Regentalbahn

Regentalbahn AG (RAG, Brand Name Countries train) was founded on May 9, 1889, operates railway infrastructure and people regional and interurban railways in Bavaria and Saxony with connections to the Czech Republic; also Germany -wide rail freight. The company is in the Lower Bavarian Viechtach resident and belongs since 2011 through its parent company Ferrovie dello Stato Netinera to Italian. Netinera was between 2004 and 2010 under the name Arriva Germany part of the pan-European transport group Arriva.

To Regentalbahn the parts of the group Regen includes train operating company (RBG, vlexx with the brands Oberpfalzbahn, Forest Railway and from December 2014), the Vogtlandbahn ( with Vogtlandbahn, Vogtland - Express, alex and Trilex ), Regen Cargo ( freight) and the Regentalwerke.

Origin of Regentalbahn

On 9 May 1889, on the basis of " concession for the production and operations of a standard gauge branch line of God's cell to Viechtach " the AG called local railway God cell Viechtach into being on 28 April 1889.

As of November 10, 1890 already freight trains of God went to Teisnach cell, and the total traffic was opened on this railway line to Viechtach on 20 November 1890. The Company acquired 1903 " Granitwerke Teisnach AG " with the quarry Prünst, which delivers up today ballast for the track construction.

On January 1, 1928, there was the " local railway Deggendorf - Metten AG " to the merged with the now " Regentalbahn AG " end call local railway God cell Viechtach.

1924/25, the construction of the line from Viechtach after Blaibach was tackled on the passenger opened on January 2, 1928, the freight and on 1 February 1928. Thus the railway God cell Blaibach was completed, which will also be referred to as such as " Regentalbahn ".

On 1 January 1973, Regentalbahn AG also took over also over eighty years of " AG Lokalbahn Lam - Kötzting ".

In 2002, we established for the RAG the brand names The state railway, which is to make it clear that the railway company in Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia and in the Czech Republic operates. At the same time the appearance of the Company and its subsidiaries was structured and redesigned. The branding and corporate design developed the design agencies Tricon AG and AG in cooperation intention.

Regentalbahn is a member of the collective organization of the federal treasury and non-federally owned railways in Germany ( TBNE ).

Subsidiaries

Since the 1970s, the period of modernization and rationalization is influenced to a large number railcar was purchased ( first cars, even new since the 1980s ) spun off several divisions into subsidiaries.

1980, the granite work Prünst was incorporated into a limited company, in which Regentalbahn was involved with 50 %. This investment was sold in 2005.

In addition, under the umbrella of Regentalbahn emerged following 100 % owned subsidiaries:

On 1 January 2004 the Regentalbahn motor transport was disbanded for economic reasons. The vehicles and the staff took the bus company Ostbayern region, which continues to operate the bus lines of Viechtach and Lam.

Since 1997, the Regen Train -GmbH operates all routes of the Bavarian Forest Railway on behalf of Deutsche Bahn (DB Regio Bayern) under the brand name Forest Railway. On their behalf it is running on since 2001 under the brand name Oberpfalzbahn not only their own route Kötzting - Lam, but also the routes Schwandorf - Cham - Furth im Wald, Cham - Waldmuenchen and Cham - Kötzting. In addition, part of the Regen Train -GmbH, the freight division Regen Cargo that travels nationwide freight trains. She has ( with a branch office in Zwickau ) and is integrated their operations center in New Market Wirsberg in the freight car network Eccocargo.

The Vogtlandbahn founded on 1 January 1998 took over the RBG in Saxony transmitted traffic services. Since 2005, she has a purely commercial Fernzug ​​the Vogtland- Express, the daily connects the Vogtland with Berlin once.

In December 2003, we started as a replacement bus for the set InterRegio line 25 in cooperation with the EuroThurbo GmbH (since early 2005 SBB GmbH) the Allgäu- Express ( alex ) between Munich and Oberstdorf. After the Regentalbahn had won in December 2005, the tender for the next, longer tender period, it is since the timetable change in December 2007 for the long-distance transport not only on the distance from Munich to Oberstdorf, new with tensile member to Lindau, responsible, but also on the routes Munich - Regensburg - Hof and Munich - Regensburg - Furth im Wald - Prague. The alex brand was retained, but was now interpreted as Arriva Provincial Railway Express; the traffic is handled by the Vogtlandbahn. Since 2010 he is referred to only as Alex, the name Arriva Provincial Railroad Express accounted for. The trademarks and vehicle design was also like the overall design developed by the agencies Tricon and intention.

The Regen Fahrzeugwerkstätten runs workshops for all paths of the countries train: A Viechtach at its headquarters in the Bavarian Forest, another in Neumark in Vogtland and the latest in Schwandorf. It was rebuilt on the road to Furth im Wald and inaugurated on 22 December 2007. There the shuttle railcars Oberpfalzbahn and the locomotives and cars of Alex to be serviced. In Zwiesel, a further smaller workshop is under construction. To perform maintenance easier is there built a two-track 35 m long and 15.5 m wide hall including social section in the operation center of the forest railway. The workshop is scheduled to open in December 2013.

From the data published in the summer of 2006 Tender regional train services on the railway line Freilassing - Berchtesgaden went in October of the same year the Berchtesgaden train, a consortium of Regentalbahn and Salzburg AG, as the winner, which took over the traffic to the timetable change in December 2009 has.

Diesel Power West ( DNSW )

End of February 2012 Regentalbahn was named Rhineland-Palatinate South as the winner of the tender "Diesel Power Southwest Los 2" from the administration union rail transport. From December 2014 the company so for 22.5 years about 7 million kilometers on the lines Mainz - Alzey - Kirchheimbolanden, Frankfurt - Mainz - Bad Kreuznach - Idar Oberstein - Saarbrücken (Regional Express), Mainz, Germany - Bad Kreuznach - Kaiserslautern ( single Regional Express operate Baumholder / Türkismühle - trains) and Mainz - Idar Oberstein. Rockhausen - - Bingen - In addition, in December 2016 further regional express line on the track Kaiserslautern Koblenz is introduced. The Diesel Power Southwest thus contains non-electrified main lines and branch lines in Rhineland -Palatinate and connects the rail transport in particular the regions Rheinhessen, Nahe, the Western Palatinate and Saarland with the Rhine -Main and the centers of Mainz, Rüsselsheim Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt airport.

The train services in Diesel Power West should be driven with a total of 63 DMUs of type LINT LINT 54 and 81. In the meantime founded the Regentalbahn with DNSW, a subsidiary to the provision of traffic was transmitted. In March 2014 it was announced after conducting a name contest that the trains will ply the DNSW vlexx under the brand name. The name stands for four-nation Express.

Ownership

The shares of Regentalbahn were divided for a long time to many owners. These included the 1940 German Empire, the state of Bavaria, the Bavarian State Bank and the German Reichsbahn. By the year 1982, the Free State of Bavaria had acquired 76.9 % of shares. The rest was distributed to cities and towns, the Benedictine Metten and individuals. In the fall of 2004, the Free State sold the majority of shares in the pan-European British transport company Arriva. Its German subsidiary Arriva Germany increased its share through further acquisitions in Regentalbahn until May 2006 to 100 percent. Arriva in turn was bought in 2010 by the Deutsche Bahn. This had however Arriva Germany resell competitive reasons. The contract was awarded by the Italian State Railway Ferrovie dello Stato, which took over the company together with the French and Luxembourg financial investor Cube Infrastructure in December 2010. The new owners named Arriva Germany in March 2011 in order Netinera.

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