Karlsruhe light rail
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| Basic information | |
| Country | Germany |
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Karlsruhe (and neighboring cities and municipalities) |
| opening | April 18, 1958 |
| operator | AVG and VBK , until 2019 also DB |
| Transport network | KVV , HNV , VGC , VGF , VRN and VPE |
| Infrastructure | |
| Route length | 603 km |
| Formerly the largest route |
660 km |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system | 15 kV 16.7 Hz alternating voltage , 750 volts direct voltage |
| Operating mode | One- and two-way operation |
| Stops | 363 |
| Long-distance train stations | 13 |
| Depots | Karlsruhe-West, Karlsruhe-Gerwigstrasse, Ettlingen-Stadt |
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| Lines | 17 (including Heilbronn tram ) |
| vehicles | GT8-80C (21), GT8-100C / 2S (32), GT8-100D / 2S-M (86), ET 2010 (42), NET 2012 (75) |
| Top speed | 100 km / h |
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| Reference year | 2012 |
| Passengers | 70.4 million per year |
| Mileage | 18.0 million km |
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The light rail Karlsruhe is a two-system - light rail system in Karlsruhe and the surrounding area. The transport system combines inner-city tram routes with railroad routes in the surrounding area, thus opening up the entire Middle Upper Rhine region and establishing connections to neighboring regions.
With a route length of 603 km, the Karlsruhe light rail system is one of the longest light rail networks in the world .
General
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn combines the idea of an efficient inner-city tram with a S-Bahn-like development of the region and overcomes the system boundary between trams on the one hand and railroad on the other. Only the green and white S-Bahn signet is used as the logo, although the system does not also use the name “S-Bahn”. The name is " Stadtbahn ", but the population in the surrounding area also uses the term S-Bahn.
The idea of linking road and railway lines with one another in order to be able to offer attractive city-surrounding traffic was developed in Karlsruhe and gradually implemented in the 1980s and 1990s. This idea, known as the Karlsruhe model , city-surrounding railway , regional city railway or tram-train , has meanwhile also been implemented in other European cities.
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is operated in cooperation between the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) and the Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe (VBK). Until June 2019, Deutsche Bahn (DB) was also involved, for which the Pforzheim - Bietigheim-Bissingen section of the S5 , which is no longer served by light rail vehicles , was licensed . For this purpose, four of their own vehicles were kept available, which ran in the pool with the AVG and VBK vehicles.
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn network is now 663.4 kilometers long. More than 230 light rail cars are used on it. The longest line (S4) ran from Achern to Öhringen and required around three hours of travel time for this route of around 145 kilometers. However, it was broken in Karlsruhe in 2012 in order to limit the effects of delays and can only be accessed by changing trains.
history
Older plans
Serious efforts on the part of the city of Karlsruhe to create a network of small and regional trams to develop the surrounding area based on the example of the Mannheim OEG can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century . Rail connections already existed in the form of the Karlsruhe Local Railway and the Albtal Railway . The Karlsruhe local railway ran its meter-gauge line between Spöck and Durmersheim through the city, and the Albtalbahn began at the Karlsruhe fairground . However, due to the difficult economic conditions, these efforts were unsuccessful until the middle of the century. The city had received an expandable local transport system with the Karlsruhe tram .
Takeover of the Albtalbahn and foundation of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft
On March 2, 1957, the foundation stone for the later light rail network was laid as a contract between the state of Baden-Württemberg , the cities of Karlsruhe and Ettlingen and the districts of Karlsruhe and Calw on the establishment of an operating company with the aim of renovating the Albtalbahn through reconstruction Standard gauge and connection with the Karlsruhe tram network was closed. As a result, the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft was founded on April 17, 1957 as the operating company for the 25.8-kilometer-long Albtalbahn to Herrenalb and the 13.9-kilometer-long Busenbach – Ittersbach railway that branches off from it . The AVG had taken over its license as a railway from the Albtalbahn and thus belonged to the non-federally owned railways . So it was also subject to the railway building and operating regulations .
Since the tram network in Karlsruhe was standard-gauge, the narrow-gauge Albtalbahn was gradually converted to standard gauge and electrified with the tram's electricity system with 750 volts DC . The Albtalbahn at the Albtalbahnhof in Karlsruhe was connected to the Karlsruhe tram network. The previous change was no longer necessary. On April 18, 1958, operations began with articulated multiple units of the type GT8-EP from the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft and the large-capacity multiple unit T4-EP from the Karlsruhe transport company, initially as far as Rüppurr and from September 1, 1961, finally also with the articulated multiple unit GT6-EP from the transport company Karlsruhe to Herrenalb. This enabled the new vehicles ordered for the route to establish a direct connection between the southern surrounding area and Karlsruhe city center. The timetable has also been condensed and the daily operating time extended. The number of passengers then increased several times over.
After the line between Busenbach and Ittersbach was initially maintained as a narrow-gauge line, the section to Langensteinbach was opened in standard gauge on June 30, 1966 . A bus line has been set up between Langensteinbach and Ittersbach. In 1975 the rest of the section up to Ittersbach was converted to standard gauge with partly new routing. For the opening of this section, four new railcars of the type GT8-EP (Waggon Union) were procured. The so-called Ettlingen side line between Ettlingen Stadt station and Ettlingen West station on the Rhine Valley Railway was finally also electrified for transfer trips in 1991, the system change point is located at Ettlingen West station.
Further direct current lines to the surrounding area
Encouraged by the success of the Alb Valley Railway, the city of Karlsruhe had been planning since the 1960s to connect the northern surrounding area with a modern light rail. The Karlsruhe transport company therefore opened the first section on November 14, 1975, a new double-track tram route to the north-west of the city . When, at the end of the 1970s, negotiations with the Deutsche Bundesbahn about shared use of the Karlsruhe - Neureut - Eggenstein - Leopoldshafen railway, which was only used for local freight traffic , were successful, after the construction of a connection between the tram network and the aforementioned railway line, the Stadtbahn was able to operate as line A in 1979 between Bad Herrenalb and Neureut, with the trams sharing the tracks with the few remaining freight trains over a length of 2 km.
In 1983, the GT6-80C was the first light rail vehicle to be delivered. On December 13, 1986, the Stadtbahn could be extended further north to Leopoldshafen, June 3, 1989 to Hochstetten and on December 18, 1989 to the Karlsruhe Research Center , again using the existing railway tracks (see Hardtbahn ). Since the remaining freight traffic was carried out with diesel locomotives , the electrification of the route with the tram's electricity system did not cause any technical difficulties.
