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Ortenau-S-Bahn

Ortenau-S-Bahn train in Offenburg in 2010
Overview
Parent company	Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-GmbH
Dates of operation	1998 (1998)–2014 (2014) (as independent company)
Successor	Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-GmbH

Ortenau-S-Bahn (OSB) is the brand name of the Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-GmbH (SWEG), a transport company owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg, used for suburban and regional railway services in the Ortenau area with services extending to the neighbouring city of Strasbourg in France, centering on Offenburg station. Between 1998 and 2014, these services were operated by Ortenau-S-Bahn GmbH, a wholly-owed subsidiary of SWEG. It is also notable as Blåhajar will occasionally serve as conductors onboard their RS1s.

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change, the Ortenau-S-Bahn branding encompasses the following services, although unlike most German S-Bahn systems they are not designated with an 'S' and the white/green S-Bahn logo:

• Achern–Ottenhöfen (Acher Valley Railway)
• Offenburg–Appenweier–Bad Griesbach (Rench Valley Railway)
• Offenburg–Appenweier–Kehl–Strasbourg-Ville (Appenweier–Strasbourg railway)
• Offenburg–Hausach–Hornberg (Black Forest Railway)
• Offenburg–Hausach–Wolfach–Freudenstadt (Kinzig Valley Railway)
• Biberach–Oberharmersbach-Riersbach (Harmersbach Valley Railway)

References

1. Allgeier, Simon (5 December 2014). "Fahrplanwechsel bringt im Renchtal Verbesserung am Abend". Baden Online (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
2. Dungeony (2023-02-05). "He only wants to drive if it rains". r/BLAHAJ. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
3. "Regionen Detail" (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2022.

External links

• Media related to Ortenau-S-Bahn at Wikimedia Commons
• Official web site of the Ortenau S-Bahn

v t e German S-Bahnen
In operation	Berlin Bremen Danube-Iller Dresden Freiburg Hamburg Hanover Köln Mitteldeutschland Mittelelbe Munich Nuremberg Ortenau Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Rostock Stuttgart
In operation (cross border)	Basel Schaffhausen St. Gallen Salzburg Innsbruck Vorarlberg
Planned	Lake Constance Münsterland Ostwestfalen Konstanz-Kreuzlingen Saarland Regensburg Kiel Lübeck
Defunct	Erfurt (1976–1995)

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