It was a shock when a BRB train with 50 students derailed in Peiting on Tuesday morning after the Christmas holidays.
Since then there has been rail replacement service (SEV) between Schongau and Peißenberg.
A visit to the station in Hohenpeissenberg.
Hohenpeißenberg – An icy wind is blowing this Wednesday afternoon.
The fact that winter has returned can be felt more clearly up here at the Schächen bus stop in Hohenpeissenberg than down in Peißenberg.
It's just after 1 p.m.
Since the BRB train derailed in Peiting more than a week ago, there has been no train in Hohenpeissenberg.
A rail replacement service was organized.
Since then, everyone who uses public transport between Schongau and Peißenberg has had to rely on the bus.
In Hohenpeissenberg, the only stop for the RVO rail replacement service is diagonally opposite the Schächen.
Olexandra Lysek is waiting for the bus that is supposed to take her to the train station in Peißenberg.
From there the train will continue to Weilheim.
The 17-year-old comes from Ukraine and is on her way to her German course.
So far she has been satisfied with the rail replacement service: "It usually works and I'm on time for my language course," she says, shrugging her shoulders a little higher.
A gust of wind drives into the bus shelter with the colorful panes of glass, which is diagonally across from the Schächen building.
The wind rustles in the trees across the street.
It's 1:10 p.m.
The timetable for the rail replacement service, which now hangs on the bus stop sign, is flapping in the wind.
It states that the next bus in the direction of Peißenberg will leave at 1:10 p.m.
At 1:13 p.m. there is still no sign of the rail replacement service.
At 1:15 p.m., a blue bus turns the corner.
He has a sign leaning against the disc that shows a crossed out train and one that says "Peißenberg".
He stops at the bus shelter.
Olexandra Lysek gets on.
Two passengers get out.
Sarah Schleich and Nepomuk Mühlegger both attend high school in Schongau and have been commuting to and from school by bus since the train accident.
They can't complain about the rail replacement service - on the contrary: "I can sleep ten minutes longer in the morning," says Nepomuk Mühlegger and in the morning every minute counts.
Sarah Schleich is also satisfied with the bus connection to Schongau.
So far it's going quite well this time, says the 14-year-old.
No comparison with previous rail replacement service times.
Above all, the fact that the bus runs more often than the train makes commuting easier, say the two high school students.
Like on that day, when Sarah Schleich and Nepomuk Mühlegger left an hour earlier and could now take a bus earlier than those who only want to go to Peiting and Hohenpeissenberg after the sixth hour.
"It's super practical that there are more connections," says Nepomuk Mühlegger.
The train runs once an hour in one direction and the bus in rail replacement service at the times when the students have to be transported to Schongau in the morning and back to Hohenpeissenberg at midday, every half hour.
It was pure coincidence that the two high school students were not on the train that derailed in Peiting: "My grandmother works in Schongau and she took me with her that morning," says Sarah Schleich.
"I actually overslept," says Nepomuk Mühlegger.
"It was the first time that this happened to me in high school and I missed the train," says the 18-year-old.
He was then later able to ride with friends who had taken their child to school by car after the train accident.
The derailed train is always a topic at school and among friends because many classmates were on that train.
Then the two make their way home and enjoy the fact that they will be home half an hour earlier than usual.