25-708: The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express rail service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen via Cologne , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen , Bochum and Dortmund to Hamm as line RE 1. The line is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) network and is operated by National Express . The service has one of the highest levels of patronage in Germany with about 110,000 passengers per day, mainly commuters and students. Today's NRW-Express replaced existing express services on individual sections of
50-492: A Christian school. Jihad came to Essen to live with his uncle, study and work. Jihad confessed to depositing the luggage on the trains but claimed he was unaware it was a bomb. He also said El Hajdib and he had researched on the internet how to prepare attacks which would cause increased suffering. Hamad told Lebanese interrogators that El Hajdib saw the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy as an attack by
75-553: A few timetable periods were services formed with six double-deck carriages). The high loadings often meant that the scheduled stopping times were insufficient, so delays were created. Delays to long-distance trains also had a strong influence on the punctuality of the NRW-Express . The situation was aggravated several times when DB Regio tried to change the timetable by shortening the turnaround time in Bielefeld from 70 to 10 minutes to save
100-459: A top speed of 140 km/h (87 mph), was ordered as class 146 with a top speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) in the autumn of 2001 and was first used for the NRW-Express services. RE 1 provided travel times that were very competitive with long-distance trains through North Rhine-Westphalia and had good connections in Bielefeld to Hanover, so the train on weekends was heavily used by long-distance travellers to Hamburg and Berlin as part of
125-458: A train set. These trials were always given up after a few weeks at the most. With the timetable change in December 2002, the route was cut back from Bielefeld to Hamm. On the section that was eliminated, the NRW-Express was replaced by the newly created Westfalen-Express (RE 6) from Düsseldorf via Duisburg, Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Hamm and Bielefeld to Minden . On the last section from Dortmund,
150-518: Is complemented by other rail passenger services. A large portion of it runs parallel to S-Bahn lines. The following Regional-Express services run every hour along part of its route: Additional services operate during the peaks between Aachen and Cologne Messe/Deutz five minutes before the regular services in order to overcome overcrowding. The NRW-Express is linked in Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Hamm and Paderborn with
175-517: The NRW-Express operated with new air-conditioned carriages equipped to operate at 160 km/h. The sets were now mostly hauled by class 146 locomotives , which had originally been supplied for the Expo. The class 145 locomotives, with their AC engines, had performed well on services at Expo 2000, so their introduction on the NRW-Express services was hoped to improve on-time running with their better acceleration. A passenger version of class 145, which has
200-537: The NRW-Express , however, now stopped only in Kamen, except every second hour it stopped at all five stations on the section. As a result of the shortening of the route of the trains, punctuality was significantly improved, although in the past most lost time could be made up between Hamm and Bielefeld. RE 1 therefore remains one of the lines in North Rhine-Westphalia that is most vulnerable to delay. A bomb plot on
225-839: The Western world on Islam. Further motivation was the killing of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on 7 June 2006 by US forces . Hamad and El Hajdib lived together in Cologne. Hamad was sentenced in December 2007 to twelve years in prison with hard labour in Beirut. The plans for the bombs were taken from the internet. The suspects diverged at a few points and it was there that technical mistakes were made. The devices cost about 200-300 Euro to build. The bombs were made from propane barbecue canisters to be triggered with gasoline and makeshift detonators . The detonators went off, but failed to ignite
250-779: The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (local transport association of Westphalia-Lippe). Regional-Express Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 405487339 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 06:53:40 GMT 2006 German train bombing plot On 31 July 2006, two men placed two suitcases filled with bombs on regional commuter trains in Germany . Departing from
275-519: The central station in Cologne , the bombs were timed to go off near Hamm or Dortmund and near Koblenz , and according to German investigators "would have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people ... on a much larger scale than the terrorist attacks on London subways and buses in July 2005 ." However, due to faulty construction, the bombs only failed to ignite, even as the detonators worked. According to
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#1732863219909300-561: The German prosecutor, at the time Germany had "never been closer to an Islamist attack than in this case." German investigators suspected a terrorist organisation was behind the plot. Investigations found two Lebanese men to have been behind the attempted bombings. Jihad Hamad, who had fled to Lebanon after the attempted attacks was sentenced to twelve years in prison in Beirut in 2007. Youssef Mohamad el-Hajdib, arrested in Kiel on 19 August,
