Mannheim – Basel railway line

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Mannheim Hbf – Basel Bad Bf
Section of the Mannheim – Basel railway line
Route number (DB) : 4000 (Mannheim – Basel)
4002 (Mannheim Hbf – M-Fr Südein / Ausf
    formerly to Heidelberg-Kirchheim )

4003 (Mannheim Hbf – Mannheim Hbf Ost)
4280 (Rastatt-Süd – Offenbg Südl Es
    and Schliengen – Haltingen)
Course book section (DB) : 665.3-4 (Mannheim – Heidelberg)
701 (Heidelberg – Karlsruhe)
702 (Karlsruhe – Offenburg)
703 (Offenburg – Basel)
Route length: 270.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed: 250 km / h
Train control : PZB, LZB
Dual track : (continuous)
Mileage SFS ↓ ↓ Mileage existing route
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from Mainz , from Waldhof ,
  from Schifferstadt , from the Hgbf
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0.000 Mannheim Central Station 95  m
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Grinding track
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Old train station 1840–1867 / 1879
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1,300 Mannheim Hbf Ost ( Bft ,
  formerly "Mannheim-Kleinfeld" )
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Neckarau crossing ( tram to Neckarau )
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to Karlsruhe
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to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
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2.100 to Stuttgart (high-speed route)
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2.345
2.604
Distance jump 4000
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002,455
002,711
Mileage jump route 7702
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2.600 000,000 Mannheim Rbf Westeinfahrt (Bft Rbf)
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Line from Neckarau (Rheinbahn)
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Route from Rennplatz (Riedbahn)
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3.700 000,000 Mannheim Rbf Gr K / Kn (Bft Rbf)
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3.500 000,000 Mannheim Rbf Gr G (Bft Rbf)
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3.960 Mannheim Rbf Hp
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4.274 Mannheim-SAP-ARENA / Maimarkt 95  m
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6.100 000,000 Mannheim Rbf Gr M (Bft Rbf)
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6.145 Mannheim-Seckenheim 96  m
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6.400 000,000 Mannheim Rbf Gr D (Bft Rbf)
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Federal motorway 6
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007,134
007,311
4002 kilometer jump
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Route to Schwetzingen
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8,494 Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld Südeinf / Ausf
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8.600 Connections to Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld
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8.930 Neu-Edingen / M-Fr'feld – Schwetzingen route
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9.024 Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld South Hp 102  m
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11.920 Bk key
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9.400 from Darmstadt
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14.200 Federal motorway 5
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14,500 Heidelberg- Wieblingen (Abzw, level-free )
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14.826 Wieblingen (since 1873)
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14.827 Heidelberg- Pfaffengrund / Wieblingen 108  m
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Route from Heidelberg Rbf to the Main-Neckar-Bahn
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from Schwetzingen
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16.000 00,000 Tram from Heidelberg to Eppelheim
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Route until 1955
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16.634 00,000 Heidelberg Rbf (1914-2000)
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16.740 Bk ox head
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17.035 Czernybrücke ( tram to Eppelheim )
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17,490
19,102
Kilometer jump (due to new route)
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19.103 Heidelberg Central Station 107  m
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19.2 +300.0
19.4 +80.1
Kilometer jump (only opposite direction track)
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19.5 +00.0
19.5 +16.3
Kilometer jump (only direction track)
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Heidelberg Gbf (until approx. 1914)
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18.71 Heidelberg Hbf (until 1955)
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17.6 0019.470 Tram to Kirchheim ,
  former route to Schwetzingen
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18.000 00,000 Tram to Kirchheim
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19.700 to Jagstfeld
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20.302 formerly to the Neckar Valley Railway
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formerly level threading
Station, station
22.143 Heidelberg-Kirchheim / Rohrbach 107  m
   
