Hessian state railway
| Hessische Landesbahn GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Frankfurt am Main |
| Web presence | www.hlb-online.de |
| Reference year | 2018 |
| owner | State of Hesse |
| founding | 1955 |
| Managing directors | Veit Salzmann |
| Operations management | Jochen Fink |
| Transport network | RMV , NVV , Westfalentarif , VRM , VRS EWS SHU |
| Employee | 1300 |
| sales | 203 million euros |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| railroad | 23 |
| tram | 1 |
| bus | 59 |
| number of vehicles | |
| Locomotives | 1 DE 1002 2 DG 2000 CCM |
| Railcar | 35 Coradia Continental 28 GTW 2/6 20 VT / VS 2E (of which 11 in connection with VHT ) 51 LINT 41 (thereof 10 in connection with fahma ) and 10 LINT 27, and 7 LINT 41 from the 1648 series 6 Desiro 1 629 10 FLIRT 5-piece and 3 FLIRT 3-piece |
| Omnibuses | 130 |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | 25 million km per year (train) + 8 million km per year (bus) |
| Stops | 19 own |
| Length of line network | |
| Railway lines | 606.0 km |
| Bus routes | 1 013 km |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 7th |
| Other operating facilities | two signal boxes ( Usingen , Kelkheim ) and a headquarters in Butzbach Ost |
| Track length | 58 km |
| Switches | 17 ( Königsteiner Bahn ), 37 ( Taunusbahn ) |
The Hessische Landesbahn GmbH ( HLB ) is a German regional transport company owned by the State of Hesse and based in Frankfurt am Main . Through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, it provides local passenger transport services by bus and train in Hesse and beyond the state borders and, to a lesser extent, freight transport services by rail.
management
The management of the Hessische Landesbahn is carried out by Veit Salzmann. The districts and the state of Hesse are represented by four people on the supervisory board, and the employees also have four seats.
structure
The Hessische Landesbahn GmbH functions as a holding company for three subsidiaries:
- HLB Basis AG
- HLB Hessenbahn GmbH
- HLB Hessenbus GmbH
The HLB basis AG represents the airlines resources. It is a railway infrastructure company (EIU), owner of most HLB vehicles and operates the HLB vehicle workshops. HLB holds almost 85% of the shares in it, the remaining shares are predominantly in municipal ownership.
HLB Hessenbahn GmbH provides transport services by rail, HLB Hessenbus GmbH provides transport services in bus transport. Both participate in tenders for transport services with their own offers. They are 100 percent subsidiaries of HLB.
Since December 11, 2016, HLB Hessenbus GmbH has been providing bus and call collective taxi services based on a concept by the Hochtaunus Transport Association (VHT), after HLB Hessenbus GmbH was awarded the contract in a Europe-wide tender .
history
The company was founded in 1955 as the common roof of several non-federally owned railways in Hesse, all of which operated as integrated railway companies their own rail infrastructure with stations, etc., as well as running on this infrastructure.
In the course of the separation of infrastructure and operations, the operation of the railways and bus routes of the subsidiaries was transferred to the companies HLB Hessenbahn GmbH and HLB Hessenbus GmbH, which were founded on December 8, 2004 .
On September 20, 2005, the three subsidiaries Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG (FKE), Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn AG (BLE) and Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn AG (KNE) merged retrospectively on the resolution of the general meetings of these three transport companies on July 27, 2005 on January 1, 2005 to Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG . Since then, they have operated as a joint infrastructure operator. The companies Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn AG and Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn AG were deleted from the commercial register. The Hersfelder Eisenbahn GmbH (HEG), the railway has now been set is from this merger not be affected.
On March 8, 2006, the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG was renamed HLB Basis AG .
Transport services
The subsidiaries of the Hessische Landesbahn provide 3.8 million kilometers on the 237.5 kilometers of routes and 10.34 million kilometers on the 1013 kilometers of bus routes.
The Königstein - Frankfurt-Höchst railway line of the former Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn (FKE) was also a member of the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV) as the K-Bahn .
In the 1990s, the HLB subsidiaries had taken over the operation of a number of Deutsche Bahn local transport routes in northern and central Hesse . From December 11, 2005, HLB railcars also ran on the Kahlgrundbahn from Hanau to Schöllkrippen in Spessart, Bavaria . In addition to railways, buses and trams are also served.
