Eifel-Ardennes Express
Eifel-Ardennen-Express was the name of a long-distance bus line between Trier Hbf and Aachen Hbf , which existed from 1987 to 1992 and led, among other things, via the Autobahn 60 / Europastraße 42 and across Belgian territory . The Eifel and Ardennes low mountain ranges gave it its name .
The line was from the bus company Keizer of Thomm from the region Thomm near the city of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate operated. It was the first time in Germany that a private bus company operated cross-border public transport with its own timetable and tariff structure.
The predecessor was the so-called Trier bus of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , which was operated until 1985.
The district government of Trier issued the approval for the start of the Eifel-Ardennen-Express on October 1st, 1987 on the basis of the EC regulation No. 517/72.
When granting the permission from the Ministry of Transport in Brussels the restrictive edition was issued that the buses can not carry passengers in purely internal Belgian transport, such as from St. Vith to Malmedy or Eupen , not with the lines of the local Vizinalbahn in competition to kick.
The total travel time was about three hours and the stations were:
- Trier central station
- Bitburg
- Prüm
- Steinebrück (Eifel) , border town
- St. Vith
- Malmedy
- Eupen
- Aachen Central Station
The connection between Trier and Aachen was later continued for 15 years until 2011 as the Eifel Express (only via German locations) by the company Jozi-Reisen , Schweich .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.keiser-busse.de/Uber_uns/uber_uns.html ( Memento from December 10, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ In 78 minutes from St. Vith to Aachen and Eifel-Ardennen-Express also through the Eastern Cantons in the Grenz-Echo (German-language daily newspaper in Ostbelgien) of September 29, 1987, p. 7
- ↑ Regulation (EEC) No. 517/72 of the Council of February 28, 1972 on the introduction of common rules for regular services and special forms of regular bus service between the Member States