In addition to the tram line A (Hochstetten – Karlsruhe – Albtal), the tram line S2 ( Stutensee –Karlsruhe– Rheinstetten ) was built in stages between 1989 and 2006 through the construction of new tram lines as an extension of the existing inner-city tram line 2 in the catchment area of the former local railway . This line connects the northeast with the southwest suburbs. As a structural feature, this line has single-track routes through the main streets of the villages in the town centers of Blankenloch , Forchheim and Mörsch . This route was preferred to a route on the outskirts or in the tunnel because of the better development effect.
Line B - The world's first dual system light rail
While the northern and southern neighboring communities could be developed through the use of the Albtal and Hardt Railway and the construction of new light rail lines, there was no such possibility for the western and eastern suburbs. Therefore, a joint use of the existing DB routes was considered, but - at least in parts - were already electrified with the power system of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
In 1985, a study sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Research showed that the Karlsruhe tram network could be connected to the tracks of the German Federal Railroad in some places without major structural and financial effort. For this, however, a suitable light rail vehicle was required, which could be operated both with the direct voltage of 750 volts used by the tram in Karlsruhe and with the 15,000 volts alternating voltage used by the DB.
Since such a type of vehicle did not exist at the time, it was decided to temporarily install a transformer , a rectifier and a smoothing choke in one of the then new light rail vehicles of the type GT6-80C in the passenger compartment. At the same time, the connecting line between the West depot of the Karlsruhe transport company and the Winden – Karlsruhe federal railway line was electrified and a system switch point was installed. As a result, Stadtbahnwagen No. 501 was the world's first two-system light rail vehicle to leave the depot west on September 5, 1986 and cover more than 1,000 kilometers on federal railway tracks in just a few weeks. Further tests were carried out between 1987 and 1990 with an alternative drive from newly developed accumulators with the front part (A-part) of the tram 151 , which was converted into a four-axle battery trailer. In favor of the two-system technology, however, these were not developed to the point of series production.
Based on the knowledge gained with the 501 light rail vehicle, DUEWAG developed the first two-system light rail vehicle GT8-100C / 2S ready for series production in cooperation with ABB Henschel and delivered it from 1991. After the development of this light rail vehicle, which can be operated with the electricity system of the tram as well as that of the railroad and which complied with the regulations of BOStrab and EBO , the Karlsruhe – Wörth connection was planned first due to the very heavy commuter traffic . However, since the Deutsche Bundesbahn did not allow this due to the already high utilization of the route, after lengthy negotiations with the DB, it was possible to agree to share the Karlsruhe - Bretten railway line with the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn long before free access to the railway infrastructure was enshrined in law with the rail reform has been. Since the new light rail vehicles had already been delivered in 1991 and the route to Bretten was not yet ready, they ran for a year in advance on the DB route from Karlsruhe Hbf to Pforzheim Hbf.
On September 25, 1992, light rail operations on the new light rail line B between Karlsruhe and Bretten-Gölshausen on the Kraichgau Railway , and thus the world's first dual-system light rail line , could finally begin . For this purpose, the tram network and the railway network were linked by the construction of a new connecting line between Durlacher Allee at Karlsruhe-Durlach station and Grötzingen station. This connector also contains the first facility for switching between the two power systems. This is considered to be the hour of birth of the Karlsruhe model , which became the model for many other cities such as Saarbrücken , Kassel , or Mulhouse .
The light rail becomes a successful model
The number of passengers on the route of the tram line B increased fivefold after the opening within a few weeks. The unexpectedly great success of the new Karlsruhe – Bretten light rail line led to an accelerated expansion of the light rail system in the 1990s. The modernization and integration of further railway lines resulted in new extension lines.
In 1994, with the establishment of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund , a line reform took place, and the tram line A was renamed S1 (to Bad Herrenalb), S11 (to Ittersbach ) and line B was renamed S4. At the same time, the S7 tram lines to Baden-Baden (from Karlsruhe Hbf via Durmersheim and Rastatt ), the S3 to Bruchsal (from Karlsruhe Hbf via Weingarten ), the S6 to Rastatt (from Karlsruhe Hbf via Ettlingen-West), the S8 to Wörth ( from Karlsruhe Hbf) as well as the tangential connection Bretten – Bruchsal went into operation as the S9.
In 1996, the S3 tram line was extended to Baden-Baden via Ettlingen- West and Malsch . At the same time, after a ramp between the Albtalbahnhof and the track apron of the Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof was put into operation, the S7 tram line at the Albtalbahnhof was connected to the S4 and integrated into it. From this point in time it became possible to drive from Karlsruhe city center to Baden-Baden without changing trains. The light rail network grew in 1997 with the S5 from Wörth via Karlsruhe and Pfinztal to Pforzheim by another light rail line. In the same year, the S4 - from Bretten to Eppingen - and the S3 - from Bruchsal to Menzingen - were extended. A year later, a new branch of the S3 was opened from Bruchsal in the direction of Odenheim as the S31.
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn also received four vehicles from the second generation GT8-100D / 2S-M dual-system light rail vehicles, which were delivered from 1997 in a “RegioBistro” version. The middle section is designed as a bistro with panoramic glazing and thus functions as a dining car . A special feature of these vehicles is that they were the first vehicles to have toilets installed. Unlike the other light rail vehicles, these trains are painted white and red. Food and drinks were offered in these cars on certain journeys marked in the timetable. Later they were also used for special trips to the Black Forest , among other places .
The S4 light rail line was extended in 1999 from Eppingen to Heilbronn main station and the S9 from Bretten to Mühlacker . With the extension of the S5 from Pforzheim to Bietigheim-Bissingen , a light rail line left the network area of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund for the first time.
Stadtbahn as a tram outside of Karlsruhe
The ability of the vehicles to operate as a tram also offered the possibility of crossing towns as such. This means that even relatively small towns in the Karlsruhe area can run a tram economically. These routes are operated with 750 volts direct current and therefore have their own system changeover points. The trams run under the BOStrab as tram vehicles .
In 1997, in Wörth am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate , a new line for the S5 light rail line branching off from the Wörth train station was built , which opens up the post-war residential area of Dorschberg .
Heilbronn was the first major city to make use of this option. In 2001, the S4 light rail line was run as a tram from the forecourt of the main train station via the city center to the Harmonie stop , and in 2005 it was extended to the Pfühlpark, from where it continues as a train. Thus, after the Heilbronn tram was shut down in 1955 , Heilbronn received a rail-based inner-city means of transport again after 46 years. In 2013/2014 Heilbronn extended its light rail to the north. Two new lines went into operation, which branch off from the existing line at the Harmonie stop , operate as a tram until shortly before Neckarsulm and then separate in Bad Friedrichshall Hbf : The S41 continues along the Neckar to the Mosbach-Neckarelz station, where the After changing direction, trains continue to Mosbach (Baden) station . The S42 travels west via Bad Wimpfen and Bad Rappenau to Sinsheim (Elsenz) .
