Network
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn includes ten lines, in four different forms:
- tram lines under the German law regulating tram operations, in a modernised form with a large proportion of segregated track and priority at traffic lights. These lines are electrified at 750 V DC: Stadtbahn line S2 (operated by VBK in addition to its own seven tram lines).
- a combination of tram line sections within urban Karlsruhe and the secondary lines of the AVG, electrified at 750 V DC: lines S1 and S11.
- a combination of tram line sections within urban Karlsruhe, Wörth am Rhein, Bad Wildbad and Heilbronn, electrified at 750 V DC, and the railway lines of the DB and AVG, electrified at 15 kV AC, 16.7 Hz: lines S4, S41, S5, S51, S52 and S6.
- pure rail operations on DB and AVG tracks, electrified at 15 kV AC: lines S31, S32 and S9.
| Line no. |
Route | Stations | Railways | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S 1 | Hochstetten–Bad Herrenalb |
54 | Hardt Railway, Alb Valley Railway | AVG |
| S 11 | Hochstetten–Ittersbach |
56 | Hardt Railway, Alb Valley Railway, Busenbach–Ittersbach railway | AVG |
| S 2 | Spöck–Rheinstetten |
47 | Karlsruher Lokalbahn, Entenfang–Rheinstetten Stadtbahn line | VBK |
| S 31 | Freudenstadt–Odenheim |
56 | Murg Valley Railway, Rhine Valley Railway, Katzbach Railway | AVG, DB Regio |
| S 32 | Achern–Menzingen |
30 | Rhine Valley Railway, Kraich Valley Railway | |
| S 4 | Achern–Öhringen-Cappel |
86 | Rhine Valley Railway, Karlsruhe–Mühlacker Railway, Kraichgau Railway, Hohenlohe Railway | |
| S 41 | Eutingen im Gäu–Tullastraße / VBK |
53 | Gäu Railway, Murg Valley Railway, Rhine Valley Railway | |
| S 5 | Wörth Dorschberg–Bietigheim-Bissingen |
59 | Palatine Maximilian Railway, Karlsruhe–Mühlacker Railway, Western Railway | |
| S 51 | Germersheim–Marktplatz |
26 | Schifferstadt–Wörth railway, Palatine Maximilian Railway | |
| S 52 | Germersheim–Hauptbahnhof |
24 | ||
| S 6 | Pforzheim–Bad Wildbad |
19 | Enz Valley Railway | AVG |
| S 9 | Bruchsal–Mühlacker |
17 | Western Railway | DB Regio |
S-Bahn line S3 between Germersheim, Speyer, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Bruchsal and Karlsruhe is controlled by RheinNeckar S-Bahn, not by the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. It is operated by DB Regio with Class 425 EMUs.
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