Worms–Bingen Stadt railway

Worms Hbf–Bingen (Rhein) Stadt railway

Regionalbahn service near Monsheim running towards Worms
Overview
Locale Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Line number 3512, 3560, 3569
Technical
Line length 62.9 km (39.1 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route number 662
Route map

Legend
 Line from Mainz
Ried Railway from Biblis
Nibelung Railway from Bensheim

 0.0 Worms Hbf
 Line to Ludwigshafen
 Worms-West(planned)
 Worms-Pfiffligheim(abandoned)
 6.1 Pfeddersheim
 Palatine Northern Railway from Bad Dürkheim
 11.5 Monsheim
 Zeller Valley Railway to Marnheim
 14.9 Flörsheim-Dalsheim
 19.7 Gundersheim (Rheinhessen)
 22.5 Eppelsheim (Rheinhessen)
 26.0 Kettenheim
 27.9 Alzey Süd
 Donnersberg Railway from Kirchheimbolanden
 30.0 Alzey
 former "Amiche" to Bodenheim
 32.5 Albig
 former Wiesbach Valley Railway from Wendelsheim
 37.7 Armsheim
 Line to Mainz
 41.0 Wallertheim
 43.3 Gau-Bickelheim
 former line from Fürfeld
 46.9 Sprendlingen (Rheinhessen)
 49.8 Welgesheim-Zotzenheim
 strategic railway from Bad Kreuznach
 52.4 Gensingen-Horrweiler
 56.6 Büdesheim-Dromersheim
strategic railway to Gau-Algesheim
Former chord from Ockenheim to Hindenburg Bridge
Bingen DB substation
West Rhine Railway from Mainz
Approach to Hindenburg Bridge over the Rhine
 60.9 Bingen-Kempten
 62.9 Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
 West Rhine Railway to Koblenz

Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Worms–Bingen Stadt railway or Rheinhessenbahn (Rhenish Hesse railway) is a non-electrified line that links Worms via Alzey to Bingen Stadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Route

The line is known as the Rheinhessenbahn because it runs over its entire length through the middle of the Rhineland-Palatinate region and former Grand Duchy of Hesse province of Rheinhessen (Rhenish Hesse). Services on the line are operated as timetable line 662. Between Worms and Gensingen-Horrweiler it has the line number of 3560, between Gensingen-Horrweiler and Büdesheim-Dromersheim junction it has the line number of 3512 (used for the Gau Algesheim–Bad Kreuznach railway), and between Büdesheim-Dromersheim and Bingen it has the line number of 3569. The line has both single and double-track sections.

History

The line was opened in three different sections successively between 1864 and 1871 by the private Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigsbahn, HLB).[2] Along with the HLB, the line was nationalised on 1 April 1897 and became part of the Prussian-Hessian Railway Operation and Financial Association (German: Preußisch-Hessische Eisenbahnbetriebs- und Finanzgemeinschaft). This organisation later shared the fate of the Prussian state railways and was absorbed into the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Operation

The line is operated by Deutsche Bahn.

It is served by class 628/629 diesel multiple units, and occasionally by trains hauled by class 218 locomotives. Between Monsheim and Worms there is a service about every half-hour. Hourly services run from Bingen Stadt to Worms.[3] The additional trains to Monsheim are hauled by class 218 locomotives and continue from Alzey to Mainz.

On Saturdays and Sundays the trains of Worms continue to Mannheim to combine with the RB44 between Worms and Mannheim to produce a 30-minute interval service.

Following the announcement of the new Southwest diesel network (Dieselnetzes Südwest) from December 2014, LINT rolling stock will be used on this line.

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) fares apply between Worms and Alzey and Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (Rhine-Nahe Transport Association, RNN) fares apply between Worms and Bingen.

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Line overview" (in German). www.amiche.de. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Timetable for RB35" (PDF-Version) (in German). rheinland-pfalz-takt.de. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

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