13-497: (Redirected from U-35 ) U35 may refer to: Bochum Stadtbahn , a light rail line in North Rhine-Westphalia German submarine U-35 , various vessels Great dodecahedron Small nucleolar RNA SNORD35 Uppland Runic Inscription 35 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
26-410: A tunnel was built as well – it begins at the train station and from there heads north, via the city center. The U35 line uses 25 standardized Stadtbahnwagen B trainsets from Duewag supplemented with 12 Stadler Tango trainsets (6 delivered in 2008, 6 more in 2021). With the additional Tango trains in stock, the old Stadtbahnwagen B trains will be modernized within the next few years. The first of
39-614: Is a light rail line in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , linking the cities of Bochum and Herne . It is operated by BOGESTRA , and is integrated into the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn network. It consists of a single Stadtbahn line, which includes a tunnel section between the city centers of Bochum and Herne. The Bochum Stadtbahn opened on 2 September 1989, then operating a route between Castle Herne Strünkede and Bochum Central Station . An extension of
52-536: Is one of the few Stadbahn systems not to share tracks and stations with regular trams, like the Frankfurt U-Bahn , making it closer to true metro systems like Munich U-Bahn than other similar light rail systems like Düsseldorf Stadtbahn . The U35 is by far the busiest public transport line in the BOGESTRA service area – it is the only rail line to run every 5 minutes on weekdays and the only one on which
65-543: The Dortmund Stadtbahn, some cars were modified with a central section and a fourth bogie. These vehicles are referred to as B8 or B80C/8 (eight axles). These vehicles have a length of 38 m (124 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) and a weight of 49 t (48 long tons; 54 short tons). When the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn network was planned in the early 1970s, standardised rolling stock
78-594: The city center of Bochum and the Ruhr University Bochum , to Querenburg in Bochum. More than two-thirds of this line runs underground. Only the southernmost six stations are at grade , in the portion of the U35 line that runs in the median of a highway. On this section, there are three at-grade road crossings, which renders it not a true metro system, but rather a light rail one. Despite that, however, it
91-734: The line from the Bochum Central Station south to the Ruhr-University Bochum and to Hustadt opened for service on 28 November 1993. Planned sections of the Bochum Stadtbahn northwest to Recklinghausen and southeast to Witten were never implemented due to the associated costs to these respective municipalities. The Bochum Stadtbahn route is called the U35 line. It runs north-south for approximately 15 kilometers (9 mi) from Schloss Strünkede in Herne, via
104-649: The modernized trains arrived back in Bochum in March 2024 and is due to be re-integrated into public traffic for the autumn of the same year. Stadtbahnwagen B The Stadtbahnwagen Typ B (translation Type "B" Light Rail Vehicle , short form B-Wagen ) is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn networks in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as by the Bursaray network in Bursa , Turkey . It
117-463: The title U35 . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U35&oldid=1158940399 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bochum Stadtbahn The Bochum Stadtbahn
130-404: The trains consist of two coupled-car trainsets. The other Stadtbahn lines that were planned for the Bochum Stadtbahn system were never finished, but portions of those planned lines were built and are in use by transit. In Bochum, two more tunnels were built under the city center, one east-west tunnel and one northeast-southwest tunnel. Both of these have four underground stations. In Gelsenkirchen,
143-468: Was immediately ordered by transport authorities in Cologne and Bonn, while Rhine-Ruhr authorities remained hesitant about "their" vehicle, now renamed Stadtbahnwagen Typ A . Eventually it was decided that the type "A" LRV was too unwieldy and type "B" LRVs were ordered by Essen , Mülheim , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Dortmund and Bochum . The type "A" concept, which consists of close coupled two-car sets,
SECTION 10
#1732798021760156-484: Was mainly developed by Düsseldorf -based Duewag , who also built the majority of vehicles in a consortium with Siemens and Kiepe . A small series of ten units was built by Waggon Union in Berlin . As the type evolved over two decades of production, some vehicles have little more in common than their outer dimensions and the basic configuration of a two-part multiple unit on three bogies with both outer ones powered. For
169-664: Was planned as well. At the same time, a second Stadtbahn network was planned for Cologne and Bonn. Because the future Cologne Stadtbahn already had one finished tunnel, that was built with the city's own money with streetcars in mind, the Stadtbahnwagen designed for the Rhine-Ruhr network was not suitable. So, another vehicle was designed for the Cologne/Bonn network, that was capable of driving though tighter curves. This vehicle, now referred to as Stadtbahnwagen Typ B
#759240