Rhein-Haard-Express
RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course book section (DB) : | 425 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 173 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 160 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia |
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former train route 12/2002 to 12/2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course book section (DB) : | 425, 485 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 143 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 160 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
State: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rhein-Haard-Express is a regional express train run in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony from Osnabrück via Münster , Recklinghausen , Gelsenkirchen , Essen and Duisburg to Düsseldorf with the line number RE 2 .
The Haard Railway with the number RB 42, which is reinforcing it, ran between Münster and Essen every half hour . This only differed in an additional stop in Recklinghausen Süd , which the RE 2 only has in the late evening during low-traffic times.
On December 11, 2016, the Haard-Bahn was upgraded to the RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express and extended to Mönchengladbach via Duisburg and Krefeld . The amplifier trains in rush hour traffic between Haltern am See and Essen have been replaced by an offer every 30 minutes between Münster and Essen since December 2019.
history
The Rhein-Haard-Express perverse 1998-2002 as Haard -Express only between Münster and Essen. From the timetable change in December 2002, it was tied through Duisburg to Mönchengladbach and replaced the Rhein-Emscher-Express (RE 3) on the Duisburg – Mönchengladbach section , which has been running to Düsseldorf since then.
With the timetable change on December 12, 2010, there was another line swap, the Duisburg – Mönchengladbach section has since been taken over every hour by the Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11).
In return, the Rhein-Haard-Express took over the Duisburg – Düsseldorf section, also every hour. Five Regional Express lines per hour (RE 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6) and four Regional Express lines per hour on the Essen – Duisburg section (RE 1, 2, 6 and 11).
The Rhein-Haard-Express has also been running since December 2010 with five instead of four cars. Following an EU-wide tender, DB Regio NRW was able to secure operation beyond December 2014 until December 2029.
With the timetable change in December 2016, there was a further change in the routes. The Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11) now runs from Duisburg again to Düsseldorf as it used to, but now every hour. In return, the previous connection from Münster via Essen and Duisburg to Mönchengladbach was restored, which the RE 2 operated for eight years from 2002 to 2010.
However, this does not happen through the Rhein-Haard-Express, but through the Haard-Bahn (RB 42), which previously only ran parallel to it between Münster and Essen and which goes beyond its current southern end point as the Niers-Haard Express (RE 42) Mönchengladbach was extended. The upgrade to the regional express is justified by the fact that it replaces the Rhein-Hellweg-Express between Duisburg and Mönchengladbach as a fast local rail passenger transport and therefore only serves its stations.
With the timetable change in December 2019, the Rhein-Haard-Express in the Münster – Essen section was accelerated by omitting stops and extended to the Lower Saxony regional center of Osnabrück. At the same time, the Niers-Haard-Express was compressed to a half-hourly service in this section with stops at all intermediate stations.
Train run
The Rhein-Haard-Express runs a total of five railway lines:
- the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg railway between Osnabrück and Wanne-Eickel (together with various intercity trains , the RE 42 and the RB 66),
- the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line between Wanne-Eickel and Gelsenkirchen (total traffic without intermediate stops),
- the Essen – Gelsenkirchen railway line (together with the RE 42 and the S-Bahn line S 2),
- the Dortmund – Duisburg railway between Essen and Duisburg (long-distance tracks , together with all regional and long-distance trains),
- the Cologne – Duisburg railway line between Duisburg and Düsseldorf.
On this four- to six-track section, the Rhein-Haard-Express uses the tracks of the S-Bahn or, if available, the so-called local tracks, as well as the Rhein-Emscher-Express (RE 3), the Rhein-Weser-Express (RE 6 ), the Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11) and the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE 19). Only the NRW-Express (RE 1) and the Rhein-Express (RE 5) use the long-distance tracks here.
Notwithstanding this, the Niers-Haard-Express runs on another railway line:
- the Duisburg – Mönchengladbach railway line continuously (together with the RB 33, RB 35 and freight trains).
Offer
The Rhein-Haard-Express runs every hour and stops between Wanne-Eickel and Münster only in Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof, Haltern am See and Dülmen, north of Münster at every intermediate station. A large section of it runs parallel to S-Bahn lines and is supplemented by the Niers-Haard Express (RE 42) from Münster (Westf) Hauptbahnhof to Duisburg Hauptbahnhof .
The RE 2 is operated by DB Regio , which uses push-pull trains made up of five double-decker cars hauled by a class 146 electric locomotive for speeds of up to 160 km / h. The RE 42, on the other hand, is driven by vehicles from the 1428 series .
In the evening and at night, when the Niers-Haard-Express is not running, the Rhein-Haard-Express stops at all stations between Essen and Münster.
Essen Hbf: Rhein-Haard-Express before departure to Münster (Westf) Hbf, the third car is the " ZugCafé "
As the last Regional Express line in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rhein-Haard-Express still had a so-called ZugCafé (bistro area), which was open during rush hour from Monday to Friday. With the renewed assignment of the route to DB Regio on December 14, 2014, the bistro operation has ceased.
Old vehicles are being converted for the Rhein-Haard-Express so that 1st class can now be found in the control car, which also has stepless access and a toilet for people with reduced mobility as well as bicycle parking spaces. As a rule, the control car is at the front in the direction of Düsseldorf, the locomotive pulls in the direction of Osnabrück. Since some stations have a platform height of only 38 centimeters above the top of the rails, it is not always possible to get on and off the train without barriers.
In addition to the acoustic passenger information system, the double-decker cars also have a visual one that informs passengers about the next stop and possible connections.
Stadler Flirt 3 , class 1428 electric multiple units have been used for the Niers-Haard-Express since March 2015 .
The Rhein-Haard-Express is u. a. In Osnabrück, Münster, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf it is linked to the rest of the local transport network; it also ensures direct connections to long-distance passenger rail transport in Duisburg, Münster and Osnabrück .
It is ordered by the special purpose associations Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL).
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of the Rhein-Haard-Express
- Description of the Niers-Haard-Express (or former Haard-Bahn)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Hennigfeld: VRR and NWL award DB Regio NRW the contract for the Haardachse. In: Zughalt.de. January 11, 2012, accessed April 1, 2012 .
- ↑ Siemens builds and maintains RRX vehicles - future RRX operator still open. (PDF) press release. In: vrr.de. NVR , NWL , NVV , VRR , SPNV-Nord , March 26, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2018 .
- ↑ News about the timetable change in December 2019. In: vrr.de. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr , accessed on November 28, 2019 .