Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Railway

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Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Railway
Logo of the BOB
Basic information
Company headquarters Friedrichshafen
Web presence www.bob-fn.de
owner 27.5% City of Friedrichshafen
25.0% City of Ravensburg
20.0% Lake Constance district
17.5% District of Ravensburg
10.0% Municipality of Meckenbeuren
Managing directors Norbert Schältke
Transport network bodo
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad 1
number of vehicles
Railcar 9 Regio-Shuttle RS1
statistics
Passengers 1.49 million per year (2016)
Mileage 525,693 km per year (2016)
Operating facilities
Depots Friedrichshafen , Aulendorf

The Upper Swabia-Bahn GmbH & Co. KG , abbreviated BOB , official European vehicle owners code BOBFN is a non-State-owned railway company in Baden-Wuerttemberg . It operates in conjunction with the DB Regio to rail transport on the southern section of Württemberg Southern Railway and on subsequent railway Friedrichshafen City Friedrichshafen port . Based on the folk song Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne , the railway is also called the goat railway , and its customer magazine is calledGeißenpeter (appears every six months). The journalist and concept developer Jürgen Bartsch from Überlingen introduced the term and the associated communication concept at the start of operations in 1993. The BOB does not have its own staff, the operation is carried out by employees of DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee , the technical works in Friedrichshafen are responsible for the administration . The maintenance of the vehicles is carried out by the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn .

history

The company was founded on October 15, 1991 by the following five shareholders, initially it was a limited liability company (GmbH) :

Shareholder Company share
Technical Works Friedrichshafen GmbH 27.5%
City of Ravensburg 25.0%
Lake Constance district 20.0%
Ravensburg district 17.5%
Meckenbeuren community 10.0%

The train was supposed to start operating at the beginning of the summer schedule on May 23, 1993. However, due to the delay in delivery of the first vehicles, this date could not be kept. The official opening took place on June 25, 1993. In the middle of the current timetable period, the BOB finally commenced scheduled operation on July 1, 1993 on the 29-kilometer Friedrichshafen Stadt – Ravensburg line. At that time it was the first non-federally owned railway in Germany that did not maintain its own route network. The BOB operated exclusively on the infrastructure of the former Deutsche Bundesbahn . This happened before the rail reform that came into force on January 1, 1994 , and it was only on this date that Deutsche Bahn AG , which was founded at the same time, had to guarantee free network access by law to all railway companies . However, the BOB maintains its own depot and customer center in Friedrichshafen , a storage hall in Aulendorf and its own ticket machines at all of the stations it serves .

On November 22, 1996, the decision was made to expand operations beyond both ends of the line. With the beginning of the summer timetable on June 1, 1997, the BOB railcars also run to Friedrichshafen Hafen in the south and to Aulendorf in the north. The route served has been 42 kilometers long since then. In addition, the new Friedrichshafen Airport stop was opened on this day - together with Deutsche Bahn . In 2002 the company was converted into a GmbH & Co. KG with retroactive effect from October 1, 2001 . In 2003 the BOB carried more than one million passengers. For the first time in 2004 the company made a profit of around 500,000 euros and transported an average of more than 4,000 people a day. These revenues were used to purchase new railcars. In the 2014/15 financial year, the profit was around 47,000 euros, with over 5,000 passengers daily. In 2016, the profit rose sharply to 651,000 euros. The number of passengers rose by 1.3 percent and the punctuality rate from 96.2 to 96.6 percent.

vehicles

The operation began in 1993, initially with just two railcars of type NE 81 , they were called VT 60 and VT 61st Due to its great success, a third NE 81, the VT 62, was put into service in 1994.

For the two line extensions in 1997, four more railcars (VT 63 to VT 66) were put into operation in September 1998. This time it was more modern vehicles of the type Regio-Shuttle RS1 of the first generation.

In November 2005, the BOB finally received three more RS1s, which meant that the three NE 81s from the early days could be replaced. With toilets, air conditioning and sockets (e.g. for notebooks), passengers with these vehicles are offered greater comfort. Since then, there has also been a single-type vehicle fleet, which is also completely low-floor .

The three NE 81 railcars that were no longer needed were handed over to the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn and were in use at Seehäsle until the end of 2008 . Then they were passed on to the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft , which uses them on the Kaiserstuhlbahn after a general inspection .

At the beginning of June 2013 two more Regio-Shuttles were delivered; they are needed because of the increased number of passengers and have the numbers VT 70 and 71.

Art designation Construction year Manufacturer Type comment
Railcar VT 60 + VT 61 1993 Waggon Union NE 81 2006 sold to Hohenzollerische Landesbahn
Railcar VT 62 1994 ABB Henschel NE 81 2006 sold to Hohenzollerische Landesbahn
Railcar VT 63 - VT 66 1998 Adtrance RS1
Railcar VT 67 - VT 69 2005 Stadler Rail AG RS1
Railcar VT 70 + VT 71 2013 Stadler Rail AG RS1

Stations

The Weißenau train station was reactivated by the BOB in 1993.
Niederbiegen station has been served by the BOB since 1997, after which it had been without passenger traffic for nine years.
station Offer Task by DB Operation by BOB since
Friedrichshafen harbor BOB, RB, RE x June 1, 1997
Friedrichshafen city BOB, RB, RE, IRE, IC x July 1, 1993
Lion Valley BOB, RB, RE x July 1, 1993
Friedrichshafen Airport BOB, RB, RE, IRE June 1, 1997 (new opening)
Throats BOB May 28, 1988 July 1, 1993 (reactivation)
Meckenbeuren BOB, RB, RE, IRE, IC x July 1, 1993
Oberzell BOB May 28, 1988 July 1, 1993 (reactivation)
Weißenau BOB May 28, 1988 July 1, 1993 (reactivation)
Ravensburg BOB, RB, RE, IRE, IC x July 1, 1993
Weingarten / Berg BOB May 24, 1998 (new opening)
Bending down BOB May 28, 1988 June 1, 1997 (reactivation)
Mochencheeks BOB, RB September 24, 1989 June 1, 1997 (reactivation)
Aulendorf BOB, RB, RE, IRE, IC x June 1, 1997

Web links

Commons : Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The billy goat has been jumping for 25 years . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Alexander Bückle: Railway Portrait BOB. In: www.privat-bahn.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Annette Vincenz: BOB is back in the profit zone . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Annette Vincenz: Geißbockbahn rolls further into the profit zone. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. April 24, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ railway magazine 8/2013, p. 18