Seehas

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Seehas train set in Konstanz station, 2001
"Seehas" to Engen in the Konstanz train station
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Seehas is the name of a S-Bahn- like local transport offer on the Engen - Konstanz route in the district of Konstanz . The operation is managed by SBB GmbH , a subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways . The Seehas trains use the Black Forest Railway between Engen and Singen and then the Hochrheinbahn via Radolfzell to Konstanz . Originally, the trains were tied across the federal border to Switzerland . They ran via Kreuzlingen to Weinfelden and also partially to Wil train station .

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In 1994 the first trains of the Mittelthurgau Railway , which until then ended in Konstanz, ran from Wil (later from Weinfelden) to Engen. The Seehas was thus a cross-border local means of transport that connected the canton of Thurgau with the district of Constance. After the bankruptcy of the Mittelthurgau Railway in 2003, Thurbo AG took over train traffic in Switzerland, and EuroTHURBO, as the subsidiary of Thurbo AG responsible for business in Germany , took over the operation of Seehas in Germany . However, the trains still ran continuously between Weinfelden and Engen. Since 2005, the Seehas trains have only run between Konstanz and Engen. Management was transferred to SBB GmbH, which was created in 2006 from the merger of EuroTHURBO GmbH and the "old" SBB GmbH (Lörrach).

It was initially operated with type ABDe 536 electric multiple units (611–616, built in 1965–1966; modernized at the end of the 1990s) and RBDe 566 (631–634, new NPZ commuter train, built in 1994), which had a striking paintwork in white, orange and pink. FLIRT from Stadler Rail (RABe 521 201–209, built in 2006, initially referred to as RABe 526 651–659) have been in use since May 2006 . Every day the trains run every half hour until around 8:00 p.m. , after that every hour. Since December 2006, the responsible authority and customer has been the state of Baden-Württemberg, for which the Baden-Württemberg local transport company (NVBW) had tendered the route as part of a package with regional traffic on the Karlsruhe – Konstanz route across Europe.

In Radolfzell there is a connection to the Seehäsle to Stockach.

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The line got its name as a result of a public competition. The name refers to a traditional mythical creature from the Lake Constance region, which is often depicted as a hybrid of fish and rabbit, for example at the Kaiserbrunnen on the Marktstätte in Constance. "Seehasen" is also a joke name used by the locals in the northern and western Lake Constance area and the name of some fools' guilds . In Friedrichshafen there is also the annual sea ​​hare festival . However, the name has nothing to do with the sea fish lumpfish .

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