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S28 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)
The S28 ''Regiobahn'' is a S-train, S-Bahn line in the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network. It is operated by ''Transdev Germany, Transdev Rheinland GmbH'' as a subcontractor of ''Regiobahn GmbH, Regiobahn Fahrbetriebsgesellschaft mbH'' (''Regiobahn'' for short), who is the Public service obligation, PSO operator on behalf of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). Description The line begins in Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, then uses the branch line via Mettmann Stadtwald station, Mettmann Stadtwald; then it runs through Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof branching off to Kaarst after passing through Neuss Hauptbahnhof. Its western terminus is Kaarster See station, Kaarster See. The line is operated using Integral S5D95 Diesel multiple unit, DMUs at 20-minute intervals, with only two trains an hour running between Mettmann and Wuppertal. On weekends, the whole line is operated at 30-minute intervals. Until 2021, Bombardier Talent DMUs were used, which were replaced by second-hand Integral trains from the Bayer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn () is a Metropolitan area, polycentric S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan regions in Germany, Metropolitan Region in the Germany, German States of Germany, federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and cities such as Dortmund, Duisburg and Essen), the Bergisches Land, Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of the Rhineland (with cities such as Cologne and Düsseldorf). The easternmost city within the S-Bahn Rhine-Ruhr network is Unna, the westernmost city served is Mönchengladbach. The S-Bahn operates in the areas of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr and Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg tariff associations, touching areas of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV) at Düren and Westfalentarif at Unna. The network was established in 1967 with a line connecting Ratingen Ost station, Ratingen Ost to Düsseldorf-Garath station, Düsseldorf-Garath. The system consists of 16 lines. With a system length of , it is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaarst
Kaarst (; ) is a town in Germany. It lies in the district of Rhein-Kreis Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is 5 km west of Neuss and 12 km east of Mönchengladbach. Division of the town Kaarst consists of 5 subdivisions * Kaarst (23,495 inhabitants) * Büttgen (6,415 inhabitants) * Driesch (645 inhabitants) * Holzbüttgen (5,967 inhabitants) * Vorst (5,671 inhabitants) History Before 100 BC Celts lived in the area. Later the Franks came into this area as graves from the 7th century prove. The first written document is the ''Life'' of the first bishop of Münster. It describes how bishop Ludger walked from Budica, now Büttgen, through the forest of Hamrithi. The earliest known written mention of Kaarst refers to it as 'Karlesforst' and dates back to 1218. Karl was a very common name for frankish nobles including king Charlemagne ('Karl der Große'), but a link between Charlemagne and Kaarst has not been proven. Kaarst and Büttgen both have churches built in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company
The Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company (German language, German: ''Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', DEE) was founded in October 1835 and officially recognised by a Prussian government statute on 23 September 1837. This gave the company a concession for the construction and operation of the 26 kilometre long Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line via Erkrath, Hochdahl and Vohwinkel. One of the founders was the Elberfeld banker and later Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry, August von der Heydt (1801–1874). Construction The construction of the first section from Düsseldorf to Erkrath (8.12 km) began on 9 April 1838 and it was opened for freight traffic on 20 December 1838. It was the first steam railway in western Germany (except for the short and sometimes horse-hauled Bavarian Ludwig Railway), the first in Prussia and the fifth in Germany. The Düsseldorf station was originally located at the south end of Königsallee rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf–Elberfeld Railway
The Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway is a 27 km long main line railway in Germany, originally built by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company, connecting Düsseldorf and Elberfeld (now Wuppertal) via Erkrath, Hochdahl and Vohwinkel. It is served by Regional Express, Regionalbahn and S-Bahn trains. History The Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway was built from 1838 to 1841 by the ''Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company'' (''Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', DEE), which had been established for this purpose. It was taken over by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (''Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', BME) in 1857 and a continuous second track was built by 1865. Realignment of lines in Düsseldorf The Düsseldorf Central Station opened on 1 October 1891 replaced the three stations of the recently nationalised, formerly (nominally) private railway companies. The new line from the Düsseldorf station ran north along the existing route of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DB Netz
DB Netz () was a major subsidiary of that owned and operated a majority of the German railway system. It was one of the largest railway infrastructure managers by length (33,291 km as of 2019) and transport volume of its network. On 1 January 2024, it merged with DB Station&Service to form DB InfraGO. Overview The company was established in the course of the second stage of the German rail reform as a subsidiary of . DB Netz was headquartered in Frankfurt and contained seven regional divisions ("Regionalbereiche", RB) and a central division. The locations of its regional headquarters were Berlin (RB east), Frankfurt (RB central), Duisburg (RB west), Hanover (RB north), Karlsruhe (RB southwest), Leipzig (RB southeast) and Munich (RB south). DB Netz AG was profitable from route fees but received extensive public funding for maintaining, developing and extending the network of European and federal transportation routes. Despite being an integral part of AG and one of its maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuppertal-Sonnborn Station
