Lahn-Eifel-Bahn

RB 23 RE 25 RB 38 Lahn-Eifel-Bahn
LINT 27 double set as RB 38 near Kaisersesch
Overview
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Germany
Operation
Operator(s)	DB Regio Südwest
Technical
Line length	177 km (110 mi)
Operating speed	120 km/h (75 mph) (maximum)
Route number	478 (Kaisersesch–Andernach) 470 (Andernach-Koblenz) 625 (Koblenz-Gießen)
Route map 0 Kaisersesch 3 Urmersbach 9 Monreal 17 Mayen West 19 Mayen Ost 23 Kottenheim 26 Thür 28 Mendig 33 Kruft 37 Plaidt 39 Miesenheim 43 Andernach ICE, IC/EC 47 Weißenthurm 51 Urmitz 60 Koblenz Stadtmitte 61 Koblenz Hbf ICE, IC/EC, EN 65 Niederlahnstein 70 Friedrichssegen 74 Nievern 76 Bad Ems West 78 Bad Ems 81 Dausenau 85 Nassau (Lahn) 90 Obernhof (Lahn) 97 Laurenburg (Lahn) 103 Balduinstein 106 Fachingen (Lahn) 108 Diez 112 Limburg (Lahn) 141 Weilburg 164 Wetzlar 177 Gießen IC Source: German railway atlas

The Lahn-Eifel-Bahn is a rail passenger service in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse that runs as the RB 23 from Limburg an der Lahn via Koblenz and Andernach to Mayen, as RE 25 from Gießen via Limburg to Koblenz and as RB 38 from Andernach via Mayen to Kaisersesch.

It runs over the Lahn Valley Railway, the West Rhine railway and the Cross Eifel Railway.

It was created with the introduction of the Rhineland-Palatinate integrated timetable of 2015 at the timetable change in December 2014 by linking the Lahntalbahn (a service that ran on the Lahn Valley Railway) with the Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn (a service that ran mainly on the Cross Eifel Railway) services. The main advantage of this concept is that, for the places along the Pellenz-Eifel route to Mayen, it made possible a connection to central Koblenz without changing trains and at the same time the trains on the Lahn Valley Railway could reach Koblenz-Stadtmitte.

The contract to operate the Lahn-Eifel-Bahn was awarded at part of Lot 1 of the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network to DB Regio Südwest. The contract runs until December 2030.

The RB 23 services on this section generally run hourly and starts at Limburg at 45 minutes past the hour.

From Mondays to Fridays the first trip starts at 4:45, on Saturdays at 5:45 and Sundays at 6:45. The hourly services end at 20:45, but there is another service at 22:45 and on Fridays and Saturdays at 23:45.

From Mondays to Fridays, the service is reinforced in the holiday season by journeys at 5:15, 6:15, 6:28, 7:15 and 13:15 from Limburg.

Initially, many of these services ended at Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. The services that reached Koblenz around 5:50 and 7:19 continued to Andernach. The services that reached Koblenz around 7:50, 9:50, 11:50, 13:50, 15:50, 17:50, 19:50 and 21:50 continued to Mayen Ost. Due to problems with the platform occupancy in Koblenz Hauptbahnhof, it was not possible until December 2016 for all the trains of the Lahn Valley Railway to continue to Andernach.