Main-Sieg-Express
| RE 98/99: Main-Sieg-Express | |
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FLIRT DMU of the HLB
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| Overview | |
| Locale | North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Germany |
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| Operator(s) | Hessische Landesbahn |
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| Line length | 139 km (86 mi) |
| Operating speed | 160 km/h (99 mph) (maximum) |
| Route number | 445, 630 and 620 |
The Main-Sieg-Express is a Regional-Express service operated by the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Hesse from Siegen via Gießen to Frankfurt. It is operated by the Hessische Landesbahn (Hessian State Railway, HLB).
On 25 June 2008, the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV) and the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (Local transport association of Westphalia-Lippe, NWL) announced in a joint press statement that Hessische Landesbahn has won a Europe-wide tender and would take over the operation of the service for 13 years with effect on 12 December 2010. Until the commencement of the 2010/2011 timetable in December 2010, DB Regio Hesse had been operator of this service, which, after the elimination of long distance services between Siegen-Weidenau and Frankfurt in 2001, had originally been established as an Interregio-Express. In the early years, however, the Regional-Express service was characterised by a much longer journey time than the Interregio service due to capacity problems on the Main-Weser Railway. Travel times with a change in Gießen were up to 20 minutes faster than direct Main-Sieg-Express services. A change in the timings of Intercity service IC 26 between Frankfurt and Giessen in December 2009 allowed the Main-Sieg-Express to run with shorter travel times, almost as fast as the InterRegio timings.
Before the change of operators in 2010, the service was operated by DB Regio NRW every two hours via Giessen to Cologne.
The Regional-Express operates from Siegen to Giessen as RE 99 on the Dill line stopping in Haiger, Dillenburg, Herborn and Wetzlar. In Giessen, from Monday to Friday, it is coupled together with a set from Marburg, which is designated as RE 98, and reverses to run on the Main-Weser Railway to Frankfurt with a stop at Friedberg.
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