1. History

2. Operations
    Rail  Abellio Rail NRW  Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland  Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg  WestfalenBahn  Bus 

3. References

4. External links

Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany operating bus and rail networks. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a subsidiary of Abellio.

History

Abellio Deutschland was formed by the Essen public transit company in 2004. In 2005, British investment company Star Capital Partners purchased a 75% share in Abellio from the City of Essen.^[1][2] In December 2008, both sold their shares to NedRailways.^[3][4] The Abellio brand was later rolled out to replace the NedRailways brand internationally.^[5][6]

Operations

Rail

As at December 2016, Abellio Deutschland operated 18 lines over 978 kilometres with a fleet of 86 trains.^[7]

Abellio Rail NRW

Abellio Rail NRW was founded in September 2005. It operates several regional railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia. The NRW network stretches from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum, from Essen to Siegen and Iserlohn via Hagen as well as from Wuppertal to Solingen via Remscheid.^[7]

In December 2016, it commenced operating along the Lower Rhine network between Arnhem in The Netherlands and Düsseldorf / Mönchengladbach and Bocholt. From December 2018, it will operate the Rhine-Ruhr-Express with the RE 11 line and from June 2020, the RE 1 line. Both will run until December 2033.^[8][9]

In December 2016, Abellio NRW commenced operating a 12 year concession to operate Niederrhein-Netz services using the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway covering routes RB33 Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Wesel and RB35 Düsseldorf - Emmerich.^[10][11] In April 2017 the latter was extended into the Netherlands to Arnhem.^[12][13]

In December 2019, it will commence operating the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network with 29 Stadler Flirts.^[14][15]

Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland

Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland commenced operating the Saale-Thuringia-Südharz (STS) electric network since December 2015 on a 15-year contract, over ten lines with a route length of 575 kilometres. The network extends from Halle to Erfurt, Eisenach and Kassel as well as from Leipzig to Erfurt and Saalfeld.^[16] In December 2018, Abellio Deutschland will commence operating 12 routes in Saxony-Anhalt.^[17][18][19] These will be operated by 52 Alstom Coradia Lints.^[20][21][22]

Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg

In June 2019, Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg will take over six lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn between Dortmund, Wuppertal, Oberhausen and Haltern am See under a 13 year contract.^[7][23][24] Initially a fleet of 43 Bombardier Talent 2s were ordered.^[25][26] This was later increased by five.^[27][28]

WestfalenBahn

Abellio Deutschland owned a 25% share in WestfalenBahn that was founded in 2005.^[7][29] In July 2017 this was increased to 100%.^[30]

Bus

In April 2013, Abellio Deutschland announced it would focus on rail transport and sell its three bus companies. In November 2013 VM and Werner were sold to Transport Capital with 220 buses.^[31][32] The remaining KVG business was sold to Rhenus Veniro and the District of Bautzen in October 2014 with 84 buses.^[33]

References

External links

• Abellio Deutschland company website

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