Duisburg transport company

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DVG Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG
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Basic information
Company headquarters Duisburg
Web presence www.dvg-duisburg.de
owner 74% DVV , 25.8% city ​​of Duisburg , 0.1% city ​​of Dinslaken , 0.1%  district of Wesel
Board Marcus Wittig, Axel Prasch, Klaus-Peter Wandelenus
Transport network VRR
Employee 768
sales 77.8 million euros (2019)dep1
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
tram 3
Light rail 1
bus 43
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 96
statistics
Passengers 60.7 million
Stops 732
Catchment area 281 km²
Residents in the
catchment area 		502.7 thousand
Operating facilities
Depots 2

The Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG , DVG for short , is a transport company that almost exclusively supplies the area of ​​the city of Duisburg (281 km²). DVG has operated local public transport in Duisburg for over 135 years . Over 60 million passengers a year travel in 96  buses and 61 trams, that is around 166,000 people a day.

The Duisburg rail network covers 53 kilometers, on which DVG operates three tram lines and one light rail line. The bus network consists of 43 lines and is almost 450 kilometers long. The transport company serves a total of 732 bus and train stops .

The Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR), whose tariff has also been in effect on the Lower Rhine (including Moers and Dinslaken ) since January 1, 2012 . (See also: Duisburg Stadtbahn ).

Economic data

Traffic area (as of 2019) :

  • Area (in km²): 281
  • Population: 502,694

Traffic and operating performance :

  • Passengers (in millions): 60.7

Traffic and operating performance of the bus :

  • Vehicle inventory: 96
  • Number of lines: 32
  • Number of stops: 579
  • Persons transported (in millions): 30.7
  • Length of bus line (in km): 489.3
  • Length of bus route (in km): 397.5
  • Average cruising speed (in km / h): 20.04
  • Passenger-kilometers (in millions): 140.6
  • Vehicle kilometers (in millions): 8.7
  • Square kilometers (in millions): 723

Traffic and operating performance tram / light rail (as of 2015) :

  • Vehicle inventory (as of 2020): 60
  • Number of lines: 4
  • Number of stops: 131
  • Persons transported (in millions): 30.9
  • Length of tram line (in km): 106.6
  • Distance tram (in km): 53.3
  • Passenger-kilometers (in millions): 141.4
  • Vehicle kilometers (in millions): 4.9
  • Square kilometers (in millions): 845.7

history

The first German articulated railcar from 1926, the so-called "Harkortwagen" - received for a long time as a museum car in Duisburg, later sold.

On January 1, 1940, the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG was founded. In it the Duisburger Straßenbahnen GmbH , the Kreis Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG and the Städtische Straßenbahnen Hamborn were united. With this, all tram lines in the area of ​​the city of Duisburg were united under one roof. The shares in STOAG in Oberhausen were also sold to the city of Duisburg in the course of this re-establishment. In 1942 the company operated a total of 23 lines. As a result of the Second World War , in 1945, as with many other companies in the Ruhr area, traffic had to be stopped.

On May 2, 1945, line 14 from Dinslaken to Meiderich was the first to resume operations after the shutdowns . By 1950, nine standard-gauge lines and eleven meter-gauge lines could be put back into operation. However, in 1951 and 1952 one line each was switched to bus transport.

The longest trolleybus route in Germany ran from December 18, 1954 to May 28, 1967 on an almost 34-kilometer stretch from Ruhrort via Homberg , Moers , Repelen, Kamp-Lintfort and Rheinberg to Ossenberg , partly on a former tram route . The trolleybus routes leading to Duisburg were part of the Moers trolleybus , in which DVG was involved with two vehicles and 1.35 kilometers of route.

The standardization of the gauges in the city area soon began. Initially, it was considered to convert all routes to meter gauge in order to create a uniform network from Bochum via Gelsenkirchen , Essen , Mülheim , Oberhausen , Duisburg , Moers to Krefeld . In the end, however, only the most important north-south connections in connection with the normal-gauge network in Düsseldorf were expanded and all other routes were converted to bus operation.

On May 2, 1959, the largest re-gauging project of a German local transport company was completed. After the renovation, which cost 4.6 million Deutschmarks, seven lines were initially retained. The network was reduced to a total of 65.1 km by the end of the 1960s.

In 1970 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia presented a general transport plan for the Ruhr area. In addition to the systematic expansion of the S-Bahn , a city-wide light rail system was to be created. Thereafter, the routes from Dinslaken via Hamborn, Meiderich, the city center and Huckingen to Düsseldorf, from Moers via Ruhrort and the city center to Mülheim and from Ruhrort to Marxloh were to be built in Duisburg .

