Rhein-Niers-Bahn

RB 33: Rhein-Niers-Bahn
Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Technical
Operating speed 140 km/h (87 mph) (maximum)
Route number 420, 425, 485
Route map

Legend
 Operating points and lines[1] 
Wesel
Friedrichsfeld (Niederrhein)
Voerde (Niederrhein)
Dinslaken
Oberhausen-Holten
Oberhausen-Sterkrade
Oberhausen Hbf ICE
Duisburg Hbf ICE, IC
Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd
Rheinhausen-Ost
Rheinhausen
Hohenbudberg-Bayerwerk
Krefeld-Uerdingen
Krefeld-Linn
Krefeld-Oppum
Krefeld Hbf
Forsthaus
Anrath
Viersen
Mönchengladbach Hbf ICE, IC
Rheydt Hbf IC
Wickrath
Herrath
Erkelenz
Hückelhoven-Baal
Brachelen
Heinsberg (Rheinl)
Heinsberg Kreishaus
Oberbruch (Rheinl)
Dremmen
Porselen
Horst
Randerath
Lindern
coupled/uncoupled in Lindern
Geilenkirchen
Übach-Palenberg
Herzogenrath IC
Kohlscheid
Aachen West
Aachen Schanz
Aachen Hbf THA, ICE, IC

The Rhine-Niers-Bahn (RB 33) is a Regionalbahn service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It connects Wesel and Duisburg on the Rhine with Mönchengladbach on the Niers and Aachen (sections of timetable routes 420, 425 and 485).

Operations

The service is formed of two overlapping services, each running hourly but offset by about 30 minutes:[2]

  1. Wesel–Duisburg–Krefeld–Mönchengladbach
  2. Duisburg–Krefeld–Mönchengladbach–Lindern–Aachen
  3. Heinsberg–Lindern

Thus results in services every 30 minutes on the section between Duisburg and Mönchengladbach. Class 425 electric multiple units are usually used on the line, although occasionally class 426 EMUs in coupled sets are used instead. In exceptional cases (e.g. in case of problems with EMUS during the leaf-fall season) push–pull trains, consisting of Silberling carriages and a class 111 locomotive are used. The service is operated by DB Regio–Region NRW.

Future

The 1998 transport plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the resolution adopting it provided for the renaming of the Rhine-Nier-Bahn. It would operate from 2015 on the Wesel–Duisburg section as S-Bahn line S 20, which would continue from Duisburg towards Düsseldorf. On the Wickrathberg–Duisburg section, the Rhine-Nier-Bahn would from no later than 2015 run as the S 21, which would continue from Duisburg to Kamen. There was no provision in the plan for adoption of the Aachen–Wickrathberg section into the S-Bahn network.

Route

The Regionalbahn service runs on the following railway lines:

Notes

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. "RB33: Rhein-Niers-Bahn". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. 7 July 2013.
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