Railways of the city of Monheim

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Railways of the city of Monheim GmbH
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Basic information
Company headquarters Monheim am Rhein
Web presence www.bahnen-monheim.de/
Reference year 2019
owner City of Monheim am Rhein
Managing directors Detlef Hövermann
Transport network VRR
VRS
Employee 107
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
bus 12
number of vehicles
Locomotives 0
Omnibuses 36 low-floor buses
9 low-floor articulated buses

Die Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH , BSM for short , is a railway infrastructure company in the area of ​​the city of Monheim am Rhein and a bus company with 30 buses. It is a member of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association and the Rhein-Sieg transport association .

history

Locomotive 1 as a memorial in Berlin, 1988
Railway bridge of the Monheimer Bahn
Locomotive 15 as a memorial in downtown Monheim
former locomotive 14 at the SLB in Salzburg

From 1904, the Monheim – Langenfeld connection was initially served by the Monheim – Langenfeld Gleislose Bahn , an early trolleybus operator. As early as 1908, this was finally replaced by a standard-gauge railway line, the Langenfeld-Monheim-Hitdorf Kleinbahn . The company was run as a GmbH, shareholders were the communities of Monheim, Hitdorf, and Rheindorf. From 1908 to 1963 the Langenfeld – Monheim – Hitdorf – Rheindorf and Monheim – Baumberg routes were operated . From January 1, 1963, the company operated under the name Bahnen der Stadt Monheim . The cities of Monheim and Leverkusen have been shareholders since then. RWE was responsible for management until 1963 , and since 1963 the operation has been carried out by the city of Monheim as its own . In 1962/1963, passenger transport was completely converted to buses; In 1979 the 800 V direct current electrified operation with locomotives from the 1920s was ended. At the same time, the construction of bypass routes began, since until then the route had led through the Monheim city center. Since then, operations have been carried out entirely with diesel locomotives , three of which were recently in use.

In 1984 a new depot was completed in the industrial area on Daimlerstrasse.

The outer branches of the route to Hitdorf , Rheindorf and Baumberg were abandoned and dismantled on January 17, 1986 due to lack of traffic. There is currently an approximately 9.2 kilometer long railway network that is only used for freight traffic . For special trips but also has passenger offered.

Since 1987 the tariff area of ​​Monheim am Rhein has also belonged to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS), in which the railways of the city of Monheim are involved.

At the end of 2014, the company gave up operations as a railway company due to the annual deficit that had been incurred since 1987 and the increased risk. The operation of the railway infrastructure is not affected. The three diesel locomotives were sold.

The rail transport on Monheim's rails is taken over by the company Railflex.

The railways of the city of Monheim have been realizing cost advantages in the procurement of new buses since 2000 through membership in the " Cooperation Eastern Ruhr Area " (KÖR). In 2017, 31 buses carried 5.6 million passengers. In 2012, a dynamic passenger information system with display boards was installed at many bus stops in the Monheim city area. In 2013, the company invested 1.5 million euros in the electronic control system for entry into the buses.

An increase in the bus fleet from 30 (end of 2017) to 43 vehicles is planned by the end of 2018.

BSM bus routes

The railways of the city of Monheim serve passenger transport today with ten bus routes, of which only five run seven days a week in the city:

line Line route Comment / cycle time Mon – Fri / Sat / Sun
777 Langenfeld -Richrath, Götsche - Schneiderstraße - City Gallery - Berghausen S - Monheim-Baumberg, Holzweg - BSM depot - Monheim, bus station 20/20/30
788 D-Benrath Ost - D-Benrath train station  - Urdenbach Tübinger Straße - Bürgel house - Monheim-Baumberg, Holweg - Ludwig-Richter-Weg - Monheim, bus station - Monheim, cultural center / Heerweg 20/30/30
789 D-Holthausen, Am Falder - Holthausen - Reisholz, Pfeiler - D-Benrath train station - D-Garath S West - D-Hellerhof S - Monheim-Baumberg, Holzweg - Rheinpark - Monheim, bus station - Monheim, cultural center / Heerweg 20/30/30
D-Hellerhof Ost, Eichsfelder Straße - D-Hellerhof S - Monheim-Baumberg, Holzweg - Monheim, Griesstraße only HVZ 20
790 Langenfeld-Richrath, Götsche - Langenfeld-Richrath, level crossing - Langenfeld S (- Monheim, bus station - cultural center - Monheim, mona mare)
On weekends only between Richrath and Langenfeld S 		20/60/60
791 Solingen Hbf  - Langenfeld, Schneiderstraße - Stadtgalerie - Langenfeld S - Monheim, bus station - cultural center - Monheim, mona mare 20/30/30
793 Monheim, BSM depot - Monheim, bus station - mona mare - Monheim, agricultural center only school traffic
A01 Monheim, bus station - old town - Monheim, bus station (line with self-driving electric minibuses) 15/15/15
SB 23 Monheim, bus station - cultural center - Monheim-Blee - Leverkusen- Hitdorf - Leverkusen Mitte train station 20/30/30
SB 33 Creative Campus - Agricultural Center - Leverkusen Mitte train station 20/40 / - / -
SB 78 Langenfeld, An der Landstrasse / flower pot - Langenfeld-Berghausen S - Bowling Center - Monheim University 20 / - / -
SB 79 Monheim, Rheinpark - Monheim, Altstadt - Creative Campus - Agricultural Center - Langenfeld S 20 / - / -
NE 13 Langenfeld S - Monheim, Busbahnhof - Monheim, Altstadt - Monheim-Baumberg, Holzweg
(runs in the nights Fri / Sat before public holidays, runs all day on weekends) 		- / - / 30-60
NE 14 Düsseldorf-Hellerhof S - Bowling Center - Monheim-Baumberg, Griesstraße
(runs on Fri / Sat, Sat / Sun and before public holidays) 		- / - / 30-60