DVG logos: left approx. 1970, center approx. 1990, right the current logo

The DVG has been a member of the VRR , the largest transport association in Europe , since January 1st, 1980 . With accession, a uniform system of line numbering was also introduced. In addition to Oberhausen, Duisburg was assigned the timetable area 9 , with the exception of a few basic renaming, all line numbers were preceded by a “9”, the tram and bus routes were three-digit. Until 1980, a tram line "1" ran in many cities; confusion was no longer possible. The exception mentioned was line D ; it was renumbered 79 and U 79, respectively.

After the incorporation of the cities of Homberg and Rheinhausen on the left bank of the Rhine in 1975, the NIAG route network was taken over on January 1, 1985 and exchanged for routes in the former districts of Dinslaken and Rees. NIAG still has a large share of Duisburg bus traffic, especially in the west of the city, direct connections from Duisburg main station to the NIAG service area (including Moers , Geldern , Vluyn ) and via joint transport.

The Via network

Since July 1, 2010, the transport companies DVG (Duisburg), EVAG (Essen) and MVG (Mülheim an der Ruhr) have merged into a joint venture Via Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH on an operational level. This was terminated by DVG on December 31, 2016.

Former routes of trams and trolleybuses

Lines of the tram 1950

For historical reasons, the tram networks north and south of the Ruhr were incompatible due to different gauges. While the tram routes in the city of Duisburg (including two routes to the Ruhrorter Friedrichsplatz and to the Duisburg-Meiderich Süd train station ) were built entirely in standard gauge , in the formerly independent city of Hamborn, the meter gauge , which was also used in neighboring Oberhausen, was used.

line Line route Gauge
D. Duisburg Hbf (deep) - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen - Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - (D-) Graf-Adolf-Platz 1,435 mm
standard gauge
1 Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Main Post / Central Station - Tierpark (Kaiserberg)
2 Hochfeld Süd Bf - Marientor - Main Post / Hbf - Tierpark (Kaiserberg) - (MH-) Speldorf - (MH-) Town Hall
3 Hochfeld Wörthstraße - Marientor - Main Post / Central Station - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald
4th Kuhtor - main post / main station - Neudorfer Markt - Neudorf Kruppstraße
5 Kasslerfeld Schifferstrasse - Neuenkamp Rheindeich
7th König-Heinrich-Platz - Main Post Office / Hbf - Duissern - Schnabelhuck - Meiderich Süd station
8th Duisburg Hbf (deep) - Grunewald - Wanheim - Hüttenheim
9 Duisburg Hbf (deep) - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen
M. Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Homberg - Moers - Rheinberg trolleybus
11 Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz 1.000 mm
meter gauge
12 Meiderich Süd Bf - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Meiderich Süd Bf ( ring line )
13 Beeck Monument - Beeckerwerth
14th Dinslaken Bf - Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf
16 Walsum - Wehoven - (OB-) Holten market
17th Dinslaken Bf - Hiesfeld
18th Dinslaken Bf - Lohberg
21st Alsum - Hamborn Town Hall - (OB-) Buschhausen
22nd Norbertus Church - Marxloh Pollmann
23 (OB-) Holten Bf - Marxloh Pollmann
24 Hamborn Fahrner Strasse - Meiderich Baustrasse
italic = localities outside Duisburg

Routes of the tram in 1959

In order to create better traffic connections between the north and south of the city, individual routes were changed from meter gauge to standard gauge. As a result, individual routes were abandoned because they could no longer be operated sensibly in island operation, but the conversion would not have been economical (especially in Dinslaken and to Beeckerwerth).

line Line route comment
D. Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen - Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - (D-) Graf-Adolf-Platz
1 Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Main Post / Central Station - Tierpark (Kaiserberg) to Laar:
formerly meter gauge
2 Hochfeld Süd Bf - Marientor - Sonnenwall or Kuhtor 1 - Main Post / Central Station - Tierpark (Kaiserberg) - (MH-) Speldorf - (MH-) Town Hall
3 Kupferhütte - Marientor - Sonnenwall or Kuhtor 1 - main post / main station - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald
4th Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Main Post / Central Station - Neudorfer Markt - Sportpark 2
8th Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheim - Hüttenheim
9 Dinslaken train station - Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn town hall - Meiderich Süd train station - Schnabelhuck - Duissern - Stadttheater or Hauptpost / Hbf 3 - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen to Meiderich:
formerly meter gauge
M. Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Homberg - Moers - Rheinberg trolleybus
10 Alsum - Hamborn Altmarkt - (OB-) Buschhausen Meter gauge
11 (OB-) Holten Bf - Marxloh Pollmann
12 Ruhrort Bergiusstraße - Meiderich Süd Bf Meter gauge May 23, 1959 Bus route 12:
Laar - Meiderich - Ruhrort
13 Laar Church - Meiderich Süd Bf
16 Walsum Town Hall - (OB-) Holten Market Meter gauge November 29, 1959 Line 6
italic = localities outside Duisburg
1 Until May 21, 1967 via the Sonnenwall, then via Kuhtor and Steinsche Gasse.
2 Until March 28, 1962, then the final stop on Koloniestraße at a blind siding at Wildstraße.
3 Until March 9, 1962 via Kardinal-Galen-Straße and Neckarstraße, then via Hansastraße and Mülheimer Straße.

