Südostbayernbahn (Southeast Bavaria Railway) is one of several regional railway networks in

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owned by Germany's national railway,

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(DB AG). Since 2001, the network has included the railway hub of

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which connects 7 major railway lines from

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, Burghausen,

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and

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, forming a star-shaped network of lines called ''Linienstern Mühldorf'' ("Mühldorf route star network"). ''SüdostBayernBahn'' is subordinated to DB RegioNetz Verkehr and DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur.

Railway network

In order to be able to operate railway networks more efficiently on a geographical basis, the Deutsche Bahn introduced the concept of regional networks or Regio-Netze. One of the five national ''Regio-Netze'' is called the ''Südostbayernbahn'' (SOB) and is responsible for the

infrastructure Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and pri ...

, and/or passenger services, on the following routes:

Operations

Südostbayernbahn has rented the lines for an extended period of time and is therefore classed as the railway infrastructure company for its network. The renting of the routes from ''

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'' is done through ''DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur''. As a railway infrastructure company, ''Südostbayernbahn'' now only operates trains which provide

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(the freight services to Frontenhausen-

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having been taken over by

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). These passenger services are provided using Class 218 locomotives and Class 628 diesel multiple units. Amongst the coaches used are modernized

Silberling The n-Wagen ("n-coaches") are a type of passenger coach used by Deutsche Bundesbahn and subsequently Deutsche Bahn. With two double-leafed doors per side to enable a high passenger throughput rate, the coaches were conceived for short dwell ...

carriages and double-decker coaches. The double-deckers include three air-conditioned double-decker driving cars. The delivery of the latest class of air-conditioned, double-decker coaches began in March 2007. On those routes for which ''Südostbayernbahn'' is only responsible for infrastructure, ''

RegionalBahn The ''Regionalbahn'' (; lit. Regional train; abbreviated ''RB'') is a train categories in Europe, type of Regional rail, local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany. It is similar to the Regionalzug (R) and Regio (Swiss railway train), R ...

'' trains are operated by ''DB Regio Bayern'' using Class 628 diesel multiple units and Class 426

electric multiple units An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number ...

. In addition ''RegionalBahn'' trains are also run by ''Südostbayernbahn'' themselves on the following lines: * Mühldorf–

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–

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( KBS 940) * via Freilassing to

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(KBS 945/951) * via Ebersberg to

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, individual trains to Munich Ost (KBS 948) In total the network has 435 km of line and 88 stations, which are worked daily by 260 trains. Around 9.5 million passengers use ''Südostbayernbahn'' trains annually.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sudostbayernbahn Deutsche Bahn Railway companies of Germany Companies based in Mühldorf