DB Regio AG, Region NRW
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Dusseldorf |
| Reference year | 2012 |
| owner | DB Regio AG |
| legal form | GmbH |
| resolution | September 2012 |
| Board | Heinrich Brüggemann |
| Managing directors | Dirk Schnurbus |
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| Depots | Aachen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, Hagen, Cologne-Deutzerfeld, Cologne-Nippes, Münster |
The DB Regio AG, NRW region is a division of DB Regio AG , this provides a railway transport company transport services in rail transport .
Until September 2012, the division was an independent subsidiary ( GmbH ) of DB Regio AG, based in Düsseldorf, under the name DB Regio NRW .
organization
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DB Regio AG provides its business division , DB Regio AG, Region NRW on behalf of the PTA functioning of rail passenger transport (regional rail) syndicates Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) Zweckverband transport Westphalia-Lippe (NWL) and Zweckverband transport Rheinland (NVR) in North Rhine-Westphalia rail transport services. The operational implementation of the services was entrusted to transport companies in 2010: Rhineland, Express-Netz NRW, S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and Westphalian regional lines have been responsible for the transport since then. The regional management based in Düsseldorf takes on the function of a superordinate management and service level for the region of North Rhine-Westphalia. DB Regio NRW operates on the routes of the Cologne diesel network under the brand name " vareo ".
DB Regio operates the majority of the regional rail transport lines in NRW with its division for the NRW region . While many tenders were sent to private railway companies in East Westphalia, South Westphalia and Münsterland, DB Regio in the Rhineland was able to secure a dominant position in the Rhineland through long-term transport contracts with the responsible authorities, in particular the Rhine-Ruhr transport association. Through the routes in the Eifel and the Ahr valley, the area extends from DB Regio NRW to Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
Until 2004, DB Regio NRW only acted as a holding company for the independent railway companies DB Regionalbahn Rheinland, DB Regionalbahn Rhein-Ruhr and DB Regionalbahn Westfalen . After their merger on January 1, 2004, these business areas were represented within DB Regio NRW.
From 2004 onwards, the DB Regio NRW got back a line that had been lost after a tender. The Volmetalbahn was operated by the Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn from 1999 . Since 2004 the line has been operated again by DB Regio NRW after a renewed tender and since 2012 by DB Regio.
On April 1, 2004, the DB Regio NRW introduced a complete smoking ban on its trains.
Legal dispute with the VRR
In the 2007 financial year, DB Regio NRW achieved a profit of 85 million euros, although the VRR withheld payments amounting to millions due to continued poor performance. The dispute with the VRR led to the immediate termination of the VRR transport contract with DB Regio NRW on June 12, 2008. The immediate cause was the contractually agreed presence of security personnel on the trains: while DB Regio NRW stated that it had manned 90 percent of all trains after 7 p.m., as agreed, random samples carried out by the VRR showed a rate of 17 percent with a downward trend.
The VRR announced that it would put the current train services operated by DB Regio NRW to tender as soon as possible and that it would impose the traffic on DB Regio NRW through an administrative act. On December 19, 2008, the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court ruled that the VRR's termination of the transport contract was ineffective. For its part, DB Regio applied for enforcement of the amount in question of 112 million euros, although 35 million euros were missing from the VRR's blocked account. The shortfall might have to be raised by the VRR sponsors, namely districts and urban districts.
A compromise solution was worked out with the mediation of the then State Transport Minister Oliver Wittke ( CDU ). But this was successfully challenged by Abellio . Both the Public Procurement Chamber of the Münster District Government and the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court consider this contract to be illegal. Since the Higher Regional Court of Brandenburg had passed a different judgment in a similar case in 2003, the Federal Court of Justice now had to make a legal assessment.
On February 8, 2011, he declared the contract null and void. Despite the pending contractual agreement, VRR and DB Regio introduced the new timetable concept on the RE lines (more rhythm. More space. More train.) In December 2010.
Structural change
In 2008, the company founded a company, DB Regio Rheinland GmbH, for the Rhein-Sieg-Express . After winning the tender, around 180 employees from DB Regio NRW should switch to the subsidiary that is not bound by the collective agreement of the group and receive around a fifth less wages there, according to a press report. After protests, the company was merged again with DB Regio NRW in August 2011.
In September 2012, DB Regio NRW GmbH was merged with its parent company DB Regio AG. Since then, business operations have been run by DB Regio AG under the name Region NRW .
On January 1, 2017, the Rhineland Transport Authority , Express Network NRW, S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and Westphalian Regional Lines were dissolved and the company was merged to form DB Regio AG, Region NRW.
Investments
For around 400 million euros, DB Regio acquired 84 new trains of the DB class 422 for the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn . The use of these vehicles and an optimized timetable concept, which has been in effect since the end of 2009, led to improvements in quality. The punctuality of the new multiple units in 2010 was around 95 percent. On the lines that are still served by locomotive-hauled trains, it was 93 percent. On the S 1 line (Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Solingen) there were around 11.5 percent more passengers in 2010 than two years earlier.
13 new double-decker cars and modernized electric multiple units of the 425 Plus series have been in use since 2010 . Since 2014, new electric multiple units of the 1440 series have been used on the S 5 and S 8 lines. From 2012, DB Regio NRW procured 18 LINT 54 (BR 622) and 38 LINT 81 (BR 620) for the Cologne diesel network . The actual start of operation would have been December 2013. However, this could not be implemented due to delivery delays. Only in the course of 2014 could the vehicles be used on the seven routes of Cologne's diesel network .
See also
- List of local rail transport lines in North Rhine-Westphalia
- List of German tariff and transport associations
- List of companies in the DB Group
- Deutsche Bahn
Individual evidence
- ^ DB Regio AG Annual Report 2004. (PDF) In: deutschebahn.com. DB Regio , May 2005, p. 12 , accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Notification of non-smoking trains in NRW . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 3/2004, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 100.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn in NRW with record profit. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post . June 11, 2008, archived from the original on February 20, 2013 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ VRR terminates contract with Deutsche Bahn without notice. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr AöR , June 12, 2008, archived from the original on December 24, 2010 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Stefan Hennigfeld: What's next in the VRR? In: Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de. July 22, 2010, accessed December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ VRR versus DB Regio NRW: New level of escalation. (No longer available online.) Eurailpress, March 3, 2009, archived from the original on October 20, 2017 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ VRR versus DB Regio NRW: The VRR lacks EUR 35 million - Mofair files a complaint. (No longer available online.) Eurailpress, March 4, 2009, archived from the original on October 20, 2017 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Niklas Luerßen: VRR: BGH overturns new transport contract. In: Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de. February 8, 2011, accessed December 22, 2015 .
- ^ Stefan Hennigfeld: VRR: Schedule for a new RE concept. In: Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de. September 19, 2010, accessed December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Cologne District Court, file number: HRB 64567; Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:00 p.m.
- ↑ Thomas Wüpper: Is the Deutsche Bahn planning low-cost subsidiaries without tariffs? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . November 7, 2015, p. 14 (including title online ).
- ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register for number HRB 49134 (DB Regio NRW GmbH) at the Düsseldorf District Court, register entries from September 4 and 18, 2012