Hector Rail

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Hector Rail AB

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legal form Aktiebolag
founding 2004
Seat Danderyd , Sweden
management Mats Nyblom
sales € 260 million (2015)
Branch Rail freight transport
Website www.hectorrail.com/

Hector Rail is a Swedish rail freight company based in Danderyd near Stockholm . The main owner was originally the Norwegian shipping family Høegh, who sold their stake in EQT Infrastructure II in 2014. The British railway company GB Railfreight has been part of the Hector Rail Group since 2016 . Much of the operation takes place from Hallsberg, south of Örebro .

history

The company was founded in 2004. The first performances were between Norway and Sweden. In 2008, Hectorrail was the first company to continuously haul trains from Sweden to Germany with a continuous locomotive.

vehicles

Series identification of the electric locomotives

The three-digit series designation for electric locomotives has the following definition: the first digit indicates the number of power systems on which the locomotive can be operated, the second digit is the number of axles and the third is a sequential number.

HCTOR 141

In March 2007 the three locomotives of the ÖBB series 1012 were bought, which had already been tested in 2005/2006 and which were given the series designation 141 (141.001–003) .

HCTOR 142

In 2005 the company carried out test drives with Austrian locomotives of the 1012 and 1142 series . Initially, three locomotives of the ÖBB series 1142 were bought and another was rented. Another six were added later.

The railway company has a total of twelve of these locomotives in its portfolio. The series designation in Sweden is HCTOR 142 . These are the locomotives 1142.661, 645, 660 (142.001–003), 1142.551, 558, 563, 588, 629, 650 (142.104–108, 110) and 1142.605, 657 and 590 (142.209, 211 and 212). 142,107 suffered fire damage on June 23, 2011.

HCTOR 143

In 2014 a new locomotive was procured: the company took over eight locomotives of the SJ Rc3 / SJ Rc3R series from Statens Järnvägar , which dissolved the stock of this series. These locomotives were given the series designation 143. The locomotives kept the last three digits of their former state railway operating number and were given names like all of the company's locomotives: 143,039 "Berserk", 143,046 "Prins August", 143,048 "Saga", 143,054 "Halfdan Snälle", 143,059 “Fenrisulfven”, 143,060 “Jernsida”, 143,061 “Valkyrian” and 143,064 “Bifrost”.

HCTOR 161

Hector Rail 161.106-0, next to 142.001-7 in ÖBB colors

In December 2004 the first freight train started with rented locomotives of the Swedish Rc series . By this time the company had already bought all six former Norwegian ore railroad locomotives of the El 15 series . It took until the summer of 2005 for all of the locomotives to be reconditioned in the northern Swedish main workshop, Notviken, and delivered to Hector Rail. There they got the series designation 161 (161.101-106) .

The locomotives are in service in Sweden and Norway. 161.101 and 103 have been retired , 161.102 was scrapped in 2016.

HCTOR 162

Hector Rail 162.001

A contract was signed with DB Schenker Rail (now DB Cargo ) in January 2016 for the sale of 15 locomotives of the DB class 151 to the company. Ten locomotives, the former 151 013, 070, 027, 057, 133, 066, 134, 003, 128 and 063 , are used by Hector Rail as 162.001–010 in scheduled service . The other five are intended for the supply of spare parts. The locomotives were handed over in 2016 and 2017.

HCTOR 241

At the beginning of 2007, Hector Rail signed a contract with Bombardier for the construction of ten TRAXX F140 AC electric locomotives for transport between Sweden and the continent via Denmark. They are two-system locomotives that can be used in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway. They essentially correspond to the German 185 series , were given the Hector series designation 241 and were delivered until 2009. The first locomotive was completed at the beginning of August 2007 and was the first Swedish electric locomotive to run under its own power in Denmark as part of its approval runs. In 2011 two more locomotives were delivered, so that twelve locomotives (241.001-012) are in use.

HCTOR 242

The company also has seven locomotives of the Siemens ES64U2 series with the company numbers 242.502–504, 516, 517, 531 and 532. These were taken over by Mitsui Rail Capital Europe , the former MRCE Dispolok , between 2010 and 2013 .

