Bremen S-Bahn

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The Regio -S -Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony handled a large part of the rail transport in the metropolitan area of ​​Bremen / Oldenburg, which includes the towns of Bremen, Oldenburg and Bremerhaven. Is also often simply referred to as the S-Bahn Bremen. In this project, the existing regional and suburban traffic on important links within the municipality of Bremen and between the surrounding cities of Bremerhaven, Delmenhorst, twist rings, Nordenham, Oldenburg, and Verden ( Aller) is unified. The official inauguration took place on 12 December 2010.

The service area of the Regio -S -Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony lies completely in the region of the transport association Bremen / Lower Saxony, whose tariff is applied.

• 3.1 U- Bahn and S -Bahn
• 3.2 Network Design in the city of Bremen

• 4.1 Power on existing routes
• 4.2 clock

• 5.1 Bremen 5.1.1 Declared measures
• 5.1.2 Recommended Actions

• 7.1 Dama Lige planning
• 7.2 Current situation
• 7.3 Planning by VEP 2025

Lines and operating

RS 1

The diameter line RS 1 represents the backbone of the Bremen network, since it runs parallel to the River Weser by the entire metropolitan area and the subsequent settlement located southeast axis in the district of Verden. Since December 2007, the North Western Railway already offered a forward operation on the reactivated for passenger Farge Vegesacker railroad. The complete setup of the RS 1 was carried out in December 2011 with the change of operator on the stretch between Vegesack and Verden.

The line has the following hold: Bremen - Farge, Bremen Turner Road, Bremen Kreinsloger, Bremen Mill Road, Bremen -Blumenthal, Bremen-Nord/Beckedorf Hospital, Bremen - Aumund, Vegesack, Bremen - Beautiful Beck, Bremen -St Magnus, Bremen - Lesum, Bremen-Burg ( transition to the RS 2 ), Bremen - Oslebshausen, Bremen - Walle, Bremen Hbf, Bremen - Sebaldsbrück, Bremen - Mahndorf, Achim, Baden ( Verden), Etelsen, long -tailed, Verden ( Aller).

On the middle section between Vegesack and Bremen Hauptbahnhof line RS 1, a half hour, offered a quarter of an hour in rush hour. The section between Vegesack Farge and is operated continuously every half hour. The section Bremen Hauptbahnhof- Verden ( Aller) each hour, serviced every half hour in rush hour as a rule. As vehicles are 3 - and 5-part units of type Coradia Continental used during rush hour, two trainsets in double traction.

In the summer of 2011, the leg Vegesack to Bremen- Farge was electrified. Since mid-December 2011, it is traversed with unit trains instead of diesel railcars. The foreseen for spring 2014 transfer- Binding in the head station in Bremen- Vegesack will initially only practiced outside the rush hour. The originally intended to parts of the incoming from Bremen Hbf units, one of which should continue to Bremen- Farge, still triggers technical and organizational boundaries.

RS 2

The diameter line RS 2 adopted on 12 December 2010 to its operation. It produces a north -south connection and is composed of the former lines R2 and R5.

The line has the following hold: Bremerhaven -Lehe, Bremerhaven Hbf, Bremerhaven - Wulsdorf, Loxstedt Lunestedt, Stubben, Lübberstedt, Oldenbüttel, Osterholz- Beck, Ritterhude, Bremen-Burg, Bremen Hbf, Bremen -Hemelingen, Dreye, Kirchweyhe, Barrien, Syke, Bramstedt ( b. Syke ), Bassum, Twist rings.

Hazards will go on this route every hour, with individual trips are interposed, or individual tours only from / to Bremen Hbf.

From the southeast, from Osnabrück and twist rings, coming passengers in the Bremen Town area in the future can change at the new station Föhrenstraße in the line RS 1 and the tram. The following two breakpoints on the main station Bremen- Walle and Bremen- Oslebshausen will be operated only by the RS 1, the last common stop with connections before going on to Bremerhaven is located in Bremen-Burg railway station.

The start of operations in December 2010 was accompanied by significant problems: The trains did not have enough capacity, the ticket machines were repeatedly made ​​, traditional fantasy cards, and the promised accessibility could not be complied with.

