DB Regio Oberfranken

Uwe Domke, Gerd Schörner

DB Regio Bayern East based in Hof (Saale) is a division of Deutsche Bahn AG, which is responsible for a large part of the rail-based regional and local transport in the district of Upper Franconia. The company was formed on 1 October 2010 by the union of DB Regio and DB Regio Upper Franconia Eastern Bavaria.

Due to the situation that the operating Hof site do not coincide entirely electrified lines, only diesel-powered vehicles can reach the city. After the enormous investments of Deutsche Bahn to the turn of the millennium, the picture of the trains has largely changed within a few years of diesellokbespannten car trains to modern trainsets. Today in court 45 tilting trains VT 612 series and 12 conventional VT 628 are stationed. The VT 612 are used mainly on regional express lines, one exception was the bond by the RE trains from Würzburg / Lichtenfels on yard addition as a regional train to Bad Steben, which allowed passengers a transfer-free ride.

Depot

DB Regio Northeast Bavaria owns the depot yard a 68,000 m² large, modern workshop, which is particularly specialized in tilting vehicles. Here the railcars of series 612 and 628 are serviced, maintained and repaired, as well as the former vehicles Nuremberg Series 610 The workshop was modernized in the years 2000 and 2001 for about 4 million euros and adapted to today's requirements.

Stretch

The traffic area covers a large part of the routes in Upper Franconia. The following is an excerpt from routes that are stocked by DB Regio East Bavaria with vehicles:

  • RE Hof Hbf / Bayreuth Hbf - Lichtenfels - Würzburg Hbf
  • RE Hof Hbf / Bayreuth Hbf - Lichtenfels - Saalfeld (Saale )
  • RE Hof Hbf - Marktredwitz / Bayreuth Hbf - Nürnberg Hbf
  • RE Hof Hbf - Marktredwitz - Willow ( Oberpf ) - Regensburg
  • RE (Eger / Cheb - ) Marktredwitz / Bayreuth Hbf - Nürnberg Hbf
  • RB sheet - Neufahrn ( Lower Bavaria )

The RE- services are driven with VT 612 on the Hof / Bayreuth - Marktredwitz -Nuremberg operate until the timetable change in December 2007, also alternately VT 610 from the depot Nuremberg. Since then, the trains of the BR 610 to / from Nuremberg only at the Marktredwitz or Eger / Cheb starting / ending trains - again with Flügelzug to / from Bayreuth - used. The RB- services are - except for the above exception - served with VT 628.

As of December 2015, a two -hour extension of the Frankfurt coming new TWINDEXX Vario - trains ( new double-decker trains ) from Würzburg to Bamberg is extended. Until then, this area is replaced with vacant in the Munich Regional trains the 425 series on the RE- connection from December 2013. Also, these are used on the RB- connection of Franconia Railway to optimize the Coradia Continental trains. The connection Bamberg-Bayreuth/Hof is loaded from December 2013 in addition to Regioswinger with coming from Erfurt diesel railcars of Class 641. The Regioswinger only be used on the Hof / Bayreuth - Lichtenfels and the connections to Bamberg is run with the 641 series.

Competition

In recent years, the former DB Regio Upper Franconia had only a very limited set of the competition. On the Naabtalbahn Regensburg -Hof, whose continuation towards Plauen, the line from Marktredwitz - Cheb wrong for some years the private Vogtlandbahn, a subsidiary of state railway group. The inter-regional transport spare Munich -Regensburg -Hof from December 2007 was in 2005 also awarded to the state railway, which operates it as alex.

The Bavarian Railway Company "Diesel Power Upper Franconia " awarded under the tender, the RB- performances of all the non-electrified routes in Upper Franconia for start of operation on 12 June 2011 for the BeNEX GmbH, a subsidiary of the Hamburg High Bahn AG. There, now agilis trains travel the routes obtained. The RB- yard line - Marktredwitz - Regensburg, which is operated at the time of the Vogtlandbahn is divided timetable change in December 2012 in Marktredwitz. The northern section Hof - Marktredwitz is then the RB Marktredwitz - united Bayreuth - Kirchenlaibach - Bayreuth to a new, continuous RB- yard line - Marktredwitz. For the southern section Marktredwitz - Regensburg Bavarian Railway Company is currently looking for in the framework of an ongoing tendering a new operator. This supplement was already in December 2010 to the Regentalbahn -GmbH, which already operates the Forest Railway and the alex.

Likewise, the network operated by DB Regio Northeast Bavaria electrified subnet on the axis Bamberg Lichtenfels -Sonnenberg / Saalfeld (Saale ) was announced. Again, the contract was awarded to a competitor, regional and urban transport Bayern GmbH, a subsidiary of DB Regio. The recording operation is carried out in stages to December 2011 and 2013.

DB Regio Bayern Northeast thus operates from December 2013 exclusively RE and IRE trains in Upper Franconia, where the RE- lines will also be advertised in the coming years.

The RE- connection Würzbung-Bamberg-Lichtenfels-Bayreuth/Hof faces the dichotomy. This is because the DB Regio francs the call in the area of Main-Spessart won early 2013 happens. Thus, the DB Regio Bayern East loses the railway line Bamberg and Würzburg. As of December 2013, it consists of the route (Frankfurt ) Würzburg- Bamberg, which merges into the DB Regio Bayern VB francs and on the other hand the distance Bamberg-Lichtenfels-Bayreuth/Hof in the DB Regio Bayern VB Northeast Bavaria will pass.

  • Subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG
  • Railroad Company ( Germany )
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