former tram to Kirchheim
   
24.450 Glue
Stop, stop
26,487 St Ilgen - Sandhausen 106  m
   
29.060 Seeberg (Bk)
   
29.930 Walldorf
Station, station
32,085 Wiesloch-Walldorf 111  m
   
formerly to Meckesheim / Waldangelloch
Station, station
37.467 Red - Malsch 106  m
Stop, stop
40.145 Bad Schönborn-Kronau 108  m
Station, station
42.353 Bad Schönborn south 109  m
Stop, stop
44.282 Stettfeld-Weiher (since Dec 2019) 114  m
Stop, stop
46.291 Ubstadt pond 110  m
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46,600 Ubstadt-Weiher (Abzw)
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Connection route to Bruchsal Rollenberg
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von Odenheim and von Menzingen
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48.100 Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line
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48.590 Chambers (Bk)
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Connecting cable car from Bruchsal Rollenberg
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49.610 Bruchsal North (Abzw)
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from Graben-Neudorf
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51.633 Bruchsal 114  m
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Westbahn to Stuttgart
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Stop, stop
53,572 Bruchsal Education Center
  ("Bruchsal GBZ")
111  m
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55.900 Untergrombach ( Üst )
Stop, stop
56.784 Untergrombach 115  m
Station, station
60.457 Weingarten (Baden) 115  m
   
