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}} }} The Upper Rhine Railway Company ((ドイツ語:Oberrheinische Eisenbahn), OEG), formerly the ''Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG'' (Upper Rhine Railway Company Ltd), later ''MVV OEG AG'', later operated by ''MVV Verkehr AG'' (the operator of the Mannheim Tramway) and now part of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (Rhine-Neckar Transport), is a metre gauge railway between the three cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim. A small section of standard gauge line between Heidelberg and Schriesheim was used only for moving freight. It is known by the acronym of ''OEG'' of the original operating company. It is listed in the timetable of Deutsche Bahn as route 669 and forms part of the network that is administered by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN). The OEG is a non-federally own railway, which was built under the German ESBO narrow gauge railway regulations and operates in Mannheim and Heidelberg as a tram. It operates partly on the tracks of the ''MVV Verkehr AG'' and the ''Heidelberger Straßen- und Bergbahn AG'' (the Heidelberg Tramway, HSB). Because the OEG uses trams, it is perceived as a tramway rather than as an Interurban. Until December 2009, the OEG also operated the city buses in Weinheim, some bus routes in the southeast of Mannheim and several other bus routes in the vicinity of Schriesheim and Ladenburg. ==History== Although Mannheim and Heidelberg were connected by the Rhine Valley Railway in 1840 and Weinheim was also connected by the Main-Neckar Railway in 1846, there were aspirations in the 1880s to build a narrow gauge railway to connect these three cities and the smaller places along the Neckar river and the Mountain Road. Specifically, the operator of the quarries in Schriesheim and Dossenheim wanted better facilities for the transport of freight as the Main-Neckar Railway bypassed the Mountain Road at this point. In 1883, a company operating in the region as ''Gebrüder Leferenz'' (Leferenz Brothers) were granted the concession for a line from Heidelberg to Schriesheim, with a continuation to Weinheim. This could not be realised at that time for financial reasons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Upper Rhine Railway Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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