Lines of the tram in 1971

All lines now run over standard gauge tracks. The meter-gauge routes that had remained so far were aligned with Oberhausen, and when the tram was shut down there, these routes were also given up.

line Line route comment
D. Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen - Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - (D-) Jan-Wellem-Platz
1 Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni - (MH-) Speldorf - (MH-) Town Hall
2 Hochfeld Süd Bf 1 - Marientor - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni Mon – Fri 6 a.m. – 8 p.m.
2/4 Hochfeld Süd Bf 1 - Marientor - Duisburg Hbf - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald - Wanheim - Hüttenheim Mon – Fri 8–6 p.m., Sat / Sun / etc.
3 Kupferhütte 2 - Marientor - Duisburg Hbf - Neudorfer Markt - Neudorf Wildstraße 3
4th Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Duisburg Hbf - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald - Hochfeld - Wanheim - Hüttenheim Mon – Fri 6 a.m. – 8 p.m.
9 Dinslaken Bf - Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Schnabelhuck - Duissern - Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen
italic = localities outside Duisburg
1On September 30, 1979, the line from the Kuhtor to the Hochfeld Süd station was taken out of service, line 2 abandoned. The tracks will be expanded up to Marientor, the rest of the tracks have been unused in the streets of Hochfeld for 13 years.
2 On March 25, 1972, the line from the Marientor to the Kupferhütte was shut down, and line 3 was abandoned.
3On March 31, 1975, the last stop on line 4 on Koloniestrasse was closed. While the switches at the Sternbuschweg intersection were being expanded, the tracks up to Wildstrasse could still be seen in the street for a long time.

Lines of the tram 1983

With the establishment of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr in 1980, new, regionally distinguishable line numbers were introduced. The routing remained largely unchanged, there were no closures in this context, line 904 (on the existing route) even extended to Laar.

line Line route
79 Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen - (D-) Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - Düsseldorf Hbf
901 Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni - (MH-) Speldorf - (MH-) Town Hall
904 Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Duisburg Hbf - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald - Wanheim - Hüttenheim
909 Dinslaken Bf - Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Schnabelhuck - Duissern - Duisburg Hbf - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Sittardsberg - Huckingen
italic = localities outside Duisburg

Lines of the tram 1992

Stadtbahn advance service, for information on the construction of the Stadtbahn, see also Stadtbahn Duisburg .

In connection with the commissioning of the inner city tunnel, several routes were closed on July 1, 1992, or at least no longer served:

  1. Line 901: from Schwanentor via Kuhtor, König-Heinrich-Platz and Hauptbahnhof to Lutherplatz, replacement by a tunnel that runs the same way
  2. Line 904: from the main train station via Neudorfer Straße, Koloniestraße, Sternbuschweg to Grunewald; Line completely shut down, tracks are still only on Neudorfer Straße
  3. Line 904: from Kulturstraße to Hochfeld Süd station (south side); only operating route for deploying vehicles
  4. Line 909: from Schnabelhuck via Duissernplatz and Hansastraße to the main station; Replacement by a similar tunnel section (line 903)
  5. Line 79 or 909: from the main train station / Mercatorstrasse via Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse or from König-Heinrich-Platz via Düsseldorfer Strasse to Kremerstrasse; Replacement by tunnel section with an alternative route via Steinsche Gasse, further via Hochfeld to Hüttenheim (line 903) or via the "Bocksbarttrasse" to Düsseldorfer Straße (line U79)
line Line route
U79 Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf - Steinsche Gasse - Grunewald - Wanheimerort - Waldfriedhof - Sittardsberg - Huckingen St. Anna Hospital - (D-) Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - Freiligrathplatz - Heinrich-Heine-Allee - Düsseldorf Hbf
901 Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - City Hall - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni - (MH-) Speldorf - (MH-) City Center
902 Walsum Watereck - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Schnabelhuck - Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf (-  Steinsche Gasse - Grunewald depot)
903 Dinslaken Bf - Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Schnabelhuck - Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf - Steinsche Gasse - Hochfeld Süd Bf - Wanheim - Hüttenheim
Italic = localities outside Duisburg , bold = light rail operation

