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Düsseldorf–Solingen Railway
The Düsseldorf–Solingen railway is a railway in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a 19 kilometre line, entirely double track and electrified with overhead line. It is now used by the S1 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), S 1 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and Regional-Express, Regional Express service RE47, operated by Regiobahn GmbH, Regiobahn. History The section between Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Düsseldorf-Eller station, Düsseldorf-Eller was opened on 1 October 1891 by the ''Eisenbahndirektionen Cöln rechtsrheinisch'' (Railway divisions in Germany, Railway division of Cologne Rhine Right Bank of the Prussian state railways). Between Eller and Hilden the line originally used the Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway, Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf line, which was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 18 November 1874, but separate tracks were opened in 1917. The section between Hilden station, Hilden and Ohligs (now Solingen Hauptbahnhof) was opened on 3 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen), it is also the List of German states by population density, most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of , it is the List of German states by area, fourth-largest German state by size. North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf (630,000), Dortmund and Essen (about 590,000 inhabitants each) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the heart of the European Blue Banana make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen Railway
The Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway is a line in the Bergisches Land in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which connects the three Bergisch cities of Wuppertal, Remscheid and Solingen. It is classified as a main line and is double track and non-electrified. Today's route is made up largely of sections of three formerly independent routes built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (, BME). The section between Remscheid and Solingen was built after the BME's nationalisation by the Prussian state railways. History The modern line between Solingen and Wuppertal includes several sections that originally formed parts of several independent lines: *the Solingen–Wuppertal-Vohwinkel railway, *the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway, *the Lennep–Hasten railway. The section between Remscheid and Solingen was built after the BME's nationalisation by the Prussian state railways. Ohligs Wald–Solingen (Weyersberg) In 1867, the ''Bergisch-Märkische Rail ... [...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] |
DBAG Class 422
The Class 422 is a series of four-car electric multiple unit, electric multiple units that are a derivative of the DBAG Class 423. The two inner cars in the set are designated as Class 432 vehicles. History The units were commissioned by Deutsche Bahn in 2005. 78 units worth euro, €343 million were built by Bombardier Transportation and Alstom and delivered between March 2008 and October 2010. They are now used in such places as like on the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn which operate in cities like Köln and Düsseldorf as well as the Ruhr area. Deutsche Bahn uses the units on the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network, unlike most S-Bahn Networks which use similar DBAG Class 423 trains. The inner carriages are called Class 432. Following a timetable change in December of 2019 the units are currently used exclusively on the S1, S4, S5 and S6 lines of the network. {{Germany-rail-transport-stub Electric multiple units of Germany 15 kV AC multiple units Bombardier Transportation multiple u ... [...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] |
Düsseldorf Airport Terminal Station
Düsseldorf Airport Terminal (''Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal'') is an underground station on the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn at the end of the Düsseldorf-Unterrath–Düsseldorf Airport Terminal railway, situated underneath Terminal C of Düsseldorf Airport, Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ... in western Germany. It is served by the S11 line. The station was opened in 1975 and was served by S-Bahn line S 7 until 13 December 2009, when line S 7 was closed and S 11 was extended to Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station. Notes External links * * Airport railway stations in Germany Düsseldorf Airport Railway stations in Düsseldorf Railway stations in Germany opened in 1975 Railway stations located underground in Germany Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhenish Railway Company
The Rhenish Railway Company (German language, German: ''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE) was along with the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. Foundation The industrialists of the Rhineland and the Bergisches Land, then part of Prussia, sought to avoid paying the high tolls for using the Rhine imposed by the Netherlands and very early in its development, saw the possibility of the new means of transport, the railway. As early as the 1830s committees were established by the cities of the Rhineland to promote proposals for building railways. Some of the members of the Cologne committee under David Hansemann (1790–1864)—a merchant and banker from Aachen—and the Aachen Committee favoured a railway line through Belgium to the seaport of Antwerp via Liege. Belgium, which had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussian State Railways
The term Prussian state railways (German: ''Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'') encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the state of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have an independent railway administration; rather the individual railway organisations were under the control of the Ministry for Trade and Commerce or its later offshoot, the Ministry for Public Works. The official name of the Prussian rail network was ''Königlich Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'' (K.P.St.E., "Royal Prussian State Railways") until 1896, ''Königlich Preußische und Großherzoglich Hessische Staatseisenbahn'' (K.P.u.G.H.St.E., "Prussian-Hessian Railway Company, Royal Prussian and Grand-Ducal Hessian State Railways") until the end of the First World War, and ''Preußische Staatsbahn'' (P.St.B., "Prussian State Railway") until its nationalization in 1920. A common mistake is the use of the abbreviation K.P.E.V. in supposed refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Divisions In Germany
In Germany and Austria, the running of railway services for a railway administration or the regional network of a large railway company was devolved to railway divisions, variously known as ''Eisenbahndirektionen (ED), Bundesbahndirektionen (BD)'' or ''Reichsbahndirektionen (RBD/Rbd)''. Their organisation was determined by the railway company concerned or by the state railway and, in the German-speaking lands at least, they formed the intermediate authorities and regional management organisations within the state railway administration's hierarchy. On the formation of the Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994 the system of railway divisions (''Eisenbahndirektionen'') in Germany was discontinued and their tasks were transferred to new "business areas". Germany State railway divisions Incorporation into the state government The first railway divisions of the various German state railways (known as ''Länderbahnen''), usually reported to a specific government ministry. For example, in Pruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regiobahn GmbH
The Regiobahn is the operator of the S28 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn between Kaarst, Düsseldorf, Mettmann and Wuppertal and the RE 47 between Düsseldorf and in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There are three companies involved in the Regiobahn operations: * ''Regionale Bahngesellschaft Kaarst-Neuss-Düsseldorf-Erkrath-Mettmann-Wuppertal mbH'' (shortened as Regiobahn GmbH) is the railway infrastructure manager between Kaarst and Neuss, and between Düsseldorf-Gerresheim and Wuppertal-Dornap junction. * ''Regiobahn Fahrbetriebsgesellschaft mbH'' is the company that holds the contract with Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr to operate the S28 and RE 47 services as public service obligations. * ''RBE Rheinisch-Bergische Eisenbahn'' is the brand name of ''Transdev Rheinland GmbH'', which has been contracted to operate the train service on behalf of ''Regiobahn Fahrbetriebsgesellschaft mbH.'' History The ''Regionale Bahngesellschaft Kaarst-Neuss-Düsseldorf-Erkra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (; RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with a top speed of and an average speed of about as it calls at fewer stations than ''Regionalbahn'' (in Austria: '' Regionalzug'') or S-Bahn trains, but stops more often than ''Intercity'' or ''Intercity Express'' services. Operations The first Regional-Express services were operated by DB Regio, though since the liberalisation of the German rail market (''Bahnreform'') in the 1990s many operators have received franchise rights on lines from the federal states. Some private operators currently operate trains that are similar to a Regional-Express service, but have decided to use their own names for the sake of brand awareness instead. Regional-Express services are carried out with a variety of vehicles such as DMUs (of Class 612), EMUs (of Class 425 or 426) or, most commonly, electric or diesel locomotives with doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
