Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-Weser-Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main–Weser_Railway Length (depends on end point): Frankfurt-Giessen: 65,8 kilometers Frankfurt-Marburg: 95,6 kilometers Frankfurt-Treysa: 137,6 kilometers Frankfurt-Kassel: 199,8 kilometers Station amount: Frankfurt-Giessen: 23 Frankfurt-Marburg: 31 Frankfurt-Treysa: 39 Frankfurt-Kassel: 53 (*if I counted correctly) Location: Central Germany (heading north of Frankfurt) Focus: Primarily Passenger (freight is more frequent on the parallel running Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel-Würzburg, which already exists in Train Sim World) Passenger traffic: S-Bahn (S6 Frankfurt up to Friedberg), Regionalbahn (RB), Regionalexpress (RE), Intercity (IC), Intercity-Express (ICE) - distance traffic and freight which normally gets over Kassel-Würzburg and Kinzigtalbahn is occasionally routed over this railway. Operators: DB Fernverkehr, DB Regio Mitte, S-Bahn Rhein-Main (Rhein-Main Verkehrsbund), Hessische Landesbahn (HLB), cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH Route Hopping Opportunities: Frankfurt Hbf -> Kinzigtalbahn (Frankfurt-Fulda) [FTF], S-Bahn Frankfurt (Frankfurt-Mainz/Wiesbaden) Bad Vilbel -> Niddertalbahn (Bad Vilbel-Glauburg-Stockheim) [NID] Kassel -> Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel-Würzburg [KWG] Locos: DB BR 423 (S6) DB BR 420 (S6 until 3rd Novemeber 2014 but full occupation until 2005) DB BR 401 DB BR 411 (ICE-T) Mittelhessen-Express: (Dillenburg/Treysa-Giesen-Frankfurt am Main) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelhessen-Express DB BR 425 (from 2006 until 2013) DB BR 442 as Mittelhessen-Express (from 2013 until December 2023) HLB BR 1440 Alstom Continental (since December 2023) Main-Sieg-Express (Dillenburg-Giessen-Frankfurt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-Sieg-Express HLB Stadler Flirt InterCity DB BR 101 and Cab Car IC2 (since 2021) Twindexx Vario DB BR 147 DB BR 114 DB BR 146 Third-Gen Dosto Cab Car DB BR 111 DB BR 642 (runs different services on several locations on the line including Frankfurt-Bad Vilbel) DB BR 245 - Also used between Bad Vilbel and Frankfurt as substitution to the DB BR 642 many more actually. Can't even bring them in this post. Videos: Cab Rides
