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Upper Rhine Railway Company

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The Upper Rhine Railway Company (Oberrheinische Eisenbahn, OEG), formerly the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (Upper Rhine Railway Company Ltd), later MVV OEG AG, later operated by MVV Verkehr AG (the operator of the Mannheim Tramway) and now part of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (Rhine-Neckar Transport), is a metre gauge railway between the three cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim. [1]

63 relations: Automatic block signaling, Bad Dürkheim, Baden-Württemberg, Bergstraße (route), Bielefeld Stadtbahn, Birkenau (Odenwald), Bundesstraße 3, DÜWAG, Deutsche Bahn, DGEG, Direct current, Dossenheim, Dual gauge, Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung für Schmalspurbahnen, Eppelheim, Fürth, Hesse, Fernmeldeturm Mannheim, Heddesheim, Heidelberg, Hugo Stinnes, Ilvesheim, Interlocking, Interurban, Ketsch, Ladenburg, List of scheduled railway routes in Germany, Ludwigshafen, Main-Neckar Railway, Mannheim, Mannheim Hauptbahnhof, Mannheim–Frankfurt railway, Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway, Metre-gauge railway, National Theatre Mannheim, Neckar, Neuenheimer Feld, Neuostheim/Neuhermsheim, Open coach, Overhead line, Professional mobile radio, Railway semaphore signal, Reichelsheim (Odenwald), Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr, Rollbock, RWE, SAP Arena, Schriesheim, Schwetzingen, South German Railway Company, ..., Standard-gauge railway, Track (rail transport), Trams in Heidelberg, Trams in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar, Viernheim, Waggonfabrik Fuchs, Waggonfabrik Rastatt, Weinheim, Weinheim (Bergstraße) station, Weinheim–Worms railway, Weschnitz, Weschnitz Valley Railway. Expand index (13 more) »

Automatic block signaling

Automatic block signaling (ABS) is a railroad communications system that consists of a series of signals that divide a railway line into a series of sections, or "blocks".

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Bad Dürkheim

Bad Dürkheim is a spa town in the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration, and is the seat of the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France.

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Bergstraße (route)

The Bergstraße ("Mountain Road") is ancient trade route in the south-west of Germany.

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Bielefeld Stadtbahn

The Bielefeld Stadtbahn is a metre gauge light rail (i.e. Stadtbahn) network in the German city of Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Birkenau (Odenwald)

Birkenau in the Odenwald is a community in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.

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Bundesstraße 3

The Bundesstraße 3 (abbr. B3) is one of the longest federal highways in Germany.

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DÜWAG

The Duewag AG was one of Germany's major manufacturers for rail vehicles.

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Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB, DB AG or DBAG) is a German railway company.

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DGEG

The German Railway History Company (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte) or DGEG is a society concerned with the history of the railways.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Dossenheim

Dossenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar (District) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Dual gauge

A dual gauge railway is a track that allows the passage of trains of two different track gauges.

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Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung für Schmalspurbahnen

The Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung für Schmalspurbahnen ("Ordinance on the Construction and Operation of Narrow-Gauge Railways" / narrow-gauge railway regulations), abbreviated as ESBO, is a German law regulation governing the field of narrow gauge railway operations.

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Eppelheim

Eppelheim is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg bordering Heidelberg.

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Fürth, Hesse

Fürth is a community and a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany.

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Fernmeldeturm Mannheim

The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 217.8 metre high concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim, Germany.

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Heddesheim

Heddesheim is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a college town in Baden-Württemberg situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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Hugo Stinnes

Hugo Dieter Stinnes (12 February 1870 – 10 April 1924) was a German industrialist and politician.

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Ilvesheim

Ilvesheim is a town of about 8700 residents (2012) in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

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Interlocking

In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Ketsch

is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

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Ladenburg

Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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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.

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Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.

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Main-Neckar Railway

The Main-Neckar Railway (Main-Neckar–Eisenbahn, MNE) is a main line railway west of the Odenwald in the Upper Rhine Plain of Germany that connects Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg via Darmstadt, Bensheim and Weinheim.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Monnem or Mannem) is a city in the southwestern part of Germany, the third-largest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with a 2015 population of approximately 305,000 inhabitants.