Since December 2010 HLB has also been operating on the main route Frankfurt – Gießen – Siegen / Marburg (RMV lines 30/40). In December 2011, operations began on RMV lines 25, 35 and 52 between Limburg , Gießen , Alsfeld , Fulda and Gersfeld . Lines 25 and 35 have been combined into one line RB 45 since the timetable change in December 2016.
In December 2014, HLB took over the transport services on Lot 2 of the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network for 15 years . The start of operations in August 2015 was brought forward to December 2014 at short notice. A transitional agreement was negotiated for the interim period, so that HLB took over the transport services in December 2014. HLB rented vehicles from other transport companies during the transition period. The planned service improvements were only implemented in December 2015, until then the old transport service was retained.
In December 2015, the previous HLB services on lines RE 30 and R 9 were merged into a new continuous line RE 98. It is now driven every two hours between Frankfurt and Kassel. As before, the trains in the RMV area run every hour with the Deutsche Bahn trains (RE 30). From Kirchhain , however, all stations to Kassel Hbf are served. The train division / association with the Siegen train parts (RE 99) in Gießen has been preserved.
With the timetable change in December 2018, HLB officially took over the services in the Südhessen-Untermain network from DB Regio. The change was made fluent. A new, four-person workshop in Wiesbaden was rented for the maintenance of the Alstom Coradia Continental railcars .
Holdings
The HLB basis AG together with the Kassel public transport Company Ltd (KVG) of 50% at the regional train Kassel involved GmbH (RBK). The RBK provides combined rail and tram traffic as well as tram services in Kassel on the Lossetalbahn and acts as a railway infrastructure company for the Lossetalbahn (or part of it).
HLB and Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft AG each hold half of the shares in RegioTram Gesellschaft mbH . In December 2013, the company replaced the RegioTram operating company, in which Deutsche Bahn AG and Regionalbahn Kassel were involved. The company operates the RegioTram Kassel , with vehicles that run on the tram routes of the city of Kassel as a tram (according to BOStrab ) and on the railway lines outside Kassel as a train (according to EBO ).
With the formation of HLB Basis AG , the joint venture between Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn AG and Autobus Sippel from Hofheim ( belonging to Netinera ) and the company Autobus Dreischmeier GmbH (ABD) in Lich (50%) also came to HLB Basis.
Through other affiliated companies, HLB operates local rail passenger transport across the Hessian borders in two of the five neighboring federal states:
- to Lower Saxony and Thuringia together with BeNEX , the expansion company of the Hamburger Hochbahn , in cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (HLB 50%),
- to Thuringia together with the Erfurter Bahn GmbH (EB) in the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn GmbH (HLB 50%).
In the past, the company held a 74.9% stake in vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft and 33% in HellertalBahn GmbH . After winning the tender for the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg network, HLB now operates the transport services of the holding companies itself and the business activities of the holding companies have been discontinued.
Rates
The Hessische Landesbahn GmbH is a member of the tariff association of federal and non-federal railways in Germany . Deutsche Bahn tickets are accordingly also valid on HLB trains.
The RMV and NVV tariffs are used on the Hessian routes . In the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate , the tariffs of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) and the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN) apply , on the routes in North Rhine-Westphalia those of the Westphalian tariff apply .
It has its own ticket vending machines at the stations on both the Königsteiner Bahn and Taunusbahn lines , whose infrastructure is operated by HLB . At the other stations there are ticket machines from DB Vertrieb and Transdev. For travelers who arrive at train stations and stops along the RB 29 (Unterwesterwaldbahn), RB 90 (Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn), RB9 1 (Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn), RB 92 (Biggesee-Express), RB 93 (Rothaarbahn) lines , RB 95 (Sieg-Dill-Bahn) and RB 96 (Hellertalbahn), at which not all stations have stationary ticket machines and validators for pre-sale tickets of the Verkehrsverbund Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg and the Westphalian tariff, there are ticket machines and validators in the vehicles.