RS 3

The radius RS line 3 replaced on 12 December 2010, the previously existing regional rail line from Bremen to Oldenburg. The line about the active single-track line from Oldenburg Main Station was extended to Bad Zwischenahn.

The line has the following hold: Oldenburg, Oldenburg ( Oldb. ) Hbf, Wüsting, Hude ( transition to the RS 4 ), Bookholzberg, Schierbrok, Hoykenkamp, Delmenhorst (transition towards Osnabrück ), Heidkrug, Bremen -Neustadt, Bremen Hbf

The line is served hourly, with individual rides are only driven to / from Oldenburg ( Oldb. ) Hbf. At rush hour two zusammengekuppelte vehicles are on the track between Oldenburg and Bremen often in use: Before the RS 3 can go from Oldenburg to Oldenburg, the front part of the station is disconnected and short- west off to attend upon the arrival of the train from Bad Zwischenahn to be coupled thereto.

The trains running via Oldenburg to Bremen freight trains to and from the Jade -Weser- Port are thereby co-determine the line capacity and thus the possible clock density of passenger trains.

RS 4

The radius line RS 4 to Nordenham has become the successor of the end of 2004 with S-Bahn-/Regionalverkehrstriebwagen operated regional express trains on 12 December 2010.

The line has the following hold: Nordenham, Kleinensiel, Roden Churches ( Oldb. ), Brake / Weser, Elsfleth, Berne, Hude ( transition to RS 3 ), Delmenhorst (transition towards Osnabrück ), Bremen Hbf

The line is served hourly.

Changes at stations and stops between Bremen Central Station and Hude depend on a number of factors, the exact details are not yet known. This refers in particular to the two-track section between Bremen and Delmenhorst, which is heavily burdened as the sole connection of Bremen, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, who Ostfriesland and the JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven or will be. The plan of a dual-system tram line with the line number 11 from Bremen to Delmenhorst will not be pursued.

Rolling stock

The North Western Railway is a 18 three - and five-part 17 railcars of the type Alstom Coradia Continental for the operation of the S -Bahn Bremen.

History

U- Bahn and S -Bahn

In the 1970s, the state of Bremen planned for the first time an S- and U- Bahn network. This was based on the opinion of the professors grave and Kracke. In addition to an S- Bahn network that would connect the city with the endpoints in the surrounding counties, the city planned a subway, although not necessarily go under the ground, but should include as an "independent " train the Districts. A metro line should be led by Delmenhorst Huchting, airport, city center, university and Holler city until after Borg field and Lilienthal. The line S 1 should be out of Schwanewede over city center by Sebaldsbrück and Mahndorf as well as Achim to Verden. The S 2 should connect Osterholz- Beck Ritterhude, Marßel ​​and castle with Findorff, University, Upper territory and Rotenburg ( Wümme). The third high-speed railway was planned from Delmenhorst Huchting, New Town, city center and Hemelingen after Kirchweyhe, Syke and twist rings. The temporary committee of citizenship, who presented these plans after 19 months, presented the result as an alternative to the " car-friendly city " with pedestrian zones and a dense network of stops in the city center and a network of parking at the terminals of public transport lines. Due to financial and technical difficulties and political opposition, this concept was not pursued further.

Network design in the urban area of Bremen

The basic design of the S -Bahn Bremen dates from the 1970s and provided almost exclusively to create a monocentric network with three diameter lines on existing railway lines. This one used by all lines parallel to the original route would have arisen Weser in Bremen's city area. The shape of the rail network in the city of Bremen, however, prevents the three lines can be bonded directly to the six outer branches: Two of the branches reach Bremen Hauptbahnhof from the east, four from the west. One of the proposed lines would therefore can not operate continuously, but in Bremen Hbf to change their direction of travel, so that their division into two or three independent lines was close. However, could the large residential areas such as settlement Tenever or municipality Oyten who grew up in the second half of the 20th century in the Bremen East, can not be achieved in this way.

