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DB Regio Oberfranken is a business area with the German national railway company, ''
Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...
'' (DB), with its headquarters in
Hof (Saale) Hof () is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the Germany, German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech Republic, Czech border and the forested Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest upland regions. T ...
. It is responsible for the majority of regional and local railway services in the Bavarian province of
Upper Franconia Upper Franconia (, ) is a (administrative 'Regierungs''region 'bezirk'' of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, wh ...
(''Oberfranken'').


Trains

Because there are no electrified railways from Hof, the city can only be reached by diesel-engined rail vehicles. After heavy investment by Deutsche Bahn around the turn of the century, trains have changed in just a few years from diesel-hauled coaches to modern diesel multiple units. Today in Hof there are 45 VT 612
tilting train A tilting train is a train that has a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular rail tracks. As a train (or other vehicle) rounds a curve at speed, objects inside the train experience centrifugal force. This can cause packages to slide about ...
s and 27 conventional VT 628 units stationed there. The VT 612 are mainly employed on ''
Regional-Express In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (; RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with a top speed of and an average speed of about as it calls at fewer stations than ''R ...
'' routes. One exception is the through connexion of RE trains from Würzburg/Lichtenfels via Hof as ''
Regionalbahn The ''Regionalbahn'' (; lit. Regional train; abbreviated ''RB'') is a train categories in Europe, type of Regional rail, local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany. It is similar to the Regionalzug (R) and Regio (Swiss railway train), R ...
'' trains to Bad Steben. This enables passengers to travel the whole route without changing.


Locomotive depot

DB Regio Oberfranken owns the locomotive depot at Hof, Betriebswerk Hof, a 68,000 m2, modern
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, which specialises in tilting train technology. Here the Class 612 and 628 are inspected, maintained and repaired. The workshop was modernised in 2000 and 2001 for about 4 million
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s.


Routes

This transport region covers most of the routes in Upper Franconia. The following are some of the routes for which DB Regio Oberfranken supplies railway vehicles: * ''RE'' Hof / Bayreuth–Lichtenfels–Würzburg * ''RE'' Hof / Bayreuth–Lichtenfels–Saalfeld (Saale) * ''RE'' Hof / Bayreuth–Nürnberg Hbf * ''RE'' Hof–Marktredwitz–Weiden (Oberpf)–Regensburg * ''RE'' Hof–Marktredwitz–Nürnberg * ''RE'' Marktredwitz–Eger/Cheb * ''RB'' Marktredwitz– Kirchenlaibach–Bayreuth Hbf * ''RB'' Hof–Bad Steben * ''RB'' Hof–Selb * ''RB'' Bayreuth–Weiden (Oberpf) * RB Coburg-Bad Rodach The RE services are mainly operated with VT 612 units. On the Hof /
Bayreuth Bayreuth ( or ; High Franconian German, Upper Franconian: Bareid, ) is a Town#Germany, town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains. The town's roots date back to 11 ...
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Marktredwitz Marktredwitz () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the Czech border, 22 km west of Cheb, 50 km east of Bayreuth and 50 km south of Hof/Saale. Marktredwitz station is at the junction of the Nuremb ...
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Nuremberg Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...
line they alternated with VT 610 trains from Nuremberg depot until the timetable change in December 2007. The RB services are - with the aforementioned exception – worked by VT 628 units.


See also

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DB Regio DB Regio AG () is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and therefore part of the DB Regio business segment, which also includes DB Regionn ...
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List of German railway companies This list contains railway companies currently operating in Germany. It includes railway units that are not independent legal entities. Federal railways and private railway companies with their headquarters abroad are given their authority to oper ...
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List of scheduled railway routes in Germany NB: The scheduled routes given here are based primarily on the timetable of the Deutsche Bahn dated 9 December 2007.In addition the list of routes (see external links) reflects those of the German Regional Railway (''Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn'') ...
* List of railway stations in Bavaria


Sources

:de:DB Regio Oberfranken Deutsche Bahn Railway companies of Germany