Erfurt Railway

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Erfurter Bahn GmbH
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Basic information
Company headquarters Erfurt
Web presence erfurter-bahn.de
owner City of Erfurt (100%)
Managing directors Michael Hecht
Operations management Thomas Grewing
Transport network Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen (VMT), Central German Transport Association (MDV)
Employee approx. 330
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad 12
number of vehicles
Locomotives 2 V 100
Railcar 60 Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1

1 Bombardier Itino

Operating facilities
Depots Erfurt and Meiningen
Track length 17 km of connecting railways in Erfurt's industrial areasdep1

The Erfurter Bahn GmbH ( EB , until 2007 Erfurter Industriebahn, EIB) is a railway infrastructure and railway transport company owned by the state capital Erfurt . The Erfurter Bahn is the operator of various Erfurt industrial railways and a dozen regional railway lines in Thuringia , Bavaria , Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony .

history

The city of Erfurt had been operating an industrial railway in the northeast since May 8, 1912. This was able to maintain its independence even in the times of the GDR because it was organized as a municipal company . After the reunification, the city tried to ensure the continued existence of its railway operations and founded a GmbH on May 1, 1990 : Erfurter Industriebahn GmbH (EIB). All company shares are owned by the Thuringian capital, Erfurt. On September 20, 1995, the EIB was the first municipal company in East Germany to be recognized as a “public non-federal railway”. But no future was seen in rail freight transport alone. She therefore tried to get into the local rail passenger transport in Thuringia. Approval for this was granted to the EIB on April 10, 1997, and the first transport contract was signed with the Free State of Thuringia on September 15 of this year.

With the timetable change on December 12, 2004, EB was able to start operating on a route network in northern Lower Franconia and southern Thuringia , the Kissinger Stern (more information on this under Lower Franconia Shuttle ). After a renewed invitation to tender, the Erfurt Railway will initially be on the road until 2026.

The renaming of the company from Erfurter Industriebahn to today's Erfurter Bahn GmbH (EB) on March 3, 2007 documents the relocation of the business focus. In 1999, together with the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH , she founded the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn GmbH (STB) based in Meiningen , which today operates regional traffic in southern Thuringia (only RE Erfurt – Würzburg and Erfurt – Meiningen are still operated by DB Regio operated).

At the end of August 2010, the Erfurt Railway was awarded the contract for local passenger transport on the "East Thuringian Diesel Network". On June 10, 2012, the tendering network, which also includes parts of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria, started operations for 12.5 years with a volume of around 4.6 million train kilometers per year. The network comprises 12 lines (see line network ).

The Federal Railway Office has shuttle railcar Regio Erfurt train after several years of creating a new set of rules to the on January 24, 2014 Steilstrecke approval granted without additional modifications. This enables journeys on the Plaue – Themar railway line and, if operational, Suhl – Schleusingen . In 2014, EB and STB together employed around 440 people.

On September 23, 2016, the Erfurt Railway was awarded the contract for the Sömmerda – Buttstädt section of the Straussfurt – Großheringen railway line from December 2017 to December 2024. Since December 2017, Transdev GmbH has been selling tickets for the Erfurt Railway and South Thuringia. Bahn as a background service provider. In May 2018, the Erfurt Railway was on strike on four days by the GDL , which resulted in train cancellations. The transition from the previous collective agreement to the GDL general collective agreement is to be completed by 2021.

Line network

Lower Franconia Shuttle

line Cycle sequence
(in min)
Walkway Routes traveled KBS route
number
performance logo
EB 40 120 Schweinfurt - Ebenhausen - Mellrichstadt - Meiningen Schweinfurt – Meiningen 570, 815 December 12, 2004
until expected.
December 12, 2026Template: future / in 5 years
Lower Franconia Shuttle logo.svg
EB 50 120 Schweinfurt - Ebenhausen - Bad Kissingen - Hammelburg - Gemünden Gemünden – Ebenhausen
Schweinfurt – Meiningen
803, 815

All trains in Schweinfurt do not end at the main station, but continue in the direction of Bamberg to the Schweinfurt Stadt stop near the city ​​center .

