#1559
Upper Rhine Railway Company
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Waggonfabrik Fuchs· from 1911· German railway company
what is it?
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. 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.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 115 years ago, in 1911.
- 13.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
other: Railcars, inspection vehicles and other rolling stock.
spec sheet
- built
- 1911
- number built
- 8
- kind
- other
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Waggonfabrik Fuchs
- top speed
- —
- power
- 60 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo’Bo’
- length
- 13.7 m
- weight
- 2 t
- capacity
- 34 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2010724, Wikipedia: Upper Rhine Railway Company (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.