Weser Railway
| RB 77 Weser Railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book section (DB) : | 372 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 110 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 120 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal states: |
North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony |
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| Traffic Company: |
NordWestBahn , until December 2021 |
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The Weser-Bahn is a train route in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony from Bünde via Löhne , Rinteln , Hameln and Elze to Hildesheim . The regional train is called RB 77 in both countries .
course
The Weser Railway runs on a total of four different railway lines:
- The Weser Railway begins in Bünde on the Löhne – Rheine railway line and follows it to its end in Löhne.
- In Löhne, the Weser Railway changes to the Elze – Löhne railway line , which it uses for its entire length.
- The Weser Railway runs on the Hannöversche Südbahn from Elze to Nordstemmen .
- The last section of the train run to Hildesheim leads over the Lehrte – Nordstemmen railway .
offer
Until December 2003 the "Weser-Bahn" was operated by Deutsche Bahn AG with class 628 diesel multiple units.
In 2002, the offer for the regional train RB 77 was put out to tender for a period of eight years. The eurobahn , a branch of the Keolis Group (Keolis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin) based in Bielefeld, won against five other bidders and took over the line from December 2003. A new timetable was presented for the 2007 timetable change , in which the sometimes very long idle times were reduced, whereby the travel time from Löhne to Hildesheim was shortened by half an hour. Since then, there have been transfer options in the direction of Hanover at Elze station and in the direction of Bielefeld at Löhne (Westf) station.
From December 2011, the services were taken over by the NordWestBahn after another ten-year tender . Two-part diesel railcars of the type " LINT 41 " from Alstom , discontinued as the 648 series, are used. NordWestBahn removed the integrated ticket machines from the trains and installed their own machines at stations where there were previously no machines.
In operation, the Weser-Bahn trains in Hildesheim are tied through to Bodenburg via the Lammetalbahn .
Rates
With the "Weser-Bahn" several tariff areas have to be distinguished, some of which overlap. The following tariffs can be used:
- between Bünde and Rinteln the regional "six tariff" of the transport association OstWestfalenLippe .
- between Hessisch Oldendorf and Hildesheim as well as on the Lammetalbahn to Bodenburg the regional tariff of the Greater Hannover GVH (only for season tickets , journeys must include at least one train station in the outer ring area of the GVH),
- for all connections not included in the network areas, the local transport tariff of Deutsche Bahn AG or the NRW tariff . The Lower Saxony ticket is valid on the entire Weserbahn between Bünde and Hildesheim.
Adjacent bus tariff areas:
- between Elze and Rinteln the Weserbahn combined ticket for the Hameln-Pyrmont local transport ,
- Between Elze and Hildesheim Hbf the tariff of regional traffic Hildesheim (RVHI).
Web links
Deutsche Bahn AG:
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
Map with all coordinates: