TheBonn Stadtbahn (German:Stadtbahn Bonn) is aStadtbahn system inBonn and the surroundingRhein-Sieg area, that also includes theBonn Straßenbahn. Although with six actual Stadtbahn lines[1] (as well as threetram lines) the network is relatively small, two of Bonn's Stadtbahn lines connect to the much largerCologne Stadtbahn (and are numbered according to that system, not Bonn's).
The Stadtbahn network comprises 95.84 kilometres (59.55 mi) of route.[1] There are 64 stations and stops in the city of Bonn proper,[1] and another 17 in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis.[1] Additionally, 8.72 kilometres (5.42 mi) of the Stadtbahn is located underground,[1] as are 12 of the Stadtbahn stations.
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In the middle of the 1960s Bonn lay at the heart of five different railway enterprises. Besides theDeutsche Bundesbahn (theWest German national railway company) there was the independentCologne-Bonn railway (KBE) and three separate tram concerns:
This arrangement was inexpedient for a city which boasted 140,000 inhabitants and served as the seat of government for West Germany. The existing arrangements faced competition from the development of automobile traffic, and the federal government was anxious to transform Bonn from a provincial town to a modern capital. At the time trams were considered outmoded and unmodern, so the government was willing to provide funds for removal and replacement.
In 1967 the Bonn City Council approved a new transportation plan which included anunderground railway (U-Bahn) between Bonn andBad Godesberg; the initial ground breaking took place in October of the same year. The overall concept involved a mixed system of trams (operated by the SSB) and heavy rail (operated by the KBE). However, the KBE went into financial decline at the end of the decade and survived only with the support of theNorth Rhine-Westphalia government; in this environment expansion was impossible. Instead, the railway lines of the KBE would be used to provide a link between Bonn and the Cologne tram network. To this end, new, lighter rolling stock was introduced that would be more suitable on Cologne'sRhine bridges and subway tunnels. The Siegburg lines had already switched to Stadtbahn rolling stock in 1974. On 22 March 1975, the Bonn Stadtbahn was officially inaugurated.
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The Bonn Stadtbahn operates over former tram andheavy rail routes, which were either rebuilt for city rail traffic or replaced by underground lines. The only completely new section is the connection over the Südbrücke (South Bridge), which is used by the 66 and 68 lines on the southbound journey fromBonn Hauptbahnhof to Ramersdorf andBad Honnef.
The "Stammstrecke" (trunk route) is the 4.5-kilometre (2.8 mi) segment between Bonn Hauptbahnhof station andOlof-Palme-Allee station, which is served by all Stadtbahn lines except 18, but not by the three tram lines. The majority of the route runs through a tunnel between Hauptbahnhof andHeussallee/Museumsmeile, constructed in 1975, replacing the BGM-operated tram tracks which ran above-ground along the Adenauerallee and down toBad Godesberg.
The Bonn Stadtbahn covers 95.84 kilometres (59.55 mi) of route[1] and is composed of six lines all together, of which four operate regularly and two only duringpeak hours:
| Line | Route | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Köln-Niehl-Sebastianstraße -Köln Hauptbahnhof -Rheinuferbahn -Bonn Hauptbahnhof - Stammstrecke -Bad Godesberg | Operated in cooperation with Cologne Stadtbahn (i.e. is primarily a line of theCologne Stadtbahn). |
| 18 | Köln-Thielenbruch -Köln Hauptbahnhof -Brühl –Vorgebirgsbahn –Bonn Hauptbahnhof | Operated in cooperation with Cologne Stadtbahn (i.e. is primarily a line of theCologne Stadtbahn). |
| 63 | Tannenbusch –Rheinuferbahn –Bonn Hauptbahnhof – Stammstrecke –Bad Godesberg | |
| 66 | Siegburg –Sankt Augustin –Bonn Hauptbahnhof – Stammstrecke – Südbrücke – Siebengebirgsbahn –Bad Honnef | |
| 67 | Siegburg –Sankt Augustin –Bonn Hauptbahnhof – Stammstrecke –Bad Godesberg | Peak line: School days, mornings only |
| 68 | Bornheim – Vorgebirgsbahn –Bonn Hauptbahnhof – Stammstrecke – Südbrücke – Ramersdorf | Peak line: Limited service on weekdays from Bornheim to Ramersdorf; at weekends line terminates at Bonn Hbf |
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| Berlin | ||
| Brandenburg | ||
| Bremen | ||
| Hesse | ||
| Lower Saxony | ||
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | ||
| North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Saarland | ||
| Saxony | ||
| Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Thuringia | ||
1 Part of Strasbourg tramway network —2 Part of Basel tramway network —3 Partly in Berlin | ||
