The Schönbuch Railway (german: Schönbuchbahn) is a branch line in the

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is single-track and standard gauge, and is long. It links Dettenhausen with

Böblingen Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was found ...

, where a connection is made with lines S1 and S60 of the

Stuttgart S-Bahn The Stuttgart S-Bahn is a suburban railway system (S-Bahn) serving the Stuttgart Region, an urban agglomeration of around 2.7 million people, consisting of the city of Stuttgart and the adjacent districts of Esslingen, Böblingen, Ludwi ...

. Line S1 provides a direct service to

. The ''Schönbuchbahn'' is owned by the Zweckverband Schönbuchbahn (ZVS), and is operated by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG), a member of the Veolia Transport group. The typical service pattern consists of two trains an hour, although the frequency may reduce to one train an hour at weekends or in the evenings.

Rolling stock

Passenger services on the ''Schönbuchbahn'' use a fleet of 6 partially low floor

Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 The Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 is the first widely used, new-generation, diesel railcar in Germany and Czech Republic for local railway services. Its most characteristic feature is the trapezium-shaped window frames. The Regio-Shuttle is classified ...

units. In December 2016 transport authority Zweckverband Schönbuchbahn selected

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, literally "Construction and Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its Solaris Bus & Coach subsidia ...

for a €51·3m contract to supply nine three-car light rail vehicles of a new design.

Gallery

File:Dettenhausen bahnhof.jpg, Dettenhausen station File:Gäubahn Schönbuchbahn Böblingen.jpg, Regio-Shuttles at Böblingen station

References

External links

* Railway companies of Germany Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg Böblingen Schönbuch {{Germany-rail-transport-stub