Hellertalbahn GmbH
| HellertalBahn GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Betzdorf |
| owner | 33.3% Hessische Landesbahn GmbH 33.3% Westerwaldbahn des Kreis Altenkirchen GmbH 33.3% Kreisbahn Siegen-Wittgenstein GmbH |
| Transport network |
Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| railroad | 1 |
The Hellertalbahn GmbH (proper spelling) was a railway company (PSC), which from 1999 to 2015 the rail transport on the railway line Betzdorf-Haiger has operated.
The company was founded on July 19, 1999 by the Westerwaldbahn des Kreis Altenkirchen (WEBA) , the former Siegener Kreisbahn and the Hessische Landesbahn , each of which held a third of the share capital . The consortium had previously won the tender for local rail passenger transport on the Hellertalbahn between Betzdorf and Dillenburg. On September 26, 1999, the company was taken over by DB Regio . The company used articulated railcars of the Stadler GTW 2/6 type. With the timetable change on December 13, 2015, local transport operations were handed over to the Hessische Landesbahn, which won the tender for the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg network.
Hellertalbahn GmbH was a member of the transport associations VRM , RMV , VRS and VGWS .
The head office was in Betzdorf ; further ticket and information desks were located in the train stations of Burbach , Neunkirchen and Würgendorf (these are managed by the DB ).
At the timetable change in December 2015, the Hessische Landesbahn HLB, Dreiländerbahn operating area, has the transport services of the Hellertalbahn on the Betzdorf - Dillenburg route for 15 years as part of the tender win for lot 2 of the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate North with regard to the Eifel-Westerwald-Sieg diesel network accepted.
Individual evidence
- ^ HLB - Our local rail transport services ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Line overview of the HLB
Web links
- Official website of Hellertalbahn GmbH ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Pictures of vehicles of the Hellertalbahn GmbH
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 21.3 " N , 7 ° 52 ′ 13.2" E