page_title: Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway / Operations
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Güterzug in der Relation Linz–Kornwestheim in Richtung Backnang auf der Murrbahn bei der Ausfahrt aus dem Schanz-Tunnel bei Fornsbach, Zugnummer FE 44946. English: freight train with destination Backnang leaving the Schanz tunnel near Fornsbach, train number FE 44946.
context_page_description: The Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway is a major railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the shortest rail link between Stuttgart and Nuremberg.
  It starts at Waiblingen and runs between Backnang and Fornsbach through the upper valley of the Murr. The Backnang–Ludwigsburg railway, known as the Kleine Murrbahn, runs through the lower part of the Murr valley. The Murr Railway continues to Gaildorf on the Rot river, then to Schwäbisch Hall on the Kocher. There it connects with the Hohenlohe Railway from Crailsheim to Heilbronn.
  The first section of the Murr Railway to Backnang is integrated with the Stuttgart S-Bahn as line S3. The section to Backnang is double track and the remaining line to Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental is single track.
context_section_description: The following types of rail services currently operate on the Murr Railway on working days:
  S-Bahn services on line S3 from Stuttgart Airport via Stuttgart and Waiblingen to Backnang
  hourly Regional-Express (RE) services from Stuttgart to Backnang, stopping only at Bad Cannstatt, Waiblingen and Winnenden. Their final destination alternates between Hessental or Nuremberg via Crailsheim.
  a pair of Interregio-Express (IRE) services between Stuttgart and Crailsheim via Backnang
  The IRE and RE services use Silberling carriages, exclusively of the oldest build.
  On the weekend Regionalbahn traffic between Backnang and Schwäbisch Hall is operated with class ET 425 electrical multiple units.
  On 9 December 2006 the last long-distance train ran on the Murr line (with the exception of diverted traffic): an express from Nuremberg to Stuttgart (with coaches from Dresden and Prague).
caption: Freight train running to Kornwestheim near the exit from Schanz Tunnel near Fornsbach (May 2007)
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