Rail (magazine)

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description Railway magazine
publishing company Joachim Seyferth Publishing House
First edition 1982
attitude 2008
Frequency of publication 6 times a year (1983-2006),
4 times a year (1982 and 2007),
2 times a year (2008)
Editor-in-chief Joachim Seyferth
Web link seyferthverlag.de/zeitschriftschiene
ISSN 0932-2574
ZDB 883231-6

Die Schiene (original spelling SCHIENE) is a railway magazine published from 1982 to 2008. The publisher was the railway journalist and former railway worker Joachim Seyferth, who was born in 1956 . From 1983 to 2006 the track appeared six times a year. The 1982 and 2007 years comprised four issues, the 2008 year two issues. The place of publication was Wiesbaden.

Journalistic concept

The first and the last rail edition

The publication, advertised as “another railway magazine ” , opposed the closure of branch lines and advocated the expansion of rail traffic and local public transport , emphasizing the environmental friendliness of these modes of transport. From 1982 to 1985 its subtitle was “Forum for Active Transport Policy” and from 1986 to 2008 “Railway - Transport Policy - Travel Culture”.

With its programmatic claim, the rail was the mouthpiece of the traffic-political citizens' initiatives that arose in the 1980s as part of the environmental movement and the new social movements , including passenger associations such as Pro Bahn and IGEB as well as the ecologically oriented Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD).

One of the focal points of the Schiene booklet was the headings "Route reports" and "Initiative reports", which served the supraregional exchange of information between groups and individuals involved in rail and transport policy.

The alternative journalistic orientation in contrast to existing specialist and hobby magazines was u. a. underlined by design elements such as the landscape format 18 x 26 cm as well as a layout and black-and-white photographs that were essentially unchanged throughout the entire publication period.

Event series

The rail was the initiator of the transport policy conference " Horber Rail Days ", which has been held annually in Horb am Neckar since 1983 .

Award

German Rail Transport Prize for Media 1998 from the Deutsche Bahnkunden-Verband (DBV) .

Special editions and other publications

Special issues

  • Dirk Kaestner: Transport policy argumentation and work aids. (Schiene special issue 1). 1985, OCLC 180651243 .
  • Thomas Naumann: The TGV. Fast trains - trains of the future? (Schiene special issue 2). 1987, DNB 880852712 .
  • Karlheinz Rößler: Environmental damage from railways and cars - an ecological comparison. (Schiene special issue 3). 1988, OCLC 256757773 .
  • Reinhard Hanstein: Eco bonus instead of subsidies - setting the course for an ecological-social market economy in transport. (Schiene special issue 4). 1991, DNB 930543459 .

Illustrated books

Books

  • Joachim Seyferth: The new lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Mannheim-Stuttgart, Hanover-Würzburg. (Rail-Book 1). 1983, ISBN 3-926669-00-4 .
  • Karl-Heinz Kossack: Railways to Berlin - Failures and Opportunities. (Rail-Book 2). 1989, ISBN 3-926669-52-7 .

Yearbooks

(Ed .: Peter Raulfs)

Photo CDs

  • Rail Gallery 2009.
  • Rail Gallery 2010.
  • Rail Gallery 2011.
  • Rail Gallery 2012.
  • Rail Gallery 2013.
  • Rail Gallery 2014.
  • Rail Gallery 2015.
  • Rail Gallery 2016.
  • Rail Gallery 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horber Rail Days