64.500 Standing pass (Bk)
   
67.250 VBK route Durlacher Allee – Grötzingen
   
Line from Pforzheim
Station, station
68.213 Karlsruhe-Durlach 116  m
   
Tram to Durlach and Wolfartsweier
   
Freight bypass to Karlsruhe Rbf
Plan-free intersection - above
Freight route Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld – Karlsruhe Rbf
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(former route of the Rhine Valley Railway until 1913)
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Rheinbahn from Mannheim via Schwetzingen
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Former connection from the repair shop (up to 199x)
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Karlsruhe Gbf (old) (up to 199x)
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Karlsruhe Hbf (old) (until 1913)
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former route of the Hardtbahn , Maxaubahn
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72.898 Karlsruhe main station
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Alb Valley Railway
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(former route of the Rhine Valley Railway until 1913)
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to Wörth
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Rheinbahn to Rastatt
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Freight route Karlsruhe West – Karlsruhe Rbf
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Freight route Karlsruhe-Dammerstock – Karlsruhe Rbf
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Freight bypass from Karlsruhe Rbf
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Rüppurr (until 1913)
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76.230 Karlsruhe fountain (Abzw)
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(former route of the Rhine Valley Railway until 1913)
Kilometers change
76,404
77,450
Kilometer jump (due to shortened route from 1913)
Station, station
79.649 Ettlingen West 121  m
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to Ettlingen city
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82.540 Bruchhausen (b Ettlingen) 118  m
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84.990 Pillar (Bk)
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87.864 Malsch 120  m
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88,483 Malsch south 120  m
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90.783 Muggensturm bathing lake 122  m
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91.743 Muggensturm 123  m
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Karlsruhe Rastatt Tunnel (under construction)
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from Karlsruhe
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96.501 Rastatt 120  m
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Murgtalbahn to Freudenstadt
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Rheinbahn to Wintersdorf
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Rastatt tunnel (south portal, under construction)
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98.410 Stork nest (Bk)
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99.838
100.400
Kilometer jump (due to relocation of the Rastatt train station in 1890)
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A 5
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101,400 Rastatt-Süd (Abzw, today the start of the SFS)
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102.583 Baden-Baden Haueneberstein 124  m
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103,200 000,000 Sandweier Üst (Üst)
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105.480 105.324 Baden-Baden 126  m
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to Baden-Baden (old)
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108.030 Sinzheim (b Bühl) north 127  m
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109.470 Sinzheim (b Bühl) 126  m
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112,500 Baden-Baden Rebland (formerly Steinbach (Baden)) 133  m
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from Schwarzach (formerly meter gauge )
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116.850 Bühl (Baden) 135  m
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116,000 000,000 Bühl (Baden) F (only on the south-facing platform)
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to Oberbühlertal
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119.175 119.175 Ottersweier
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119.950 Ottersweier
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123.310 Römerfeld (Bk)
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124.100 000,000 Achern (F)
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125,300 Achern 145  m
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to Ottenhöfen
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127.7 +07.5
127.8 +00.0
Kilometer jump
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127.7 +06.0
127.8 +00.0
Kilometer jump
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128,400 000,000 Önsbach (Üst)
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129.490 Önsbach
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131.680 Renchen 144  m
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133.750 Eichgrund (Bk)
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for Strasbourg
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136,700 136,850 Appenweier North (Bft)
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from Bad Griesbach
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137.940 137.940 Appenweier 147  m
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from Strasbourg
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138.649 138.656 Appenweier-Muhrhaag (Bft)
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140.973 Windfall (Abzw)
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to Offenburg Gbf Gr. E (no level)
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141.700 000,000 Offenburg north Esig (Bft)
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to Offenburg Gbf Gr. E.
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from Offenburg Gbf Gr. A.
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145,500 145,482 Offenburg 159  m
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146.123 Offenburg Ülp südl Esig (Bft, today the end of the SFS)
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to Singen (Hohentwiel)
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former bypass curve from the Black Forest Railway
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148.300 Schutterwald
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154.428 Niederschopfheim ( PV until 1968) 153  m
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158.652 Friesenheim (Baden) 155  m
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former Central Baden Railways ( meter gauge )
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formerly from Lahr MEG
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163.661 Lahr (Black) 161  m
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formerly to Lahr city
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166.100 Kippenheim (until 1974)
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171.766 Orschweier 166  m
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former Rhein-Ettenheimmünster local railway
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174.777 Ringsheim 169  m
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177.685 Herbolzheim (Breisgau) 172  m
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180.965 Kenzingen 175  m
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from Breisach
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185.851 Riegel-Malterdingen 180  m
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SFS from here on with its own route
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188.775 Köndringen (Hp Üst) 187  m
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190.615 Teningen - Mundingen 194  m
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192.673 Emmendingen 201  m
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196,488 Kollmarsreute 221  m
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from Elzach
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199.835 Denzlingen 235  m
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202.691 Gundelfingen (Breisgau) (Hp Abzw) 241  m
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Freight bypass to Freiburg Gbf
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204.994 Freiburg-Zähringen 253  m
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205.8 +310.9
206.0 +100.0
Kilometer jump
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Freiburg tram
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206.977 Freiburg-Herdern 264  m
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Line from Breisach
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208.322 Freiburg (Breisgau) central station 269  m
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Freiburg tram
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to Donaueschingen
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Freiburg tram
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Freiburg-Baslerstrasse
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212.497 Freiburg-St Georgen 253  m
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Freight bypass from Freiburg Gbf
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214.615 Leutersberg (Abzw)
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215.742 Bring 239  m
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216,994 Schallstadt 235  m
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219.856 Norsingen 230  m
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from Münstertal
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222.853 Bad Krozingen 231  m
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224.100 Tunsel (until 1970)
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Eschbach-Tunsel (planned)
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225.0 +111.5
225.1 +00.0
Kilometer jump
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228.734 Heitersheim 226  m
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Flyover structure (planned)
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SFS up to here with its own route
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Buggingen (Abzw)
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231.838 Buggingen 223  m
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234.800 Hill Home
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237,300 Müllheim (Baden) former transition to the
  Müllheim-Badenweiler railway ( meter gauge )
233  m
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Route to Mulhouse
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239.728 Eyes 233  m
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242,700 Schliengen junction Rtb / NBS
  (Bft; "Schliengen Nord")
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SFS with its own route
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243,150 Schliengen 241  m
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(Portal extension against tunnel bang )
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245.400 Beginning of Katzenberg Tunnel (9,385 m)
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246.769 Bad Bellingen 254  m
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249,954 Rheinweiler 257  m
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252.664 Kleinkems ("Kleinkems Hp") 258  m
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253,088 Kleinkems Üst ("Kleinkems")
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255.300 Klotz tunnel (242 meters)
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256.000 Kirchberg tunnel (129 meters)
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256.378 Istein (Hp Awanst) 258  m
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256.800 Hardberg Tunnel (307 meters)
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254.800 End of Katzenberg Tunnel (9,385 m)
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(Portal extension against tunnel bang )
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258.256 Efringen churches 258  m
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262,300 Eimeldingen 266  m
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Federal motorway 98
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259.45 0263.050 (today end of SFS)
A / D: transfer point, CH: lane change
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from Kandern
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Haltingen (Kandertal Railway)
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Nordschleife to Basel Bad Rbf (Gr A)
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264.281 Haltingen 269  m
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264,300
265,320
( Kilometer jump )
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Nordschleife from Basel Bad Rbf (Gr A)
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Bw Haltingen
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Nordschleife,
Weil am Rhein – Saint-Louis (Haut-Rhin) (1878–1937) railway line
and Rheinhafen Weil am Rhein siding
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Basel Bad Rbf (Gr A)
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267,600 Because on the Rhine 261  m
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Tram Basel - Weil am Rhein
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Friedensbrücke ( B317 )
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Garden railway to Lörrach S 5
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Line from Basel Bad Rbf (Gr A)
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former Südschleife to Basel Bad Rbf
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Basel Bad Rbf (Gr C)
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268.745 Border between Germany and Switzerland ;
Ownership limit DB Netz / BEV
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from Hafenbahn Kleinhüningen
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Basel Bad Rbf (size L)
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to Basel Bad Gbf and the former Südschleife
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Railway bridge ( meadow )
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270.688 Basel Bad Bf 261  m
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Basel Tram (Riehenstrasse)
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Basel connecting railway to Basel SBB S 6
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to Zell (Wiesental) S 6
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to Constance