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Mannheim Hauptbahnhof

Mannheim Hauptbahnhof (German for Mannheim main station) is a railway station in Mannheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Mannheim–Frankfurt railway

Mannheim–Frankfurt railway is a German standard gauge, electrified railway line and runs in southern Hesse and northern Baden-Württemberg between Frankfurt and Mannheim.

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Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway

The Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway is a double-track electrified mainline railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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National Theatre Mannheim

The present National Theatre Mannheim (Nationaltheater Mannheim), which dates from 1957, is a theatre and opera company in Mannheim, Germany, with a variety of performance spaces.

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Neckar

The Neckar is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.

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Neuenheimer Feld

Neuenheimer Feld is an area in the city of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Neuostheim/Neuhermsheim

Neuostheim/Neuhermsheim is a suburb of the city of Mannheim, Germany, composed of Neuostheim and Neuhermsheim and is considered to be one of the more attractive neighbourhoods of Mannheim.

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Open coach

An open coach is a railway passenger coach that does not have compartments or other divisions within it and in which the seats are arranged in one or more open plan areas with a centre aisle.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Professional mobile radio

Professional mobile radio (also known as private mobile radio (PMR) in the UK and land mobile radio (LMR) in North America) are field radio communications systems which use portable, mobile, base station, and dispatch console radios.

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Railway semaphore signal

Semaphore is of the earliest forms of fixed railway signals.

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Reichelsheim (Odenwald)

Reichelsheim (Odenwald) is a community in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany.

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Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr

Rhine-Neckar Transport (Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH, RNV) is a company operating public transport in the Rhine-Neckar region, including the cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

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Rollbock

Rollbocks, sometimes called transporter trailers, are pre-coupled narrow gauge transporter trucks or bogies that allow a coupled train of standard gauge wagons to be automatically loaded or rolled onto so that the train can then continue through a change of gauge.

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RWE

RWE AG, until 1990: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG (Rhenish-Westphalian Power Plant), is a German electric utilities company based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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SAP Arena

SAP Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Mannheim, Germany.

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Schriesheim

Schriesheim is a town located in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, north of Heidelberg on the Bergstrasse ("Mountain Road") and on Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

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Schwetzingen

Schwetzingen is a German town situated in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, around southwest of Heidelberg and southeast of Mannheim.

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South German Railway Company

The South German Railway Company (Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG) or SEG was founded on 11 February 1895, in Darmstadt by the railway entrepreneur, Herrmann Bachstein, and several bank managers.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Track (rail transport)

The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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Trams in Heidelberg

The Heidelberg tramway network (Straßenbahnnetz Heidelberg) is a network of tramways forming an important element of the public transport system in Heidelberg, a city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Trams in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen

The Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramway network (Straßenbahnnetz Mannheim/Ludwigshafen) is a network of tramways focused on the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and also extending to Heidelberg and Weinheim (see OEG), in the Rhine Neckar Area of Germany.

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Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) is a public transport network covering parts of the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in south-west Germany.

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Viernheim

Viernheim is a midsize industrial town on Mannheim’s outskirts and is found in the Rhine Neckar agglomeration and economic area.

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Waggonfabrik Fuchs

Waggonfabrik Fuchs ('Fuchs Coach Factory') was a German coach and wagon builders based in Heidelberg in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.

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Waggonfabrik Rastatt

Waggonfabrik Rastatt ('Rastatt Coach Factory') was a public limited company (Aktiengesellschaft or AG) based in Rastatt in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.

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Weinheim

is a town in the north west of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany with 43,000 inhabitants, approximately north of Heidelberg and northeast of Mannheim.

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Weinheim (Bergstraße) station

Weinheim (Bergstraße) station is a station in the town of Weinheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Weinheim–Worms railway

The Weinheim–Worms railway (popularly known as the Wormser Hex, "Worms witch") is a non-electrified standard-gauge railway that formerly connected Weinheim, Viernheim, Lampertheim and Worms.

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Weschnitz

The Weschnitz is a 59.4 km long right tributary of the Rhine River running through the German states of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

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Weschnitz Valley Railway

The Weschnitz Valley Railway (German: Weschnitztalbahn) is a railway line in Germany that runs from Weinheim an der Bergstraße in the valley of the River Weschnitz to Fürth im Odenwald.

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Oberrheinische Eisenbahn, Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rhine_Railway_Company

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