After the S6 light rail line from Pforzheim to Bad Wildbad was opened on the Enztalbahn route in 2002 , it was expanded in 2003 to include a tram route in the center of the health resort to the health resort park .
There are similar considerations for inner-city routes as trams for the inner cities of Baden-Baden, Bruchsal and Rastatt. However, these projects have not yet been implemented.
Development of the northern Black Forest and the Palatinate
With the extension of the S31 light rail line from Rastatt via Gaggenau to Forbach , a further route into the Black Forest was extended in addition to the S1, S11 and S6. A year later the line was tied through to Freudenstadt .
When the RheinNeckar S-Bahn started operating in December 2003 and the S3 S-Bahn line from Speyer via Mannheim and Heidelberg to Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe light rail line S3 was renamed the S32 to avoid confusion. In the following year, lines S32 and S4 were extended from Baden-Baden to Achern .
In 2006, the S2 tram line was extended from Blankenloch via Friedrichstal to Spöck , and the S31 and S41 lines were extended from Freudenstadt to Eutingen im Gäu . Since 2006, a pair of trains on the S41 light rail line has been extended via Eutingen to Herrenberg every weekday evening service .
In 2010 the light rail network was expanded with the newly electrified line from Wörth to Germersheim , and two new light rail lines, S51 and S52, could be opened. The two lines differ in that the S51 runs from Karlsruhe main station via the Winden (Pfalz) –Karlsruhe railway to Wörth and the S52 runs on tram routes through the city center and Knielingen . A connection from Germersheim to Bruchsal ( Bruhrainbahn ) was not implemented in favor of the S33 S-Bahn line planned by the RheinNeckar S-Bahn.
Opening of the Heilbronn suburban railway network
Since the opening of the Heilbronn inner-city route and the subsequent increase in passenger numbers, plans have been pursued to expand the diameter line to create a separate urban railway network with additional tram lines.
In December 2013, the city-center route running from west to east was expanded to include a north branch, on which the S42 tram to Neckarsulm went into operation. With this further route, the Heilbronn Stadtbahn was created , which in the long term was to be extended by a south branch.
A year later, in December 2014, the third light rail line in Heilbronn was put into operation with the S41 in the direction of Mosbach . At the same time the S42 was extended to Sinsheim .
Route network
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn network currently (as of December 11, 2016) comprises 18 lines that serve the city and its surrounding area with trains, some of which run directly to the center, on four different types of routes with a large proportion of their own tracks and traffic lights. The difference results from the fact that the first two routes mentioned were implemented as an extension of the Karlsruhe tram network and only later routes of the federal railway were used for new lines.
One-system network
- as pure tram routes according to the operating regulations for trams . This route is electrified with 750 V DC voltage : Stutensee - Karlsruhe - Rheinstetten (line S2)
- as a hybrid form with their own branch lines of the AVG from Bad Herrenalb (line S1) and Ittersbach (line S11), tram sections in the urban area of Karlsruhe and former federal railway lines to Linkenheim-Hochstetten (some with new sections), all of which are electrified with 750 V DC
Two-system network
- as a mixed form with tram sections with 750 volts DC voltage in the urban areas of Karlsruhe , Wörth (Rhine) , Bad Wildbad and Heilbronn as well as shared use of railway lines of the DB and AVG that are electrified with alternating current 15 kV 16.7 Hz : Kraichgaubahn (AVG leased line) and other DB lines (lines S4, S41, S42), Pfinztalbahn (AVG and DB) and DB line to Germersheim etc. (lines S5, S51, S52), Enztalbahn (formerly DB line, now AVG, line S6 ) Murgtalbahn to Freudenstadt (AVG lease route, S8), Rheinbahn or Rheintalbahn DB Achern (S7)
- in pure railway operation on DB and AVG tracks that are electrified with alternating current: "BMO-Bahnen" (AVG) to Menzingen (line S32) and to Odenheim (line S31) to Karlsruhe main station via Badischer Hauptbahn , Murgtalbahn to Freudenstadt (AVG -Leased line, line S81), Rheinbahn or Rhine Valley Railway of the DB to Achern (line S71) and Westbahn (DB) Bruchsal - Bretten (line S9)
Line network
Overview
Since November 18, 2013, operations from the market square in a southerly direction to the confluence of Rüppurrer Strasse and Ettlinger Strasse have been suspended.
| Line no. | Line course | Stations | Used railway lines | operator |
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| S 1 |
Hochstetten - Bad Herrenalb Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe main station - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Bad Herrenalb |
54 | Hardtbahn , Albtalbahn | AVG |
| S 11 |
Hochstetten - Ittersbach Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe Hbf - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Ittersbach |
56 | Hardtbahn, Albtalbahn, Busenbach – Ittersbach railway | |
| S 2 |
Spöck - Rheinstetten Spöck - Friedrichstal - Blankenloch - Hagsfeld - Durlacher Tor - Market Square - Entenfang - Daxlanden - Rheinstetten |
47 | - | VBK |
| P. 31 |
Karlsruhe main station - Odenheim Karlsruhe main station - Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt Ort - Odenheim |
16 | Rheintalbahn , Katzbachbahn | AVG, DB Regio |
| P 32 |
Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof- Menzingen (Baden) Karlsruhe central station - Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt site - Menzingen (Baden) |
18th | Rheintalbahn, Katzbachbahn, Kraichtalbahn | |
| S 4 |
Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof - Öhringen - Cappel Albtalbahnhof - Karlsruhe Hbf - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK - Durlach - Grötzingen Oberausstraße - Bretten - Eppingen - Heilbronn - Weinsberg - Öhringen-Cappel |
73 | Kraichgaubahn , railway Heilbronn Crailsheim | AVG, DB Regio, Heilbronn municipal utilities |
| P 41 |
Heilbronn - Mosbach Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Harmonie / Kunsthalle - Technical School Center - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Neckarelz - Mosbach |
22nd | Frankenbahn , Neckartalbahn , Neckarelz – Osterburken railway line | AVG, Stadtwerke Heilbronn |
| P 42 |
Heilbronn– Sinsheim Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Harmonie / Kunsthalle - Technical School Center - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Bad Rappenau - Sinsheim Hbf |
25th | Frankenbahn, Elsenz Valley Railway | |
| S 5 |
Wörth Badepark - Pforzheim Hbf Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Lameyplatz - Entenfang - Yorckstraße - Market Square - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK - Durlach - Grötzingen Oberausstraße - Pfinztal - Pforzheim |
