Farge-Vegesacker Railway

This article covers the company Farge-Vegesacker Eisenbahn GmbH . For the railway line operated by this company, see the Bremen-Farge – Bremen-Vegesack railway line . For the abbreviation FVE see also Federation of Veterinarians of Europe .

Farge-Vegesacker railway company with limited liability
legal form	GmbH
founding	1888
Seat	Bremen , HRB 3677
management	Henrik Wilkening, managing director Martin Mehrtens, railway operations manager
Branch	Transport / logistics ( railway infrastructure company )
Website	www.captrain.de/fve

The Farge Vegesacker Eisenbahn GmbH (FVE) is a railway company whose shares to 98% of Captrain Germany (formerly Veolia Cargo ) and 2% to the state of Bremen belong. She is the owner of the Bremen-Farge-Bremen-Vegesack railway .

history

Historical logo

The FVE was founded as a stock corporation and on December 31, 1888 opened the 10.44 km long standard-gauge and mostly single-track railway line Bremen-Farge-Bremen-Vegesack, of which at that time only 0.11 km was in the area of ​​the starting station Grohn- Vegesack in the area of Municipality of Bremen . The entire "remainder" of the route with the Blumenthal station , where the company was based until 1928, and the further stations Aumund , Rönnebeck and Farge-Ost ( Niederweserbahn connection ) ran through the territory of the then Prussian province of Hanover , which was only incorporated into the 1939 City of Bremen was incorporated.

Initially, the Prussian State Railways ran the business ; It was not until October 1, 1927 - when the majority of the shares had been transferred to the AG for Transport (AGV) - that it was taken over by its subsidiary, Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADEG), which was followed in 1945 by the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .

The corporation, which was converted into a GmbH in 1953, was taken over by the Connex Group (now Captrain Germany ) in 1998 .

literature

• Andreas Mausolf: The Farge-Vegesacker Railway. The history and renaissance of the rail in Bremen's "High North" . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-389-5 .
• Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen, Volume 10: Lower Saxony, Part 2: Between Weser and Elbe (=  railway courier ). EK-Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , pp. 30-52.
• Documentation and learning location Baracke Wilhelmine (ed.), Peter-Michael Meiners (author): The Marinebahn Farge – Rekum – Neuenkirchen / Schwanewede (=  handout for those interested in history , No. 2). Documentation and learning location Baracke Wilhelmine, Schwanewede-Neuenkirchen 2012 (content: history of the Farge – Schwanewede naval railway ; with explanations of terms and background information).

Web links

• Farge-Vegesacker Eisenbahn GmbH website
• Infrastructure usage contract of Farge-Vegesacker Eisenbahn GmbH , rail network usage conditions (SNB-AT / SNB-BT), terms of use for service facilities (NBS-AT / NBS-BT)
• Pictures of the opening run for the resumption of S-Bahn traffic in 2007
• Vehicle list