Frankfurt-Koenigsteiner Railway

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The routes to Königstein and Bad Soden operated by the FKE
Old FKE logo before it was taken over by HLB
The Esslingen railcars shaped the image of the Königsteiner Bahn before it was integrated into the FVV in 1987.
FKE has been running multiple units of the VT 2E series since 1987 (in Frankfurt-Höchst , July 1992).
LINT 41 railcar near Königstein Castle .
With the takeover of operations on the Taunusbahn , the FKE trains run to the Solmsbachtal.

The Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn (FKE) is the operating part of the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH , which emerged from the Kleinbahn AG Höchst-Königstein founded in 1901 . The company was later changed to Kleinbahn AG Frankfurt-Königstein and finally Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG . Its main shareholder was the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH, which in turn is a 100 percent subsidiary of the State of Hesse .

history

On March 12, 1901, the stock corporation for railway construction and operation (BBB) ​​acquired the concession for the Höchst – Königstein railway line and immediately began construction under the direction of engineer Stöfer. The police inspection drives took place on February 18 and 19, 1902. The opening ceremony took place on February 20, 1902, and regular operations began on February 24, 1902. The construction costs amounted to 1,660,000 marks. Of this, 600,000 marks were raised by Prussia , the Hessen-Nassau district association , the Höchst district and the Obertaunus district , the remainder being financed privately. The railway had 3 locomotives of the Prussian type T9.1 as well as 12 passenger cars, 2 combined mail / baggage cars and 3 freight cars. It was unusual for small railways that car classes 1 to 3 were offered.

The main focus of the railway was on passenger transport. In the history of the railway, only 3 siding for industrial plants were built (and closed after a few years):

In 1927 the Königstein motor traffic was established. It was a bus route from Frankfurt via Kronberg to Königstein.

On December 1, 1946, Article 41 of the Hessian constitution led to the nationalization of the 64% share of the AG for Transport . The railway was incorporated into the HLB, the management went to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . With the summer schedule of 1959, most of the changeover from steam to diesel took place. The 3rd car class was dropped because most of the old passenger cars were retired. Initially, three railcars and four trailer cars were purchased from the Esslingen machine factory .

On May 30, 1969, the last steam locomotive was taken out of service. The Deutsche Bundesbahn therefore hired class 212 and 216 locomotives for freight traffic and to run the commuter train . From 1974, in addition to the Esslingen railcars, a push-pull train unit consisting of a 212 with four silver coins was running as planned . When general cargo traffic was abandoned in 1976 , there were still three weekly freight trains hauled by railcars due to the low volume of freight. Only during the beet harvest was there daily freight traffic, hauled by locomotives. Since 1970 there has been a discussion about the conversion to an S-Bahn . On January 1, 1983, the HLB took over the management. In the period that followed, the integration into the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund was pushed forward, which took place in 1987, with FKE as the third partner. By then, new type VT 2E vehicles had been purchased and the platforms of the stations were modernized and increased to 76 cm above the top of the platform .

In the period that followed, the Frankfurt-Königstein Railway, which had been in danger of being closed ten years earlier, flourished. From autumn 1992 the FKE took over the management of the Taunusbahn from the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which in turn wanted to shut down this line. Since June 1997 the FKE has also been serving the Sodener Bahn , which was previously part of the S-Bahn line 3 .

Accidents

A railway accident on November 17, 1966, which left 7 dead and 95 injured, received nationwide attention. In the evening rush hour, a train collided with the railcar of another train. This had set up in Hornau without a driver. The train was completely destroyed and had to be scrapped.

An attack on September 16, 1976 generated just as much attention . Unknown people erected a sandstone wall between Schneidhain and Hornau around a curve, but all passengers were uninjured. Only the driver was injured. The train derailed and there was no further damage. For safety reasons, a control trip with a draisine was ordered every morning in the following months . But no further attacks were carried out. The perpetrators were not caught.

Current state

The FKE has been operating as HLB Basis AG since the beginning of 2006 and in future will only be responsible for the infrastructure and the vehicles - albeit for the entire regional railway. The operative business will be transferred to HLB Hessenbahn GmbH and HLB Hessenbus GmbH.

So far, the FKE operated three suburban railway lines in the west of Frankfurt am Main , which are now under the control of HLB Hessenbahn GmbH:

You can change between lines 12 and 11 at Frankfurt-Höchst station ; there are also continuous trains from Königstein to Brandoberndorf and vice versa for operational reasons.

vehicles

HLB uses diesel railcars of the VT 2E series from the manufacturer Linke-Hofmann-Busch , which are stationed in a depot at Königstein station. In addition, three vehicles from the 628 series (designated as VT / VS 51, VT 71a / b and VT 72a / b) belonged to the vehicle fleet; due to the acquisition of ten LINT 41s , they were to be sold by the end of November 2007, but so far only VT 51 was available to the Westerwaldbahn GmbH . VT 71 was initially rented to the North German Railway Company and later sold to them. VT 72 received a new general inspection in 2013 and should be used again in the event of vehicle bottlenecks. Some of the vehicles “stay overnight” in the Graevenwiesbach and Usingen stations .