325-522: The attempt to cause an explosion. After serving his sentence, he will be deported to Egypt. In 2020 El Hajdib was extradited to Lebanon. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kofferbomber-koeln-abschiebung-101.html Hamad, aged 20, fled to Lebanon after the failed attack and tried to hide with his family. He turned himself to Lebanese authorities in Beirut a few days after El Hajdib was arrested. His family lives in Al-Kobbe , Tripoli . In his youth Jihad went to
350-429: The gas. According to German security services the attacks were originally planned for the 2006 FIFA World Cup , several weeks earlier, but the suspects abandoned the plan when they considered the implications of such an attack. A search of the suspects' apartment found DNA matching that on the suitcases and receipts for the gas canister and gas. Surveillance cameras caught both suspects carrying wheeled baggage onto
375-870: The long distance tracks, along with the Rhein-Express (RE 5). By contrast, the Rhein-Haard-Express (RE 2), the Rhein-Emscher-Express (RE 3), the Rhein-Weser-Express (RE 6), the Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11) and the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE 19) run on the S-Bahn tracks or, if available, the so-called local tracks. Earlier, the NRW-Express used two other railway lines: The NRW-Express
400-406: The route after the regionalisation of transport in Germany. A number of stations previously served by long-distance trains, such as Düsseldorf-Benrath and Wattenscheid came to be served by regional services only. The NRW-Express was first classified as Regionalschnellbahn ("regional fast train") RSB 1, then as StadtExpress ("city express") SE 1 and eventually as Regional-Express RE 1, when it
425-498: The services were operated by DB Regio from 2016 until the commissioning of Siemens Desiro HC EMUs for RRX in June 2020. Following this, Abellio Rail NRW was contracted to take over operations at the timetable change on 14 June 2020. However, DB Regio continued to operate the services with the existing rolling stock because Abellio had to suspend staff training due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When
450-480: The so-called Wochenend-Ticket-Rennstrecke ("weekend-ticket race track"). This attractiveness became a problem since the trains were often overcrowded. An extension of the trains with an additional carriage failed to overcome this problem because the trains still used single-deck carriages and some platforms were too short for the extra carriage. At the time double-deck carriages were in short supply and their increased weight caused travel times to be extended (only during
475-432: The timetable changed on 13 December 2020, the service was taken over by Abellio. However, following the bankruptcy of Abellio, the line has been operated from 1 February 2022 under an emergency contract awarded to National Express. The NRW-Express operates daily between Aachen and Hamm. It uses a total of four railway lines: In the four to six track section between Duisburg and Düsseldorf, the NRW-Express runs throughout on
500-424: The train in 2006 failed due to faulty construction. From the timetable change in December 2010, services were extended to run every two hours between Hamm and Paderborn. In the off-peak, services have stopped east of Dortmund only at Dortmund-Scharnhorst, Dortmund-Kurl, Kamen-Methler and Nordbögge since 2010. The first morning service to Paderborn stopped at all stations between Hamm and Paderborn. A sixth carriage
525-531: The whole transport network of North Rhine-Westphalia. It also has direct connections at these stations with long-distance passenger services. Three public transport associations are involved in the operation of the Rhein-Express : the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland (local transport association of Rhineland, NVR), Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (transport association of the Rhine-Ruhr, VRR) and
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#1732863219909550-698: Was also given the name of NRW-Express . The service originally operated on the Aachen– Bielefeld route and was composed of class 110 locomotives hauling six partly modernised Silberling carriages. If necessary, trains had an additional carriage. From the mid-90s, the trains were formed of non air-conditioned double-deck carriages and class 111 locomotives . Shortly later control cars were added, so that push–pull operations could be introduced. From 1998, air-conditioned double-deck carriages were introduced, but only after Expo 2000 in Hanover were all services of
575-458: Was arrested at Kiel's central train station on 19 August 2006. There were reports two weeks later in connection with the Vollsmose terrorist trial that he was trying to travel to Denmark and that he had Odense imam Abu Bashar 's telephone in his pocket. Bashar denied knowing El Hajdib. On 9 December 2008 El Hajdib was sentenced to life in prison by a German court for attempted murder and
600-464: Was gradually introduced on each train between March 2011 and September 2011. This increased the capacity from 602 to 735 seats per train. The section between Hamm and Paderborn was dropped in December 2016. A reorganisation of services between Cologne and Dortmund is being undertaken in a program known as the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX). Within the framework of the so-called RRX interim contract,
625-464: Was in 2008 sentenced to life in prison in Germany for the attempted bombings. There remained suspicions of involvement by the brother of one of the convicted men, Saddam el-Hajdib, a high-ranking member of Fatah al-Islam who was killed in fighting with the Lebanese Army before he could be tried in court. Europol classified the attack as Islamic terrorism in a 2007 report. El Hajdib, aged 21,
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