 5 station. Brilon Wald station is served by passenger services by line RE 17 (''Sauerland-Express'') every 60 minutes, line RE 97/RB97 (''Lahn-Sauerland-Express'') every 60 or 120 minutes and by RE 57 (''Dortmund-Sauerland-Express'') services every 120 minutes: Brilon Wald station is also served by bus line 482 running between Brilon and Gudenhagen every 60 minutes.

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