Rhine-Main (Zug)
Rhein-Main was a train of the German Federal Railroad (DB), which from 1951 established a long-distance connection in the outskirts of the day between Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr area . From 1956 the train ran from Frankfurt to Amsterdam and in 1957 it was elevated to the Trans-Europ-Express (TEE). In 1972 the TEE Rhein-Main was renamed van Beethoven .
history
Long-distance express train
The long-distance express train ran in the morning from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hauptbahnhof as the F 31 over the left Rhine route and in the evening in the opposite direction as the F 32 over the right Rhine route . He stopped in Wiesbaden Ost instead of Mainz Hauptbahnhof . The train ran as a train hauled by a locomotive. He only ran the (old) 2nd class and a dining car , after the class reform of 1956 only the (new) 1st class. The train was called Rhein-Main from the winter timetable 1951/52, at times also called Rhein-Main-Express .
Dortmund's destination station was temporarily abandoned for the 1952 summer timetable and the train ran from Duisburg via Emmerich to Rotterdam Maas . But just a year later the train only went to Dortmund again. Now diesel multiple units of the VT 08 5 series from the Frankfurt-Griesheim depot were used. Between Frankfurt and Koblenz Hauptbahnhof the train drove coupled with the railcar of the Montan-Express (Frankfurt– Luxembourg ), in the opposite direction, however, the trains ran separately.
From 1956 the Rhine-Main drove back to the Netherlands , but now with the terminus Amsterdam Centraal .
Trans-Europ-Express
As 1957 in Europe traffic with Trans-Europ-Express has trains on (TEE) opened, which was the Rhine-Main from Frankfurt to Amsterdam one of four long distance express trains, the DB has appreciated to a TEE. Until December 1, 1957, the connection was still operated with a VT 08 5 , then the new TEE class VT 11 5 railcars were used. From the 1958 summer timetable , the Rhine-Main operated between Frankfurt and Cologne combined with the TEE Saphir , which continued to run to Ostend after the train split in Cologne Central Station . Due to the resulting frequent delays, both trains ran separately again from June 1959.
When the electrical gap between Oberhausen and Arnhem was closed, the TEE Rhein-Main was converted to a locomotive-hauled wagon train in the spring of 1967. In the German portion henceforth a strung electric locomotive of the 112 series the train. After a locomotive change at Emmerich station , the series 1100 and 1200 of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen were used on the Dutch section . From 1970, the Deutsche Bundesbahn also used the 103 series in front of the train on the German section .
Since the last section in the Middle Rhine Valley of the evening train from Amsterdam to Frankfurt was not fully used, the train ended on September 26, 1971 at Bonn Central Station . The return train, however, continued to run from Frankfurt. On May 27, 1972, the Rhein-Main , which last operated with the train numbers TEE 22/23, was given the new name van Beethoven .
At the insistence of the Bonn deputies, the Deutsche Bundesbahn extended the evening performance of the TEE van Beethoven from Bonn beyond Frankfurt to Nuremberg for the 1976 summer timetable . The number of passengers on the last section remained below expectations, however, and the train was shortened back to the Amsterdam – Frankfurt route in 1978. On May 27, 1979 the TEE van Beethoven was downgraded to InterCity .
literature
- Peter Goette: Light F-Trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-729-9 .
- Jörg Hajt, Jürgen Franzke: The big TEE book. 50 years of Trans-Europ-Express . Heel, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-305-2 .
Remarks
- ↑ Goette, p. 80, describes the station as "Wiesbaden Süd", a name that never existed. However, Wiesbaden Ost is in the south of Wiesbaden .