The lichens and lichenicolous fungi along the disused railway track in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel (grid map 4708/3, Bergisches land, northrhine-Westphalia) were recorded in 2011. 115 species were found, 108 lichens, seven lichenicolous fungi, two saprobic not lichenized fungi and one fungus on algae. Particular attention was paid to the following 15 ephemeral species: Absconditella trivialis, Gregorella humida, Psorotichia lutophila, Sarcosagium campestre, Steinia geophana, Thelidium zwackhii, Thelocarpon epibolum, Thelocarpon lichenicola, Thelocarpon magnussonii, Thelocarpon olivaceum, Thrombium epigaeum, Vezdaea acicularis, Vezdaea aestivalis, Vezdaea leprosa and Vezdaea retigera.