The Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway was a non-electrified branch line that lay mostly in what is now the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Only a few kilometres of the line near Ahrdorf station ran through North Rhine-Westphalia, which was created in 1946.

Except during the two world wars, the line never had national importance, therefore it has been operated at times under Signalisierter Zugleitbetrieb (SZB, a system of train control for low-speed branch lines using simplified signalling technology).

The Lissendorf–Jünkerath section was shut down and dismantled after 1945, with traffic directed over the parallel Eifel line.

Freight traffic on the Dümpelfeld-Hillesheim route ended on 30 September 1973 and the line was then dismantled.