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The Mannheim – Basel railway line is a double-track electrified main railway line in Baden-Württemberg . It runs through the Upper Rhine Plain from Mannheim via Heidelberg , Bruchsal , Karlsruhe , Rastatt , Baden-Baden , Offenburg and Freiburg im Breisgau to Basel and is therefore also known as the Rhine Valley Railway or Upper Rhine Railway .

The line was built as part of the Baden main line. Between Mannheim and Rastatt it runs parallel to the Baden “Rheinbahn” . Work has been underway since April 1987 on upgrading and rebuilding the line to four tracks under the title “ Extension and New Construction Line Karlsruhe – Basel ”. Its completion, originally planned for 2008, is currently (as of 2020) planned for 2030.Template: future / in 5 years

The Mannheim – Basel line is one of the most important lines in the Deutsche Bahn network .

history

Baden main line

The German-side Rhine Valley Railway was financed and built by the Baden State Railways . With the Baden law on the construction of the Baden main line of March 28, 1838, only a few key points were defined:

  1. A railway is being built from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Carlsruhe, Rastatt, Offenburg, Dinglingen and Freiburg to the Swiss border near Basel. Kehl is connected to the main track by a side track.
  2. The construction is carried out at state expense.
    (With regard to costs, the estates were given the right to budget for the following period and the government took on a reporting and accounting obligation.)
  3. The embankment is to be designed for a double-track route, but only a single-track line is to be built. The government may independently decide on individual, double-track tours to be carried out immediately.
  4. The preparatory work required for averaging the web tension is carried out immediately for the entire web length. The construction itself will begin in Mannheim and at those points on the railway line whose construction will probably take a long time, namely in Rastatt, Freiburg and on the Schliengener Berg, will be started as soon as possible and in any case so early that the railway is nowhere in its progress is stopped.

It is therefore incorrect if it can be found in the literature that initially only the starting point in Mannheim and the end point in Basel were specified . At the same time, Article 4 subsequently legitimized the procedure of the Technical Construction Commission formed in 1837 , which technically already determined that the route should be determined in such a way that construction costs should be kept as low as possible in order to achieve good travel times and should be built as straight as possible to connect all larger cities if possible. The conclusion was drawn to build in the Upper Rhine Plain if possible .

The first section between Mannheim and Heidelberg was opened in 1840, by 1855 the line was completed in several parts to Basel. The first draft routes envisaged a route from Heidelberg via Schwetzingen to Karlsruhe. After hearing of these plans in what was then the third largest city in Baden , Bruchsal , politicians in the Baden parliament campaigned for Bruchsal and Durlachs to join forces .

On January 2, 1846, two trains collided in St. Ilgen . One person died and 16 others were injured. This was one of the first fatal rail accidents in Germany .

The line was initially built with a gauge of 1,600 millimeters. Since the surrounding countries and other railway lines, however, the standard gauge 1,435 mm, had the entire route was on standard gauge 1854-1855 rebuilt .

Since the city of Mannheim, whose natural catchment area was around Schwetzingen and Hockenheim , did not like the detour via Heidelberg, the Rheinbahn Mannheim-Schwetzingen-Graben-Neudorf-Eggenstein-Karlsruhe was opened in 1870 as the second route . In the course of the construction of strategic railway lines, the Graben-Neudorf - Blankenloch - Karlsruhe line was added in 1895 , which is shorter than the connection via Eggenstein and has more favorable connections to Karlsruhe main station and the Karlsruhe marshalling yard . The route Graben-Neudorf-Eggenstein-Karlsruhe was thus sidelined (see Hardtbahn ).

Expansion in the 20th century

In the northern part between Mannheim and Karlsruhe there are two separate lines, the Mannheim– Graben-Neudorf –Karlsruhe line (so-called " Rheinbahn ") and the Mannheim – Heidelberg – Bruchsal– Karlsruhe-Durlach –Karlsruhe line ( Baden-Kurpfalz-Bahn ), which represents a section of the Rhine Valley Railway. Especially after the First World War , the route gained in importance for international traffic.

electrification

Due to its increased international importance, the Rhine Valley Railway was also electrified from the 1950s . In 1956, the start of electric driving between Offenburg and Freiburg. Until mid-1958, the route was completely electric.