To solve this problem at least three partly combinable solutions were at different times been presented:

• Construction of a railway tunnel in the east of the city, connects the residential areas;
• Using a direction transverse to the Weser freight rail line would be connected by means of a one- and Ausfädelungsbauwerkes designated as Mahndorfer curve with the eastern end of the main line;
• Operation of the critical line as a regional rail service to the Karlsruhe model, the inner city uses the existing streetcar tracks and switches at a suitable point on the railway line. A tunnel solution stood at the end out of the question, and the other two proposals were in the years to be too expensive also discarded in 2004 and 2005. Are in ultimately advertised network also in the meantime, referred to as S 5 Ostast was no longer included instead under the name metropolis train the existing stations between Bremen Hbf and Rotenburg ( Wümme ) from a through -bound to Hamburg transit line in the style of a regional train and a quick line in the way a regional express train be operated. One reason for this can be seen also in the other, running separately from the S -Bahn tender procedure, which is organized in three Länder.

Infrastructure and clock

Network on existing routes

The technical details of the Regio -S -Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony resembles the implemented around the turn of the millennium around S -Bahn systems Hannover and Rhein- Neckar. Existing regional services are performed with slightly adapted for use with new electric trains running under AC catenary railcars, but not separate from the rest regional, long-distance passenger and freight service. Only in the area of the original route Bremen capacity constraints are to be reduced or resolved through specific extensions.

Smaller breakpoints are presented in a for the Metropolitan Region Bremen poor and non-accessible state, some meadow without fixed platforms and weather protection cottage. As a significant extension to multiple levels of attainment in a number of new access points created or existing ones modified in position, thus opening up surrounding settlements or other means of transport can be linked better. The platforms at the stations and stops are raised to a uniform level of 76 centimeters to make the vehicles accessible.

By GVFG funded modernization program as part of the RS 1, all stations were accessible rebuilt by the end of 2013. The exception is the decommissioned station Sebaldsbrück. On the RS 2 train stations Oldenbüttel and Lübberstedt were modernized in connection with the operation of port hinterland traffic. Furthermore, by the Lower Saxony program the stations Nordenham, Brake, Hude, Kirchweyhe, Syke, Bassum, twist rings and Osterholz- Beck is on the train 2 is brought up to date. Remaining stations such as Bookholzberg, Schierbrok and Hoykenkamp are expected from 2016 be accessible.

Stroke

The base clock speed of sixty minutes illustrates the conceptual proximity to the previously existing regional transport services. On single track branches there are Increased frequency and overlays on 30 - and 15 -minute cycles. S-Bahn comparable cycle times are only offered on the route Bremen -Vegesack -Bremen -Hauptbahnhof during the rush hours.

By using agile railcars, the journey time reduced on routes of around five minutes per half-axis. In some places, the schedule was further streamlined, making it however vulnerable to poorly degradable delays: So the lines 1 and 2 have a 3-minute stay in Bremen Hbf and in Oldenburg is for the RS3- train pair a strong relationship to each other ( the exit to Bad Zwischenahn late already when the RS3 Bad Zwischenahn even a minute late, )

Future

Several new stations to enhance the network of S-Bahn. Have been planned as generous Increased frequency by 2030. On the RS 1 is to be moved between Blumenthal and Achim a full-time 15 - minute intervals. On the RS 2, a 30 - minute cycle between Bremerhaven -Lehe and Syke. In the same cycle, the RS will run 3 to Oldenburg. In addition, the RS 2 and RS should also hold 4 at all stations.

Due to increase in freight traffic to the ports of Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven as well as the planned cycle compaction are in the range of RS 1 and RS 2, several extensions proposed to avoid capacity bottlenecks. This is, for example, a Überwerfungsbauwerk in Burg, a subsequent three-prong extension to the central station and a siding in Achim.

Bremen

" - Bremen move traffic in 2025! " In the on-going process shows the Senator for Construction, Environment and Transport on possible new access points.

Declared measures

In Bremer East is planned at two different levels, a new breakpoint Föhrenstraße. Here four tracks to be equipped with side platforms at the interface of the two railway routes to Hannover and Osnabrück near the Hastedter highway. A urban rebuilding the highway with laying of the tram stops are planned. The design of the station of the RS 1 (the so-called Zeppelin tunnel ) from 2018/2019 as well as a possibly three - or four-track expansion in the course of the project Y route depend on the construction of the railway bridge over the Sebaldsbrücker highway. The only a few hundred meters away Sebaldsbrück station is shut down. Also close by, breakpoint Hemelingen is shifted further south to the running in the trough Hanover Street.

