Rur Valley railway

Guido Emunds Herbert Häner Achim Schmitz

The Rurtalbahn GmbH is a federally owned railway company based in Düren. It belongs to a 25.1% holding company Düren ( Düren, formerly circular path ) and 74.9 % of the RATH Group, a mid-sized family. The name Rurtalbahn was first performed as a brand from the Department of the rail Düren circular path for the DB acquired from the ranges. The January 1, 2003 with the participation of RATH divested as a separate company railway companies then received the name Rurtalbahn GmbH.

The Rurtalbahn is not a member of the collective organization of the federal treasury and non-federally owned railways in Germany ( TBNE ).

Passenger

On March 25, 1993 compared to the DB timetable significantly improved train operation began on the Rurtalbahn of Jülich Düren to Heimbach with at least one train per hour in each direction. Since 7 June 2002, the trains coming from Düren run again until after Linnich. On the flare path is offered seasonally on Sundays and public holidays passenger with the flare Express.

In the summer season of 2004 and 2005, the Rurtalbahn led seasonally on Sundays through tourism traffic on the Oleftalbahn of Kall Gemuend Schleiden.

The Rurtalbahn is 50% - involved in the railway company vias that is running on the 210 km long network of Odenwaldbahn in southern Hesse since 11 December 2005 - in addition to the DSB Germany, a subsidiary of the Danish State Railways. In five lines of three counties and the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt are touched.

On the railway line Mönchengladbach- Dalheim the Rurtalbahn the local rail services the Schwalm -Nette - Bahn provides as a subcontractor on behalf of DB Regio NRW.

Freight traffic

In freight transport, the Rurtalbahn trains transported to the North Sea ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. In the context of vehicle renditions for the Vienna local railway freight cars of Bremen are moved to Vienna.

At 50 % the Rurtalbahn is involved in the company based in Raeren Trainsport, the freight transport between Antwerp and Zeebrugge performs.

Since late 2004, the Rurtalbahn supplies the sugar factory Jülich with up to 400 tons of lignite per day. These are required for a newly built cogeneration plant of the sugar factory. There are also other local coal shipments for paper mills (including after Lendersdorf and Smurfit Kappa after Zuelpich ). Furthermore, the army maintenance plant in Jülich and Forschungszentrum Jülich be operated and conducted sporadic shipments for local industry.

Currently ( as of 2011) the Rurtalbahn transported in freight annually a tonnage of 1.5 million tons.

Locomotives

In transport renovated and modernized Uerdinger railcars were first used and replaced in 1995 by strong acceleration RegioSprinter. Due to the large size vehicle population the RegioSprinter Rurtalbahn in vehicle shortages arrive regularly with other businesses to use.

For museum use also a historic Talbot railcars is available.

Since the RegioSprinter no longer published to date Rurtalbahn opinion, 2008, the first plans for a renewal of the vehicle fleet were incorporated in the year. After tests with railcar types Alstom and Bombardier Coradia LINT Itino it finally came to an order of five Regio-Shuttle RS1 Stadler worth € 8.85 million. In November 2011, started with the delivery of railcars; now they run on schedule between Düren and Heimbach.

The acquired multiple units were bought by the Duerener circular path and leased to the Rurtalbahn. In a new tender for the route Heimbach Düren in 2016 the trainsets are coupled to the tender. In modern railcars but the Rurtalbahn sees a good chance of being able to operate the route after the re- tendering on.

In the Rail freight Rurtalbahn are currently (2011) ten mainline diesel - and two shunting locomotives used, moreover, there are three electric locomotives available.

The Diesellokbestand includes:

• A built by Jung in 1968 Köf III
• A Mak G 320 B, also from 1968,
• Three between 2000 and 2003 built OnRail DH 1004
• Two 2004 -made machines of the type MaK G 1206
• Five built between 2004 and 2008 locomotives of the type Vossloh G 2000 BB
• An EMD Class 66 of 2005

• Vehicles Rurtalbahn

RegioSprinter Rurtalbahn in the southern part of Düren

Section of the Iron Rhine with RegioSprinter at Rheindahlen

Railcars of the type Regio-Shuttle in Heimbach station

Modernized Uerdinger Schienenbus

A Rurtalbahn railcars as beading Express in Vettweiß

Class 66 Rurtalbahn cruise in Belgium

G 2000 BB Rurtalbahn in Amsterdam

Route network

The private network Rurtalbahn part of the investment company Düren and thus 100 % of the district of Düren. However, the infrastructure is the Rurtalbahn GmbH as a railway infrastructure company (EIU ) and the railway undertakings (RUs ).

This network includes the following routes:

• Southern Rurtalbahn: Düren - Heimbach
• Northern Rurtalbahn: Düren - Jülich, Jülich - Linnich
• Former Jülich circular path: Jülich - Puffendorf
• Northern part of the curl path: Düren - Zuelpich
• Railway - relieving Heinberg ( Rheinl )

The route Jülich - Puffendorf is currently not in operation, reactivation is not planned in the near future. On 7 June 2002, Section Jülich - Linnich the railway Julich- Dalheim reactivated. The route had been previously acquired by the Rurtalbahn. At a price of 860,000 euros, the Rurtalbahn also bought on 19 December 2002, the route Düren - Zuelpich ( flare path ) of the DB Netz AG.

On the route Düren - Jülich - Linnich the previous breakpoint Huchem - stammering was again expanded in 2011 to two kilometers to a double-track railway station. With the change of the timetables of Deutsche Bahn in June 2009 was no longer assured of the following trains in Düren in the herb Bahnhof with the previous crossing of trains. First was the closure of the operation planned by the end of 2010, but there were delays due to a longer planning approval process, so it was postponed by half a year. The design was changed a second time and the expansion finally completed the timetable change in December 2011.

Others

The Company's headquarters are located at the Kölner Landstraße in safflower Rath, which is the main and maintenance workshop in Distelrath station track technically from Düren forth across the unloading, the flange reached by train. There is also the depot for 17 RegioSprinter and the various freight locomotives.

Expansion plans

• North of Linnich the route to be extended to the railway line Aachen -Mönchengladbach. It is still debatable whether the extension to Hückelhoven - Baal, which de facto is a rebuild would be or should be done after the neighboring Brachelen; in conversation is also an extension beyond Baal and GER after Ratheim. Because of insufficient highly rated benefit-cost ratio is a decision for the expansion, however, not expected before 2015.
• Flare web Düren - Zuelpich - Euskirchen to be reactivated for the passenger. In conversation are through passenger trains from Bonn and Euskirchen Düren to Aachen.
• The company wanted to to build a container station in the region Düren. There were two variants, which was the location for a four-track container station on the flange track on the municipality of Noervenich at Rommelsheim favors. For this, the flare path of Düren should be electrified until the scheduled container rail. In the environment should could settle freight forwarders. Later, it was discussed to build the station in the industrial area in Rurbenden Huchem - stammering. Due to the lower development costs, the current planning is, however, the container station at Düren Vorbahnhof to the high-speed line between Cologne - Aachen to build. Should participate in the funding and the seaports of Rotterdam and Antwerp as well as international logistics company in addition to the Rurtalbahn after ideas of local politics.

Because of the largely crossed infrastructure funding from the Federal and the State of North Rhine -Westphalia all the plans are in addition to the container station postponed for the time being.

On June 28, 2012 it was announced that the route Düren - Linnich in 2013 to be electrified for 6 million euros. The transport Rhineland is intended to take over the bulk of the cost. In addition, a calculated with 2.88 million euro expansion of the railway infrastructure between Heimbach and Linnich is planned. [ Deprecated]