Pünderich – Traben-Trarbach railway line

Pünderich – Traben-Trarbach
Map of the Pünderich – Traben-Trarbach railway line
Route number (DB) :	3112
Course book section (DB) :	691
Route length:	10.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CE
Dual track :	-
Legend from Koblenz 0.2 Pünderich DB (formerly Pbf ) Moselle route to Trier 1.5 Reil DB (formerly Bf) 3.4 Castle (mosel) 6.7 Koevenig Traben-Trarbach School (planned) 10.4 Traben-Trarbach DB (new) 10.6 Traben-Trarbach DB (old) Swell:

The Pünderich – Traben-Trarbach railway is a branch line in the Middle Moselle valley that connects the wine-growing town of Traben-Trarbach with the Pünderich train station on the Moselle line.

The regional train line RB 85, ​​whose name Moselweinbahn has no historical origin but is a neologism , runs on the route . It is operated by Rhenus Veniro on behalf of the SPNV Nord association , and trains run every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle.

location

The originally 10.4 and now 10.2 kilometer long route is located in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Moselle valley and is single-track and not electrified. The line begins formally at the Pünderich separation station, which, due to its very remote location, never had a significant number of passengers and was therefore long abandoned for passenger traffic, since then the Bullay (DB) station has been a transfer point for the Moselle line.

After 1.5 kilometers there is the Reil stop , then at 6.7 km the Kövenig stop , from where a passenger ferry runs to Enkirch opposite in the summer months .

At the former end of the line at line kilometers 10.6 was the old terminal station of Traben-Trarbach. This has been replaced by a stopping point that has been moved back two hundred meters; a bus station is now located on the site of the former train station .

history

Class 628.2 railcars in the old terminal station in Traben-Trarbach, 1993

Since the Moselle route opened in 1879 from Koblenz to Trier to the south of Bullay leaves the Moselle valley and the towns here did not have a direct rail connection, considerations arose to connect the towns of Traben and Trarbach , which were not yet united at the time, to the railway network with a branch line. In 1880, a concession to build the line was granted, which was then opened on March 21, 1883.

In the 1980s, the railway line was threatened with closure due to falling passenger numbers. At that time, outdated Uerdingen rail buses of the series 795 (single-engine) and 798 (twin-engine) were used almost exclusively .

Only with the introduction of an hourly service and the use of new vehicles - the series 628.2 and 628.4 diesel multiple units were now used , as well as two 670.0 series double-decker multiple units  - the downward trend was halted and the number of passengers increased again significantly.

The terminal station in Traben-Trarbach with its many freight tracks was shut down after the cessation of freight traffic and replaced by a new station two hundred meters further north. A large bus station and a shopping center are now located on the dismantled track areas. After the siding was closed, the new terminus station has meanwhile been operationally downgraded to a stopping point.

Stadler Regio-Shuttle from Rhenus Veniro in Traben-Trarbach

For a few years the Moselweinbahn was operated in the local rail passenger transport by trans regio from Kaiserslautern , which had to hand over the services to DB Regio Südwest after a renewed tender . This then served the route as regional train line RB 94 every hour with comparatively old diesel multiple units of the 628.4 series. When the timetable changed in December 2014, the route changed operators again. With Rhenus Veniro, the vehicles of the type Regio-Shuttle RS1 already known from trans regio returned. The regional train line RB 85 has been operating here since then.

Most of the passengers on the railway line today are tourists, often hikers and cyclists. Work and school traffic only play a subordinate role. Freight traffic had never been of great importance, it was finally discontinued in the early 1990s. Mainly wood, general cargo , wine (in tank wagons ) as well as agricultural products and supplies for the warehouse of the local Raiffeisen cooperative were transported.

Planning

It was planned to electrify the Moselle Wine Railway and create a continuous connection to Koblenz. This should be realized in the context of the Rhineland-Palatinate-Takt 2015 project . The plans have been revised in the meantime: there will continue to be shuttle traffic between Traben-Trarbach and Bullay in the future, electrification will not take place.

In Traben-Trarbach, the construction of a further train station Traben-Trarbach Schule is planned.

Tariff

Due to the location in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich , the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) applies on the Pünderich – Traben-Trarbach railway line . Since the timetable change on December 14, 2014, the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) has also been applied, provided that the start or destination of the journey is in the VRM area. This means that tickets are also valid for the entire VRM network.

For trips out of the VRT and VRM area, the in-house tariff of the operator Rhenus Veniro applies. Due to the membership in the tariff association of the federal and non-federal railways in Germany TBNE, this corresponds to the nationwide local transport tariff of the Deutsche Bahn AG , on the entire Moselweinbahn there are also the Quer-through-Land-Ticket , the Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland-Ticket and the Rhineland -Pfalz-Ticket + Lux (including Luxembourg ) valid.

Web links

• History of the route
• History and news from the Moselle Wine Railway
• Pictures and history of the Moselle railways
• Report on the planned electrification

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate Clock 2015. New course in the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock - significant improvements for train drivers. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture, June 18, 2008, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved April 2, 2011 . 
4. ^ SPNV Nord association assembly 45th meeting. (PDF; 273 KiB) (No longer available online.) Zweckverband EisenbahnPersonenNahVerkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Nord, December 18, 2012, archived from the original on January 25, 2013 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 . 
5. ↑ http://www.spnv-nord.de/uploads/media/55.VV_Tagesordnung_SPNV_Nord.pdf (link not available)