59 | Railway line Winden – Karlsruhe , railway line Karlsruhe – Mühlacker | AVG, DB Regio |
| P 51 |
Germersheim - Pforzheim Hbf Germersheim - Bellheim - Rülzheim - Rheinzabern - Jockgrim - Wörth am Rhein - Maximiliansau - Knielingen Rheinbergstraße - Karlsruhe Entenfang - Europaplatz - Durlacher Tor - Durlach Bahnhof - Grötzingen - Berghausen - Söllingen - Pforzheim |
Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line, Winden – Karlsruhe railway line | ||
| P 52 |
Germersheim – Karlsruhe Tullastrasse Germersheim - Bellheim - Rülzheim - Rheinzabern - Jockgrim - Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Karlsruhe West - Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof - Hbf forecourt - Werderstrasse - Ostendstrasse - Tullastrasse |
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| S 6 |
Pforzheim - Bad Wildbad Pforzheim - Brötzingen - Neuenbürg (Enz) - Höfen (Enz) - Bad Wildbad Bf - Bad Wildbad Kurpark |
19th | Enz Valley Railway | AVG |
| S 7 |
Achern –Karlsruhe Tullastraße Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Albtalbahnhof - Karlsruhe main station - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK |
23 | Rheinbahn , Rhine Valley Railway | AVG, DB Regio |
| P 71 |
Achern - Karlsruhe main station Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Malsch - Karlsruhe main station |
15th | Rhine Valley Railway | |
| S 8 |
Bondorf –Karlsruhe Tullastraße ( Herrenberg -) Bondorf - Freudenstadt Hbf - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Karlsruhe Hbf - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Tullastraße / VBK |
65 | Rheinbahn, Murgtalbahn , Gäubahn | |
| P 81 |
Freudenstadt – Karlsruhe main station (Herrenberg -) Freudenstadt main station - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Malsch - Karlsruhe main station |
53 | Rheintalbahn, Murgtalbahn, Gäubahn | |
| S 9 |
Bruchsal – Bretten Bruchsal - Bretten |
17th | Western Railway | AVG |
The S-Bahn lines S 4 and S 3 , which run between Germersheim, Speyer, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Bruchsal or Karlsruhe, and the S-Bahn line S 33 , which runs between Germersheim, Philippsburg , Graben-Neudorf and Bruchsal, belong on the other hand not to the Karlsruhe light rail network, but to the RheinNeckar S-Bahn . In Eppingen and Sinsheim the trains run together with the S 5 and in Neckarelz and Mosbach with the S 1 and S 2 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn. These are operated by DB Regio Mitte with class 425 railcars .
In Bietigheim-Bissingen , the S5 light rail line together with the S 5 S-Bahn line of the same name of the Stuttgart S-Bahn operated by DB Regio Baden-Württemberg ended by June 8, 2019 . There was a risk of confusion here.
In December 2016, the southern part of the S4, which was previously almost completely separated from the rest of the S4, was renumbered as S7, the S32 as S71, the S31 as S81 and the S41 as S8.
Line chronicle
Before founding the KVV
| line | course | Remarks |
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| A. |
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Express trains on line A were signposted with a crossed line signal (additional red diagonal bar), i.e. as line A / |
| B. |
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Initially preliminary operation as a local train (N) train type on behalf of the German Federal Railroad, from 1992 the first two-system light rail line worldwide |
From the establishment of the KVV
On May 29, 1994 the KVV association tariff came into force. In 1996 the ramp at the main station was put into operation and the system change point at the Albtal station was completed.
| line | course | Remarks |
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| 1994-2004 | ||
| S 1 |
Hochstetten – Bad Herrenalb Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe main station - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Bad Herrenalb |
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| S 11 |
Hochstetten - Ittersbach Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe main station - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Ittersbach |
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| S 2 |
Blankenloch – Rheinstetten Blankenloch - Hagsfeld - Durlacher Tor - Market Square - Entenfang - Daxlanden - Rheinstetten |
Extension Mörsch Merkurstraße - Mörsch Bach West only on March 22, 1999, extension Blankenloch - Spöck only on June 24, 2006 |
| S 3 |
Baden-Baden - Menzingen (Baden) (Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Ettlingen West -) Karlsruhe central station - Durlach - Bruchsal (- Ubstadt Ort - Menzingen (Baden) ) |
1996–2002 from Baden-Baden from 1997 to Menzingen hired in 2004 |
| P. 31 |
Freudenstadt Hbf - Odenheim Freudenstadt Hbf - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Malsch - Karlsruhe Hbf - Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt Ort - Odenheim |
Introduced in 1998 from 2003 from Freudenstadt |
| S 4 |
Baden-Baden– Heilbronn (Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim -) Karlsruhe - Grötzingen Oberausstraße - Bretten - Gölshausen (- Eppingen - Heilbronn ) |
from 1996 from Baden-Baden from 1997 to Eppingen from 1999 to Heilbronn |
| S 5 |
Wörth Dorschberg - Bietigheim-Bissingen Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Lameyplatz - Entenfang - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK - Durlach - Grötzingen Oberausstraße - Pfinztal - Pforzheim (- Mühlacker - Vaihingen an der Enz -Bietigheim) |
Introduction 1997 from 1999 to Bietigheim-Bissingen |
| S 6 |
Rastatt – Karlsruhe main station Rastatt - Ettlingen-West - Karlsruhe main station |
until 1996 |
| S 7 |
Baden-Baden – Karlsruhe main station Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Forchheim - Karlsruhe main station |
Introduction 1994 from 1996 as S4 |
| S 8 |
Wörth Dorschberg – Karlsruhe main station Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Karlsruhe West - Karlsruhe main station |
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| S 9 |
Bruchsal – Mühlacker Bruchsal - Bretten - Maulbronn West (- Mühlacker) |
from 1999 to Mühlacker |
| from 2005 | ||
| S 1 |
Hochstetten – Bad Herrenalb Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe main station - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Bad Herrenalb |
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| S 11 |
Hochstetten – Ittersbach Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - Neureut - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Kronenplatz - Karlsruhe main station - Albtalbahnhof - Rüppurr - Ettlingen - Busenbach - Ittersbach |
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| S 2 |
Spöck –Rheinstetten (Spöck - Friedrichstal -) Blankenloch - Hagsfeld - Durlacher Tor - Market Square - Entenfang - Daxlanden - Rheinstetten |
from 2006 to Spöck |
| P. 31 |
