Taunusbahn (Hochtaunus)

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Taunusbahn
Line length:	42 km
Gauge:	1435 mm
Maximum incline:	20 ‰
Maximum speed:	80 km/h
Legend former Solmsbachtalbahn (to Wetzlar) Brandoberndorf Hasselborn Hasselborn Tunnel 1300 m Jägerhaus former wood loading station Grävenwiesbach Weiltalbahn (to Weilburg) Hundstadt German Federal Police ammunition depot Wilhelmsdorf former military airfield narrow-gauge railway Usingen Hausen Neu-Anspach Anspach viaduct Wehrheim Saalburg / Lochmühle Leisure Park Erlenbach/ L3041 Köppern former railway to the Tettauer Glaswerke Friedberg-Friedrichsdorf railway line (to Friedberg) Friedrichsdorf S5 (called “Homburger Bahn”) Seulberg (trains from/to Frankfurt don't stop here) Bad Homburg Oberursel S3 (Bad Soden) / S4 (Kronberg) Frankfurt Rödelheim S-Bahn railway line uses the so-called Rödelheim Rail Curve regional trains rail Frankfurt (Main) Central Station

The Taunusbahn (Hochtaunus) is a train route between Frankfurt (Main) Central Station and Brandoberndorf over Bad Homburg, Usingen and Grävenwiesbach.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Image gallery 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Overview

The Taunusbahn is operated as the RMV line 15 by the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB) after the takeover of the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG. It is one of the commuter rail routes operated by the HLB west and north of Frankfurt.

The Taunusbahn trains run during the peak hours to and from Frankfurt Central Station, otherwise its south terminus station is Bad Homburg, which can also be reached from Frankfurt by the S-Bahn line S5. The trains commute every half-hour on working days and Saturdays, and hourly on Sundays and public holidays.

The rolling stock consists mainly of VT2E-type diesel trains. In December 2006, ten new LINT 41-type trains were added.

[edit] Image gallery

A Taunusbahn train before arriving in Seulberg	A Taunusbahn LINT 41-type train in Köppern	A modernized V2TE-type train in Köppern	A VT2E-type train near Wehrheim
A VT2E-type train between Wehrheim and Neu-Anspach	The Hasselborn Tunnel	A VT2E-type train in Brandoberndorf

[edit] See also

• Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, the transport association of the Rhein-Main area

[edit] External links

• (German) Website of the operator, Hessische Landesbahn GmbH

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 2007-02-27.