Täles Railway (Nürtingen–Neuffen)
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| Route number: | 762 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line length: | 8,9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge: | 1435 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Täles Railway (German: Tälesbahn) is a branch line in the Stuttgart region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is single-track and standard gauge, and is 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) long. It links Neuffen with Nürtingen, where it connects to the Neckar-Alb Railway from Stuttgart to Tübingen.[1]
The Tälesbahn is owned and operated by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG), a member of the Veolia Transport group. The line is the oldest surviving operation of the WEG, having been opened by them in 1900.[1][2]
Passenger services on the Tälesbahn use a fleet of 4 Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 units with a partial low floor. The typical service pattern consists of either one or two trains an hour, depending on the day and time of day, with each train taking 12 minutes for its journey. Except from regular historical train rides there was until 24. March 2013 no service on Sundays. Since then there is a test running with one train per hour between 10:00 and 20:00.[3][4]
Inspiration for Model Railways
The Neuffen Station is reproduced as a 1:87 scale (H0) Model Railway plastic kit model by the Vollmer company http://www.vollmer-online.de/de/artikel/art_3510.html. The same company produces other scale versions of the Neuffen Station.
Gallery
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RegioShuttle on the Tälesbahn
References
- 1 2 Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2009. p. 104. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ↑ "Strecken" [Routes] (in German). Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
- ↑ "Fahrzeuge der WEG" [WEG fleet] (in German). Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2011-03-29.
- ↑ "Neuffen - Nürtingen (Tälesbahn)" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
Coordinates: 48°33′32″N 9°22′28″E / 48.55889°N 9.37444°E