The respective country tickets are also valid in the respective federal state and sometimes beyond the state borders . For transitional traffic, for example, the Rhineland-Palatinate Ticket is valid to Limburg an der Lahn, Au (Sieg) and Siegen, as well as the North Rhine-Westphalia Ticket on the rail routes in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald). The Quer-durch-Land-Ticket is also valid on all Hessische Landesbahn trains.
Lines
The following lines are operated by the Hessian State Railway - with the numbering of the RMV and, if necessary, the numbering of a neighboring group:
| line | Route name | Line route | Contract term | Vehicles in regular operation |
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Current line network |
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| RB 11 | Soden Railway | Frankfurt-Höchst - Bad Soden am Taunus | 01/01/2003 - 12/14/2022 (since 1997) |
Coradia Continental |
| RB 12 | Koenigstein Railway | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt-Höchst - Kelkheim - Königstein im Taunus | 01/01/2003 - 12/14/2022 (main line, until 1995 already in own contribution) |
VT 2E , LINT 41 / H |
| RB 15 | Taunusbahn | Bad Homburg - Friedrichsdorf - Usingen - Grävenwiesbach - Brandoberndorf | 01/01/2003 - 12/14/2022 (by VHT since 1993) |
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| RB 16 | Friedrichsdorf – Friedberg railway line | Friedrichsdorf - Rosbach vd Höhe - Friedberg (Hess) | May 24, 1998 - December 14, 2022 | GTW 2/6 |
| RB 21 | Main-Lahn-Bahn, Ländchesbahn | Limburg (Lahn) - Bad Camberg - Idstein - Niedernhausen - Wiesbaden main station | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2019 (preliminary) |
GTW 2/6, LINT 41 from Dec. 2015 Desiro (from line 56) |
| RB 22 | Main-Lahn Railway | Limburg (Lahn) - Bad Camberg - Idstein - Niedernhausen - Frankfurt-Höchst - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (one train pair daily) | ||
| RB 29 | Unterwesterwaldbahn | Limburg (Lahn) - Staffel - Montabaur - Siershahn | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT, GTW 2/6 |
| RB 45 | Lahntalbahn , Vogelsbergbahn | Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar - Gießen - Grünberg - Mücke (Hess) - Alsfeld - Lauterbach North - Fulda | December 11, 2011 - December 9, 2023 | LINT 41, Desiro (only Weilburg - Gießen and Gießen - Grünberg) |
| RB 46 | Lahn-Kinzig Railway | Giessen - Hungen - Nidda - Glauburg-Stockheim - Büdingen - Gelnhausen | Jan. 2001 - 14.12.2019 | GTW 2/6 |
| RB 47 | Friedberg – Mücke railway line | Friedberg (Hess) - Beienheim - Wölfersheim - Södel | May 30, 1999 - December 14, 2019 | GTW 2/6 |
| RB 48 | Beienheim – Schotten railway line , Main-Weser railway | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Friedberg (Hess) - Beienheim - Reichelsheim - Echzell - Nidda (once Mon-Fri from Frankfurt) | ||
| RB 52 | Rhönbahn | Fulda - Lütter - Gersfeld (Rhön) | December 11, 2011 - December 9, 2023 | LINT 27, LINT 41 |
| RB 58 | Frankfurt-Hanau Railway , Main-Spessart Railway | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Maintal - Hanau Hbf - Großkrotzenburg - Kahl am Main - Aschaffenburg Hbf | Dec 2018 - Dec 2033 | Coradia Continental |
| RE 59 | Airport loop Frankfurt , Mainbahn, Frankfurt-Hanau Railway , Main-Spessart-Bahn | Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbf - Frankfurt (Main) Süd - Maintal - Hanau Hbf - Großkrotzenburg - Kahl am Main - Aschaffenburg Hbf | Dec 2018 - Dec 2033 | Coradia Continental |
| RB 75 | Rhine-Main Railway | Wiesbaden Hbf - Mainz Hbf - Groß-Gerau - Darmstadt Hbf - Dieburg - Babenhausen - Aschaffenburg Hbf | Dec 2018 - Dec 2033 | Coradia Continental |
| RB 90 | Westerwald-Sieg Railway | Limburg (Lahn) - Westerburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Betzdorf - Siegen Hbf (two pairs of trains to Kreuztal ) | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT, 629 |
| RB 91 | Ruhr-Sieg Railway | Siegen Hbf - Kreuztal - Finnentrop (one pair of trains daily) | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT |
| RB 92 | Biggesee Express | Finnentrop - Attendorn - Olpe | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT |
| RB 93 | Rothaarbahn | Betzdorf - Siegen Hbf - Erndtebrück - Bad Berleburg (in the morning 2 × from Au (Sieg)) | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT |
| RB 95 | Sieg-Dill-Bahn | Dillenburg - Haiger - Siegen Hbf | Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2030 | LINT |
| RB 96 | Hellertalbahn | Betzdorf - Herdorf - Haiger - Dillenburg | Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2030 | LINT |
| RE 98 | Main-Weser Railway | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Gießen - Marburg (Lahn) - Stadtallendorf - Schwalmstadt-Treysa - Wabern - Kassel Hbf | 12/13/2015 - 12/13/2025 Operation since 2010 in the Frankfurt – Marburg (–Stadtallendorf) section |
FLIRT |
| RE 99 | Main-Sieg-Express : Main-Weser-Bahn, Dill line | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Gießen - Wetzlar - Dillenburg - Siegen Hbf | 12/12/2010 - 13/12/2025 | FLIRT |
vehicles
Taunus: LINT 41 / H, VT2E (and former BR 628.9)
Westerwald, Sieg and Rhön: BR 628.9, LINT 41 (both formerly vectus, right vehicle repainted)
Ländchesbahn: Desiro (formerly Kahlgrundbahn, here in Hanau)
Wetterau and Westerwald: GTW 2/6
Main-Weser-Bahn / Dill line: FLIRT
Rhein-Main-Bahn: Coradia Continental
Tram Kassel: NGT6C (now KVG)
Northern Hesse: FLIRT (cantus)
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The three routes are Taunus with those based in Königstein VT 2E and LINT 41 / H traveled. 11 of the 20 VT 2E belong to the Verkehrsverband Hochtaunus (VHT), while the LINT are owned by the Vehicle Management Region Frankfurt RheinMain GmbH (fahma). There are also 23 other LINT 41 vehicles for the Lahntal, Rhön and Vogelsberg railways. In traffic on the weather routes, the GTW 2/6 drive from the Butzbach location. The Desiro , which runs on the Kahlgrundbahn, is also serviced there. Of the three railcars of the DB class 628/629 procured for the Taunus routes in the 1990s, the VT 51 (628.4) have been sold to the Weba and VT 71 (629) to the neg after various loan assignments . VT 72 (629) has been repainted on various routes.
The announcement voice in GTW 2/6 and Taunusbahn-LINT is Helga Bayertz , in VT2E and FLIRT it is Ingrid Metz-Neun . On the trains between Limburg, Fulda and Gersfeld (Rhön) it is an unknown female announcement voice.
For the newly acquired traffic from Frankfurt, which started in December 2010, a total of nine (three three-part, six five-part) new FLIRT vehicles are used, which are painted in yellow / red / gray like the vehicles at the Königstein site. Only half of the end cars have a side roof paneling, which is completely missing in the middle cars. The railcars are serviced in the newly built depot in Frankfurt-Griesheim on the basis of an agreement with the operator VIAS GmbH . At the end of 2011, another four originally three-part railcars were reordered, which were later changed to five-part railcars.
In spring 2011, three LINT 27s from vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft , a subsidiary of HLB, were exchanged for three GTW 2/6 from HLB. These vehicles are used as amplifiers in the HVZ on the Fulda – Gersfeld railway line .
On the lines RB 25, RB 35 and RB 52, which have been in service since December 2011, 23 new LINT 41s will be used.
In October and November 2015, railcars of the former Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH of the type LINT 41 were used. They were used on the routes RB 29 (Unterwesterwaldbahn) and RB 25 (Lahntalbahn). A railcar was stationed in Weilburg and took over the services starting and ending in Weilburg (including train 24883). The former OLA railcars were sold again and their services have been operated by Desiros since November 2015. With the 2015/2016 timetable change in December 2015, more Desiros moved from the Kahlgrund to the Ländchesbahn. Desiros operating on the RB 25 currently have the paintwork of the Kahlgrundbahn (RB 56), which will be discontinued with the 2015/2016 timetable change.