Current routes of the DVG

Light rail / tram lines Cycle mo – fr
(HVZ) 		Clock sa Clock like this operator
U 79 (Meiderich Süd Bf - Auf dem Damm -) Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Steinsche Gasse - Platanenhof - Grunewald - Im Schlenk - Waldfriedhof - Münchener Straße - Sittardsberg - Mühlenkamp - Huckingen St. Anna Hospital - Kesselsberg - (D-) Froschenteich - Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - Freiligrathplatz - Heinrich-Heine-Allee - Düsseldorf Hbf (- Düsseldorf-Oberbilk - University East / Botanical Garden) 10 (30) / 15 / (30) (30) / 30 / (-) DVG / Rheinbahn
901 (Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument -) Laar Scholtenhofstr. - Laar Church - Ruhrort train station - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Thousand-window house - Albertstr. - Kaßlerfelder Straße - State Archives NRW - Town Hall - König-Heinrich-Platz - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni (- (MH-) Speldorf - Broich Castle - City Center - Mülheim Hbf) (15) / 7½ / (15) (30) / 15 / (15) (30) / 15 / (30) DVG
( 902 ) (Walsum Watereck - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Auf dem Damm - Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Steinsche Gasse - Grunewald depot) x x x DVG
903 (Dinslaken Bf -) Walsum Watereck - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Landschaftspark Nord - Meiderich Süd Bf - Auf dem Damm - Duissern U-Bf - Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Steinsche Gasse - Platanenhof - St. Bf - Wanheimerort Rheintörchenstr. (- Tiger & Turtle - Hüttenheim Mannesmann Gate 2) (15) / 7½ / (15) (30) / 7½ / (15) (30) / 15 / (30) DVG
Italic = localities outside Duisburg , bold = light rail operation Source: single line plans
  • The U 79 line is operated jointly with the Rheinbahn and also uses the local light rail routes in Düsseldorf.
  • Line 901 also uses tunnels outside the Duisburg city area. In Mülheim these are the train stations Schloß Broich, Stadtmitte and the terminus Mülheim Hbf.
  • Line 902 only runs at events in the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena and is used as a line signal for trains arriving and departing to the Grunewald depot.
Bus routes Cycle mo – fr
(HVZ) 		Clock sa Clock like this operator
SB 10 Duisburg Central Station East Entrance - Duisburg City Center - Duisburg Marientor - Moers Hülsdonk - Neukirchen Sparkasse - City Hall - Vluyner Südring (- Rhein-Waal University - Kamp-Lintfort New City Hall) 60 / (x) 60 / (-) - NIAG
SB 30 Duisburg Central Station East Entrance - Duisburg City Center - Duisburg Marientor - Moers - Kamp-Lintfort New Town Hall (- Geldern Bf) 30 / (60) 30 / (60) 60 1 / (-) NIAG
SB 40 Walsum Overbruch - Walsum town hall - Duisburg central station east entrance 30-60 60 - DVG
SB 80 Moers Royal Court - Rumeln - Krefeld-Uerdingen Bf 30th 30th 60 NIAG
3 Moers Königlicher Hof - Moers Hülshorst - Moers-Kapellen - Moers-Vennikel - Kaldenhausen Krölls
(Monday to Friday on school-free days and on weekends as a taxi bus) 		60 60 60 NIAG
728 ( CreamS-Bahn-Logo.svg ) Düsseldorf-Angermund Angeraue - Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth Klemensplatz (x) / 30 (x) / 30 (x) / 60 Rheinbahn
905 Marxloh Pollmann - Röttgersbach - OB-Holten Markt - Wehofen - Walsum - Overbruch - Fahrn - Marxloh Pollmann
(ring line, only in this direction) 		30th 30th 60 DVG
906 Marxloh Pollmann - Fahrn - Overbruch - Walsum - Wehofen - OB-Holten Markt - Röttgersbach - Marxloh Pollmann
(ring line, only in this direction) 		30th 30th 60 DVG
907 Beeckerwerth Godesberger Straße - Beeck - Hamborn - Marxloh - Röttgersbach - Wehofen - OB-Holten Markt - Oberhausen-Holten Bf 30th 30th 60 DVG / STOAG
908 (Bruckhausen Matenastraße -) Hamborn - Obermarxloh - Neumühl Buschhauser Str. (- OB-Buschhausen - Oberhausen-Sterkrade Bahnhof)
(buses to OB-Sterkrade do not run in Neumühl via (H) Buschhauser Straße) 		(30) / 15 / (30) (30) / 30 / (30) (60) / 60 / (60) DVG / STOAG
909 Landschaftspark Nord - Obermeiderich - Meiderich - Beeck - Hamborn - Marxloh - Röttgersbach - Neumühl - Landschaftspark Nord
(ring line, only in this direction) 		15th 15th 30th DVG
910 Landscape Park North - Neumühl - Röttgersbach - Marxloh - Hamborn - Beeck - Meiderich - Obermeiderich - Landscape Park North
(ring line, only in this direction) 		15th 15th 30th DVG
911 Ruhrort distribution circle - Homberg - Hochheide - Moers - Moers-Repelen - Kamp-Lintfort 15th 15th 30th NIAG
