Kaiserstuhl Railway

The Kaiserstuhlbahn is a non -federal branch line, the chair at the Kaiser - Breisach the emperor chair east with the routes God Home latch site Endingen chair and transom Malterdingen - Endingen, travels around the north and west. In tie - Malterdingen is connected to the Rhine Valley line and thus in the direction of Freiburg and Offenburg. In God Home and Breisach is the transition to the state in 1871 opened railway line Freiburg- Breisach ( Breisach train) which runs along the southern edge of the imperial chair. Resources point is the Endingen station, where the administration, the depot and vehicle halls are.

The Kaiserstuhlbahn is the last fully intact and fully in operation standard gauge route of the former South German Railway Company ( SEG). On the route, see passenger, freight and heritage railway operation ( Rebenbummler ) instead. Some of the sections are traversed in bus operation. Today is operated by Endingen from the seat of the transport company Breisgau- Emperor chair of the total passenger and freight on all non-electrified railroads in the metropolitan area of Freiburg.

History

The track parts Gottheim bars at the Kaiser chair place and bolt - Malterdingen - Endingen were opened on 15 December 1894 at September 7, 1895 followed by the remaining portion Endingen - Breisach. Builder was the Baden railway consortium under the railway entrepreneur Mr. brook stone, which brought the train on December 8, 1897 with effect from April 1, 1897, together with the Bregtalbahn and cell - Todtnauer Railway in the South German Railway Company ( SEG).

After the SEG had renounced the end of 1952 because of the high deficits of all its branch lines to an extension of the concession, the Kaiserstuhlbahn was acquired with effect from January 1, 1953 the State of Baden -Württemberg and incorporated into the Mittelbadische Railway Company Ltd (MEG ).

Under the MEG to rationalize and modernize the track began with the complete conversion to diesel operation, the introduction of the Zugleitbetriebes as well as the one-man operation for railcars. From the mid- 1950s, the bus developed with high growth rates for the second leg of the passenger traffic.

On 1 October 1971, the MEG merged with the West German Railway Company Ltd ( SWEG ) based in Lahr, which was renamed in 1984 in West German transport corporation. Through the merger, the workshop of the Munster train in Sulzburg was abandoned and the maintenance of rolling stock to be transferred to Endingen. In 1978, the museum steam train " Rebenbummler " on its regular operation.

The S -Bahn operation

Together with other companies founded the SWEG on 1 January 1994 the Regional Transport Authority Freiburg ( RVF ). The concept of Breisgau- S -Bahn saw both for track Freiburg, Breisach and for the Kaiserstuhlbahn for an integrated clock movement with modern light rail cars to help to bind the emperor chair at Freiburg region. However, there is no clock traffic between Breisach and key.

In 1995, the SWEG together with the Freiburg traffic AG each hold a 50 % share of the subsidiary Breisgau- S- Bahn GmbH ( BOD ), which took over the operation on the Breisach train 1997. Thus, the entire traffic was now around the Imperial throne in the hands of SWEG. 2002, the acquisition of the Elz Valley Railway followed by the BOD. For the ranges of Kaiserstuhlbahn, Breisach train, Elz Valley Railway and Munster train a total of 21 transport railcars were obtained by the Regio - Shuttle RS1, all of which are stationed in Endingen.

Vehicle parking and operation

As the initial Kaiserstuhlbahn received five tender locomotives No. 333-337 of the type Prussian T3, 15 two-axle passenger cars with open stages and skylight roofs, nine freight cars and three Bahnmeistereiwagen. Most of the freight car was later set at the state railway. All vehicles had until the introduction of air brakes in the 1930s Heberleinbremsen. As a major siding had the Riegeler brewery in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl a greater number of its own Bierkühlwagen for the beer shipment, all of which were set as private freight cars at the state railway. The only remaining Riegeler Bierkühlwagen is preserved in museums at the museum steam train Rebenbummler.

In 1927, the SEG a railcar traffic with combustion railcars at the Kaiser chair, bringing the SEG was one of the first railways in Germany, the combustion railcars inserting. 1925 procured the SEG at Van der Zypen & Charlier a series of six railcars No. T1 to T6, almost all times also drove at least at the Kaiser chair and of which the T24 (T4 ) remained preserved in museums. As a replacement for the burnt- T6 1935 MAN Railcar T22 was delivered. 1927 received the Kaiserstuhlbahn the brand new four- coupler steam locomotives No. 384 and 385 of Henschel, corresponding to the Henschel Catalog Type " food". Locomotive 384 has been used since 1978 as the motive power of the steam train museum Rebenbummler, which consists entirely of former SEG vehicles Kaiserstuhlbahn and other SEG routes.

1948 were purchased from the type Württemberg T 6 which were as No. 391, 393 and 394 at least until the middle of the decade in the use of the Federal Railroad cars with three steam locomotives. 394 locomotive arrived in 1974 as a showpiece to the Europa Park Rust and is obtained. After the transition to the MEG 1953, largely scrapped the old car park of the initial of 1894/95 and replaced him with more modern or modernized cars from other former SEG tracks from Rheinhessen. All the steam engines of the T3 type were scrapped in the course of the 1950s. There followed in 1956 the purchase of the diesel locomotive V44.01 type Krauss-Maffei ML 440 C. After buying several brand-new MAN railbuses VT 23 rotational viscometer, VT25 and VT27 were the old railcar T22 and T24 only needed as a reserve. From 1974 to 1985 was converted to standard gauge narrow gauge former DB - 252 902 (ex V 52 902 ) ex - Mosbach Mudau than 46.01 V at the Kaiser chair in use.

The current fleet of Kaiserstuhlbahn includes five Regioshuttles, several railcars and driving trailers of type NE 81, the MAN railcar VT28 and the two 1985 procured for Kaiserstuhlbahn diesel V102 and 103 ( D 75 B = B ') of Kaelble Gmeinder. 15 buses to expand the range of vehicles for road transport.

2014 invested SWEG in the renovation of the rail network.

The Kaiserstuhlbahn at Oberrotweil

Future

The cooperation agreement between RVG and NVBW of 11 March 2009 includes the electrification of the suburban railway network in the Freiburg area by the year 2018. It also routes Breisach - latch on the Emperor chair and bars are to be electrified at the Kaiser chair place - God 's home.