Railway construction and operating company Pressnitztalbahn
| Pressnitztalbahn GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 2000 |
| Seat | Jöhstadt |
| management | Kay spinning top |
| Number of employees | 242 |
| sales | EUR 38.9 million |
| Website | pressnitztalbahn.com |
| As of March 31, 2019 | |
The Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft Pressnitztalbahn mbH (short: PRESS ) is a licensed public railway infrastructure and transport company in the Free State of Saxony that provides construction, logistics and freight train services. As a public EVU, the company operates local rail passenger transport on the Bergen – Putbus – Lauterbach Mole and Putbus – Göhren (“Rasender Roland”) railway lines. Under the title "exPRESSzugreisen", PRESS also offers special trips with historic vehicles. It provides various services for the Steinbach – Jöhstadt museum railway . The offer is supplemented by trading in railway material, the management of dining cars and catering support for transport services and events, publishing activities for print media and multimedia applications, commercial road transport and the maintenance of rail vehicles.
history
In 2000, the company started its construction and freight train services. The Preßnitztalbahn interest group was one of the founding partners of PRESS with the aim of creating professional security for active members of the association who wanted to turn their hobby railways into a profession. It has been operating local rail passenger transport on the Putbus - Göhren narrow-gauge railway since 2008, and on the Bergen - Putbus - Lauterbach Mole line since December 2009. It took over a number of railway lines, including the Putbus – Lauterbach Mole line. The transport contract for the last-mentioned route Bergen - Lauterbach was extended in December 2018 to December 11, 2027.
Rügen bath railway
In 2007, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the district of Rügen awarded the transport services of the narrow-gauge Rügen small railway on the island of Rügen to PRESS for 20 years . To this end, she founded the new business area Rügensche Bäderbahn (RüBB). At the beginning of 2008, it was only possible to carry out emergency operations with rented Saxon vehicles, as the vehicles from the previous owner Rügensche Kleinbahn GmbH & Co. KG (RüKB) were not handed over on time. The vehicles and 46 employees were finally taken over in mid-2008. The vehicles were bought back by the Rügen district and are rented to PRESS . In the following years, the company took over various narrow-gauge locomotives and wagons from different sources and had them mostly refurbished in working order, for example the locomotives 99 4011-5 (2009) and 99 1783-2 (2014) as well as various vehicles from the Walter Seidensticker collection jun. (2009).
vehicles
The company has diesel locomotives of different performance classes (DR series V 15 , V 60 , V 100 , DB series V 60 , DB series 218 , Siemens ER 20 , Bombardier TRAXX ), electric locomotives (DR series E 42 , 250 , DB - Series E 10 , E 40 , Bombardier TRAXX) as well as via steam locomotives of the DR series 01.5 (01 509), 44 (44 225), 86 (86 333, 86 744) and 95 (95 009). The fleet is supplemented by numerous passenger and freight cars of various types, including several narrow-gauge transport cars . Many vehicles have the typical blue PRESS vehicle design, while a number of vehicles have the original color scheme of the respective model series.
For the operation of passenger rail transport on the Rügensche Bäderbahn subsequent Bergen auf Rügen-Lauterbach Mole railway comes since December 2009, a 1 Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS used.
In addition, the PRESS has several special road low-loaders with built-in tracks for 750 and 1000 mm gauge , with which narrow-gauge vehicles of these gauges can be loaded and transported without crane loading using a transportable ramp. This service is provided for numerous narrow-gauge railways in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bundesanzeiger.de, calculated from the statement "Sales rose by a total of EUR 2,062 thousand or around 5.6%." In the annual financial statements as of March 31, 2019
- ↑ website of Ruegen Bäderbahn - "Orlando Furioso". Retrieved July 23, 2009 .
- ↑ Federal Gazette, "Annual financial statements for the business year from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008". August 25, 2008, accessed February 15, 2015 .