Eutingen im Gäu - Odenheim (Eutingen im Gäu - Freudenstadt Hbf - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Malsch -) Karlsruhe Hbf - Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt Ort - Odenheim |
from 2006 to Eutingen from 2017 division at Karlsruher Hbf to the S81 |
| P 32 |
Achern - Menzingen (Baden) (Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Malsch -) Karlsruhe central station - Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt Ort - Menzingen (Baden) |
Introduction 2005 from 2017 division at Karlsruher Hbf to the S71 |
| S 4 |
Achern- Öhringen - Cappel (Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim -) Albtalbahnhof - Karlsruhe central station - Rüppurrer Gate - Crown Court - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK - Durlach - Grötzingen Oberaustraße - Bretten - Epping - Heilbronn (- Vineyard - Öhringen- Cappel) |
from 2006 to Öhringen from 2017 division at the Albtalbahnhof to the S7 |
| P 41 |
Eutingen im Gäu - Karlsruhe Tullastraße (Eutingen im Gäu -) Freudenstadt Hbf - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Karlsruhe Hbf - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Tullastraße / VBK |
from 2006 to Eutingen from 2017 as S8 |
| P 41 |
Heilbronn - Mosbach Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Harmonie / Kunsthalle - Technical School Center - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Neckarelz - Mosbach |
Launched in 2014 |
| P 42 |
Heilbronn– Sinsheim Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Harmonie / Kunsthalle - Technical School Center - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Bad Rappenau - Sinsheim Hbf |
Launched in 2014 |
| S 5 |
Wörth Dorschberg – Bietigheim-Bissingen Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Lameyplatz - Entenfang - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Durlacher Tor - Tullastraße / VBK - Durlach - Grötzingen Oberausstraße - Pfinztal - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen an der Enz - Bietigheim-Bietigingen |
from 2019 to Pforzheim |
| P 51 |
Germersheim –Karlsruhe Marktplatz Germersheim - Bellheim - Rülzheim - Rheinzabern - Jockgrim - Wörth am Rhein - Maximiliansau - Westbahnhof - Albtalbahnhof - Europaplatz / Post Gallery (Karlstraße) |
Introduction 2010 |
| P 52 |
Germersheim – Karlsruhe main station Germersheim - Bellheim - Rülzheim - Rheinzabern - Jockgrim - Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Lameyplatz - Entenfang - Yorckstraße - Marktplatz - Karlsruhe main station |
Introduction 2010 |
| S 6 |
Pforzheim - Bad Wildbad Pforzheim - Brötzingen - Neuenbürg (Enz) - Höfen (Enz) - Bad Wildbad Bf - Bad Wildbad Kurpark |
|
| S 7 |
Achern – Karlsruhe Tullastrasse Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Albtalbahnhof - Karlsruhe main station - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Durlacher Tor - Tullastrasse / VBK |
Launched in 2017 |
| P 71 |
Achern – Karlsruhe main station Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Malsch - Karlsruhe main station |
Launched in 2017 |
| S 8 |
Wörth Badepark – Karlsruhe main station Wörth am Rhein - Maxau - Knielingen - Karlsruhe West - Karlsruhe main station |
Hiring 2010 |
|
Eutingen im Gäu – Karlsruhe Tullastrasse Eutingen im Gäu - Freudenstadt Hbf - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Karlsruhe Hbf - Rüppurrer Tor - Kronenplatz - Tullastrasse / VBK |
Launched in 2017 | |
| P 81 |
Eutingen im Gäu - Karlsruhe main station ( Herrenberg -) Eutingen im Gäu - Freudenstadt main station - Baiersbronn - Forbach - Rastatt - Malsch - Karlsruhe main station |
Launched in 2017 |
| S 9 |
Bruchsal – Mühlacker Bruchsal - Bretten - Maulbronn West - Mühlacker |
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Vehicle use
Eight different vehicle types are currently used in the Karlsruhe light rail network, with the two older, low-floor vehicle types only being used on the S2 line and the NET 2012 on the S1 / S11 lines. Since June 2018, the NET 2012 has only been used sporadically on the S2.
| line | S 1 / S 11 | S 2 |
S 31 / S 32 / / S 8 / S 81 |
S 4 / S 5 / S 51 / S 52 / S 6 / S 7 / S 71 / S 9 |
S 41 / S 42 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle type |
GT8-80C, NET 2012 |
GT6-70D / N, GT8-70D / N, (NET 2012) |
GT8-100C / 2S, GT8-100D / 2S-M |
GT8-100C / 2S, GT8-100D / 2S-M, ET 2010 |
ET 2010 |
Light rail vehicles
GT6-80C / GT8-80C
These Karlsruhe type of light rail vehicles have been in use since 1983. The vehicle fleet comprised 60 one-way vehicles that are only designed for direct current operation and run on lines S1 and S11. This type of vehicle was derived from Stadtbahnwagen B. In the spring of 2018, the first major wave of scrapping of 16 vehicles began after a few individual scraps due to accidents.
Since the timetable change in June 2019, use of the GT8-80C has been limited to rush hour. The GT6-80C, however, are no longer used at all.
| Manufacturer: | Union / DUEWAG wagon |
| Years of construction: | 1983-1984, 1987, 1989 |
| Carriage length: | 28.40 m / 38.41 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 2 DC motors of 280 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 45/40 |
GT8-100C / 2S
For mixed operation with direct current and alternating current overhead lines, an eight-axle two-system car of type GT8-100C / 2S was developed from the direct current vehicles , 36 of which were delivered between 1991 and 1995.
| Manufacturer: | DUEWAG |
| Years of construction: | 1991-1995 |
| Carriage length: | 37.61 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 2 DC motors of 280 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 35 |
GT8-100D / 2S-M
As a further technical development, the successor GT8-100D / 2S-M was created in 1997 , 86 of which were delivered by 2005 and bears the vehicle numbers 837 to 922.
| Manufacturer: | Siemens |
| Years of construction: | 1997-2005 |
| Carriage length: | 37.6 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 4 three-phase motors of 127 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 86 |
ET 2010
In autumn 2009, 30 new two-system wagons of the Flexity Swift type were ordered with an option for a further 45 wagons. The first vehicles arrived in Karlsruhe in May 2012. After problems with the approval, the commissioning was delayed and so the railways could only be used in the second half of 2013. A second option with 12 vehicles was delivered over the course of 2017 to 2018, and a renewed delivery of 20 more vehicles was finally agreed in 2019, which is expected by mid-2021.
| Manufacturer: | Bombardier |
| Years of construction: | 2011-2013 |
| Carriage length: | 37.00 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 4 three-phase motors of 150 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 42 (+20 ordered) |
Tram vehicles
GT6-70D / N / GT8-70D / N
Low-floor vehicles from the Karlsruhe tram fleet are used on the S2, as its characteristics and operating mode make it an intercity tram, as can also be found in other companies.
