that the line would have a favourable cost-benefit ratio. After a three-week trial operation, the opening ceremony was held for the resumption of passenger service on 27 August 2006. From 2006 to 2012, it was operated on certain Sundays and public holidays as a special event service. Since 9 December 2012, there are up to seven services daily between Baden and Alsace, with at least one pair of trains running directly to and from Freiburg Hauptbahnhof. Since then, a French X 73900 (called Baleine Bleue in French and Blauwal in German, meaning "blue whale") has been used. Müllheim–Badenweiler railway In 1894, the Müllheim–Badenweiler railway (Müllheim-Badenweiler Eisenbahn, MBE) was founded with a significant contribution from the railway construction and operating company, Vering & Waechter. Operations commenced as a steam-powered tramway on 15 February 1896. It was operated by Vering & Waechter until the German Railway Operating Company (Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft, DEBG) took over the operational management in 1899. The steam trains were replaced on 7 April 1914 by electric vehicles, which were operated at 1000 Volts DC. The state of Baden-Württemberg acquired the MBE on 1 March 1955 and the Central Baden Railways (Mittelbadischen Eisenbahnen) took over operations on 29 March 1955. It found that the railway was in very poor condition and that modernisation would not be affordable. It ended all rail traffic on 22 May 1955 and dismantled all track of the MBE by 1970. Apart from the station building in Badenweiler, all of the line's structures have disappeared. Platforms Müllheim station has four platform tracks. Platform 4 is a bay platform at the southern end of the island platform between platform tracks 2 and 5. The other platform tracks are through tracks. All tracks have a step height of . Thus, there are substantial climbs when boarding trains. Only the French trains operated by TER Alsace offer reasonable access for the disabled. Near platform 5 there are four tracks without platforms, which are occasionally used by freight trains. Rail services Müllheim is located in the fare zone of Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg (Freiburg Regional Transport Association, RVF). Long-distance services Müllheim was served until the end of 1980s by regular night trains with coaches running to and from Copenhagen and Moscow. Since December 2013, Müllheim has been served by a daily InterCity service (the Baden-Kurier) on the route between Basel Bad and Munich. Since August 2013 a pair of TGV services have