Conversion of the signal system

At the end of the 1960s, the fundamental renovation of the signal systems began on the 120-kilometer section between Offenburg and Basel . The section, which had been equipped with mechanical interlockings with the exception of Freiburg train station, was converted to relay interlockings . At the end of the 1960s, the line load was already well over 100 trains per day and direction.

Relief through high-speed route

With the commissioning of the first section of the new Mannheim – Stuttgart line between Mannheim and Graben-Neudorf, the Rhine Valley Railway was relieved and regular local traffic was made possible. The signal boxes in Achern and Freiburg were rebuilt as electronic signal boxes, the Leutersberg , Bad Krozingen , Heitersheim and Müllheim (Baden) operating points were adapted as part of CIR-ELKE and equipped with LZB.

Trivia

The current Baden-Baden train station was originally called Oos , between 1906 and the closure of the city ​​train station in 1977 Baden-Oos and was then named.

Between 1975 and 1977 a blackmailer who referred to himself as " Monsieur X " carried out several attacks on the route.

Expansion in the 21st century

As part of the upgraded and new Karlsruhe – Basel line , the Rhine Valley Railway was to be expanded according to plans around 1990 between Karlsruhe and Offenburg for a continuous 160 km / h. According to a German-Swiss state treaty, the entire line was to be expanded to include at least four tracks by 2008 in order to then serve as the northern main access route to the new Gotthard base tunnel towards Italy . The German railway has to this, the new project and upgraded line Karlsruhe-Basel launched.

The two routes of the Rhine Valley Railway and the Rhine Railway also run at a relatively short distance between Karlsruhe and Rastatt. Between the Rastatt train station and the intersection with the federal motorway 5 , the line has so far been double-tracked, as the route in this area has long been controversial. A tunnel is now under construction under Rastatt between Rastatt- Niederbühl and the junction of Bundesstrasse 3 and Bundesstrasse 36 . Between Rastatt and Durmersheim , earthworks were carried out along federal highway 36 for the new line . Between Baden-Baden - Haueneberstein and Offenburg, two new high-speed tracks have now been put into operation in addition to the two old tracks. The Katzenberg Tunnel between Freiburg and Basel has been in operation since December 2012 to bypass the “ Isteiner Klotz ” bottleneck . The rest of the area between Offenburg and Basel is currently still being planned.

Opening dates in detail

date Beginning of section End of section
September 12, 1840 Mannheim Central Station Heidelberg Central Station
April 10, 1843 Heidelberg Central Station Karlsruhe main station
0May 1, 1844 Karlsruhe main station Rastatt
0May 6, 1844 Rastatt Baden-Oos
0June 1, 1844 Baden-Oos Offenburg
July 30, 1845 Offenburg Freiburg Central Station
0June 1, 1847 Freiburg Central Station Muellheim (Baden)
June 15, 1847 Muellheim (Baden) Schliengen
0November 8, 1848 Schliengen Efringen
January 22, 1851 Efringen Haltingen
1855 Haltingen Basel

Todays situation

Rhein-Neckar-S-Bahn (S1) between Mannheim and Heidelberg (2004)

Today the Rhine Valley Railway is one of the busiest railway lines in Germany for both passenger and freight traffic , partly because of the cross-border traffic to Switzerland and France on this route. A study by the University of Kehl puts the number of trains at up to 286 trains a day.

Most of the line, between Offenburg and Gundelfingen and between Leutersberg and Weil am Rhein, has been considered a congested rail route since September 2008 . With a capacity utilization of 126 percent, the line was considered overloaded in 2011, and trains have to run at particularly close intervals. Deutsche Bahn intends to optimize capacity utilization from the 2022 annual timetable through largely harmonized timetable routes.

Long-distance train stops are always Mannheim , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Freiburg and Basel Bad Bf , partly also Wiesloch-Walldorf , Bruchsal , Karlsruhe-Durlach , Rastatt , Baden-Baden and Offenburg .