| Manufacturer: | DUEWAG / Siemens |
| Years of construction: | 1995-2005 |
| Carriage length: | 29.5 m / 39.5 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 4 three-phase motors of 127 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 45/25 |
NET 2012
From December 2014 to June 2018, the NET 2012 tram trains operated on the S2 tram line. In the medium term, they are to replace the non-barrier-free high-floor light rail vehicles GT6-80C and GT8-80C on the S1 / S11; the changeover there began in July 2017.
| Manufacturer: | Vossloh box |
| Years of construction: | 2014-2015 |
| Carriage length: | 37.2 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.65 m |
| Motors / power: | 4 three-phase motors of 125 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 75 |
Replacement vehicles
The late delivery of the third generation dual-system trams (ET 2010) and the opening of the tram route to Germersheim in 2010 led to bottlenecks in the vehicle fleet. The Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft solved this problem by renting three Flexity Link railcars from Saarbahn . These were used from February 2010 to December 2013 on the S9 line.
Since the lease to switch to the 2013 winter timetable ended and the ET 2010 still had not received EBO approval, three Regio Shuttle diesel railcars were rented from Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH to replace the Saarbahn railcars . These vehicles were mainly used on the S9 line and were returned in December 2014.
Former vehicles
T4-EP / B4-EP
With these vehicles and the GT8-EP from AVG, the Albtalbahn was put into operation in April 1958. As a rule, they ran with sidecars and sometimes also in multiple traction with the GT8-EP and later the GT6-EP of the AVG and the GT6-EP of the VBK.
| Manufacturer: | Düwag |
| Years of construction: | 1958-1961 |
| Carriage length: | 14.96 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.37 m |
| Motors / power: | 2 DC motors of 110 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 8 + 8 sidecars |
GT6-EP / GT8-EP
These vehicles were used from 1958 to 1984 on line A (Neureut - Karlsruhe - Bad Herrenalb / Ittersbach) together with the GT6-EP of the Karlsruhe transport company and were thus the first AVG vehicles on the later S1 and S11 urban railway lines. They operated exclusively on line A until 1983 and were then used in the Karlsruhe tram network. The last car was retired in the mid-2000s. The two railcars 4 and 12 remained as museum cars in Karlsruhe and were given their original numbers back.
| Manufacturer: | Düwag |
| Years of construction: | 1958-1969 |
| Carriage length: | 26.98 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.40 m |
| Motors / power: | 2 DC motors of 150 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 21st |
GT8-EP (Waggon Union)
In 1975 four more vehicles were purchased to increase the vehicle stock, which were newly developed but were technically compatible with the old vehicles. They kept the designation GT8-EP and ran on line A until 1987. After the vehicles were replaced by the GT6-80C and GT8-80C on line A, they were then used in the Karlsruhe tram network for years. Cars 124 and 125 were modernized in 2012 and have been called GT8-70C since then .
| Manufacturer: | Waggon Union |
| Years of construction: | 1975 |
| Carriage length: | 27.72 m |
| Carriage width: | 2.40 m |
| Motors / power: | 2 DC motors of 150 kW each |
| Number of pieces: | 4th |
Accessibility
The Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund offers a brochure with information for people with limited mobility on using rail transport in the KVV.
One-system network
The S1 / S11 line was the last line that was not barrier-free over its entire length, as the vehicles that were previously only used with a floor height of 96 cm cannot offer this level of comfort. Since July 19, 2017, more NET 2012 has been gradually used on the S1 / S11 line. This changeover will be paused on June 9, 2019, as all journeys except amplifiers will be made with the low-floor car during rush hour. The vehicles that are still missing can only be taken out of service when the tram tunnel is opened, as the line has a longer journey time until then and thus requires more vehicles in total for circulation. The Bad Herrenalb train station was rebuilt end of 2016 and since then the first in Albtal completely barrier-free to use other stations to follow, because many platforms this line have, like Bad Herrenalb before the conversion, a height of 38 cm to EBO standard, 4 cm higher than the platforms in the tram network, there are often no guide strips for the blind and sometimes sufficient widths and step-free entrances, etc., so that accessibility is currently often only limited. Individual stops on the north branch to Hochstetten are also completely barrier-free.
Line S2 offers barrier-free entry to vehicles with an entry height of 34 cm at almost all stops, especially on the north branch. The journeys with these vehicles are marked in the timetable and in the first half of 2017, more than 80% of the journeys were carried out according to the timetable with such a vehicle. Since July 27, 2017, only barrier-free low-floor vehicles have been running on the S2 as planned.
Two-system network
The two-system tram cars of the second (GT8-100D / 2S-M) and third generation (ET 2010) enable barrier-free entry in the two-system area on 55 cm high platforms, while the first generation trams (GT8-100C / 2S) with an entry height of one meter above the top of the rail can only be reached by stairs. The 55 cm high platforms are almost always present on the lines built from the mid-1990s (in particular Murgtal, Enztal, route branch to Odenheim, Kraichgau route from Eppingen). Older existing lines mostly have platform heights of 76 or 38 cm.
The problem is the partially shared use of stops with the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , which uses the platform height of 76 cm, which is adapted to its vehicles. This problem was solved by expanding the stations in Karlsruhe-Durlach , Bruchsal , Sinsheim Hbf and Sinsheim Museum / Arena with two different platform heights.
Planning
The plan is to enable a 100% barrier-free light rail system as soon as possible. To this end, the 35 high-floor two-system cars will be replaced in the medium term by medium-floor cars with an entry height of 55 cm and the remaining platforms in the two-system network will be expanded accordingly. The 60 high-floor DC cars, on the other hand, will be replaced by low-floor vehicles with which the stops that have already been expanded can be served barrier-free.
Furthermore, the switch between the planned medium-floor two-system network, the planned low-floor direct current network and the low-floor tram system in Karlsruhe should be made easier. For this purpose, three central, full-length, barrier-free platforms are planned for both systems in the west (Mühlburger Tor, already implemented), south (main station) and east (Tullastraße, already implemented). In the long term, the platforms at all stops that are used by trams and light rail vehicles are to be equipped with a 55 cm high area over a length of 15 m. This means that barrier-free entry is possible at the first two doors of the medium-floor two-system car.
Future development
Plans to expand the Stadtbahn network in the Heilbronn area are described in the article " Stadtbahn Heilbronn ".
