Wupperbrücke RME, Railway bridge in Germany

The Wupperbrücke RME was a steel bridge of the Ronsdorf-Müngstener Eisenbahn over the Wupper between Wuppertal and Solingen, with a span of 47.5 metres and a steel structure weighing around 120 tonnes. Built by Wilhelm Tillmanns, it was demolished in December 2014; only the abutments and the former railway embankment remain.

The Ronsdorf-Müngstener Eisenbahn built the bridge in 1891 (some sources say 1897) over the Wupper between Grunenburg and Müngsten. Narrow-gauge trains used it from October 1892 until 1923, carrying coal to the first Solingen waterworks and the Bergisches Elektrizitätswerk. After 1923 it stood unused, corroded, and was demolished in December 2014.

The bridge took its name from the hamlet of Grunenburg on the Solingen bank, where the first Solingen waterworks and the Bergische Elektrizitätswerk stood; both works received coal over this line. From summer 1908 the tram line 9 from the Toelleturm ran on a track built at the height of the waterworks toward Solingen-Krahenhöhe.

The bridge itself no longer exists: it was cut apart and dropped into the Wupper in December 2014, so nothing remains to cross. Walkers reach the spot on the former RME trackbed between Grunenburg and Krahenhöhe, now laid out as a hiking trail. Boaters and paddlers had been barred from passing beneath the span by signs after the August 2008 inspection.

In November 2008 local media reported that the Wuppertal Bewegung association had bought the bridge for a symbolic one euro, planning to reopen it as a cycle and footpath; the sale never went through. When dismantling began on 1 December 2014, the structure proved so unstable that it was cut with a torch and lowered into the Wupper instead of being cut loose by controlled blasting.