page_title: Ringzug
section_title: Rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Ringzug / Operations and Organisation / Rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ringzug in Dreifachtraktion in Tuttlingen
context_page_description: The Ringzug, also called the 3er-Ringzug is a passenger transport network in the districts of Tuttlingen, Rottweil and Schwarzwald-Baar in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Ringzug went into regular operations on 31 August 2003 and has operated in its current form since 12 December 2004. The concept of the Ringzug is the operation of a clockface timetable, coordinated with a variety of other buses and train services, over an S-Bahn-like network in a rural environment. In March 2006, the passenger association Pro Bahn described the Ringzug as an exemplary public transport system at its 2006 passenger transport awards. The Ringzug has aroused interest beyond the region and can point to steadily rising passenger numbers and declining deficits.
context_section_description: Ringzug services are operated by DMUs former by 20 Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 sets. They differ from other vehicles of this type in that there are sockets at some seats for laptop use. There is also one ticket machine in each railcar. All are air conditioned and have a toilet.
  In the morning peak hour Ringzug services are partly carried out in cooperation with DB Regio and are operated with  class 425 EMUs. This is because the Ringzug Regio Shuttles cannot handle the high demand at this time. The Ringzug plans to operate class 611 sets.
  The unexpectedly high ridership quickly led to capacity constraints, meaning among other things, that from December 2004 vintage railcars of the T3 and T5 model built in 1938 and 1956, were restored to service on the Trossingen Railway for regular services. The modern Regio-Shuttle sets that were actually intended to run on the Trossingen Railway were used to run in multiple on other unexpectedly heavily loaded trains on other routes.
caption: Railcars under multiple-unit train control
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