Thanks to the extensive expansion of the route network in the 1990s, the entire Karlsruhe area on the right bank of the Rhine has now been opened up. Some planning, e.g. B. the inner-city development of the cities of Bruchsal, Rastatt, Baden-Baden and Landau (Palatinate) as well as the extension of the S2 line to Durmersheim failed due to the political resistance of the respective local politicians. The temporarily planned light rail operation between Bruchsal and Germersheim was abandoned in favor of integrating this route into the RheinNeckar S-Bahn.
The areas on the left bank of the Rhine have not yet been adequately developed either. The low population density, the stronger orientation of the traffic flows in the direction of Mannheim / Ludwigshafen and the lack of electrical contact wire over the railway lines in the southern Palatinate have made it difficult to expand the light rail network further.
Light rail tunnel
As early as the 1960s, there were considerations of building a tram tunnel in downtown Karlsruhe. When the load on the central Kaiserstraße traffic axis increased due to the expansion of the tram and light rail network in the 1980s and 1990s, new plans for a tunnel were made. After the first plans were rejected in a referendum in 1996, the project was modified and confirmed in a further referendum in 2002. The tram tunnel has been under construction since the beginning of 2010.
The project consists of several parts:
- The construction of a double-track tram tunnel for several tram and light rail lines in an east-west direction under Kaiserstraße between Durlacher Tor and Mühlburger Tor with a branch from the market square to the south to Augartenstraße
- The construction of a double-track tram route in the Kriegsstrasse between Karlstor and Mendelssohnplatz and the construction of a road tunnel there
- The dismantling of the above-ground tram tracks in Kaiserstraße between Europaplatz and Kronenplatz and in Karl-Friedrich-Straße / Ettlinger Straße between Marktplatz and Vierordtbad
The city of Karlsruhe initially put the cost of the project at 496 million euros . The current, supplemented funding notification assumes total costs of 638 million euros, with an own contribution of 240 million euros.
The city expects the project to relieve the city center of tram and car traffic, to gain urban planning leeway through the elimination of the tram tracks in the pedestrian zone and the reconstruction of the Kriegsstrasse as well as the creation of additional capacity in the tram network. Above all, the high costs, the insufficient performance and the restrictions due to the necessary construction work are criticized.
The tram tunnel was originally supposed to be completed by the end of 2016, the remodeling of the Kriegsstrasse is to take place between 2015 and 2019.
Renovation of the Karlsruhe main station forecourt
There is a four-track tram and light rail stop on the forecourt of Karlsruhe main train station. Since the direct current light rail and the tram run with one-way cars, the platforms are on the outside of the tracks. The platforms on the inner tracks also serve as additional platforms for the outer tracks if a dual-system light rail stops there. In the future, the platform heights of the platforms to the right of the stopping trains will be raised to 34 cm (the platform height of the tram) and to the left to 55 cm. This enables stepless access to all modern trains.
The weather protection is also to be improved in the course of the renovation. It has not yet been decided whether a large roof or individual platform roofs should be built.
Connection to the Baden-Airpark
A connection to the Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden regional airport has been discussed for many years . In the 1990s, the original planning of a route through the Rastatt city center via Iffezheim and Hügelsheim failed due to political resistance in Rastatt. In addition to the still discussed route from Rastatt with or without crossing the city, the city of Baden-Baden proposed an alternative route from Baden-Baden train station to the Baden-Airpark in 2008 . In the standardized evaluation published in 2010 , this connection achieved the best cost-benefit value of 1.19 among five alternatives, one of the routes from Rastatt via the Rastatt – Wintersdorf railway line achieved the value 1.03. Since there was no prospect of state funding, the project was postponed due to the financial framework.
Connection of Malsch and Muggensturm to Ettlingen
In order to better connect Bruchhausen, Malsch and Muggensturm to the city centers of Ettlingen and Karlsruhe, the construction of a connection line between the Badische Hauptbahn bei Bruchhausen and the Albtalbahn at the Ettlingen-Erbprinz stop is planned. This will make it possible to run light rail vehicles from Rastatt via Muggensturm, Malsch, Bruchhausen, Ettlingen-Erbprinz, Rüppurr, Karlsruhe station forecourt to downtown Karlsruhe. The additional stops at Muggensturm Badesee and Malsch Süd planned in this context on the existing route between Rastatt and Bruchhausen were built between 2009 and December 2014. Due to the planned removal of the Karlsruhe – Malsch – Rastatt connections from the light rail network from the opening of the Rastatt tunnel, implementation of this measure is still open.
Spöck – Karlsdorf-Neuthard – Bruchsal and Bruchsal – Hambrücken – Waghäusel
An extension of the S2 beyond Spöck to downtown Bruchsal and from there in the direction of Waghäusel was also pursued until 2012. However, a standardized assessment did not reveal a benefit-to-cost ratio for any of the variants examined, so that the project has since been abandoned.
Tendering of individual routes from 2019
The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport (MVI) has commissioned AVG to continue operating the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn from December 2015 to December 2022. In 2016 this will cost € 9.62 / tkm. The network includes the first year 5.2 million train kilometers (train km) and 7.9 million kilometers per year as of December 2016. From mid-2017 to the vehicles via Wi-Fi a Internet access available for free use by passengers. At least one toilet per train set is required for trips to the Murg Valley. From June 2019, parts of the S5 (between Pforzheim and Bietigheim-Bissingen) and S9 (Bruchsal - Mühlacker) with 0.3 million train kilometers annually were removed from the light rail network and have since been operated as part of the Stuttgart network . On the S9, 2 pairs of trains per day remain with the AVG.
On February 25, 2016, the Karlsruhe district also awarded the trips it had ordered for this period to the AVG. These are additional trips on the lines in the district and the lines S1 / S11 and S2 not advertised by the state. For € 108 M, AVG will drive 3.5 million train kilometers per year over the seven years.
Plans also became known for the Murg Valley Railway to tender the Forbach - Freudenstadt section and to serve it with full-line vehicles. However, these were initially not implemented due to the possibility of driving directly to the city of Karlsruhe.
The line permits according to the Passenger Transport Act for the tram shares in Karlsruhe run until 2025.
Restructuring of the network from 2022
The state of Baden-Württemberg and the AVG are planning to restructure the light rail network. The background to this is, on the one hand, the requirements of competition law, which only allow direct award of light rail services to AVG without prior tendering, and on the other hand the state's desire to replace long-distance light rail connections with more comfortable, faster, larger and more cost-effective pure rail vehicles. To this end, the light rail network is to be redesigned and split into two sub-networks (awarding network 7a and 7b). In awarding network 7a the services to be driven with dual-system light rail vehicles are combined, in awarding network 7b the services to be provided with pure railway vehicles. Procurement network 7a is to be awarded directly to the AVG from 2022, while procurement network 7b is to be put out to tender. For reasons of competition law, the AVG is not allowed to participate in the tendering for procurement network 7b.