In 2017, the RB 92 Biggeseexpress was the most punctual route in the EWS network and in North Rhine-Westphalia with 97.8% punctuality.
30 Alstom Coradia Continental railcars have been in service on the RB 58, RB 59 and RB 75 lines since December .
After a LINT suffered fire damage in February 2016, a LINT 41 from the former Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH is now on the road again. The old lettering was removed and white signs were stuck to the windows of the driver's cabs and the passenger compartment, on which the line and the route traveled can be recognized. The passenger information display and the automatic announcement are not programmed on the train.
Two trams of the type DUEWAG NGT6C (No. 474 and 475) purchased in September / October 1994 by the then Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn (KNE) as a vehicle share for the joint route with the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG) to Baunatal were sold at the turn of the year 2015 / Sold in 2016 to the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft. Both tram cars were serviced by the KVG and used on all lines of the Kassel tram .
workshops
HLB has rail vehicle workshops in Butzbach, Frankfurt-Griesheim , Baunatal-Großenritte , Königstein, Siegen-Eintracht and, since December 2018, in Wiesbaden. The Wiesbaden workshop has a 150 m long hall with three maintenance tracks. There is also a washing facility. This makes it the largest workshop of the HLB. The workshop is connected to Wiesbaden Ost train station via an electrified track .
literature
- Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of Hessische Landesbahn GmbH . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-929082-26-5 .
Web links
- Website of the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH
- HLB (HLB) and (HLB Basis AG) vehicle lists on privat-bahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d facts and figures. In: hlb-online.de. Hessische Landesbahn GmbH, archived from the original on December 13, 2018 ; accessed on December 13, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.hlb-online.de/fahrplaene-tarife/fahrplaene/#tx-routenetwork-tab-schedule-railway
- ↑ https://www.hlb-online.de/fahrplaene-tarife/fahrplaene/#tx-routenetwork-tab-schedule-bus
- ↑ a b locomotives. In: hlb-online.de. Hessische Landesbahn GmbH, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Participation Report 2010. (PDF; 2.2 MB) Landkreis Kassel , 2011, p. 81 ff. , Archived from the original on December 5, 2015 ; Retrieved October 29, 2012 .
- ↑ VHT awards bus transport services: HLB Hessenbus will be running from December 2016. In: hochtaunuskreis.de. Hochtaunuskreis , April 14, 2016, accessed on February 17, 2017 : “Following a Europe-wide invitation to tender, the Hochtaunus Transport Association (VHT) has reassigned the services for bus and shared taxi services in the Hochtaunuskreis. The contract could thus be awarded to HLB Hessenbus GmbH, which will implement the new VHT concept for the timetable change on December 11, 2016. "
- ↑ Peter Ehrlich: Award decision in the diesel network Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg: DB Regio and Hessische Landesbahn are awarded the contract. (No longer available online.) October 31, 2012, archived from the original on November 3, 2012 ; accessed on October 31, 2012 .
- ^ Association meeting 50th meeting - agenda. (PDF) Zweckverband SPNV Nord, July 2014, p. 5 , accessed on November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Hessen: Hessische Landesbahn opens new workshop in Wiesbaden. In: lok-report.de. November 16, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e RMV award calendar SPNV ( Memento of November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- ^ Service contract D-Hofheim am Taunus: Public rail transport / public rail transport. December 24, 2011, accessed January 10, 2012 .
- ↑ From mid-December: better train connections in the evening ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b RMV: Railway lines in southern Hesse get new operators. October 12, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015 .
- ^ Reallocation of the diesel network Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg. April 16, 2015, accessed October 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Press release of the Hessische Landesbahn from February 27, 2011
- ↑ Hessische Landesbahn acquires another 4 FLIRT regional multiple units from Stadler ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release from Stadler Rail, accessed on September 5, 2015
- ↑ The train is on fire: Travelers stranded in Dutenhofen Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, February 8, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2016
- ↑ From HLB to KVG. (No longer available online.) In: tram-kassel.de. July 24, 2016, archived from the original on August 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Pieren: Pit stop for the Coradia Continental . In: railway magazine . No. 3 , 2019, ISSN 0342-1902 .