Georg traffic organization

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The Georg Verkehrsorganisation GmbH (GVG) is a German railway company (PSC), which is the long-distance passenger dedicated (SPFV) in Europe. The GVG was best known for the Berlin Night Express . After the surprising death of GVG managing director Rolf Georg in early May 2019, the company does not currently have a railway operations manager . EVU Wedler Franz Logistik (WFL) stepped in as a service provider for the operation of the Berlin Night Express . The future of the company is uncertain.

History and field of activity

The company has been operating charter trains on behalf of travel agencies and other companies since 1958. The GVG founded by Rolf Georg - in its current form - was founded on February 28, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main . It was approved as an EVU on April 1, 1994. On September 24, 2000, the Berlin-Malmö Express was launched together with the Swedish railway company SJ AB .

Georg Verkehrsorganization locomotive with the Berlin Night Express

Expansion attempts

GVG has tried several times to offer additional trains in long-distance passenger rail transport to other European countries.

  • Basel - Domodossola - Milan : In the period 1995 to 2003, the Italian state railway Ferrovie dello Stato SpA (FS) prevented GVG from receiving infrastructure access, timetable routes and traction services. This behavior was prohibited by the EU Commission with the decision of August 27, 2003.
  • Mannheim - Paris : For the 2007 timetable year, GVG 2006 applied for six train paths from DB Netz AG , which rejected the application for legal and scheduling reasons. A review procedure at the Federal Network Agency has been discontinued.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schr / cgr: Death of Rolf Georg - Berlin Night Express with a new partner , in: Eisenbahn-Revue International 7/2019, p. 375
  2. ^ Announcement of competition for DB long-distance traffic . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 10/2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 428
  3. ↑ Commission of the European Communities, decision of August 27, 2003 in relation to a procedure under Article 62 of the EC Treaty. (PDF, 41 pages) (No longer available online.) In: ec.europa.eu. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved on September 19, 2009 (COMP / 37.685 GVG / FS).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ec.europa.eu  
  4. ↑ Activity reports 2006 and 2007 of the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways for the railways sector in accordance with Section 14b, Paragraph 4 of the General Railway Act and a statement by the Federal Government. (PDF, 104 pages; 1.3 MB) In: German Bundestag, printed matter 16/10460. September 26, 2008, pp. 23f , accessed on September 19, 2009 .

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