Former vehicles

The locomotive 262 built by Henschel in 1954 according to the revised design for the 83 series has been preserved. It has belonged to the city of Blumberg since 2013 and has been refurbished for use on the Wutachtalbahn . It has been in operation there since July 2015. Locomotive 261 was also used at times .

Motor transport

HLB Hessenbus GmbH also operates numerous bus routes in the Hochtaunus and Main-Taunus districts , which were previously managed by FKE, for a long time under the name “Kraftverkehr Königstein”. Their bases are in Hofheim and Oberursel. According to the RMV timetable of December 11, 2016, the HLB operates the following bus routes:

  • AST 46: Wallau - Massenheim - Hochheim / Wicker
  • 50: Bad Homburg - Schmitten - Rod an der Weil
  • 51: Bad Homburg - Oberreifenberg - Schmitten - Rod an der Weil
  • 57: Bad Homburg - Oberreifenberg - Großer Feldberg - Königstein
  • 59: Grävenwiesbach - Usingen - Neu-Anspach - Friedrichsdorf
  • 60: Königstein - Oberems - Schmitten - Neu-Anspach
  • 61: Neu-Anspach - Usingen - Riedelbach
  • 62: Usingen - Rod an der Weil - Hasselbach - Cratzenbach
  • 63: Neu-Anspach - Wehrheim - Wernborn - Usingen
  • 64: Neu-Anspach - Wehrheim - Wernborn - Usingen - Neu-Anspach (school bus)
  • 65: Merzhausen - Usingen - Wernborn - Friedrichsthal
  • AST 66: Usingen - Michelbach
  • AST 67: Usingen train station - Hochtaunus-Kliniken - Schleichenbach - Usingen train station
  • 68: Grävenwiesbach - Heinzenberg - Laubach - Grävenwiesbach
  • 69: Neu-Anspach - Laubach - Grävenwiesbach - Rod an der Weil
  • 80: Königstein - Oberreifenberg - Schmitten - Neu-Anspach - Usingen
  • 81: Königstein - Oberems - Reichenbach - Rod an der Weil
  • 82: Cratzenbach - Rod an der Weil - Riedelbach - Neu-Anspach - Usingen
  • 83: Königstein - Schloßborn - Glashütten - Oberems
  • 84: Falkenstein - Königstein city center - Königstein train station
  • 85: Falkenstein - Königstein city center - Königstein train station - Kronberg
  • 86: Seelenberg - Oberreifenberg - Schmitten - Riedelbach
  • 401–403, 405 and 406: Stadtverkehr Hofheim
  • 809: Hochheim train station - Flörsheim - Hofheim train station
  • 817: Diedenbergen - Wallau - Massenheim - Wicker– Flörsheim (school bus)
  • AST 818: Falkenberg - Flörsheim
  • 819: Flörsheim city traffic
  • 820: Eddersheim train station / regional park - Wicker - Flörsheim
  • 821: Hattersheim train station south - Kastengrund
  • 831–833: Hattersheim city traffic
  • 834: Eddersheim train station - Okriftel - Hattersheim - Hofheim train station
  • AST 835: Hattersheim - Kriftel - Hofheim train station
  • AST 836: AST Hattersheim
  • AST 837: Hattersheim - Sindlingen
  • n34: Bad Homburg - Wehrheim - Neu-Anspach - Bad Homburg

Until December 13, 2008 the HLB operated the following bus routes in the old district of Usingen:

  • 501: Königstein train station - Usingen New market square via Oberems - Merzhausen
  • 502: Königstein train station - Usingen Neuer Marktplatz via Schmitten - Neu-Anspach
  • 503: Rod an der Weil - Oberursel-Hohemark via Schmitten
  • 504: Königstein train station - Arnoldshain school via glassworks
  • 505: Grävenwiesbach train station - Bad Homburg train station via Weilrod - Schmitten
  • 506: Grävenwiesbach School - Laubach
  • 508: Usingen Neuer Marktplatz - Riedelbach via Rod an der Weil - Hasselbach
  • 509: Michelbach (Usingen) - Usingen train station
  • 510: Usingen Neuer Marktplatz - Saalburg / Lochmühle train station via Eschbach - Kransberg
  • 511: Königstein train station - Oberursel-Hohemark via Großer Feldberg
  • 513: Grävenwiesbach train station - Friedrichsdorf train station
  • 514: Usingen Neuer Marktplatz - Neu-Anspach train station via Obernhain

literature

  • Jochen Fink: Frankfurt-Königstein. A century of local transport in the Taunus . GeraMond, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7196-8 .
  • Günther H. Köhler, Andreas Christopher: Railways in the Rhine-Main area. ISBN 3-88255-600-4 , pp. 94-119.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Günter H. Köhler / Andreas Christopher Eisenbahnen im Rhein-Main -gebiet , Eisenbahn-Kurier , 1983, ISBN 3-88255-600-4 , p. 94 ff.
  2. ^ Local traffic in Frankfurt , GeraNova , Munich, 2000, p. 67
  3. ↑ Eisenbahn Magazin 10/97, p. 34
  4. ↑ railway magazine . No. 9 , 2015, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 30 .
  5. ^ HLB Hessische Landesbahn: Timetables - HLB - Hessische Landesbahn GmbH. In: www.hlb-online.de. Retrieved December 24, 2016 .