EBC Railway Operations and Consulting

Ex-ČD 781 ( V 200 ) in autumn 2003 on the siding in the Mühldorf / Obb. Station, at that time used by the private railway company ITL from Dresden

The EBC Eisenbahnbetriebs- and Consulting GmbH (formerly Westphalian Alme Valley Railway Ltd. (WAB) ) is a German railway company based in Altenbeken which as railway companies , especially in the rail freight pressed. It has been licensed for rail passenger and freight transport since 1998.

history

In the past few years, WAB or its owner has founded several subsidiaries and sister companies such as the Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft (EBG, later Klützer Kleinbahn ), which were later integrated into WAB. Most vehicles are now operated by Deutsche Privatbahn GmbH (DP) based in Hameln , but WAB is still the owner and adjuster. On December 13, 2010, WAB was renamed to EBC Eisenbahnbetriebs- und Consulting GmbH , which also pursues trading in rail vehicles as a corporate object.

Rail freight transport

WAB is currently primarily transporting cement clinker from Geseke and Paderborn to Königs Wusterhausen , Dornburg / Saale and Kattowitz, as well as transporting lime fertilizers .

On the morning of November 29, 2000, a company wooden train derailed at Haspelmoor station ( Augsburg – Munich line ) due to several errors by the driver and technical defects. As early as October 2000, a wagon master at Simbach station declared the majority of the company's wagons in a timber train to be unfit to drive due to serious technical defects.

Railway infrastructure

The EBC is also active as a railway infrastructure company . Of the four routes taken over by Deutsche Bahn , however, two have now been closed and one is in the process of being closed:

• Helmstedt – Grasleben : 2002 to 2004 (closure applied for, leased from Lappwaldbahn GmbH in 2006 )
• Paderborn - Büren ( Almetalbahn ): 1999 to 2007 (dismantled and sold to the Paderborn district )
• Scharzfeld - Bad Lauterberg ( Odertalbahn ): decommissioning and deedication 2007
• Malente-Gremsmühlen-Lütjenburg : closure applied for

vehicles

WAB 57, DR series 242 in Altenbeken, May 2008

The WAB became known among railway enthusiasts through the takeover of 18 electric locomotives of the DR series 242 from the bankruptcy estate of the Mittelthurgau Railway subsidiary Lokoop . In addition, diesel locomotives of the DR series V 60 , V 180 and V 200 in particular are being sold used. Most of the locomotives have now become the property of DP Deutsche Privatbahn GmbH , but they remain in service with WAB.

Web links

• Westfälische Almetalbahn GmbH
• Private photos of the vehicle use

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Communication from the Commission on permits to railway undertakings (the permit is valid from July 31, 1998 to July 31, 2013) (PDF), accessed on January 4, 2009
2. ↑ Guttwein: From WAB EBC was. eurailpress.de, February 7, 2011, accessed on May 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ WAB cement clinker traffic has grown, in: Bahn-Report , 2009, issue 1, p. 38.
4. ↑ Freight train derailment in Haspelmoor . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 1/2001, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 10.
5. ↑ Stefan Kolpatzik: The railway Helmstedt - Grasleben. Retrieved January 2, 2009 . 
6. ^ Westfälische Almetalbahn; Paderborn - Büren - Brilon Forest and Büren - Geseke. Westfälische Localbahn eV, archived from the original on September 23, 2007 ; Retrieved January 2, 2009 . 
7. ↑ Almetalbahn for 1 euro. District buys route, municipalities contribute to maintenance costs. In: The Patriot, Lippstädter Zeitung. June 21, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Public announcement of the invitation to submit an opinion according to Section 23 (2) of the General Railway Act (AEG). (No longer available online.) In: Bundesanzeiger. Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport (Ed.), December 10, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 6, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ EBC Eisenbahnbetriebs- und Consulting GmbH Altenbeken: Closure of the public railway infrastructure from Malente-Gremsmühlen (km 0.100) to Lütjenburg (km 17.155) according to § 11 AEG . In: Bundesanzeiger, Various Announcements. February 2, 2012.
10. ↑ See WAB in: www.svt137225.de. Archived from the original on November 17, 2009 ; Retrieved January 2, 2009 . 
11. ↑ See the complete vehicle list at www.privat-bahn.de. Retrieved January 2, 2009 .