Groß-Bieberau-Reinheimer Railway
The large-Bieberau-Reinheimer Eisenbahn GmbH (GBRE) is a German railway company , on the remaining piece of Gersprenz Valley Railway operates freight. The seat is in Hanau in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse .
It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Odenwälder Hartstein-Industrie AG . This was interested in the continued existence of a railway connection from its plant in Groß-Bieberau to Reinheim . The Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB), which had owned the " Gersprenztalbahn " Reinheim - Reichelsheim since 1955 , stopped freight traffic on the relevant section on September 30, 1964 . As a result, the Odenwald hard stone industry continued to operate public goods transport on behalf of HLB from October 1st . The operator continued to be the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . Since September 16, 2009, the route has been reopened for public transport. The Deutsche Museum-Eisenbahn is in charge of the operation .
history
The GBRE was founded in 1964 under the direction of the Odenwälder Hartstein-Industrie and took over the route from Reinheim to Groß-Bieberau from the "Reinheim-Reichelsheimer Eisenbahn". On this route she carried the freight traffic to a large quarry .
In September 1965 , the Groß-Bieberau-Reinheimer Eisenbahn GmbH was founded and acquired the ownership of the 4.6 km long railway and the concession. Over the years, the transport of products from the hard stone industry has increasingly shifted to the road. Finally, on December 12, 2001, traffic was completely shut down. But there were still operations on the route afterwards. Since the reopening in 2009, occasional traffic has been on the route again. At the end of 2001, DB Cargo's freight traffic to Reinheim ended. At the same time, the quarry's almost only customer, Deutsche Bahn , announced that it would no longer purchase ballast by rail from Groß-Bieberau in the future. For this reason the GBRE stopped its freight traffic. Since September 2009, ballast has been loaded onto rail wagons again in Groß-Bieberau. The route is public.