page_title: Ringzug
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ringzug / History
caption_attribution_description: Blick von der Trossinger Hauptstraße zum Bahnhof , Bild selbst erstellt, 22.10.2006, Christian Meyer-Oldenburg
context_page_description: The Ringzug, also called the 3er-Ringzug is a passenger transport network in the districts of Tuttlingen, Rottweil and Schwarzwald-Baar in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Ringzug went into regular operations on 31 August 2003 and has operated in its current form since 12 December 2004. The concept of the Ringzug is the operation of a clockface timetable, coordinated with a variety of other buses and train services, over an S-Bahn-like network in a rural environment. In March 2006, the passenger association Pro Bahn described the Ringzug as an exemplary public transport system at its 2006 passenger transport awards. The Ringzug has aroused interest beyond the region and can point to steadily rising passenger numbers and declining deficits.
context_section_description: The majority of stations in the Ringzug area were skipped in the 1970s and 1980s due to the implementation of Deutsche Bundesbahn's so-called eilzugmäßigen (semi-fast running) of regional services. On the 28 kilometre-long section of the Stuttgart–Hattingen railway (Gäubahn) between Tuttlingen and Rottweil, Spaichingen was the only remaining stop. No train stopped even in Aldingen, which had 7,500 residents.
  Passenger services on the Marbach–Bad Dürrheim railway were abandoned in 1953, the abandonment of passenger services on the Heuberg Railway followed in 1966 and the northern section of the Wutach Valley Railway from Lauchringen to Zollhaus-Blumberg had no scheduled passenger traffic from 1967. After 1972, this was also true for the Breg Valley Railway. Even the Trossingen Railway would have been completely shut down if a decision taken by the Trossingen council in 1996 had been implemented.
  In the area of Upper Danube Nature Park between Tuttlingen and Fridingen,  the "Danube Valley" model was launched in September 1990 by the district of Tuttlingen to reverse some of the displacement of school transport from rail. Otherwise, public transport in the region was largely focused on school bus services.
  As a result of this withdrawal of services from the area, the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg area had no regional connections, except on long-distance services. On the Black Forest Railway, in addition to the express trains, an InterRegio service ran at two-hour intervals between Hamburg and Konstanz. On the Stuttgart–Hattingen railway, express trains (Durchgangszug or later EuroCity services) ran from Stuttgart via Zurich to Italy. There were also long-distance passenger trains on the Ulm–Tuttlingen-Donaueschingen–Neustadt (Schwarzw) and the Rottweil–Villingen–Donaueschingen–Neustadt (Schwarzw) routes.
caption: In the mid-1990s the Trossingen Stadt station of the Trossingen Railway was in danger of being closed
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