Ersingen heavy / light rail contrasts.

This video shows dual-voltage light rail trams / streetcars sharing a mainline railway with main-line trains at Ersingen station.

It was filmed in the early 1990's when the mainline faced a shortage of 'heavy' rail trains.

The LRV's were used to replace some local trains on the route between Karlsruhe and the nearby town of Pforzheim. Their intended use was on a new service combining street tramway & pedestrian zone routes electrified at 750v dc and mainline routes electrified at 15,000c ac. However they were only able to work on that service once some new linking tracks had been constructed, and until this had been done they were 'spare'.

This line is also used by heavy freight trains, international InterCity express trains and even steam trains, all of which are seen in this video.
For safety all services using this line were fitted with Automatic Train Protection signalling.

Also seen is a short ride inside one of the light rail vehicles.

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• Ersingen
• Karlsruhe
• tram
• railway
• rail
• railroad
• streetcar

[cig1705]

A class 140 on load 1 is outrageous! Was it an EMU/tram substitute?

[citytransportinfo]

sorry, all I know is that there was a shortage of locomotives at the time, which is why they used what in reality are trams for some of the local services on the railway.

Simon

[Braumeister88]

Des is noch Eisenbahn!

[citytransportinfo]

Yes.

With 'heavy rail' trains, and 'light rail' trains / trams (strassenbahn).

I travelled through here a few months ago - on a double deck train from Karlsruhe going to Stuttgart.

Simon

[Insuff]

da war die welt noch in ordnung! und noch keine assis aufm bahnhof!

[citytransportinfo]

yes, a simple and functional station.

Simon

[eltfell]

The 150's locos are out of service today.

[mrbob19]

And also the first Combined system of Heavy Train and Lightrail trams.

[CryMcGlery]

aus ersingen

vom niveau bist ein ersinger bahnhofgammler :D

[BastiaanLuytjes]

Heavy = schwer. Große Kontraste zwischen leichte und schwere fahrzeuge wird hier gemeint.

[SlimBJFilms]

ja da hasch recht :D

scheiss hopper!

bin auch Ersinger!!!

[BeFaRo213]

Da waren noch keine blöden Hip Hopper am Bahnhof.

Ich wohn ja da.

ICH KOMM VON ERSINGEN :D