Hanseatic Railway

Hanseatic Railway GmbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Putlitz
Web presence	www.hanseatische-eisenbahn.de
Reference year	2020
owner	100% ENON GmbH & Co.KG
Board	Ralf Böhme
Transport network	VBB
Employee	approx. 50
sales	EUR 2 milliondep1
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad	6th
number of vehicles
Railcar	6 DWA LVT / S 3 LINT 27 2 NE 81 1 RegioShuttle RS1 1 VT 98
statistics
Mileage	0.8 million km / year
Stops	41
Length of line network
Railway lines	approx. 170 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots	Meyenburg

The Hanseatische Eisenbahn GmbH ( HANS , own spelling: HANSeatische Eisenbahn GmbH ) is a railway company that emerged in 2014 from the passenger transport division of the Potsdam Railway Company (EGP). Both companies belong to ENON GmbH, which is based in Putlitz in the north-west of Brandenburg.

history

Regioshuttle of the Hanseatic Railway in southern Germany

VT 43 (type NE 81 ) of the "HANS" on the Südbahn in Karow (Meckl)

In Brandenburg, HANS operates local rail passenger transport on the branch lines in Prignitz. On November 2, 2012, the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association announced that EGP (from which HANS emerged in 2014) will take over these rail connections for (initially) two years from December 2012. The Meyenburg – Pritzwalk and Pritzwalk – Neustadt (Dosse) routes are operated with light internal combustion engines . However, the scope of operations is significantly lower than that of Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH, which previously operated the lines. According to the tender, the EGP was also responsible for developing a concept for the future operation of the routes. After developing such a concept, the transport contract could be extended for a further two years in December 2014. Another two-year contract was concluded for the following period from December 2016 to December 2018. If the neighboring communities agree, a long-term ten-year contract is planned from December 2018.

For the Neustrelitz - Mirow route, which was canceled when the timetable changed in December 2012, a new operating concept was drawn up before the end of the last timetable year, so that the transition from the previous operator of the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (ODEG) to the Hanseatic Railway could take place seamlessly. With a reduced offer, the continued operation of the route has been secured since December 2012, the responsible authority is now the Mecklenburg Lake District .

Weekend traffic between Meyenburg and Pritzwalk has been offered again since July 6, 2013 after the cities of Pritzwalk and Meyenburg, together with the Prignitz district, agreed on a financial contribution. From July 6 to September 30, 2013 and May to September 2014, single trips were also offered on Saturdays via Plau am See to Krakow am See in Mecklenburg. Since the weekend traffic is not ordered at the state level, the weekend's own “EGP house tariff”, which corresponds to the VBB tariff between Pritzwalk and Meyenburg, applied. Since the timetable change in December 2014, weekend trips to and from Meyenburg have been ordered again and VBB tickets are valid without restriction.

In December 2017, the Hanseatic Railway took over the traffic between Waren (Müritz) and the island town of Malchow from Deutsche Bahn. The district Mecklenburg Lake District was awarded the contract after negotiations of the HANS.

One year later, in December 2018, the Hanseatic Railway took over operations in the "Elbe-Altmark" network and operates the lines RB 33 Stendal - Tangermünde and RB 34 Stendal - Rathenow. VBB and NASA awarded the contract on February 14, 2017. The new contract runs for four years. LINT 27 railcars are used .

Line network

Lines

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current network plan

line	Line course	Vehicles in planned operation	Contract term
RB 15	Waren (Müritz) - island town of Malchow (- Karow (Meckl))	DWA LVT / S	December 2019 - December 2021
RB 16	Kleinseenbahn Neustrelitz - Wesenberg - Mirow	DWA LVT / S and NE 81	December 2019 - December 2021
RB 33	Stendal main station - Tangermünde	LINT 27	December 2018 - December 2022
RB 34	Rathenow - Schönhausen (Elbe) - Stendal Hbf	LINT 27	December 2018 - December 2022
RB 73	(Pritzwalk - Blumenthal (Mark) -) Kyritz Am Bürgerpark - Neustadt (Dosse)	DWA LVT / S	December 2018 - December 2020
RB 74	(Pritzwalk West -) Pritzwalk - Bruges (Prign) - Meyenburg (- Ganzlin)	DWA LVT / S and NE 81	December 2018 - December 2020

Formerly operated lines

On behalf of the Putlitz-Pritzwalker-Eisenbahnförderverein, school traffic in particular was provided on the "RB 70" line from Pritzwalk to Putlitz. Actually only planned until December 2012, the line ran until summer 2016. Following a Europe-wide tender, the Prignitz transport company lost its responsibility for bus transport in the Prignitz district on August 1, 2016 . The new bus operator no longer has the transport services handled by the RB 70.

The "middle" section of the Mecklenburg Southern Railway (formerly ODEG), which was canceled in December 2014, was operated independently.

In 2014, in cooperation with the Neustrelitz port railway, a direct connection between Neustrelitz and Plau am See called seen.land.bahn was offered . The trips were only offered on Thursdays during the season.

line	Line course	Vehicles in planned operation	Operation from / to
WE 74	Meyenburg - Plau am See - Krakow am See	670	July 6, 2013 - September 28, 2014
	seen.land.bahn Neustrelitz Hbf - Waren (Müritz) - Inselstadt Malchow - Karow (Meckl) - Plau am See	772	June 26, 2014 - October 30, 2014
	Mecklenburg Southern Railway Parchim - Lübz - Karow (Meckl) - island town of Malchow	DWA LVT / S	December 14, 2014 - April 30, 2015
RB 70	Pritzwalk - Putlitz	798	until July 31, 2016

vehicles

The Hanseatic Railway uses two NE 81 (series 626) and three pre-series LVT / S (series 504). Two vehicles of the 670 series have been parked because of the deadline and a lack of spare parts.

In December 2014, HANS received a RegioShuttle RS1 vehicle from Stadler Pankow GmbH. The railcar was previously in use at the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH and was rebuilt after a fire damage.

In 2018, the Hanseatic Railway acquired three additional DWA LVT / S railcars (672 907, 919, 920) that were previously in service with the Burgenland Railway . For the new traffic in Saxony-Anhalt, three Alstom Coradia Lint 27s were taken over by Transdev Saxony-Anhalt at the end of 2018 . The only vehicles that Hans decommissioned are the two VT 670.

Type	Number of VT	Number of VS	Number of VB	Vehicle numbers	stretch
LVT / S	6th	-	-	504 001, 504 002, 504 006, 672 907, 672 919, 672 920	Prignitz network, Mecklenburg Lake District network
NE 81	2	0	1	626 043 (VT 43), 620 120 (VT 120), 926 240 (VB 240)	Kleinseenbahn
RS1	1	-	-	650 567 (650.06)	Reserve vehicle Elbe-Altmark network, rental
LINT 27	3	-	-	640 121, 640 122, 640 125	Elbe-Altmark network
VT 98	1	0	0	798 610	Special trips, reserve vehicle
670	0	-	-	670 006 (670.3), 670 007 (670.4) retired