Elster Saale Railway

The brand name Elster Saale Bahn was announced on the 100th anniversary of the Erfurt Railway and has been used since then for the routes of the East Thuringian diesel network.

line Cycle sequence
(in min)
Walkway Routes traveled KBS route
number
performance logo
EBx 12 120 Leipzig - Zeitz - Gera - Weida - Pößneck - Saalfeld - Blankenstein (Saale) Leipzig – Saalfeld 550
555
June 10, 2012
to probably
December 14, 2024Template: future / in 4 years
Elster Saale Bahn logo.svg
EBx 13 120 Gera - Weida - Zeulenroda - Mehltheuer - Hof Gera – Weida
Weida – Mehltheuer
Mehltheuer – Hof
546
EB 21 60/120 Erfurt - Weimar - Jena-Göschwitz - Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz - Gera Erfurt – Weimar
Weimar – Gera
565
EB 22 120 Leipzig - Zeitz - Gera - Weida - Pößneck - Saalfeld Leipzig – Saalfeld 550
555
EB 23 120 Erfurt - Neudietendorf - Arnstadt - Rottenbach - Bad Blankenburg (Thuringia) - Saalfeld Erfurt – Neudietendorf
Neudietendorf – Arnstadt
Arnstadt – Saalfeld
561
EB 26 60 Weimar - Bad Berka - Kranichfeld Weimar – Kranichfeld 579
EB 28 120 Jena - Kahla - Orlamünde - Pößneck Jena – Orlamünde
Orlamünde – Pößneck
559
EB 32 120 Saalfeld - Hockeroda - Wurzbach (Thür) - Bad Lobenstein - Blankenstein (Saale) Saalfeld – Hockeroda
Hockeroda – Unterlemnitz
Unterlemnitz – Blankenstein
557
EBx 47 120 Erfurt - Rottenbach - Saalfeld Erfurt – Neudietendorf

Neudietendorf – Arnstadt Arnstadt – Saalfeld

561

Peppermint train

line Cycle sequence
(in min)
Walkway Routes traveled KBS route
number
performance logo
EB 27 120 Sömmerda - Kölleda - Buttstädt Sömmerda – Buttstädt 594 December 10, 2017
to
December 14, 2024Template: future / in 4 years
Erfurter Bahn logo.svg

Individual trains run between Erfurt, Weimar and Apolda during rush hour and weekend nighttime traffic .

Former lines

VT 001 of the Erfurter Bahn in Gotha station

When the timetable changed in December 2006, the North Hessian Transport Association canceled a large part of the local rail transport services of EB in its area, so that the majority of the trains were already turning in Eichenberg and only individual journeys to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe were tied through. After massive passenger complaints and a significant decline in the number of travelers, EB has been running a large part of the trains between Eichenberg and Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe on its own basis since April 1, 2007, which, according to its own information, was around 80 percent of the train kilometers on this section until the 2006 timetable change corresponds. Since the timetable change in 2007, a pair of trains, which initially ran to Göttingen in the morning and also operated independently , has also turned in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe. On December 15, 2013, operations on lines 1 and 2 were transferred to DB Regio.

The Erfurt - Ilmenau - Rennsteig line and the service station at Ilmenau train station were handed over to the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn subsidiary in December 2017 , which had previously served it on behalf of the Erfurt Railway.

line Cycle sequence
(in min)
Walkway Routes traveled KBS route
number
performance logo
EB 46 60 Erfurt - Neudietendorf - Arnstadt - Plaue (Thür) - Ilmenau - Rennsteig Erfurt – Neudietendorf
Neudietendorf – Plaue
Plaue – Rennsteig
566 December 14, 2002
to
December 9, 2017
Erfurter Bahn logo.svg

Infrastructure

Locomotives 20 and 22 Lisa I and Lisa II in Erfurt Ost

As a railway infrastructure company, EB operates its own network of connecting railways with a track length of 17 kilometers in the industrial areas of Erfurt East and North.

