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Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg
Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany operating bus and rail networks. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned Abellio (transport company), Abellio. History Abellio Deutschland was formed by the Essen public transit company (Essener Verkehrs-AG, EVAG, today part of Ruhrbahn) in 2004. In 2005, British investment company Star Capital Partners purchased a 75% share in Abellio from the City of Essen. In December 2008, both sold their shares to Abellio (transport company), NedRailways. The Abellio brand was later rolled out to replace the NedRailways brand internationally. Operations Rail As of December 2016, Abellio Deutschland operated 18 lines over 978 kilometres with a fleet of 86 trains.Welcome to Abellio Abellio February 2017< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegen Station
Siegen Hauptbahnhof is the main station of the town of Siegen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in close to the modern centre of Siegen, which includes the bus station and the Sieg Carré and City Galerie shopping centres. History The station was opened on 10 January 1861 at the same time as the branch line from Siegen to Betzdorf (Sieg) station, Betzdorf, which is now part of the Sieg Railway. The south-western part of the site, the railway depot in the preserved buildings and the tracks that are numbered from 50 were the terminus of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company, Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which was responsible for the construction of the line, but was taken over by the Prussian state in 1880. The freight yard opposite the depot was built over by the ECE Group with the City-Galerie at the end of the 1990s. The section from Altena to Siegen of the Ruhr–Sieg railway was opened in the same year, on 6 August 1861, so the Bergisch-Mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRW-Express
The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express rail service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Aachen via Köln Hauptbahnhof, Cologne, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf, Duisburg Hauptbahnhof, Duisburg, Essen Hauptbahnhof, Essen, Bochum Hauptbahnhof, Bochum and Dortmund Hauptbahnhof, Dortmund to Hamm (Westfalen) station, Hamm as line RE 1. The line is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) network and is operated by National Express Germany, National Express. The service has one of the highest levels of patronage in Germany with about 110,000 passengers per day, mainly commuters and students. History Today's ''NRW-Express'' replaced existing express services on individual sections of the route after the regionalisation of transport in Germany. A number of stations previously served by long-distance trains, such as Düsseldorf-Benrath station, Düsseldorf-Benrath and Wattenscheid station, Wattenscheid came to be served by regional serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhein-Hellweg-Express
The Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Kassel via Dortmund Hauptbahnhof, Dortmund, Bochum Hauptbahnhof, Bochum, Essen Hauptbahnhof, Essen, Duisburg Hauptbahnhof, Duisburg and Düsseldorf Airport station, Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf Hbf. It is named after the Rhine and the Westphalian Hellweg. The line is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) network and is operated by National Express Germany, National Express. History In 1988 the first regular interval regional rapid train service was established from Dortmund via Essen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf to Köln Hauptbahnhof, Cologne. This operated hourly on the Cologne–Duisburg railway, Cologne–Duisburg and Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, Dortmund–Duisburg lines, which even then were the most important railway lines for passenger traffic in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocholt Railway Station
Bocholt is a station in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is now the terminus of the Rhein-IJssel-Express service. In the past trains ran in four directions, including to Winterswijk in the Netherlands. History The station was opened on 1 July 1878 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) together with the Bocholt–Wesel railway, which branched off its Oberhausen–Arnhem railway (known as the ''Hollandstrecke''–"Holland line") at Wesel. Just over two years later, on 25 August 1880, the ''Niederländisch-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'' (Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company) opened the Winterswijk–Bocholt railway and the station became a through station. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian state railways started building the Empel-Rees–Münster railway (''Baumbergebahn''). With the opening of the first section on 1 August 1901, Bocholt became a junction station and with the open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mönchengladbach-Lürrip Station
Mönchengladbach-Lürrip station is a through station in the town of Mönchengladbach in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened in 1980 or 1981 on the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway opened between Mönchengladbach and Neuss by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company on 16 December 1852. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen Hagen () is a city in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr (river), Ruhr. In 2023, the ... every 20 minutes. References S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 1980 Railway stations in Germany opened in 1981 Buildings and structures in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The station was opened on 1 October 1891. It replaced the three following stations: *the ''Bergisch-Märkische station'' of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME), originally opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company in 1838 in the area that is now Graf-Adolf-Platz as a through station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, company's east–west line from Elberfeld to its station at Rheinknie. *the ''Cologne-Minden station'' which the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) opened in 1845 southeast of the BME station as a terminus to which branches were built from the company's north–south Cologne–Duisburg railway, Cologne–Duisburg main line, and *the ''Rhenish station'' built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) in 1877 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort at the end of a branch line from its north–south Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnhem Centraal Railway Station
