Weil am Rhein–Lörrach railway

The railway Weil am Rhein- Lörrach ( Route number 734), also known as garden railway, is a 4.836 km long electrified and continuous single-track main line in Baden- Württemberg, in the triangle near Basel. It runs from Weil am Rhein on the Rhine Valley line through the mountain Tüllinger to Lörrach -Stetten on the meadow valley railway. The continuation of the Ring line was the now disused Wehratalbahn, the branching led to Schopfheim of the meadow valley train to Bad Säckingen on the High Rhine railway.

History

The railway Weil am Rhein- Lörrach was created on 20 May 1890 by the Baden State Railways as a strategic path for bypassing Switzerland. Already on February 11, 1878, a railway line between Weil and St. Louis was opened, which conquered the German - French war Alsace was conveniently connected even in the far south of the kingdom. The connection crossed the Rhine on the old Palmrainbrücke. This web section was founded in 1890 connected to the built by Southern chain strategic railway lines.

The first step in the expansion for the S -Bahn was made with the opening of the breakpoints Weil am Rhein garden city and Weil am Rhein Pfädlistraße 1999.

Since 15 June 2003, the German passenger transport subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB), railway transport companies whose jurisdiction is the SBB GmbH, ( RU ). The rail transport ( regional rail ) on the garden railway has since been incorporated as S5 into the net of the Regio S- Bahn Basel. Responsible railway infrastructure companies (EIU ) remains the DB Netz AG.

With the timetable change on 12 December 2004, the S5 has extended beyond Lörrach Hauptbahnhof afield to stones. On 12 June 2005, the new breakpoint Lörrach causeway was put into operation.

On the track in 2005 railcars of the type Stadler Flirt ( Swiss Series RABe 521, German 429 series ) can be used since the fall, which replaced the 561 modified as a temporary solution for use in Germany NPZ sets RBDe in March 2006 final.

The route as part of the strategic railway construction 1887-1890 to circumvent Switzerland