Bremen-Burg – Bremen-Vegesack railway line
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The Bremen-Burg-Bremen-Vegesack railway is a continuously double-track and electrified main line operated by Deutsche Bahn, which opened in 1862 and connects Vegesack with the Wunstorf-Bremerhaven seaport in the direction of Bremen Hbf .
In the terminal station Bremen-Vegesack with the only remaining at the track historic station building from the 19th century there are connections to railway Bremen-Farge-Bremen-Vegesack the Farge-Vegesack railway GmbH (FVE) to Bremen-Farge, which in December 2007 again is in operation for regular passenger traffic. The Bremen-Burg station is particularly important as a transfer station between the routes to Bremen-Vegesack and Bremerhaven, which was completely reconstructed and redesigned after the historic station building was torn down in the 1990s.
Service offer
In 1996, double-deck cars were introduced on the Bremen-Vegesack-Verden city express line . The line served the section Bremen Hbf - Bremen-Vegesack every half hour. As part of the Europe-wide tender for the Regio-S-Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony received the NordWestBahn the contract. With the timetable change in December 2012, the company started operating with 3 and 5-part electric multiple units of the Coradia-Continental type . The regional S-Bahn line RS1 Bremen-Farge-Bremen-Verden serves mainly the commuter traffic between Bremen city and Bremen-Nord with a connection every half hour during the day and every quarter of an hour during rush hour.
Originally, all trips from Bremen-Farge to Bremen main station were to be tied through. It was only after the Bremen-Vegesack - Bremen-Farge section had been electrified that those responsible realized that the planned timetable concept could not be implemented during rush hour. At Vegesack train station, the trains have to be strengthened or weakened at the same time and their direction of travel must be changed. Given the current infrastructure requirements, this cannot be implemented in a six-minute holding time. Since April 2012, non-rush hour trains have been offered to Bremen main station and, in some cases, to Verden (Aller) .
Since March 2015, after the installation of a passenger system in the Bremen-Vegesack terminus, which enables faster entrances, all S-Bahn journeys between Farge and the main station have been tied through. This tying-through, which was initially planned at the beginning of electrical operation on the Farge - Vegesack route, encountered unexpected technical and organizational difficulties, so that for a long time a connection-free connection could only be offered outside of rush hour.
The plummeting freight uses including on the railway line Bremen-Farge-Bremen-Vegesack the power plant Farge .