The Bacchus was an
express train in
Germany, initially linking
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
and
Munich. The train was named after the Roman God of
wine, although for most of its existence it linked two cities famous for producing
beer.
History
Trans Europ Express
In 1971 the
Deutsche Bundesbahn started an inner German network of first-class only
InterCity services modeled after the
Trans Europ Express
The Trans Europ Express, or Trans-Europe Express (TEE), was an international first-class railway service in western and central Europe that was founded in 1957 and ceased in 1995. At the height of its operations, in 1974, the TEE network compri ...
(TEE) criteria, but more frequent than the TEE, one train per hour instead of one train a day. During the 1970s the introduction of second-class coaches in the Intercities was proposed and tested on some routes, resulting in the IC79 project.
The IC79 project was implemented at 28 May 1979, but seven inner German services, including a new train, the ''Bacchus'', stayed first-class-only and were classed as TEE to distinguish them from the two-class InterCity.
The ''TEE Bacchus'' was withdrawn only one year after the introduction. As it had run only on weekdays, ''Bacchus'' earned itself a record as the shortest-lived TEE, with 254 days of service.
InterCity
The ''Bacchus'' was revived as two class InterCity on 2 June 1985 on the same route until 1 June 1991. A third ''Bacchus'' ran between
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
and
Münster from 29 May 1994 until 23 May 1998.
[ La Légende des TEE p. 381.]
See also
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History of rail transport in Germany
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List of named passenger trains of Europe
This article contains lists of named passenger trains in Europe, listed by country. Listing by country does eliminate some EuroCity services from the list, but they are listed on the relevant EuroCity page for daytime trains and the EuroNight ...
References
Works cited
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{{Trans Europ Express trains
Named passenger trains of Germany
Railway services introduced in 1979
Trans Europ Express