Since December 2003 the lines S3 ( Germersheim - Karlsruhe ) and S4 (Germersheim - Bruchsal ) of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar have been operating on the Mannheim – Karlsruhe section . The Stadtbahn Karlsruhe trams run between Bruchsal and Rastatt, S31, S32, S7, S71, S8 and S81 . The S7 and S71 lines continue from Rastatt to Achern . The RE trains of the Black Forest Railway run between Karlsruhe and Offenburg every hour, since December 2009 sometimes every half hour. Between Offenburg and Basel, RE and RB trains complement each other at approximately half-hourly intervals.

One of the largest marshalling yards in Europe is located at both endpoints : Mannheim Rbf and, on the other side of the Basel state border, SBB RB in Muttenz , both of which are built on two sides . A marshalling yard on this route in Heidelberg has been closed. The new Bahnstadt district is now being built on the site . There are also DB freight stations in Karlsruhe, Offenburg, Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel. Karlsruhe Gbf is equipped with Estw technology and is controlled from the Karlsruhe operations center. The others are still manned locally, some with electromechanical signal boxes.

The double-track high - speed line through the Katzenberg tunnel between Schliengen and Haltingen has been in operation since December 9, 2012 . This is accompanied by a segregation of fast long-distance passenger transport and freight transport in the Basel area. The extension of the so-called connecting line between Basel Badischer Bahnhof (north of the Rhine) and the Gellert junction (south of the Rhine) with another bridge over the Rhine also serves this purpose .

In 2013, 2015 and 2016 Freiburg-St. Georgen repeatedly to landslides, which resulted in the route being closed for several days. DB Netz is still doing security work there in 2018 .

In the summer of 2014, the section between Schliengen and Haltingen via Bad Bellingen was completely renovated. The tracks, sleepers and the tunnels have been renewed.

As part of the expansion measures for the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , planning is underway for a three-track section between Mannheim Central Station and Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld Süd . The four-track expansion to Heidelberg is in the conception phase (status: 2012). In March 2014, the EU promised subsidies of 30 to 40% (instead of the previous 10%). According to a statement by the Ministry of Transport in March 2017, this increase in capacity could not be financed, but its implementation for the newly introduced regional express line from Karlsruhe via Heidelberg to Mannheim to “vsl. December 2027 upwards ”.

Damage with lowered tracks (August 20, 2017)

On August 12, 2017, the track was lowered during the construction of the Rastatt tunnel . As a result, the section between Rastatt and Baden-Baden had to be completely closed to train traffic. A rail replacement service was set up between Rastatt and Baden-Baden , travelers had to expect a delay of up to 60 minutes. Freight trains had to be reloaded onto trucks or rerouted via alternative routes. Operations resumed on October 2, 2017.

After a freight train collided with a concrete part on April 2, 2020, the section between Freiburg and Basel was closed until April 8, 2020.

Vehicles used

The long-distance traffic is in the direction of Hamburg and Berlin with ICE 1 and ICE 4 and in the direction of Dortmund with ICE 3 unwound. In EuroCity or Intercity traffic, locomotives of the 101 series are mostly used, in regional traffic , however, machines of the 146 and 111 series with double-decker cars or n-wagons , from September 1, 2017 [obsolete] only double-decker cars are to run.

In Mittelbaden, the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) uses dual-system light rail cars of the 450 and GT8-100D / 2S-M series on the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn , with WC and panoramic glazing depending on the delivery series .

On the Upper Rhine are often in the RB traffic railcars of series 425 in use as well as occasionally the 111 series with n-car . The South West German traffic corporation (SWEG) sets Talent-2 railcars and Regio-Shuttle (BR 650) a. The latter are also used in the Breisgau S-Bahn (BSB) and Ortenau S-Bahn (OSB) networks.

In the sections from Bruchsal to Appenweier and from Freiburg to Müllheim, TGV Duplex of the SNCF operate , which stop in Karlsruhe and Freiburg and partly in Baden-Baden and Müllheim .

Since December 2017 a pair of trains has been running again from Frankfurt via Basel to Milan as the new train type ECE . A multiple unit of the ETR 610 series of the SBB is used .