Allocation network 7a is to include lines S4 (except for express trains and Sprinter), S5 (only Wörth – Pforzheim), S51, S52, S6, S7 (only Karlsruhe – Baden-Baden) and S8 (only Karlsruhe – Forbach). The S4 express trains between Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof, a new hourly connection to be created Karlsruhe – Rastatt – Achern (–Kehl) (previously S71), an hourly express train connection Karlsruhe – Rastatt – Freudenstadt (previously S81) further trains between Karlsruhe, Rastatt and Forbach and between Freudenstadt and Herrenberg (previously S8 and S81). The provision of the services in the procurement network 7b was put out to tender in December 2017 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport.
The Heilbronn lines S41 and S42 belong to the 7c procurement network and are not affected by the changes. Lines S1, S11 and S2 are also not affected by the changes, as the services on these lines are financed exclusively by the municipalities.
As a result of the restructuring, around a quarter of the services previously provided with two-system light rail vehicles in favor of journeys with pure railway vehicles. In future, it will no longer be possible to drive to Karlsruhe city center by the trips in the 7b procurement network.
See also
literature
- Dieter Ludwig, Georg Drechsler: With the light rail on federal railway lines. Article from: ETR Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau Jg .: 40, No. 8, 1991 Fraunhofer IRB, ISSN 0013-2845 .
- Klaus Bindewald: The Albtal Transport Company. Exemplary local transport system worldwide. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-475-3 .
- Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 6: Bathing. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1999, ISBN 3-88255-337-5 .
- Klaus Bindewald: The Alb Valley Railway: History with a future. From the narrow-gauge railway to the modern light rail. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-79-7 .
Web links
- Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV) homepage
- Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund Electronic timetable information
- Homepage of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG)
- Karlsruhe Stadtbahn in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report 2012 of Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft mbH. avg.info, January 2013, archived from the original on March 14, 2014 ; accessed on March 14, 2014 .
- ^ Triumphal procession for the light rail. stadtbahn-hn.de, July 23, 2001, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ^ Opening of the Bad Wildbad tram. umverka.de, March 1, 2006, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ^ S4 line to Bühl / Achern. ka-news.de, April 8, 2005, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Reopening of Eutingen im Gäu - Freudenstadt. bahninfo.de, December 1, 2006, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Germersheim-Wörth city railway starts operations. ka-news.de, December 12, 2010, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Splett opens Heilbronn-Nord tram. State of Baden-Württemberg, December 14, 2013, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Additional train in school traffic to Bruchsal. In: Official Gazette Bretten. February 18, 2010, accessed June 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Information for people with restricted mobility when using local public transport in and around Karlsruhe. kvv.de, archived from the original on June 28, 2012 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 .
- ^ "The station is barrier-free", Badische Latest News from November 11, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2018
- ↑ Notice timetable for the S2 line towards Spöck at the Herrenstraße stop, accessed from www.kvv.de on April 12, 2017
- ↑ a b Program of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft mbH for the design of railway systems and vehicles to achieve the greatest possible freedom from barriers in accordance with Section 2, Paragraph (3) EBO. bmas.de, December 2008, accessed on December 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Ideas and implementation competition at Bahnhofplatz Karlsruhe. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on April 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Speculation about light rail. ka-news.de, September 28, 2008, accessed on September 16, 2009 .
- ↑ Rail connection to Baden-Airpark. ka-news.de, September 25, 2010, accessed December 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Baden-Wuerttemberg Road Administration: Draft statement: direct connection between Baden-Airpark and A 5, document 1 (explanatory report) , p. 16 ( PDF; 2.1 MB ( memento from January 10, 2019 in the Internet Archive )).
- ↑ How will the continuation of the S2 tram line continue? ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f g AVG is to be awarded the contract for “Stadtbahn Karlsruhe” (network 7 a / b). Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Baden-Württemberg, December 9, 2015, accessed on January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Bernd Klingel: Invitation to tender for Stuttgarter Netze: Planned timetable offer. (PDF; 762 KiB) NVBW, July 2, 2014, archived from the original on January 17, 2016 ; Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
- ^ A b c d Germany-Karlsruhe: Public rail transport / public rail transport: 2016 / S 055-092322: Announcement of awarded contracts: Services. March 18, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Light rail vehicles are to be replaced , Schwarzwälder Bote - May 16, 2014
- ↑ Rail traffic through Karlsruhe still possible without changing , press release State Government of Baden-Württemberg - July 24, 2017
- ↑ Background information on the key issues paper , State Government of Baden-Württemberg - July 24, 2017
- ↑ AVG is to be awarded the contract for “Stadtbahn Karlsruhe” (network 7 a / b) . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
- ↑ Service contract announcement , Ministry of Transport, Baden-Württemberg - December 23, 2017
Bielefeld | Frankfurt am Main | Hanover | Karlsruhe (under construction) | Rhine-Ruhr ( Bochum | Dortmund | Düsseldorf | Duisburg | Essen ) | Rhine victory ( Bonn | Cologne ) | Stuttgart
| Baden-Württemberg |
Freiburg im Breisgau | Heilbronn | Karlsruhe ( tram and light rail ) | Kehl (Strasbourg) | Heidelberg | Mannheim | Stuttgart | Ulm | Weil am Rhein (Basel) |
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| Bavaria | ||
| Berlin | ||
| Brandenburg |
Brandenburg an der Havel | Cottbus | Frankfurt (Oder) | Potsdam | Schöneiche near Berlin | Strausberg | Woltersdorf |
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| Bremen | ||
| Hesse |
Darmstadt | Frankfurt am Main ( tram and light rail ) | Kassel ( tram and RegioTram ) |
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| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | ||
| Lower Saxony | ||
| North Rhine-Westphalia |
Bielefeld | Bochum / Gelsenkirchen ( tram and light rail ) | Bonn | Dortmund | Duisburg ( tram and light rail ) | Düsseldorf ( tram and light rail ) | Essen ( tram and light rail ) | Cologne | Krefeld | Mülheim / Oberhausen |
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| Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Saarland | ||
| Saxony |
Bad Schandau | Chemnitz | Dresden | Goerlitz | Leipzig | Plauen | Zwickau |
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| Saxony-Anhalt |
Dessau | Halberstadt | Halle (Saale) | Magdeburg | Naumburg (Saale) |
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| Thuringia |
Erfurt | Gera | Gotha | Jena | Nordhausen |