The company's own workshop is located directly at the company's headquarters at Erfurt Ostbahnhof.

Freight transport

For freight traffic on their own route network - and beyond - two diesel locomotives of the DR series V 100 are kept as locomotives 20 and 22. Until 1998, freight transport was the company's focus. The high point was reached in 1987, when 236,700 freight cars were moved and 9,200 trains were handled.

Train baptisms and promotions

As part of regional events, some EB locomotives were provided with tourist or commercial advertising:

Multiple unit
number
Naming Period
of address
Venue Remark
picture
VT 001 City of Erfurt / erwicon - -
VT 002 Peppermint train - -
VT 014 City of Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt - the future finds the city
- -
EB railcar VT014 Schweinfurt.jpg
VT 017 City of Hammelburg
1300 years of Hammelburg
- -
VT 022 Franconian open air museum Fladungen
with the Rhön-Zügle
- -
EB railcar VT022 Fladungen.jpg
VT 201 Thuringia - -
VT 301 District of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - -
VT 302 City of Zeitz - -
VT 303 Ilmtal vacation - -
VT 304 Stadt Hof
Hof - at the top in Bavaria
- -
VT 305 Otto-Dix-Stadt Gera - -
VT 306 Weimar, European city of culture - -
VT 314 CLARA19 / Anniversary year Clara Schumann Leipzig 13th September 2018 Leipzig Central Station previously "Luther in Leipzig"

Notes on the table

  1. outside, written on the front of the railcar
  2. Date from which the name change took effect. This is either the day of the celebratory ceremony or the official new registration date of a vehicle that has already been labeled and that has been subsequently converted or renumbered. The second date ( to ) indicates when the name was removed from the multiple unit and transferred to another vehicle.
  3. ^ Place of the baptism ceremony

literature

  • Frehner Consulting GmbH (Ed.): Erfurter Bahn, Arrives well - In tradition and performance since 1912. Status: 2007 (Image brochure)
  • Burkhard Beyer: Thuringians will soon be driving in Bavaria. Erfurt industrial railway expands. In: LOK MAGAZINE. No. 261 / Volume 42/2003. GeraNova Zeitschriftenverlag GmbH Munich, ISSN  0458-1822 , p. 18.

Web links

Commons : Erfurter Bahn  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b See image brochure p. 4f
  2. Bavarian Railway Company
  3. Unterfranken Shuttle is allowed to run until 2026 . In: Main-Post . July 8, 2013 ( mainpost.de [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  4. http://nvsthueringen.de/News/20100830_dieselnetz-ost-vergabe.php
  5. ^ Line Ilmenau - Themar . In: Bahn-Report . tape 32 , no. 188 , February 27, 2014, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 59 ( Bahn-Report website [accessed March 17, 2014]).
  6. erfurter-bahn.de/unternehmen - own presentation. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  7. ^ "Award of the contract for the Pfefferminzbahn" , press release of the Erfurter Bahn from September 23, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2016
  8. Transdev takes on sales services for the Erfurter Bahn and Süd-Thüringen-Bahn - Transdev GmbH . ( transdev.de [accessed on August 11, 2017]).
  9. Negotiations: The collective bargaining dispute between the Erfurter Bahn and Süd-Thüringen-Bahn was settled In: eurailpress.de. August 14, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  10. Erfurt Railway / South Thuringia Railway: 95 percent for tariff agreement. In: eurailpress.de. August 30, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  11. In future, the Elster-Saale-Bahn will roll through East Thuringia , Ostthüringer Zeitung , March 31, 2012
  12. ^ Shuttle christening "200 years of Clara Schumann in Leipzig" of the Erfurter Bahn on 13.09.2018. Zweckverband for the Leipzig local traffic area, September 13, 2018, accessed on December 3, 2018 .


Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 30.4 ″  E