912 Rheinhausen Market - Homberg - Moers - Neukirchen Town Hall - Neukirchen Vluyn 30th 30th 60 NIAG
913 (Moers-Hülsdonk -) Moers Royal Court - Baerl - Orsoy - Rheinberg School Center (x) / 60 (x) / 60 (-) / 120 NIAG
914 Moers - Schwafheim - Oestrum - Rheinhausen Markt (- Friemersheim - Logport / industrial area Hohenbudberg) 30 / (30) 30 / (30) 60 / (-) NIAG
915 Dinslaken-Lohberg - Dinslaken Bf (- Walsum - Overbruch Franz-Lenze-Platz) 60 / (x) 60 / (120) - NIAG
916 Hochheide Markt - Homberg - Ruhrort - Untermeiderich - Mittelmeiderich Sympherstrasse 30th 30th 60 DVG
917 Hochheide Markt - Homberg - Ruhrort - Laar - Beeck - Mittelmeiderich - Obermeiderich Oberhauser Strasse 30th 30th 60 DVG
920 Kaldenhausen Krölls - Rumeln - Trompet - Rheinhausen - Hochfeld - Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg(- Neudorf Sportpark) 15 / (30) 15 / (30) 30 / (60) DVG
921 Duisburg central station east entrance S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Hochfeld - Rheinhausen - Oestrum - Moers Königlicher Hof 15th 15th 30th DVG / NIAG
922 Beeckerwerth Godesberger Strasse - Laar - Ruhrort - Homberg - Rheinhausen - Friemersheim market 30th 30th 60 DVG
923 Baerl Church - Homberg - Hochheide - Rheinhausen - Friemersheim Market 30th 30th 60 DVG
924 Kaldenhausen Krölls - Rumeln - (Zentralfriedhof -) Friemersheim - Rheinhausen - Bergheim - Winkelhausen Bruchstraße
(Mondays to Saturdays four times and Sundays twice in each direction via (H) Zentralfriedhof) 		30th 30th 60 DVG
926 Homberg Birkenstraße - Hochheide Markt - Essenberg - Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg(- Neudorf University North) 30 / (30) 30 / (30) 60 / (-) DVG
927 Krefeld Hbf - Krefeld-Bockum - Krefeld-Uerdingen - Krefeld-Chempark - Rheinhausen train station - Rheinhausen market 60 60 60 SWK
928 (Winkelhausen Bruchstraße - Asterlagen -) City center - Duisburg main station S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Neudorf - Wedau repair shop - Bissingheim Dorfplatz
(buses to DU-Stadtmitte run from Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz to Kuhtor. Return via Schäferturm and Stadttheater to the main station.) 		(60) / 15-30 (60) / 30 (60) / 30 DVG
929 (Venlo (as line 29 ) -) Vluyner Südring - Moers-Hülsdonk - Moers Königlicher Hof - Hochheide - Ruhrort - city center -
Duisburg Hbf east entrance		 (x) / 30 (x) / 30 (-) / 60 NIAG
930 Duissern Ruhrau - Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Hochfeld - Wanheimerort - Neudorf - Duissern Ruhrau
(ring line, only in this direction) 		30th 30th 60 DVG
931 Duissern Ruhrau - Neudorf - Wanheimerort - Hochfeld - Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Duissern Ruhrau
(ring line, only in this direction) 		30th 30th 60 DVG
933 (Neuenkamp Rheindeich -) Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Neudorf University North (15) / 7½ (30) / 30 (30) / 30 DVG
934 Kaßlerfeld depot Am Unkelstein - Inner Harbor - Duisburg Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Neudorf - Wedau (- Buchholz - Großenbaum  S-Bahn-Logo.svg Ost) 15 / (30) 15 / (30) 30 / (30) DVG
935 (Oberhausen Anne-Frank-Realschule -) Oberhausen Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg - Hamborn - Marxloh Pollmann - Oberhausen Sterkrade station (60) / 60 (60) / 60 (-) / 60 DVG / STOAG
939 Duisburg central station east entrance S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Neudorf - Duissern Werthacker - Obermeiderich - Oberhausen central station S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Oberhausen Anne-Frank-Realschule 60 60 60 DVG / STOAG
940 Huckingen St. Anna Hospital U-Bf - Ungelsheim - Hüttenheim - Buchholz - Großenbaum S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Rahm S-Bahn-Logo.svg 30th 30th 60 DVG
941 (KR-Uerdingen Bf -) Mündelheim Krefelder Straße - Hüttenheim - Buchholz - Großenbaum - Wedau Wolfssee (60) / 15 (60) / 30 (60) / 60 DVG
942 Mündelheim Ehinger Berg - Serm - Ungelsheim - Huckingen - Buchholz - Wedau - Bissingheim village square 30th 30th 60 DVG
945 Feeder line from various locations to the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena x x x DVG
995 Oberhausen Anne Frank Realschule - Oberhausen Hbf S-Bahn-Logo.svg- Oberhausen-Lirich - Neumühl - Marxloh Pollmann 60 60 - DB Rhineland bus
1 every 120 minutes between Moers Königlicher Hof and Kamp-Lintfort Neues Rathaus

