Metropolexpress

The Metropolexpress, abbreviated MEX, is a train type introduced in June 2021 for local rail passenger transport in Baden-Württemberg.[1]

MEX 16 to Stuttgart in Esslingen (Neckar)

Concept

The aim of the concept is to serve the main lines in the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region between Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and the surrounding rural and urban districts outside the Stuttgart S-Bahn area at a dense frequency. This is to be done on weekdays between 5 AM and 0 AM every 30 minutes. In addition, an hourly night service will be introduced on weekends between 0 AM and 5AM. As in the case of the former Stadt-Express, MEX trains will stop at all stations outside the S-Bahn area, but only at important interchanges with the S-Bahn and city services.

Lines and history

On behalf of the responsible Public Transport Authority, the Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (NVBW), the following connections are offered, all of which are linked in Stuttgart:

Line Route Railway company Vehicles Renaming
MEX before MEX-Route further course
MEX 13 RB 13 Stuttgart – Waiblingen – Schorndorf – Schwäbisch Gmünd – Aalen Aalen – Ellwangen – Crailsheim Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg Flirt 3 12 December 2021

[2][3]

MEX 14 RE 14a
RB 14a		 Stuttgart – Stuttgart-Vaihingen – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Horb DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Talent 2 long-term planned
MEX 16 RB 16 Stuttgart – Esslingen – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen Geislingen – Amstetten – Ulm Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg Flirt 3 13 June 2021[4]
MEX 17a/c RB& 17a/c Bietigheim-Bissingen – Vaihingen – Mühlacker – Pforzheim Stuttgart – Ludwigsburg – Bietigheim-Bissingen
Pforzheim – Wilferdingen-Singen – Karlsruhe
Mühlacker – Bretten – Bruchsal		 SWEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG Talent 2 11 December 2022
MEX 12 RE 12 Tübingen – Reutlingen – Metzingen – Nürtingen – Plochingen – Esslingen – Stuttgart – Ludwigsburg – Bietigheim-Bissingen – Heilbronn Heilbronn – Bad Friedrichshall – Mosbach-Neckarelz SWEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG Talent 2 11 December 2022
MEX 18 RB 18 Heilbronn – Bad Friedrichshall – Möckmühl – Osterburken
MEX 19 RB 19 Stuttgart – Waiblingen – Backnang – Murrhardt Murrhardt – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental – Crailsheim Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg Talent 2 12 December 2021[5]
MEX 90 RE 19 Murrhardt – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental

Within the core area designated as MEX routes, trains run every half hour. On the Stuttgart-Murrhardt section, the half-hourly interval is created by overlapping the hourly MEX 19, the two-hourly MEX 90 and the two-hourly RE 90 (Stuttgart-Nürnberg). On the Tübingen-Heilbronn section, the half-hourly interval is created by overlapping the hourly MEX 12 and the hourly MEX 18.

Before the renaming to MEX, the lines, with the exception of MEX 14, were for the most part already served by Regionalbahn (RB) or Regional-Express (RE) trains every half hour under the same or similar line number. In order not to break existing lines, lines that partly also run outside the Metropolexpress core area are also called MEX there, although they run there at thinner intervals.

In the context of the Reactivation of the Black Forest Railway, a Metropolexpress between Stuttgart and Calw is also under discussion, but its implementation is not included in the concept of the Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg.

As part of the negotiations between the federal state and the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, in addition to the electrification of the Ringzug network, the establishment of a Metropolexpress Villingen-Stuttgart connection via the previously non-electrified Rottweil-Villingen railway was agreed.

References
  1. Viel geschafft und noch viel vor (PDF). Bahnprojekt Stuttgart–Ulm e.V. November 2021.
  2. "Der MEX macht zukünftig die ganze Region zur Metropole". bwegt. Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  3. Bahn frei für den Metropolexpress auf der Remsbahn (PDF). Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg. November 2021.
  4. Bahn frei für den Metropolexpress im Filstal (PDF). Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg. May 2021.
  5. Bahn frei für den Metropolexpress auf der Murrbahn (PDF). Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg. November 2021.
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