Wuppertal-Sonnborn station is located in the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is served by S 8 services running between Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Hagen Hauptbahnhof every 20 mins (two out of three starting/ending at Wuppertal-Oberbarmen) and by line S 9 running between Gladbeck and Wuppertal Hbf every 30 minutes (half extended to Recklinghausen / Haltern am See Haltern am See (''Haltern at the lake'', before December 2001 only Haltern) is a medium-sized town in the northern part of the Recklinghausen (district), district of Recklinghausen in the Münster (region), ''Regierungsbezirk'' Münster in North Rh ... and to Hagen). It is also served by bus route 629, operated by ''WSW mobil'' at 30 or 60 minute intervals during the day. References Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S9 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allianz Pro Schiene
Allianz SE ( , ) is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. Allianz is the world's largest insurance company and the largest financial services company in Europe. In 2023, the company was ranked 37th in the ''Forbes'' Global 2000. Also it is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Its asset management division, which consists of PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors, has €2,432 billion of assets under management (AUM), of which €1,775 billion are third-party assets (Q1 2021). Allianz sold Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank in November 2008. Allianz was a major supporter of the Nazi movement and was an insurer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. History Foundation ''Allianz AG'' was founded in Munich in 1889, but started its activities in Berlin on 5 February 1890, by the then-director of the ''Munich Reinsurance Company'' Carl von Thieme (a native of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viersen (district)
Viersen () is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Cleves, Wesel, district-free Krefeld, Neuss, district-free Mönchengladbach, Heinsberg and the Dutch province of Limburg. History In 1816, the new Prussian government created the district of ''Kempen''. Originally belonging to the Regierungsbezirk Kleve which was dissolved in 1822, Kempen has since then belonged to Düsseldorf. In 1929 the district was enlarged significantly and renamed ''Kempen-Krefeld''. In 1975 the district again changed its borders and was renamed ''Viersen'' even though Kempen remained the capital. Viersen city replaced Kempen as the capital in 1984. Twin Cities The district Viersen has been twinned with Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom since 1983. Geography The district is located in the lowlands between the rivers Rhine and Meuse. The highest elevation is at ''Süchtelner Höhen'' with , whereas the lowest is at ''Pielbruch'' with . Coat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viersen
Viersen (; ) is the capital of the Viersen (district), district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Viersen is situated approximately 8 km north-west of Mönchengladbach, 15 km south-west of Krefeld and 20 km east of Venlo (Netherlands). Division of the town The city of Viersen is made up of three (formerly independent) cities: Süchteln, Dülken and Viersen, which combined in 1970, and one former village, Boisheim, which combined with Viersen in 1968. Politics The current mayor of Viersen is Sabine Anemüller of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 2015. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows: ! rowspan=2 colspan=2, Candidate ! rowspan=2, Party ! colspan=2, First round ! colspan=2, Second round , - ! Votes ! % ! Votes ! % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Christoph Hopp , align=left, Christian Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willich
Willich () is a town in the district of Viersen (district), Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is 20 km west of Düsseldorf, 14 km north of Mönchengladbach, 10 km south of Krefeld, about 30 kilometres east of Germany–Netherlands border, the border with the Netherlands and 45 km east of Roermond. History The city was founded in 1970 out of the formerly independent villages of Willich, Anrath, Schiefbahn and Neersen, although the villages are much older. Anrath was mentioned for the first time in 1010, Willich in 1245, Neersen in 1262 and Schiefbahn in 1420. The villages belonged to the Electorate of Cologne until the French Revolutionary Wars: in 1794, French troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine; France annexed the territory later (Left Bank of the Rhine#French Revolution, 1797/1801) and kept it until 1814. After the Battle of Waterloo (June 1815), the Congress of Vienna was held and the villages fell to the Kingdom of Prussia. 1891–1945 In 1891 a tornado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abellio Rail NRW
Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany operating bus and rail networks. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned Abellio. History Abellio Deutschland was formed by the Essen public transit company ( EVAG, today part of Ruhrbahn) in 2004. In 2005, British investment company Star Capital Partners purchased a 75% share in Abellio from the City of Essen. In December 2008, both sold their shares to NedRailways. The Abellio brand was later rolled out to replace the NedRailways brand internationally. Operations Rail As of December 2016, Abellio Deutschland operated 18 lines over 978 kilometres with a fleet of 86 trains.Welcome to Abellio Abellio February 2017 Abellio Rail NRW Abellio Rail NRW was founded in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayerische Oberlandbahn
The Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH (BOB) is a private railway company based in Holzkirchen, Germany, and owned by Transdev Germany (formerly known as ''Veolia Verkehr''). Since June 2020 its services are operated under the brand Bayerische Regiobahn (BRB) of its sister company. BOB Trains connect Munich with the alpine hamlets of Bayrischzell, Lenggries, and the spa town of Tegernsee. The routes are not electrified and are serviced with diesel-hydraulic and diesel-mechanic DMUs. Lines served The three ''BOB'' lines run on part of what was the Bayerischen Maximiliansbahn as a combined train set from München Hauptbahnhof via the southern ring to Holzkirchen. In Holzkirchen, one of the DMUs splits off of the train, heading off to the east, running through Miesbach and Schliersee to Bayrischzell. The two remaining DMU continue on to Schaftlach where they separate again, with one DMU going to Lenggries via Bad Tölz, while the last DMU heads off towards the southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
