page_title: Stuttgart–Hattingen railway
section_title: New long-distance and local service (since 1990)
hierarchical_section_title: Stuttgart–Hattingen railway / History / New long-distance and local service (since 1990)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ein „Cisalpino“ von Mailand nach Stuttgart beim Zwischenhalt und Fahrtrichtungswechsel im Bahnhof Singen (Hohentwiel).
context_page_description: The Stuttgart–Hattingen railway, also known as the Gäu Railway is a 148.5-kilometer-long railway in the southern part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, running from Stuttgart to Hattingen. The Royal Württemberg State Railways and the Baden State Railways constructed the majority of this line between the years 1866 and 1879. However, the line in its present form was not completed until the Deutsche Reichsbahn finished construction on the connection between Tuttlingen and Hattingen in 1934. Today the partially single-track, fully electrified line features the high-speed Intercity-Express service, with its tilting train technology, traveling from Stuttgart to Zurich. In addition, a multitude of local train services of numerous railway companies are on offer. The Gäu Railway is also a significant line in the North-South freight service system.
context_section_description: By 1991, the number of express trains on the Gäubahn increased to eight daily trains, with five of those continuing on past Zurich to the cities of Milan, Genoa, and Lecce or Naples.  On the other hand, traffic to the north was largely eliminated; for example, just a single express trains traveled on to Nuremberg at the time.  The trip between Stuttgart and Singen now took exactly two hours, and was made by locomotives of the DB Class 110 and DB Class 181.  Starting in 1993, the Deutsche Bundesbahn, and, from 1994, the privatized Deutsche Bahn AG, attempted to shorten express trip times even further.  To achieve this goal, the Gäubahn saw test drives of the Italian Pendolino, as well as the Swedish X 2000.  Between 1993 and 1995, two trains of the service type EuroCity replaced some of the traditional express trains on the line.  For a short time, TEE-RABe trains of the Swiss Federal Railways were in use, which cut the trip time between Stuttgart and Singen to 1 hour and 50 minutes.
  On 1 March 1998, two tilting trains of the type ETR 470, owned by the Swiss firm Cisalpino AG, replaced some express service trains, since German tilting technology trains were not available for service yet.  This replacement did not initially result in shorter trip times.  In 1999, the DB AG radically altered long-distance traffic on the Gäubahn, and stopped, with one exception, using locomotive-powered trains altogether.  For the first time, trains of the type DB AG Class 415 with tilting technology were used on the line, and these trains, together with the Cisalpino, made up the bulk of long-distance trains.  This resulted in a trip time of 1 hour and 44 minutes between Stuttgart and Singen.  The Cisalpini were responsible for the traffic between Stuttgart and Milan, while the ICE trains carried the load between Stuttgart and Zurich; the through traffic between Stuttgart via Genoa to Naples was eliminated.  In 2005, the last locomotive-powered express train, the so-called IC Insubria, was also removed.  One year later, in December 2006, the Cisalpino service was stopped, eliminating direct connections to Italy, and making the ICE the only long-distance carrier on the Gäubahn.
  Alterations in local service were just as deep as in the case of long-distance travel.  On 5 December 1992, the S1 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn was expanded to Herrenberg, which improved local service between the Gäu and the state capital.  In 1994, the Seehas started service on the Gäubahn.  This service, which travels between Engen and Singen, was initially managed by the Swiss company Mittelthurgaubahn, due to the lack of suitable DB AG-trains.  In 2003, a sizable improvement of local service came about with the establishment of the Ringzug service, which traverses the Gäubahn between Tuttlingen and Rottweil.  A commonality between these new local service offerings is the addition of frequently stopping local trains to the express service offerings, which restarted service to the small communities on the Gäubahn.  To accommodate this service, DB Station&Service reactivated many closed stations and halts, and built a number of new halts on the line.
caption: The Cisalpino in Singen in 2004
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