Numerous lines are used by various subcontractors on behalf of the respective operators. DVG itself uses subcontractors “Der Homberger” from Duisburg, “Look Busreisen” from Moers, “WEGA Reisen” from Ratingen, “Urban Reisen” from Gladbeck, “Divan Reisen” from Duisburg and “DB Rheinlandbus” on several lines Wesel a.

As a special feature, lines 905, 906 and 907 are allowed to cross the Mattlerbusch Revierpark in the north of Duisburg. Line 945 only runs at events in the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena .

In addition, the entry and exit journeys known as “direct journeys” from the Am Unkelstein depot to the respective end stations can be used at the network rate, but the timetables are not published in the electronic timetable or in the timetable book. The timetables for these journeys can only be found at a few stops, so that these journeys are relatively unknown.

NachtExpress - night bus routes operator
NE 1 Duisburg Hbf east entrance - Ruhrort - Laar - Beeck - Marxloh - Neumühl Buschhauser Straße DVG
NE 2 Duisburg Hbf east entrance - Hochfeld - Rheinhausen - Bergheim - Rumeln Rathaus DVG
NE 3 Duisburg central station east entrance - Meiderich - Hamborn - Marxloh - Fahrn - Walsum - Dinslaken Bf DVG
NE 4 Duisburg central station east entrance - Neudorf - Wedau - Buchholz - Huckingen St. Anna Hospital DVG
NE 5 Duisburg Hbf east entrance - inner harbor - Kaßlerfeld - Ruhrort - Homberg - Hochheide market DVG
NE 6 Duisburg Hbf east entrance - Hochfeld - Wanheim - Hüttenheim Mannesmann Gate 2 DVG
NE 9 Duisburg central station east entrance - Neudorf - Zoo / Uni - Mülheim-Speldorf - Mülheim central station north entrance - Mülheim-Heißen church - Mülheim Rhine-Ruhr center Ruhrbahn
NE 27 Krefeld Hbf - Krefeld-Bockum - Krefeld-Uerdingen - Friemersheim - Rheinhausen market SWK
NE 79 Duisburg Hbf east entrance - Grunewald - Sittardsberg - DU-Huckingen - D-Wittlaer - D-Kaiserswerth Klemensplatz DVG / Rheinbahn
TB 1 Taxibus: Walsum Town Hall - Walsumer Wardtstrasse DVG
TB 2 Taxibus: Walsum Town Hall - OB-Holten Markt DVG
TB 3 Taxi bus: Meiderich Bf - Nauheimer Straße DVG
TB 4 Taxi bus: Meiderich Bf - Bergstrasse DVG
TB 5 Taxi bus: Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Beeckerwerdt Schwalbenplatz DVG
TB 6 Taxibus: Hochheide Markt - Baerl Church DVG
TB 7 Taxibus: Landesarchiv NRW - Neuenkamp Rheindeich DVG
TB 8 Taxibus: Rheinhausen Markt - Winkelhausen Bruchstrasse DVG
TB 9 Taxi bus: Rumeln Rathaus - Mühlenberg DVG
TB 10 Taxi bus: Wedau Kiesendahl - Bissingheim village square DVG
TB 11 Taxibus: Mannesmann Tor 2 - Mündelheim Ehinger Berg DVG

The NachtExpress lines NE 1 - NE 6 run daily at 11:30 p.m., 0:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., on Saturday mornings also 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. (not NE3). On Sunday and holiday mornings, the NE lines run every hour until 7:30 a.m. The taxi bus lines must be reserved at least 30 minutes in advance and operate after the NachtExpress lines. The line NE 9 and NE 27 also operate daily. Like the other NE lines, line NE 9 runs Monday to Friday with three journeys at 11:04 p.m., 0:04 a.m. and 1:04 a.m. and on Saturdays every hour until 6:04 a.m. and on Sundays and public holidays until 7:04 a.m. Line NE 27 runs only two trips a day in the Duisburg city area, namely at 10:06 p.m. and 11:06 p.m. from Rheinhausen Markt. The remaining journeys on line NE 27 only run between Krefeld Hbf and KR Uerdingen Bf. Line NE 79 is not listed in the official timetable, but it does run after prior notice (for example on New Year's Eve ).

