Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn

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Route of the Volmetalbahn

The Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (DME) operated the Volmetalbahn (RB 52) Dortmund - Hagen - from May 30, 1999 to December 11, 2004 as a subsidiary of the Dortmunder Stadtwerke (74% stake) and the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (26% stake) Ludenscheid .

A DME train at the Dortmund Westfalenhalle stop (today: Dortmund Signal Iduna Park station)
The demonstration car for the LINT 41 from Alstom, used instead of a failed Talent, is waiting for its departure in Hagen

In 1996, DME was the first private railway in North Rhine-Westphalia to win the route advertised as a pilot project by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and Zweckverband SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (ZRL). The route was driven by four three-part diesel railcars with 1st and 2nd class of the Bombardier Talent type , with one vehicle always kept as a reserve. The railcars were serviced in the workshops of the Dortmund Railway . Vehicles were damaged several times in accidents, with a particularly serious maneuvering accident, after which two of the four vehicles were out of action for six months.

At the end of 2002 the Volmetalbahn was again in a package with the Dortmund-Sauerland-Express (RE 57) ( Dortmund - Arnsberg - Bestwig - Winterberg ), the Ardey-Bahn (RB 53) (Dortmund - Schwerte - Iserlohn ) and the Hönnetal-Bahn (RB 54) ( Unna - Fröndenberg - Menden - Neuenrade ) tendered as a so-called Sauerland package by the VRR and ZRL. The DME applied again for these routes, but was defeated by the DB Regio NRW . This railway company has therefore been running since December 12, 2004 on the route previously used by DME.

The company, which was registered at the Dortmund District Court under HRB 12798, was then dissolved, the specially trained employees who had been assigned to the DME in 1999 were taken over again by the Dortmund public utilities or the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft and the four vehicles were sold.

The vehicles VT 01.101, VT 01.102, VT 01.103 and VT 01.104 were bought by the leasing company Alpha Trains . This has rented the vehicles to Keolis or Eurobahn and NordWestBahn .

literature

  • Christian Kuhlmann: Regionalization of local rail transport - opportunities and limits. Tectum, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-8288-5106-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.wer-zu-wem.de/firma/mvg-maerkische.html
  2. ↑ cf. Christian Kuhlmann: Regionalization of local rail passenger transport. 2002, p. 45 ff.
  3. ↑ a b Diversity on the Volmetalbahn. Two »talents« withdrawn from circulation after an accident. In: twenty-one. November 15, 2002, accessed December 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ End of a nice episode. Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn says goodbye. In: twenty-one. November 24, 2004, accessed December 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ bombardier-talent.de.tl
  6. ↑ Vehicle list Alpha Trains Europa GmbH