Rhein-Haardtbahn GmbH
The Rhein-Haardtbahn GmbH , abbreviated RHB , is a German railway company , based in Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Durkheim . The company, founded in 1911, has been a railway infrastructure company on the Bad Dürkheim – Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim line from the start . Originally it was also the sole railway company on this electrically operated narrow-gauge railway , on which freight traffic was also operated until October 31, 1959 . The RHB trains went beyond their main route to the Mannheim / Ludwigshafen tram network , where they - unlike on their main route, on which the railway building and operating regulations for narrow-gauge railways still apply today - as a tram according to the tram Building and operating regulations were underway. The abbreviation RHB also served as a line designation. As a private railway , the RHB is also integrated into the tariff association of the federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE).
On March 1, 2005, Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV), founded in 2004, took over the operational business of RHB. The RNV is a joint subsidiary of RHB and other transport companies in the Rhine-Neckar area. The RHB vehicles also went to RNV as part of the capital contribution; since October 1, 2009, the infrastructure on the RHB route has also been maintained by RNV.
Company shares
The following ownership structure has existed since the city of Mannheim in 1977 transferred its RHB shareholding to the city of Ludwigshafen, which they in turn transferred to the Technischen Werke Ludwigshafen (TWL):
- 54% Technical Works Ludwigshafen AG
- 19% Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
- 12.5% Bad Dürkheim district
- 10% Bad Dürkheim
- 2% of the Maxdorf Association
- 1.07% Wachenheim Association
- 1.07% Ellerstadt
- 0.36% Gönnheim
vehicles
literature
- Otto Dietrich: 50 years of the Rhein-Haardtbahn . Mannheim 1963
- Werner Rabe: Operating history of the MVG, the VBL and the RHB . Mannheim 1977
- Holger Blaul, Josef Kaiser: The Rhein-Haardtbahn . Ludwigshafen 2000, ISBN 3-934845-03-7