HCTOR 243

In 2016, Hector Rail ordered five new Vectron locomotives from Siemens with an option for an additional 15. In March 2017, the option for an additional 15 Vectron locomotives was redeemed. After the first locomotive, the 243,001 that came in 2016, followed by 2017, 243,002 and 243,103 to 116 and 2018 243117-120 . The locomotives are used in Sweden and Norway.

HCTOR 441

In March 2006 two of the locomotives originally intended for SBB Cargo from the Swiss class 474, type ES 64 F4 , were taken over and designated class 441 (441.001-002). This type of locomotive is known in Germany as the 189 series. Hector Rail was the first company in Sweden to own modern electric locomotives.

HCTOR 841

Another six locomotives built by Nydqvist och Holm , formerly vehicles of the SJ T43 series , were in the company's portfolio under the series designation 841 (841.001 to 006). 841.001 ( SJ T43 216 ) came directly from SJ in 2009. 841.002–006 were taken over by Svensk Tågteknik AB in the same year ( SST 228, 223, 225, 212 and 219 ). 841.001 is no longer in service, it was parked in Falköping in 2009 . 841.006 was designated as a spare parts donor and was in Vetlanda in 2011 and in Hallsberg in 2012 .

841.002–004 are equipped with radio remote control.

HCTOR 921

The company also owns three shunting locomotives, which were built by Kalmar Verkstad AB as the SJ Z70 series for Statens Järnvägar . Two of them were taken over by Green Cargo ( GC 747 and 743 ) and all sorted under the series 921 (921.001–003) in the series scheme.

HCTOR 941

In addition, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive of the type MaK G2000-5 BB was purchased from Vossloh in 2006 . It was given the series designation 941 (941.001) . A second locomotive of this type (941.102) was added in February 2008.

Areas of application

Since 2008, Hector Rail has been running its 241 series of through freight trains from Krefeld to Norrköping, Sweden, with five pairs of trains per week.

On December 14, 2016, Hector Rail began operating Locomore , today's Flixtrain , with Leo Express between Berlin and Stuttgart with electric locomotives of the Siemens ES64U2 type .

Market shares

In 2007, 2.4 million train kilometers were driven.

Hector Rail's market share in Norwegian rail freight was around 6% in 2011, making it the fifth largest Norwegian rail freight company. In Sweden, Hector Rail is the largest purely private freight transport company with a market share of 7%. In front of Hector Rail are the Green Cargo Group and MTAB (transport company of the state mining company LKAB ). In Denmark, Hector Rail is aiming for a long-term market share of 25%.

literature

  • Jürgen Hörstel: Swedish model of success . In: railway magazine . No. 9 , 2015, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 42-46 .

Web links

Commons : Hector Rail  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profitable and powerful. In: Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung from February 20, 2017
  2. ^ Owners - Hector Rail. Retrieved May 20, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b About - Hector Rail. Retrieved May 20, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 141. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 142. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 143. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 161. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ a b Hector Rail AB. Locomotive overview. In: svenska-lok.se. Retrieved February 11, 2017 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 162. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  10. ^ Hector Rail purchases 10 six axle locos. hectorrail.com, January 7, 2016, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 241. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  12. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 242. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 243. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on March 26, 2019 (English).
  14. ↑ Hector Rail is investing in five new Siemens Vectron locomotives with an option for 15 more locomotives. hectorrail.com, July 20, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Hector Rail orders 15 Vectron locomotives from Siemens. siemens.com, March 15, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 441. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  17. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 841. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on February 11, 2017 (English).
  18. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 921. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on January 26, 2016 (English).
  19. ↑ Data sheet HCTOR 941. (PDF) hectorrail.com, accessed on March 11, 2017 (English).
  20. ↑ Locomore News. Locomore, June 3, 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  21. ↑ railway magazine 10/2008. P. 25
  22. ↑ Independent Regulators' Group - Rail: Annexes to the Annual Market Monitoring Report , February 2013, p. 10 ( Memento of December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Inge Vierth: 15 years deregulated rail freight market - lessons from Sweden , Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI, p. 6, European Transport Conference 2011
  24. ↑ Hector Rail: Renewal of contract with ScandFibre means 50% growth, press release of October 22, 2010 ( Memento of December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 16, 2013