Long Distance Rail Transport[edit]

Esslingen (Neckar) station is on the Fils Valley Railway and is served by line S 1 of the Stuttgart S-

Bahn and regional services. The town is on the main rail line between Stuttgart and Ulm, operated
by Deutsche Bahn, the main German rail operator. In 2009, the company named a high speed
'Intercity-Express' train "Esslingen-am-Neckar".

S-Bahn[edit]
The Stuttgart S-Bahn line S1 which operates between Kirchheim-unter-
Teck and Herrenberg via Stuttgart centre, serves the stations of Mettingen, Esslingen
(Neckar), Oberesslingen and Esslingen (Zell). Under the planned rebuilding of the railways in central
Stuttgart under the Stuttgart 21 scheme, the S1 will be shortened to operate from Kirchheim unter
Teck as far as Stuttgart Schwabstraße station.

Direct bus connection to Stuttgart Airport[edit]

To avoid the long S-Bahn route to the airport via Stuttgart, the Bus 122, operated by the END
Company, now runs directly from the central bus and rail interchange to the airport
via Ostfildern Scharnhausen.

Urban Tramway[edit]
The Esslingen Urban Tram system was opened in May 1912 and closed on 7 July 1944 after 32
years of operation. It was replaced by trolley buses. The operating company, the Esslinger
Städtische Straßenbahn (ESS, translated Esslingen Town Tramway) changed its name in 1944 to
the Städtischer Verkehrsbetrieb Esslingen (SVE, or "Esslingen Transport Company").

Former Interurban Tram[edit]

On 18 December 1926 the Esslingen-Nellingen-Denkendorf (END) interurban tram began operating.
This was the last tram system to be built in Germany before the wave of closures later in the century:
after this date permission from the authorities was only given for extensions to existing systems. The
tram had to negotiate a five kilometer gradient out of the Neckar Valley to reach the towns and
villages of the Eastern Filder region. In total, the system transported 153 million passengers from
Denkendorf and later from Neuhausen to Esslingen, and took delivery of two new open trams in
1958. The line was discontinued in February 1978.

Trolley bus and diesel bus[edit]

Esslingen, along with Solingen and Eberswalde, is one of the last three German towns which still
use trolleybuses. The SVE currently operates two lines using electric power:
101: Oberesslingen Lerchenacker Endstation – Esslingen railway station – Stuttgart-Obertürkheim
station.
118: Esslingen Railway Station – Zollberg.
Apart from this around 50 taxis operate in the town.

Car-Sharing[edit]
In 1994 A car-sharing company opened a station in Esslingen.

Rebuilding of bus/rail interchange[edit]
An ambitious redevelopment project has been in progress since 2004 in the area near the railway
station. The current phase of this project is a large redevelopment of the station forecourt costing
about 7.4 million Euros. The Baden-Württemberg State Environment and Transport ministry helped
fund this with a grant of 4.9 million Euros. During 2009 the Neckarstraße was diverted along unused
land on the railway station and lengthened to the west of the site. The next phase, completed in
November 2014, was a large-scale redevelopment of the station forecourt to create a bus and rail
interchange.