Münster Valley Railway

The railway line Bad Krozingen - Munster ( Munster Railway ) is a single-track, electrified branch line from Bad Krozingen after Munster (Black Forest). In Bad Krozingen the track is connected to the Rhine Valley line. Owner and operator of the Munster Railway is the West German transport company ( SWEG ). The operating facilities are located in the station of Staufen.

Route

The route runs mainly through fields, meadows and forest. In Staufen, the branch line branched into two branches. The first built and now disused road led to Sulzburg, which still operated leads to Munster today. The Route - including the disused section - located entirely within the district of Breisgau - Black Forest. The run today section crossed with Bad Krozingen ( Krozingen Bad station to Oberkrozingen ), Staufen (of Staufen station to Etzenbach ) and Munster ( Dietzel Bach to Munster ) a total of three municipalities. The disused branch went to Grunern within the present town of Staufen and still happened Ballrechten -Dottingen and Sulzburg.

History

Both Staufen and Sulzburg had applied to a port on the Rhine Valley line. Since the distance but away from both cities led past, this came increasingly economically marginalized. For this reason, Staufen and Sulzburg first tried independently to the construction of a respective branch line. Ultimately, it was decided that a branch line that branched in Bad Krozingen of the Rhine Valley line and led over Staufen up to Sulzburg to build.

The first section of Bad Krozingen about Staufen to Sulzburg was built by the Berlin-based company Vering & Waechter and inaugurated on 22 December 1894. In February 1895, the track was included on the list of those in which the International Convention shall apply concerning the Carriage of cargo. Later, the route became the property of the German railway operating company over ( DEBG ), under whose direction 1916, the combination of Staufen was opened after Munster. In 1963, the route was taken over by the West German transport company ( SWEG ).

On September 27, 1969, the passenger traffic was set on the road to Sulzburg and replaced by a bus; the transport of goods between Grunern and Sulzburg ended on March 15, 1973; then the section was removed from the mid- seventies. Following the insolvency of the last connected in Grunern industrial establishment and the operation in 1996 set to the remaining piece. Today the route is overbuilt to Sulzburg partially.

On September 30, 2002, the freight office Staufen was closed. The crossover of the last existing alternative point of an industrial plant was dismantled two years later.

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.Vorlage: Future / In 4 years this context, the route Bad Krozingen - Munster during a full closure was between 29. May 2012 and the June 9, 2013 electrified.

On 29 May 2012, the operation was temporarily suspended in order to renew the superstructure of the track. After 23 July 2012, the regional council had approved the electrification of the railway line, could also be started with the electrification planned for 14 million euros. In early 2013 it was announced that the electric railcars were not able to drive at 80 km / hr, but at 60 km / h as the country's subsidies had not been approved for the development of railway crossings. In mid-February 2013, the funds were released, despite a general permit stops in the Ministry of Transport.

Operation

From the early eighties the NE 81 series were used on the Munster Railway DMUs that were in the nineties replaced by Regioshuttles.

The 11.0 km long section is traversed by three diesel railcars of this type. Individual courses run on behalf of Deutsche Bahn AG of Bad Krozingen to Freiburg next and back again, while the direction of change in in Bad. The route is fully in the tariff area of the Regional Transport Authority Freiburg ( RVF ). During the electrification of 29 May 2012 to 8 June 2013, a rail replacement bus service was set up, would last for ten months initially. Since 9 June 2013, the train runs every half hour between Bad Krozingen and Staufen and hourly after Untermünstertal. In order to maintain operations in the lead up to the arrival of the new trains RegioShuttle the East German railway company ( ODEG ). Since September 9, 2013 rolls two new electric vehicles of the type Bombardier Talent 2 are used as ET 150 and 151. Scheduled should first test and training rides take place from April 2013, due to delays in the approval process and the funding commitments of the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg they have but then began at the end of July. The vehicles arrived at the depot in Endingen since the beginning of July, the training staff also began in mid-July. The top line was set on July 15, 2013 under voltage ( 15 000 V). The electrical interlocking in Staufen was taken in August 2013. On September 21, 2013, the electrified operation was officially incorporated with state minister of transport Winfried Hermann. For the full clock transport of Bad Krozingen can be set up to Munster, still need the crossings for speeds of max. 80 km / h will be upgraded.