Because the Taunusbahn will be idle from this Friday evening, buses will drive between Friedrichsdorf and Brandoberndorf as a replacement.
The reason for the closure until January 29th and again from February 10th to 26th is that the route between Friedrichsdorf and Usingen will be electrified.
Trees are felled for this;
to compensate, the Verkehrsverband Hochtaunus (VHT) wants to reforest the Taunus.
The building permit for the electrification has not yet been granted.
The Hochtaunuskreis expects this by the end of March.
But the breeding season begins on March 1st, so that the VHT, a special-purpose association of the municipalities in the district, does the work and the usual pruning of the plants on the route beforehand.
Therefore, the association can "unfortunately not avoid" blocking the route during school hours, he announced on Thursday.
Florentine Fritzen
Correspondent in the Hochtaunus district
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The buses run at different times than the trains.
Some bus stops are not directly at the station: In Wilhelmsdorf, the buses stop at the Friedhof bus stop, in Hundstadt at the Ortsmitte bus stop, and in Hasselborn at the village community center.
The times can be found on rmv.de.
From Monday, the S 5 will run between Bad Homburg and Friedrichsdorf more often than usual. The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and the train manufacturer Alstom have announced that after the closure, i.e. from February 27th, only hydrogen trains will run on the route, So no more diesel trains.
In December, the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Start took over the operation of the route from the Hessian State Railway.
Only a few of the hydrogen trains announced at the same time ran, and many trips were cancelled.