Harmersbachtalbahn
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '26 " N , 8 ° 5' 48" E
Biberach – Oberharmersbach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Railcar train in the Oberharmersbach-Riersbach terminus
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Route number : | 9427 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book section (DB) : | 722 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 10.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route class : | C2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Harmersbachtalbahn is a 10.6 km long branch line that branches off from the Black Forest Railway in Biberach (Baden) and ends in Oberharmersbach- Riersbach and is operated by the SWEG .
history
It was opened on December 15, 1904 by the construction and operating company Vering & Waechter in Berlin , from which it was transferred on April 1, 1917 to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft AG . Since 1963 it has belonged to the state-owned Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG (SWEG), which still operates the route today.
Since December 2005, individual journeys beyond Biberach to and from Offenburg have been linked. Rail traffic is supplemented by a parallel SWEG bus line that was operated by a local subcontractor until 2019. SWEG has been operating the bus transport itself since 2019.
Since December 2014, the route has no longer been operated independently by SWEG, but as a service ordered by the state of Baden-Württemberg under a transport contract . At the same time, the offer was condensed to an almost hourly cycle.
literature
- Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Bathing . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , p. 309-315 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Significant improvements for local rail passenger transport in the Ortenau district. Ortenaukreis district office, November 7, 2014, accessed on September 20, 2015 .