Upper Rhine Railway Company
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The Upper Rhine Railway Company (Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim; OEG, originally also OEG AG, later MVV OEG AG), was a railway infrastructure company and transport company based in Mannheim, Germany.
MVV OEG AG | |
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Overview | |
Owner | MVV GmbH city of Mannheim city of Heidelberg city of Weinheim |
Number of stations | 55 |
Headquarters | Mannheim |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge |
Minimum radius of curvature | 23 m (75 ft) |
Electrification | 750 V DC overhead catenary |
Top speed | 80 km/h (50 mph) |
Its principal business was the operation of a metre-gauge railway serving Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim. The company was merged with MVV Verkehr AG (the Mannheim municipal transport company) on 16 March 2010, and its network is now served by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr.
Until December 2009, the OEG also operated municipal buses in Weinheim, some bus routes in the southeast of Mannheim and several other bus routes in the vicinity of Schriesheim and Ladenburg.