Service offer

Long-distance transport

In long-distance passenger rail traffic , the Rhine Valley Railway is used by various Intercity Express , Intercity and EuroCity lines.

line Train run
ICE 12 Berlin  - Braunschweig  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Frankfurt  - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel (-  Bern  - Interlaken Ost)
ICE 20 ( Kiel  -) Hamburg  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel (- Bern - Interlaken Ost)
ICE 43 ( Amsterdam  - Duisburg or Dortmund  -) Cologne  - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel
ICE 83 Paris - Karlsruhe  - Stuttgart (- Munich)
ICE 84 Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Baden-Baden  - Strasbourg  - Mulhouse-Ville  - Belfort-Montbéliard  - Besançon  - Chalon  - Lyon-Part-Dieu  - Avignon  - Aix-en-Provence  - Marseille-Saint-Charles
IC 30 Kiel - Hamburg - Dortmund - Duisburg / Wuppertal  - Cologne - Koblenz  - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel  - Chur
IC 35 Norddeich Mole - Münster - Duisburg - Cologne - Koblenz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Offenburg  - Triberg - Singen - Constance
IC 60 Basel Bad - Baden-Baden - Karlsruhe  - Stuttgart - Munich

Regional traffic

The Rheintalbahn is served by various regional express , regional rail , S-Bahn and light rail lines for local rail passenger transport.

line Train run
DB Regio
RE 2 Mannheim - Heidelberg  - Sinsheim - Heilbronn
RE 3 Mannheim - Heidelberg  - Eberbach - Heilbronn
RE Karlsruhe - Baden-Baden - Offenburg  - Hausach - Villingen - Constance (- Kreuzlingen)
RE Offenburg - Lahr - Emmendingen - Denzlingen - Freiburg (- Basel Bad)
RE (Offenburg -) Freiburg - Bad Krozingen - Müllheim - Weil am Rhein - Basel Bad (- Basel SBB)
IRISHMAN Basel Bad - Rheinfelden - Waldshut - Schaffhausen  - Singen Friedrichshafen  - Ulm
RB 2 Biblis - Mannheim  - Schwetzingen - Hockenheim - Graben-Neudorf - Karlsruhe
RB Offenburg - Emmendingen - Freiburg - Bad Krozingen - Müllheim - Neuchâtel / Basel Bad
Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg
RE 17b Heidelberg - Wiesloch-Walldorf - Bruchsal  - Bretten - Stuttgart
Société nationale des chemins de fer français
TER (Freiburg -) Müllheim  - Neuchâtel - Bantzenheim - Mulhouse
Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft
SWEG Freiburg - Schallstadt - Bad Krozingen - Oberkrozingen - Staufen (- Münstertal)
BSB Elzach - Waldkirch - Denzlingen - Gundelfingen - Freiburg-Zähringen - Freiburg-Herdern - Freiburg
SWEG Offenburg - Appenweier - Achern
S-Bahn RheinNeckar :
S 1 Homburg - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Heidelberg  - Mosbach - Osterburken
S 2 Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Heidelberg  - Mosbach
S 3 Germersheim - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe
S 4 Germersheim - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal
Karlsruhe light rail :
P. 31 Odenheim - Ubstadt place - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Karlsruhe
P 32 Menzingen - Ubstadt place - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Karlsruhe
S 7 Karlsruhe Tullastraße / Public Transport - Karlsruhe Market Square - Rastatt - Baden-Baden - Achern
S 8 Karlsruhe Tullastrasse / Public Transport - Karlsruhe Market Square - Durmersheim - Rastatt  - Freudenstadt - Eutingen im Gäu
P 71 Karlsruhe - Ettlingen West - Rastatt - Baden-Baden - Achern
P 81 Karlsruhe - Ettlingen West - Rastatt  - Freudenstadt
S-Bahn Basel :
S 5 (Zell im Wiesental - Schopfheim -) Steinen - Lörrach - Weil am Rhein
S 6 Zell im Wiesental - Schopfheim - Steinen - Lörrach - Basel Bad - Basel SBB

On the Mannheim Hbf – Heidelberg Hbf section, the S1 – S4 of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn as well as some RE and an hourly IC run.

On the Heidelberg Hbf – Bruchsal section, the S3 and S4 of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn and the RE 17b from Heidelberg Hbf to Stuttgart run every hour. An IC runs every hour.

On the Bruchsal – Karlsruhe Hbf section, the S3 of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn runs every hour, an IC every hour and the S31 / S32 of the AVG every 20, 30 or 60 minutes.

On the Karlsruhe – Offenburg section, the RE of the Black Forest Railway runs from Karlsruhe to Konstanz every hour. Another RE Karlsruhe – Basel Bad Bf (–Basel SBB) runs every hour in the mornings and afternoons, which sometimes results in a half-hourly service. There are additional AVG S-Bahn trains between Achern and Karlsruhe Hbf.

