The Müngstener

S 7 The Müngstener
Course book section (DB) :	450.7
Route length:	41 km
Top speed:	90 km / h
Traffic Company:	Abellio Rail NRW
State (D):	North Rhine-Westphalia
course
Legend 0 Wuppertal Hbf ICE, IC, RE, RB, S 8, S 9 1 Wuppertal Unterbarmen S 8 3 Wuppertal-Barmen RE, RB, S 8 5 Wuppertal-Oberbarmen RE, RB, S 8 13 Wuppertal-Ronsdorf 15th Remscheid-Lüttringhausen 19th Remscheid-Lennep 23 Remscheid Hbf 27 Remscheid-Güldenwerth 31 Solingen-Schaberg 34 Solingen center 35 Solingen Grünewald 41 Solingen Central Station ICE, IC, RE, RB, S 1

The Müngstener is the name of a former regional train - and today's S-Bahn line in the local rail passenger transport (SPNV) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with the abbreviation S 7, which serves the course book route 450.7 (mainly the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Solingen line ).

This SPNV line runs on a roughly U-shaped route from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof via Remscheid-Lennep and Remscheid Hauptbahnhof to Solingen Hauptbahnhof . The line thus touches the three central cities of the Bergisches Land .

It is operated by Abellio Rail NRW . Before the timetable change on December 15, 2013, the line had the abbreviation RB 47.

history

In 1868, steam locomotives operated for the first time between Wuppertal and Lennep. Since then, Deutsche Bahn (formerly Reichsbahn) has served this route for 145 years.

The name of the two lines refers to the former place Müngsten , near which the valley of the Wupper is crossed on the Müngstener bridge .

Train run

The trains of the S-Bahn line 7 Der Müngstener travel on the last section of the formerly branched railway line Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Solingen that is still in operation today .

Former regional train “ Der Müngstener” in Remscheid-Güldenwerth

Former regional train Der Müngstener at the stop in Remscheid-Lennep

From Wuppertal main station , trains go east to Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station , then south to Remscheid-Lennep station and then west via Remscheid main station to Solingen main station and back again in the opposite direction.

Since the network adjustment of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr in 2009 , individual trains beyond Solingen have been connected to the amplifier trains of the S-Bahn line S 1, which then run via Hilden station to Düsseldorf main station .

The trains stop at all stations and stops along the route. The S-Bahn track is used between Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen.

Monday to Friday this line runs every 20 minutes during the day and every half hour during the rest of the time. Occasional train journeys (usually the so-called intermediate cycle, which takes place in the morning between Remscheid-Lennep and Solingen Hauptbahnhof) take place without a stop in Solingen-Schaberg or Remscheid-Güldenwerth.

Traffic delays

In 2010 there were repeated disruptions and delays in train traffic, because a. the towing material used was considered out of date. There was also major damage to the Müngsten bridge . After the bridge was initially only allowed to be crossed by light railcars at 10 km / h, the Federal Railway Authority closed the bridge completely until further notice at the end of November 2010. Only on June 21, 2011 did it give clearance for passenger traffic, until then passenger traffic between Solingen Mitte and Remscheid-Güldenwerth had been handled by buses as replacement rail services . When it was noticed that the calculations for the load-bearing capacity of the bridge had incorrectly only taken into account the empty weight of the trains, further tests were carried out and it was determined that bearings had to be replaced. This resulted in a further closure until the end of 2014 due to additional repair work. From December 14, 2014, the bridge was again used as planned, in time for the timetable change.

Tariff

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) applies to the entire length of the train . The state-wide NRW tariff also applies.

Traction material

Alstom Coradia LINT in Solingen main station

Because of the non-electrified route between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Solingen Hauptbahnhof, diesel multiple units are used. Up to December 2013 these were redesigned two-part multiple units of the 628.4 series in single traction. Today it is usually a two-part LINT 41 multiple unit from Alstom. Individual journeys during rush hour should also run between Solingen Hauptbahnhof and Remscheid Hauptbahnhof as a double traction.

Changeover to S-Bahn operation

Two trains of the S7 meet on the Müngsten bridge

After the last tender from November 2009 to January 2010, it was announced in November 2010 that Abellio had won the tender. The traffic was taken over in December 2013 for a period of 15 years.

New vehicles of the LINT 41 type should be ordered that have barrier-free entrances, spacious toilets, video surveillance and multi-purpose areas.

Because of the rolling stock used, which is comparable to that of the S-Bahn, the identical cycle and the links with the S-Bahn traffic in Wuppertal and Solingen, the regional train was to be regarded as S-Bahn advance traffic. The official conversion of the regional train RB 47 into the S-Bahn S 7 was carried out at the timetable change in December 2013.

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• [1] Description of the S 7 "Der Müngstener" on the NRW railway archive

further evidence:

• Information about the Müngstener Bridge and the lines 2700, 2705 and 2675 (KBS 458)
• Calculating the weight of trains 1
• Weight calculation of trains 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müngstener Brücke: EBA notification means further operational restrictions. In: Eurailpress.de. April 13, 2010, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
2. ^ Friedemann Sittig: Father rust. In: The world . May 16, 2010, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
3. ↑ train reports in April 2011. Accessed December 30, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Sven Steinke: Abellio wins tender of the RB 47. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, November 23, 2010, accessed on December 30, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Bahn is subject to Abellio in the RB 47 tender. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Post , November 24, 2010, archived from the original on November 27, 2010 ; Retrieved November 24, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
6. ↑ Sven Steinke: Alstom delivers new trains for Müngstener. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, December 16, 2010, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
7. ↑ "Der Müngstener" becomes the S-Bahn. In: Solinger Tageblatt. July 3, 2013, archived from the original on July 3, 2013 ; accessed on December 30, 2015 .