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Karlsruhe
- approx. 290,000 inh., in the west of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Tram &
Regional Light Rail ('tram-train')
- route length approx. 79 km (including all dc sections within the Karlsruhe
city boundaries);
- 1435 mm gauge;
- city tunnel along Kaiserstraße with branch along Friedrichstraße/Ettlinger
Straße opened in Dec 2021;
- 5 urban tram lines (1-5; + line 8, which offers only a few journeys)
- regional
light rail lines that share urban tram routes: S1/S11, S2, S4/S41, S5,
S51/S52 and S7/S8
- S1 and S11 (750 V dc) share most of their route
and provide a 10-minute service on their urban section;
- S2 (750 V dc) provides a 10-minute service on its
urban section between Reitschulschlag and Rheinstrandsiedlung;
- S4 runs on DB tracks from Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof
via Durlach to Heilbronn and Öhringen
- dual-voltage operation (ac/dc);
- S5 runs on newly-built tram tracks through Wörth,
then on DB tracks across the Rhine River;
on the urban section through Karlsruhe
line S5 provides a 10-minute service; beyond Grötzingen, some trains
used
to continue to Bietigheim-Bissingen, where transfer was provided to
Stuttgart's S-Bahn line S5, but now
Pforzheim is the easternmost terminus
- dual-voltage operation (ac/dc);
- S51/S52 were introduced on 12 Dec 2010 serving the
upgraded rail line from Wörth to Germersheim;
while S51 enters Karlsruhe on the tram
route served by line S5 (skipping some stops), S52 uses the faster railway
line to Hauptbahnhof;
- S7 and S8 serve the DB routes
via
Rastatt to Freudenstadt and Bondorf as well as to Baden-Baden and Achern
(S71 and S81 discontinued in Dec 2022)
- S31 and S32 are only operated on DB mainline tracks.
- line S3 is actually an hourly extension of the Rhein-Neckar
S-Bahn from Mannheim via Heidelberg,
not operated with light rail cars.
09-09-2012:
Kongresszentrum - Philipp-Reis-Str. - Tullastr. - Rintheimer Str. (2.9
km, of which 1.8 km are newly built) served by line 6
28-11-2020: Siemensallee (former track triangle) - Knielingen Nord (1.6
km)
12-12-2021: tram tunnel Mühlburger Tor – Gottesauer Platz
/ Augartenstraße & surface route Karlstor – Rüppurer
Tor
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