On the Offenburg – Basel section, there is a slow RE every two hours and a fast RE every two hours. These form an approximate hourly rate. The regional train runs every hour between Offenburg and Freiburg and between Freiburg and Basel Bad Bf (sometimes every two hours). RE and RB are superimposed at approximately half an hourly intervals.

In November 2015, Netz 4 Rheintal , divided into three lots, was tendered. The transport contracts for regional traffic on the route cover a total of around 4.7 million train kilometers per year and should run from December 2019 [obsolete] to December 2032 Template: future / in 5 years. Investments of a quarter of a billion euros are planned for the associated new vehicles, which must also be suitable for the Katzenberg tunnel.

In December 2015, the operating concept of the regional transport tender schedule between Offenburg and Basel was presented. The basic structure is every hour over the entire route with stops at all stations. In addition, a regional express is provided in two hourly alternating versions: every two hours a faster regional express is to cover the route between Offenburg and Basel in under 90 minutes, with stops in Offenburg, Lahr, Herbolzheim, Kenzingen, Riegel-Malterdingen, Emmendingen, Denzlingen, Freiburg Hauptbahnhof , Bad Krozingen, Heitersheim, Müllheim, Weil am Rhein, Basel Badischer Bahnhof and sometimes border crossing to Basel SBB. A slower RE will also serve Orschweier, Ringsheim, Schallstadt, Bad Bellingen, Efringen-Kirchen and Haltingen. For many stations, the number of train stops will be increased significantly.

In addition, a tender for the Freiburg Y network (network 9b) is planned.

The train service to be provided by the state of Baden-Württemberg in accordance with the 2025 target concept - three trains per hour and direction from Offenburg to Freiburg, four from Riegel-Malterdingen - cannot currently be implemented due to the dense occupancy of the route. The infrastructure required for this is to Template: future / in 5 yearsgo into operation in the period up to 2031 .

future

DB Regio AG submitted the best offer for the tender for Netz 4 “Rheintal”. The network is scheduled to go into operation in June 2020. The network was tendered in two lots. Lot 1 contains the hourly RE services Karlsruhe - Offenburg - Basel with initially around 2.1 million train kilometers / year. Lot 2 contains the RB services Offenburg - Freiburg - Basel / Neuchâtel with initially around 1.9 million train kilometers / year.

From 2020, the state of Baden-Württemberg will use modern multiple units of the “ Desiro HC ” series from Siemens on the routes in Lot 1 and replace the trains previously consisting of double-decker cars, run by Bombardier Traxx or BR 111 . Electric multiple units of the new Mireo type are to be used on the routes in Lot 2. The trains are to run in the new national design.

Operating points

Heidelberg-Kirchheim / Rohrbach

Heidelberg-Kirchheim / Rohrbach train station is in the Kirchheim district of Heidelberg on the border with Rohrbach . The railway line from Mannheim Hbf, which ran through the two marshalling yards, used to end at the northern end of the station. The Fuchs wagon factory used to be located east of the station . At the southern end of the station, the connecting line operated by Heidelberger Straßen- und Bergbahn GmbH (HSB) to the Rohrbach-Süd industrial area and the Leimener cement works begins .

The security systems of the station have been controlled since 2004 by ESTW-A Wiesloch-Walldorf, which is operated via ESTW-UZ Bruchsal from control district 1 of the Karlsruhe operations center.

St. Ilgen-Sandhausen

The St. Ilgen-Sandhausen stop is in the town of St. Ilgen , which belongs to Leimen, on the border with Sandhausen . There is a small bus station on both sides of the railway line.

The extension of the platform from 140 m to 210 m for long trains of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn, carried out at the end of 2019, was decided by the Leimen City Council in 2008 at a cost of € 129,000, which increased to € 337,941 by 2018. The municipality of Sandhausen does not contribute to these costs.

literature

  • Helmut Röth: On rails between the Odenwald and the Palatinate . Photographs 1955–1976. Pro Message publishing house, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2006, ISBN 3-934845-18-5 (297 old photographs).
  • Werner Greder: Bruchsal and the railroad . Establishment of the railways in and around Bruchsal in the years 1843–1914. Bruchsal 1983, DNB  890008930 (Publication No. 2 of the Historical Commission of the City of Bruchsal).

Web links

Commons : Rheintalbahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  22. Stefan Hagen: Passengers are annoyed about delays . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 95 , April 25, 2017, p. 9 ( rnz.de ).
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