Kurhessenbahn
| Kurhessenbahn | |
|---|---|
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| Basic information | |
| Web presence | www.kurhessenbahn.de |
| Reference year | 2019 |
| owner | DB RegioNetz |
| Transport network | |
| Employee | 321 |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1,435 mm |
| railroad | |
| number of vehicles | |
| Railcar | 27 × VT 642 , 4 × VT 646 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | daily approx. 7,500 |
| Mileage | 2.9 million train kilometers |
| Stops | 55 |
| Length of line network | |
| Railway lines | 308 km |
The Kurhessenbahn based in Kassel is the first of six RegioNetworks created by Deutsche Bahn AG as part of its SME offensive . It forms a unit that is formally split into the companies DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH and DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur GmbH in order to meet the legal requirement for the separation of network and operation.
The aim is to maintain weakly used routes in the long term by changing the organizational structure and activities in the vicinity.
Business figures
The Kurhessenbahn operates five lines on a 308-kilometer network, 245 kilometers of which belong to its own infrastructure, and serves 55 stations. With 31 diesel multiple units , 2.9 million train kilometers (140 trains per day) are covered annually and 7,500 passengers are carried daily. This service is provided by 321 employees. In addition, the Kurhessenbahn holds for freight and special services a diesel locomotive of the class 218 before. It is mainly used in timber transport, which originates from the Breidenstein loading point on the Schelden Valley Railway , which was set up in 2007 . The locomotive 218 387 was parked as a spare parts donor in 2019, with no successor.
history
The company was launched on December 7, 2000 as the first regional network and was founded at the beginning of September 2002 as DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH / Infrastruktur GmbH Kurhessenbahn . From January 1, 2002, Kurhessenbahn leased several branch lines in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia from DB Netz AG for a period of twenty years . At the same time, a long-term transport contract was concluded with the responsible authorities. It included the operation of the local transport lines Brilon Wald - Korbach , Kassel - Korbach, Marburg - Frankenberg and Marburg - Erndtebrück . A special feature was the Wabern - Bad Wildungen line , which was operated by the Hessische Landesbahn between 1998 and 2008 and thus could not fulfill the synergy effects between network and operation that was emphasized by those responsible.
At the end of 2003, the Willingen - Korbach section was put back into operation, which had been closed for four years due to dilapidated viaducts. At the same time, the line was extensively renovated and the line's top speed increased, which reduced the travel time between Korbach and Brilon Wald by 13 minutes. In 2006 the Kassel - Korbach route was closed for several months and renovated and expanded for the operation of the RegioTram . From December 2006 the regional train in the Kassel - Wolfhagen section was replaced by the RegioTram line RT4 with two-motor vehicles , with which a second external transport company operates local transport services on the Kurhessenbahn network. Since then, the Kurhessenbahn has only operated the Regional Express between Kassel and Korbach.
At the same time, clearing work began in 2005 in the Frankenberg - Herzhausen section to reactivate the section. With the financial participation of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , excursion traffic was introduced every two hours on Sundays and public holidays in the Herzhausen - Frankenberg - Battenberg section from 2005. This traffic should represent a preliminary stage for the planned closing of the gap between Korbach and Frankenberg. In 2007, however, an expert opinion revealed that closing the gap in the form planned at the time did not make economic sense. The North Hessian Transport Association (NVV) then made use of its right of withdrawal in the implementation contract and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district canceled its financial participation in the excursion traffic, whereupon it was discontinued. At that time, plans included investments of 43 million euros to close the gap and accelerate the Cölbe - Korbach route. A stripped-down variant was then developed, which instead of an hourly only provides a two-hour cycle and no more acceleration measures. An economic benefit could be determined for this variant.
In a tendering process of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV), the Kurhessenbahn was able to secure the operation of the line (Kassel -) Wabern - Bad Wildungen (17 km). The line was taken over with the 2008/2009 timetable change in December 2008 by the Hessische Landesbahn, which had previously operated the line for ten years.
In 2010, work began on the rehabilitation of the Marburg - Frankenberg section. The stops and the route infrastructure were modernized and the signaling was converted to an ESTW .
After years of political debates, it was finally decided in September 2012 that the entire Frankenberg (Eder) - Korbach route would again be operated by passenger traffic from December 2014 . However, due to delays in setting up the infrastructure, this date was postponed to September 2015. The reopening was officially celebrated on September 14, 2015 with a festival with historic and modern vehicles. Today, traffic is largely offered every hour - with some gaps. In addition, through connections from Brilon (city) to Marburg are offered again.
With the 2015/2016 timetable change in December 2015, a new timetable concept was introduced on the Main-Weser Railway in the Kassel - Treysa section , which extended most of the trips on the Wabern - Bad Wildungen line to Kassel and additional trips to Treysa during rush hour the Kurhessenbahn were ordered.
In March 2016, the Kurhessenbahn won the tender for the diesel network Northwest Hesse and will therefore operate its previous line network for another 15 years from December 2017. This means that there will be a complete switch to used low-floor multiple units of the Stadler GTW (number in 2016: 13) and Siemens Desiro (number: 14). As part of the new transport contract, vehicle maintenance has been moved to Korbach. On September 29, 2017, the foundation stone of the new workshop was laid, which went into operation in December 2018.