Monheim bus station

The central transfer point between the bus lines is the Monheim bus station, which is located in the old town on Rathausplatz . With a few exceptions, all Monheim bus routes to neighboring cities run there. The bus station has a longitudinal parallel shape and is attached to the road like an egg. The bus station is about 3.7 km west of Langenfeld train station .

Used locomotives

Voith Revita in action for the railways of the city of Monheim

At the time electrical operation was discontinued, three AEG locomotives were available. Similar in design were the LMH 1 (AEG 685/1908) from the early days of the railway and the BSM 14 (AEG 1570/1913) taken over from the Kleinbahn Siegburg-Zündorf in 1916. LMH 15 (AEG 4029/1928) was a good decade younger . The latter has been preserved as a memorial in Monheim. BSM 1 was also initially a memorial at the AEG in Berlin, but is said to have been scrapped around 1999. After being decommissioned, the BSM 14 came back into operation as the Salzburg Local Railway and as SVB E 11.

Most recently, the railways of the city of Monheim had three diesel locomotives: two makes of the type MC 700 N from the company O&K , which were delivered to BSM in 1979 and are called Max and Moritz , and a shunting locomotive of the type Köf III , which was released in December of that year 2005 was acquired by Deutsche Bahn .

From 2012 to 2013, the railways of the city of Monheim operated a rented Voith Revita Twin 1700 CC locomotive .

The two diesel locomotives, Max and Moritz , were used on the company's own routes due to a lack of capacity for other tasks, such as the shunting and retrieval service for DB AutoZug at Düsseldorf Central Station until October 2014 and the operation of other plant connections in the Düsseldorf area.

The three locomotives are no longer needed and are to be sold since the end of 2014 when the company's own freight traffic was discontinued. The Max diesel locomotive was sold in 2014. The diesel locomotive Moritz, built in 1979, was sold to Siemens in Krefeld-Uerdingen in September 2015.

literature

  • Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9 .
  • Stefan Kunig, Gunter Mackinger: The railways of the city of Monheim. Kenning, Nordhorn 2001, ISBN 3-933613-00-0 .
  • Helmut Roggenkamp: The electric traction in the freight traffic of the non-federally owned railways and the works railways. In: Lok Magazin , issue 117, November / December 1982, pp. 458–469.
  • Gerd Wolff, Lothar Riedel: German small and private railways. Volume 5: North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern part. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-662-5 , pp. 31-47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Business by bus and train ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Rheinische Post. May 27, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b New on-board technology against fare dodgers. In: Rheinische Post. 1st June 2013.
  3. ^ Gerd Wolff, Lothar Riedel: German small and private railways. Volume 5: North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-662-5 , p. 32 .
  4. ↑ a b c Monheim: From the electric to the diesel locomotive
  5. ↑ Announcement “Monheim is reducing route network” . In: Railway magazine . Issue 4/1986, p. 13 .
  6. ↑ The city's railways are withdrawing from freight traffic. on the BSM website, January 28, 2014, accessed April 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ Stephan Meisel: Monheimer Bahnen are now ceasing operations . In: Rheinische Post . December 20, 2014 ( online [accessed December 21, 2014]).
  8. ↑ [1]
  9. ↑ History of BSM on the company website
  10. ↑ Local public transport - City of Monheim am Rhein. In: monheim.de. May 14, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Monheim bus times - constantly updated. In: Rheinische Post. August 30, 2012.
  12. ↑ Monheims Bahnen increase again , Focus December 21, 2017
  13. ↑ VRR stop location plan Monheim bus station ( Memento from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Vehicle portrait Deutz 57649. on: rangierdiesel.de , accessed on August 16, 2014.
  15. ↑ Monheimer Bahnen now cease operations , Rheinische Post, December 20, 2014
  16. ↑ 2015 Annual Report, p. 16 , PDF file, p. 17
  17. ↑ Annual review 2015