Recommended Actions

At the Elizabeth Selbert Street is planning a title Arbergen station planned

At the Steubenstraße the same station is to be used as a hub to a newly proposed streetcar line only for RS 2.

The breakpoint Achterdiek in the amount of the same road and a stop for the trains in the area of ​​University and Technology Park are planned along the route to Hamburg. A variant proposes to build the tram the breakpoint, which would have to make do others in the currently unused area of ​​the Otto - Hahn-Allee, which would be costly opened up with roads and paths, and without access to bus or trams to the subway.

After the city of Bremerhaven for the RS 1 and RS 2 Grambker in the area village street plans to station Grambke.

Just before the border to the Marßel ​​station, arising bonded to it street.

For all Regio -S -Bahn and regional trains the breakpoint Mittelshuchting is planned at the Brokhuchtinger highway.

Lower Saxony

In the direction of Verden on the RS 1 is to be built in Uphusen a new station.

On the RS 4 will discuss the re-establishment of the station Kirchhammelwarden.

In the city of Oldenburg at the Carl -von- Ossietzky University should take place after years of planning to start construction soon.

Operator

In March 2008, was selected after a European tender by the provincial public transport company of Lower Saxony ( LNVG ) the North Western Railway as operator of the S -Bahn Bremen. There are several railway companies had applied to the operation of the train, including the DB Regio, Keolis and the Bremen tram AG. The North Western Railway was both price and in terms of quality over their competitors.

The German Railways (DB) had doubted the proper conduct of the tender process and was therefore left as the only competitor in revision. The DB intention to participate in a new tender procedure with the rate unbound DB Heidekrautbahn. Meanwhile, gave the Executive Committee plans known, in the case of an allocation in another to close the railway repair work Sebaldsbrück because it is no longer reindeer. This is surprising inasmuch as only diesel locomotives to be serviced at the factory, but they are not used at all on the railway network.

The public procurement tribunal in Lüneburg ruled in May 2008 that the award decision by a judgment of the European Court is set aside for public procurement law of Lower Saxony. Against this decision of the Procurement Chamber put LNVG turn a complaint to the Higher Regional Court of Celle. After hearings before the Procurement Division of the Court of Appeal on 15 July 2008 suggested that the DB Regio AG to withdraw their application. On 25 July 2008 then gave the German Bahn AG announced that it had withdrawn its application for review. The tender for the construction and operation from 2010 for the Regio -S- Bahn network so went to the North Western Railway.

Hanse- network

Dama Lige planning

The then regional train from Twist rings to Rotenburg (Wümme ) should be shared. The northern section from Bremen Main Station to Rotenburg should assume designated as S 5 S-Bahn line. The southern part of the new S 2 of Bremerhaven -Lehe to twist rings. The S 5 then was not in the translated concept of Regio -S -Bahn in operation.

Current situation

For the previous regional trains towards Rotenburg were extended to Hamburg and driven with more modern rolling stock in addition to the previous operated by the metronom Railroad Company ( with the genus Regional Express comparable ) trains. The area in which the transport association Bremen / Lower Saxony applies, belongs in its technical functionality to the Bremen S -Bahn system. Since the states of Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg have no common state contract for rail-based public transport, a new contract was required for this tender. In the 2009 call by the provincial public transport company Lower the route to the Hanseatic network belongs. Since December 2010, the metronome between Bremen and Hamburg wrong twice as often as before. So there is a fast connection ( metronome ) between the two Hanseatic cities, with only the holding stations Bremen Hauptbahnhof, Rotenburg / Wümme, Tostedt, Buchholz / North Heath, Hamburg- Harburg and Hamburg are approached Central Station, the journey takes about 68 minutes. The other compound ( until December 2013 called Metronome regional) has a driving time of about 82 minutes. These trains stop at all stations between Bremen and Hamburg.

Planning by VEP 2025

According to current planning, the then planned S 5 is to be introduced as the RS 5 as well. Here is the new line to the existing metronome to Hamburg ( stopping at all stations ) in the 60-minute compact clock, so that a half hour to Rotenburg is.