The Usedomer Bäderbahn (UBB) with its head office in Heringsdorf, northeastern Germany, is a 100 percent-owned

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of the German national railway,

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and the owner and operator of the railway network on the island of

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as well as the Züssow–Wolgast and Velgast–Barth lines. It refers to all the lines on which it runs services – i.e. Züssow–Stralsund–Velgast – as the ''Vorpommernbahn'' or “West Pomeranian Railway”. The UBB is a member of the Fare Association of Federal and Non-Federal Railways in Germany (''Tarifverband der Bundeseigenen und Nichtbundeseigenen Eisenbahnen in Deutschland'') or TBNE, albeit without voting rights, because it belongs to Deutsche Bahn. HeringsdorfBahnhof

Network

Current services

References

Sources

* Horst-Werner Dumjahn: ''Handbuch der deutschen Eisenbahnstrecken,'' Mainz 1984
Nachdruck der Eröffnungsdaten 1835–1935 herausgegeben Berlin 1935

External links

Official Internet presence of the Usedomer Bäderbahn

* ttp://www.privat-bahn.de/UBB.html Rolling stock list {{DEFAULTSORT:Usedomer Baderbahn Deutsche Bahn Railway companies of Germany Usedom Companies based in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Transport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Railway companies of Poland