Regentalbahn
The Regentalbahn (Regentalbahn AG – Die Länderbahn) is railway company based in
The subsidiary Regental Bahnbetriebs-GmbH (RBG) operates goods trains though its subsidiary Regental Cargo, and passenger trains through Die Länderbahn, whilst Regental Fahrzeugwerkstätten operates railway workshops. A fourth subsidiary Regental Kraftverkehrs, a bus operator, ceased operations in 2004.
Emergence of the Regentalbahn AG (RAG)
On 9 May 1889 the "AG Localbahn Gotteszell - Viechtach" railway company sprang to life as a result of a "concession for the construction and operation of a standard gauge railway from Gotteszell to Viechtach" dated 28 April 1889. Lokalbahn was the name for a local branch line in Bavaria.
On 10 November 1890 goods trains were already running from
Founding of the subsidiaries
The period since the 1970s has been marked by modernisation and rationalisation. A large number of railcars were procured (initially second-hand, but since the 1980s new ones as well) and various parts of the business split into subsidiaries. In 2002 the Regentalbahn acquired the trade name Die Länderbahn ("The State Railway"), with which it is clear that it is active in Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia and the Czech Republic.
In 1980 the Prünst granite works became a limited company (GmbH), in which the Regentalbahn had a 50% stake. This share was sold in 2005.
At the same time the following 100%-owned subsidiaries were created within the Regentalbahn AG:
- In 1979 the Regental Kraftverkehrs GmbH (RKG) - bus operations
- In 1988 the Regental Bahnbetriebs-GmbH (RBG) - railway operations
- In 1989 the Regental Fahrzeugwerkstätten GmbH (RFG) - workshops
- In 1998 the Vogtlandbahn GmbH (VBG)- Vogtland railway
- in 2012 the vlexx GmbH
On 1 January 2004 the Regentalbahn Kraftverkehrs was disbanded for economic reasons. The vehicles and personnel were taken over by the bus company Regionalbus Ostbayern, that continues to run bus services Viechtach and Lam.
Since 1997 Regental Bahnbetriebs has operated all the lines of the
The
The Regental Fahrzeugwerkstätten runs two workshops for all the railways of the Länderbahn. One is at the headquarters in Viechtach in the
In December 2003, the Allgäu Express (ALEX) started working between
Following the advertisement published in summer 2006 for Regionalbahn services on the Freilassing–Berchtesgaden railway, the contract went in October of the same year to the Berchtesgadener Bahn, a consortium of the Regentalbahn and the Salzburg AG who, as the winners will take over these services after the timetable change in December 2009.
The Regentalbahn is a member of the Tarifverband der Bundeseigenen und Nichtbundeseigenen Eisenbahnen in Deutschland (TBNE).
Since December 2015, the subsidiaries of the Regentalbahn have been operating under the umbrella of Länderbahn GmbH DLB, a 100% owned subsidiary of Regentalbahn. Thus Regentalbahn-Bahnbetriebs GmbH, Vogtlandbahn GmbH, Regental Fahrzeugwerkstätten GmbH and vlexx are under one roof.
New ownership arrangements
The shares of the Regentalbahn were split between numerous owners. In 1940 these included the
Sources
- Andreas Fried, Klaus-Peter Quill: Regentalbahn - Egglham 1999
- Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen - Band 7: Bayern - Freiburg 2002
See also
- Bavarian Forest railway
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