Fleet

Light rail / tram

The DVG light rail vehicle fleet consists of 18 type B80C cars for the U79 line , four of which had a dining car compartment until the mid-1990s, and originally 46 GT 10 NC-DU trams for lines 901–903 , also known as "N-Wagen". In addition, there was a single so-called Variobahn car (GT6ND), which was sold to a hotel in Norway in 2015. The vehicles of the type GT 10 NC-DU were originally eight-axle cars. In 1996, the DVG decided to extend it to ten - axle vehicles by means of a low-floor center section in order to increase the capacity and enable barrier-free entry.

A renovation program was carried out to prevent corrosion damage in all 46 vehicles of the type GT 10 NC-DU , but only for 38 of the vehicles, so that there will not be enough vehicles available until the next new purchase (see below). Until then, there will be rail replacement traffic on the north branch of line 901 between the Scholtenhofstraße stop and Obermarxloh loop on weekdays.

The DVG is traditionally known for its numerous conversions to tram cars that it carried out in-house. A current, exemplary example is the car 1000: At the beginning of the 1980s it served as a prototype of the GT 8 NC-DU to be purchased (including installation of a chopper control). At the beginning of the 1990s, this eight-axle articulated railcar of the type GT 8 from 1966 was converted into a bidirectional car with an optical alignment of the front design to the GT 8 NC-DU.In 1996 it was expanded to a ten -axle vehicle with a low-floor self-made middle section. Car 1000 was again used as a prototype, this time for the extension of the eight-axle GT 8 NC-DU.

The current DVG light rail and tram fleet:

  • Light rail car B 80C:
    • Year of construction 1983: 4701 - 4714
    • Year of construction 1984: 4715 - 4718 (former dining car)
  • GT 10 NC-DU :
    • Year of construction 1996: 1000 (conversion from eight-axle articulated multiple units from 1966)
    • Year of construction 1986: 1001 - 1014 (car 1008 was retired, car 1009 is parked after a serious accident)
    • Year of construction 1988: 1015 - 1025 (cars 1017 and 1019 have been retired)
    • Year of construction 1991: 1026 - 1035 (car 1035 was retired)
    • Year of construction 1992: 1036 - 1040 (cars 1038 and 1039 have been retired)
    • Year of construction 1993: 1041 - 1045

All light rail and tram vehicles are stationed in the Grunewald depot.

Renewal of the tram fleet

Due to the lack of vehicles due to corrosion, the lack of air conditioning and the low proportion of low-floor vehicles in the cars (20%), new vehicles were put out to tender in 2017: Bombardier Transportation will deliver 47 Bombardier Flexity Classic trams and will take care of their maintenance for 24 years, with the option of an extension to 32 Years. The order is worth 140 million euros.

The new tracks, named NF 4, will be 34 meters long and 2.30 meters wide. With the introduction of this vehicle type, an air conditioning system will also be installed in DVG trams for the first time. The low-floor share is 70% and the capacity of the vehicles will be increased from 175 to 200 passengers.

Also planned is the acquisition of 18 new light rail vehicles to replace the so-called B-cars , which run in cooperation with the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn on the U79 line. Since these vehicles will have reached the end of their service life in the near future, use beyond the year 2025 does not make economic sense. The tender calls for 18 new light rail vehicles with a length of 28 meters and a width of 2.65 meters to be procured. The call for tenders is scheduled to begin in March 2019, and the contract with a volume of 61 million euros is expected to be awarded in the first quarter of 2020. The vehicles will not be used for the first time before 2024. In addition to large multi-purpose areas for wheelchair users and prams, the new carriages will also feature air conditioning. This means that from 2025 the entire DVG fleet will be air-conditioned.

omnibus

The bus fleet consists for the most part of Mercedes-Benz Citaro vehicles from EvoBus , both solo and articulated buses . In 2006, the number of units was well over 100, so the DVG has the largest fleet of this type in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). Before the Citaro wagons were purchased, the Mercedes-Benz O 405 was DVG's standard vehicle. A total of 96 vehicles of this type had been purchased from 1985 to 1993.

