Blumberg Railway Company

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Logo on a carriage of the Blumberg railway company
Bahnbetriebe Blumberg GmbH & Co. KG
Basic information
Company headquarters Blumberg
Web presence bahnbetriebe-blumberg.de
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
Seat Blumberg
founding 2013
Supervisory board Mayor of the City of Blumberg, Markus Keller
Operations management Christian Brinkmann
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad Lauchringen train station - Hintschingen junction ( VzG route 4403)
statistics
Stops 3 train stations (2 unoccupied)
12 stops
Length of line network
Railway lines 61.1 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots Single engine shed ( Fützen )
Other operating facilities Train conductor in the Blumberg-Zollhaus
station, level crossing B27 (Blumberg-Zollhaus)
level crossing B314 ( Grimmelshofen )
level crossing L191 ( Kirchen-Hausen )

The railway companies Blumberg GmbH & Co. KG , abbreviated BB , is a public railway infrastructure companies (EIU). It was founded in July 2013. The company is owned by the city of Blumberg through Bahnbetriebe Blumberg Verwaltungs-GmbH , which was founded at the same time . In September 2013, the city's museum railway transport company was spun off and taken over by the company.

As an EIU, the Blumberg railway companies operate 61.1 of a total of 61.7 kilometers of the Wutach Valley Railway . The area of ​​responsibility begins shortly after the Lauchringen train station (infrastructure limit at km 0.3) and extends almost to the Hintschingen junction (infrastructure limit at km 61.4). For this purpose, there is an operating license valid from February 1, 2014 to January 31, 2064.

Operation is carried out in accordance with the driving regulations for non-federal railways (FV-NE), with the train conductor controlling operations from the Blumberg-Zollhaus station.

The operations between the Lauchringen train station and the Blumberg-Zollhaus train station are run by the railway companies as railway companies (EVU). on this route with a permit for freight and passenger traffic (January 15, 2014 to December 31, 2028).

activities

According to operations manager Christian Brinkmann, the basis of the work of Bahnbetriebe Blumberg is: "The entire route from Lauchringen via Weizen and Blumberg to Immendingen is to be preserved in order to maintain the continuity of the railway line from the Hochrheinbahn to the Black Forest Railway for future use."

Section of the museum railway

With the permission of the Freiburg Regional Council, up to the end of the year in winter 2018, in addition to seven business trips, 14 public trips had been carried out. Six Advent trips were added to the 2019 timetable between November 30th and December 15th. After the closure as a result of the corona pandemic, the museum railway will resume operation from July 2, 2020. “You must wear a mask while you are driving.” The journeys “on the first three Advent weekends” are planned.

New platform for the municipality of Wutöschingen in the Wutachtal

Section in the Wutach Valley

The railway companies as operators of "the train route into the Wutachtal [...] and the municipalities of Wutöschingen, Eggingen, Stühlingen and Blumberg have a great interest in making the operation of the Wutachtalbahn attractive again." primarily tailored to the Alemannenschule Wutöschingen - will be offered from December 16, 2019 with “eight train connections from Waldshut to Stühlingen and vice versa.” In Stühlingen, a 50 meter long platform with weather protection is currently being built. “Stühlingen provided 70,000 euros in the budget for this. […] The district is funding the route with 10,000 euros annually ”and a representative from the State Ministry of Transport announced that“ the connections will be financed from regionalization funds. [...] The next step will be decided at the end of 2020. "Operations manager Christian Brinkmann explained investments that will be necessary in the next five to six years: level crossings with traffic lights and the removal of existing" rail joints ". Then there is the topic of ticket machines. The information trip from Waldshut to Stühlingen in mid-July was packed with organizers, guests of honor and the public.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of railway line operators . (Excel document, 52.1 kB) Federal Railway Authority , July 6, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2017 . .
  2. ↑ Publication in the commercial register of July 2013 at the Freiburg District Court under the commercial register number HRA 703374. Imprint. In: bahnbetriebe-blumberg.de, accessed on July 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b excerpt from the commercial register of Bahnbetriebe Blumberg GmbH & Co. KG (HRA 703374). In: online-handelsregister.de, accessed on July 13, 2017 (publications in the commercial register from July and September 2013).
  4. ↑ commercial register of railway companies Blumberg Verwaltungs-GmbH (HRB 710202). In: online-handelsregister.de, accessed on July 13, 2017 (publication in the commercial register from July 2013).
  5. ^ Dietrich Reimer: The Sauschwänzlebahn - from the strategic bypass railway to the tourist museum railway. In; Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar. Volume 59, 2016, ISSN  0340-4765 , pp. 53–66, here: p. 66 ( swbdok.bsz-bw.de [PDF; 9.9 MB, accessed on February 4, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Rail network conditions of use of Bahnbetriebe Blumberg GmbH & Co. KG - special section (SNB-BT). (PDF; 151 kB) Bahnbetriebe Blumberg GmbH & Co. KG, November 2013, accessed on May 4, 2018 . .
  7. ↑ EBA list of the EVU, accessed on June 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Gerald Edinger: More trains in the Wutachtal. In: Südkurier , November 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ hon: Virus cannot stop the museum railway , Albbote, June 10, 2020.
  10. ↑ Gerald Edinger: Great rush on maiden voyage. In: Südkurier, July 18, 2019.