The Desiro railcars received an enlarged 1st class, information displays, sockets, video surveillance, LED lighting, external loudspeakers, a new paint job and sliding steps. The performance of the vehicles was increased to 315 kW each. Since the modernization of the 14 vehicles of the 642 series could not be completed on time by the Kassel repair shop, the Kurhessenbahn uses vehicles from other sister companies. The vehicles of the WestFrankenBahn, the Erzgebirgsbahn and the Usedomer Bäderbahn have air conditioning and a low-floor entrance. Vehicles from the 628 series have not been used since 2018. At the timetable change in December 2018, the vehicles of the 646 series were replaced by further modernized vehicles of the 642 series, so that the Kurhessenbahn then has an almost uniform vehicle fleet with 27 railcars of this series.
Current local rail transport operation
The Kurhessenbahn currently operates the following lines in local rail transport :
| line | course | Tact | length | vehicle | annotation |
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| RB4 | Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Wolfhagen - Volkmarsen - Korbach | 60 min | 74 km | 642 , 646 | |
| RB38 | Kassel Hbf - Wabern - Treysa | individual trains | 62 km | 642 , 646 | only during rush hour |
| RB39 | Kassel Hbf - Wabern - Bad Wildungen | 120 min | 51 km | 642 , 646 | until 2008 Hessische Landesbahn ; since December 2015 more non-stop trips to Kassel Hbf |
| RB42 | Marburg (Lahn) - Frankenberg (Eder) - Korbach - Brilon Forest - Brilon City | to Frankenberg 60 min, to Brilon city 120 min |
102 km | 642 , 646 | 2015 reactivation of Frankenberg (Eder) –Korbach |
| RB94 | Marburg (Lahn) - Biedenkopf - Bad Laasphe - Erndtebrück | to Bad Laasphe 60 min, to Erndtebrück 120 min |
64 km | 642 , 646 | |
| Battenberg (Eder) - Allendorf (Eder) - Frankenberg (Eder) | 13 km | 628 | Special traffic for the Eder bike tour in mid-June every year |
Infrastructure
The Kurhessenbahn leased the following sections of the route:
| course | route | Lines | length | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obervellmar - Korbach |
Obervellmar – Volkmarsen , Volkmarsen – Korbach |
RB 4, RT 4 |
74 km | |
| Brilon Forest - Sarnau |
Burgwaldbahn, Untere Edertalbahn , Uplandbahn |
RB 42 | 87 km | 2010 Modernization, conversion to ESTW and relocation of stops between Marburg and Frankenberg; 2015 reactivation of the Frankenberg (Eder) - Korbach line; two viaducts and train stations renovated; Speed between Brilon Wald and Korbach increased to 100 km / h |
| Erndtebrück - Cölbe | Kreuztal – Cölbe | RB 94 | 60 km | New stops were built in 2003, 2009 and 2010; 2015 Renovation of the Bad Laasphe train station |
| Wabern - Bad Wildungen | Wabern – Brilon forest | RB 39 | 17 km | |
| Frankenberg - Battenberg |
Upper Edertal Railway , Ruhr-Eder Railway |
14 km | only freight transport and occasional special trips (especially for the Eder bike tour) | |
| Wallau - Breidenstein | Schelden Valley Railway | 2 km | only freight transport (timber transport) |
Web links
- Website of the Kurhessenbahn at Deutsche Bahn AG
- The Edertalbahn Korbach-Frankenberg - A railway line through the ages , film by Heinz Göttlich, youtube.com: The Kurhessenbahn
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Dates and Numbers". DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH / Infrastruktur GmbH Kurhessenbahn, January 2019, accessed on October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Vehicle fleet. DB RegioNetz Kurhessenbahn, 2010, accessed on January 26, 2011 .
- ↑ New regional networks : The strategy of Deutsche Bahn . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 345, June 2001, ISSN 0170-5288 , p. 8
- ↑ Kurhessenbahn celebrates its 10th anniversary. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, August 10, 2012, archived from the original on April 9, 2016 ; Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
- ↑ See image brochure “DB RegioNetz - We give the region a future.”, Kurhessenbahn, p. 9. (PDF; 1.5 MB) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, August 2009, archived from the original on 4 March 2016 ; Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
- ^ Reopening of the Korbach - Willingen railway line. (No longer available online.) Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund, December 16, 2003, archived from the original on July 24, 2016 ; accessed on July 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Major inquiry from the CDU parliamentary group, reactivation Korbach - Frankenberg ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://korbach-frankenberg.de/
- ↑ Kurhessenbahn (KHB) wins EU-wide tender for transport services in the north-west Hessian network - operations start in December 2017 when the timetable changes, Kurhessenbahn. Kurhessenbahn, March 2016, accessed on July 24, 2016 .
- ^ DB Kurhessenbahn: The Kurhessenbahn laid the foundation for a new and modern vehicle workshop. September 29, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Philipp Daum: Workshop opened: Trains are now being repaired in Korbach. In: Waldeckische Landeszeitung. December 14, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ In the Northwest Hesse network of the NVV, the Kurhessenbahn starts with different vehicles than planned - new timetable offer from 10 December not affected. NWL, December 13, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Look forward to modern, air-conditioned low-floor vehicles. Kurhessenbahn, October 12, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017 .