Mercedes-Benz O 405 bus from DVG in 1993
Citaro C2 line bus on line 926 at the Duisburg Hbf stop

All vehicles purchased from 2001 onwards also have air conditioning . The individual types of the rolling stock and their company numbers:

  • MAN NL 283 Lion's City :
    • Year of construction 2007: 701, 704
    • Year of construction 2012: 1201 - 1207
    • Year of construction 2013: 1301 - 1312
  • MAN NG 313 (Lion's City G, articulated bus ):
    • Year of construction 2007: 708, 710, 712, 713
    • Year of construction 2012: 1208 - 1212
  • Mercedes-Benz O 530 G (Citaro G, articulated bus)
    • Year of construction 2006: 601 - 608
  • Mercedes-Benz O 530 G (Citaro G II (facelift), articulated bus)
    • Year of construction 2008: 802 - 810
    • Year of construction 2011: 1101 ( hybrid bus )
  • Mercedes-Benz O 530 (Citaro C2)
    • Year of construction 2016: 1651–1665 (1654 W-lan)
    • Year of construction 2017: 1760–1764
  • Mercedes-Benz O 530 G (Citaro C2 G, articulated bus)
    • Year of construction 2015: 1550–1560 (1550 W-lan)
    • Year of construction 2017: 1750–1759
    • Year of construction 2018: 1850–1862 (all WiFi)
  • Mercedes-Benz O 530 G (Citaro C2 G Hybrid, articulated bus)
    • Year of construction 2019: 1950–1955

The buses are located in the Am Unkelstein depot in the Kaßlerfeld district, not far from the inner harbor .

environmental Protection

Since the beginning of 2018, all DVG trams and light rail vehicles and their operating buildings have been supplied with electricity from hydropower. This should save 17,000 tons of CO 2 per year . In addition, all buses meet at least the Euro 4 emissions standard while around 40% of the buses meet the Euro 6 emissions standard.

There are also plans to convert bus route 934 completely to electric buses by 2020. The tender for the delivery of 7 electric buses with a volume of 6.1 million euros is currently running (as of September 2019).

Security and stewardship at DVG

Logo of the SRD successor octeo MULTISERVICES GmbH in the DVV group

The DVG uses a uniformed municipal security service to guard the objects and facilities, patrol the vehicles and carry out other security tasks , which is provided by the municipal octeo MULTISERVICES GmbH (formerly SRD), which is also part of the municipal DVV group. The security service is carried out in close cooperation with the security authorities of the federal police station in Duisburg Hbf , the police in Duisburg and the city of Duisburg's public order office, as well as with the security service of Deutsche Bahn (for the area around the Duisburg central station).

The operations control center (BLZ) of the DVG takes over the function of the operations control center and dispatch. From there there are leased lines to the EGON control center of the Duisburg police and the FLORIAN control center of the Duisburg fire brigade . The uniformed forces can be recognized by their blue and black clothing.

The security and stewardship service at DVG is not to be confused with the DVG Service (formerly DVG Ordnungsdienst ), which is used as a joint measure with ARGE Duisburg or the company for employment promotion GfB of the city of Duisburg. He wears DVG uniforms and dark gray jackets with the label DVG Service in connection with a DVG company ID, but does not perform security or guarding tasks. In contrast to the regular security and stewardship service, the ticket inspection service is not carried out by the appropriate service personnel. The focus of the activities of these service staff lies in providing passenger information and providing assistance with problems such as boarding assistance for wheelchair users and senior citizen escort services; This service is aimed at older passengers who are picked up at the front door and accompanied in DVG vehicles. However, the senior escort service is not a driving service for people with reduced mobility, but an additional service for a specific target group.

An employment measure at DVG Service usually lasts nine months. Since September 2009, however, a measure has been running in which seven service staff receive special one-year training at DVG. These forces are to be deployed in the security and stewardship service after the training measure has been completed. However, service tasks and no guarding activities should continue to be carried out there (for example as part of so-called station services at individual underground stations).

See also

literature

  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 4 Ruhr area. EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1994, ISBN 3-88255-334-0 .
  • Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV: The Duisburg tram. Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-361-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duisburg pulls the emergency brake at DVG merger with Via | WAZ.de. WAZ , accessed April 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Single line plans on dvg-duisburg.de
  3. ^ DVG-Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG: Everything about the renovation program for our trams. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ DVG-Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG: From our current traffic reports. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Derailed tram: DVG drivers are not in mortal danger. February 5, 2020, accessed on February 6, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft: DVG press release. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  7. ^ Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft: DVG's digital annual report. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  8. ^ Council of the City of Duisburg: draft resolution for the procurement of new light rail vehicles. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Tim Harpers: New trains should cost 61 million. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
  10. ^ Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft: DVG railways run on green electricity. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft: DVG is gradually converting its bus fleet to the environmentally friendly Euro 6 emissions standard. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft: DVG makes 934 the first electric bus line in Duisburg. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .

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