Arnhem Centraal railway station is the largest railway station in the city of Arnhem in Gelderland, Netherlands. It was opened on 14 May 1845 and is located on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway, the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway. The station opened at the same time as the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway, that continues into Germany via the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway. The station is the main station of Arnhem, and at present, has around 40,000 passengers that use the station per day, this makes it the 9th busiest station in the Netherlands. The main building has a surface of 18,000 m2 and a volume of 76,000 m3, the building has a capacity of 110.000 transfers per day. Building In 2006 a reconstruction of the complete station area started. In October of that year, a temporary station entrance opened, that could only be reached by three sets of stairs (or by elevators). On 2 July 2011, a new tunnel under the platforms opened. The temporary entrance closed d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Rhine
Lower Rhine (, ; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bonn in Germany and the North Sea at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, including the '' Nederrijn'' () within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta; alternatively, ''Lower Rhine'' may also refer to just the part upstream of Pannerdens Kop ( km 660–865.5), excluding the ''Nederrijn''. It is the last of the four sections of the Rhine between Lake Constance and the North Sea (the others being the High Rhine, Upper Rhine and Middle Rhine). Geography German section Downstream of Bonn, the river meanders through the Lower Rhine Bay (), passing through the city of Cologne (), and continues through the Lower Rhine Plain (). The German term ''Niederrhein'' refers both to the German section of the Lower Rhine as well as to parts of the surrounding Lower Rhine region. Netherlands section Almost immediately after entering the Netherlands, the Rhine splits into numerous branches. The main branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S7 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)
Line S7 is an S-Bahn service on the Rhine-Ruhr network in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between and . The line has been operated by RheinRuhrBahn since 10 December 2023 at 20-minute intervals, using Alstom Coradia LINT 41 diesel multiple unit vehicles. The service was previously classified as Regionalbahn service RB47, known as the ''Der Müngstener'', a reference to the Müngsten Bridge, which it crosses and DB Regio had operated it on the same route with DB Class 628 diesel multiple units since 1994. It was also operated at 20-minute intervals, in the evenings and on weekends, every 30 minutes. The S7 was operated by Abellio Deutschland from 2013 to 2022, when it became bankrupt. VIAS then operated the line under an emergency contract 1 from February 2022 to 10 December 2023, when RheinRuhrBahn took over operations to December 2028. Line S7 runs over lines built by two railway companies: * from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof to Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station over the El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remscheid Hauptbahnhof
Remscheid Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the Bergisches Land, Bergisch city of Remscheid in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in Willy-Brandt-Platz near central Remscheid and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a German railway station categories, category 5 station. Remscheid and Gevelsberg Hauptbahnhof are the only Hauptbahnhof stations in Germany to be served only by S-Bahn trains. History On 1 September 1868, the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company () opened the first section of the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway, Rittershausen–Opladen line from Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station, Oberbarmen (then called Rittershausen) to Remscheid-Lennep station, Lennep, together with a branch line to Remscheid, giving the city its first rail connection. Remscheid station (now called ''Remscheid Hauptbahnhof'') and its attached buildings were built of timber. A Lennep–Hasten railway, branch line to Hasten was opened on 1 September 1883, and the Lennep–Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solingen Hauptbahnhof
Solingen Hauptbahnhof is the only railway station in Solingen, Germany, to be served by ICE Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 ° C, 32 ° F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. As a naturally oc ... and IC long distance trains. History The first station in the area of present-day town of Solingen was built with the opening of the Gruiten-Cologne-Mülheim railway by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company. The station opened on 25 September 1867 and was named ''Ohligs Wald'' ("Ohligs forest"). That same year a branch line to Solingen was built from this station. In 1890, the ''Wald'' part of the name was dropped and with the incorporation of Ohligs into Solingen in 1929, the station was renamed ''Solingen-Ohligs''. In 1894, the line from Hilden was opened. The importance of the Solingen-Ohligs station always exceeded that of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
