Lappwaldbahn

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Logo of the LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH

The Lappwaldbahn group of companies consists of several individual companies based in Weferlingen (Saxony-Anhalt), Dörenthe (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Selters (Rhineland-Palatinate). Specifically, a railway company (EVU), a railway infrastructure company (EIU), a specialist workshop for railway vehicles and a track construction company belong to the group of companies. The name Lappwald refers to a range of hills on the border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony north of Helmstedt .

The LWC Lappwaldbahn Cargo GmbH (LWC) is active as utilities mainly in freight and construction site logistics.

The LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH operates as EIU several railway lines in the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate is also the owner of two subsidiaries LWG Lappwaldbahn track construction GmbH and LWI Lappwaldbahn maintenance .

history

Lappwaldbahn GmbH was founded in 1997 and received approval as an EVU for public goods transport in 1998. In 2001, the company took over the Weferlingen – Grasleben route from DB Netz as the first route and signed a cooperation agreement for freight transport with DB Cargo .

In 2009, the split into Lappwaldbahn GmbH (LWB) as an EVU and LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH as an EIU.

While the outsourced Lappwaldbahn GmbH filed for insolvency on November 16, 2016, LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH founded LWG Lappwaldbahn Gleisbau GmbH in the same year . In addition, the shareholders of LWS took over DZ Rail GmbH and converted it into LWC Lappwaldbahn Cargo GmbH as an independently operating company within the group of companies .

Route network

The Lappwaldbahn operates freight traffic on the 30-kilometer-long Haldensleben – Weferlingen line leased by Deutsche Bahn AG in 2000 , which stretches from Haldensleben on the Mittelland Canal in a westerly direction through a varied hilly landscape to Weferlingen am Lappwald. This was opened in 1906/07 by Kleinbahn-AG Neuhaldensleben-Weferlingen and came to Deutsche Bahn AG through several company changes. The passenger traffic was stopped by her in 1999.

The Lappwaldbahn also leased the three-kilometer-long Weferlingen – Grasleben connecting line from Quarzwerke Grasleben in 2001, which was put into operation by the Prussian State Railway on September 1, 1895, but was interrupted for decades by the 1945 border drawing.

Finally, in 2006, the subsequent 18-kilometer-long Helmstedt – Grasleben route was taken over by DB Netz .

It also operates on the Haldensleben – Emden and Süplingen – Dönstedt routes for Norddeutsche Naturstein Rail GmbH (NN Rail).

In 2013 and 2014, the LWF a Basaltwerk and a silica sand plant was in Walbeck by the reopening of the sidings as customers.

On December 1, 2015, LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH acquired the 43.6 kilometer long Ibbenbüren – Tecklenburg – Lengerich – Bad Iburg – Versmold line and the 7.1 kilometer branch Brochterbeck –Hafen Saerbeck from the Teutoburg Forest Railway ( TWE). The company intends to renovate the currently blocked tracks in two construction phases in the period from 2016 to 2021. By the end of 2017 [out of date] tourism traffic between Ibbenbüren and Versmold and freight traffic to the port of Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe is planned.

On November 26, 2018, after almost two years of negotiations, LWS bought the 33-kilometer Altenkirchen – Selters route in the Westerwald , which was also advertised for takeover in accordance with AEG §11 , and became the owner on January 1, 2019. After repairs, freight traffic on the route could be resumed at the end of 2019.

In total, the rail network now has a total length of 135 kilometers.

vehicles

DB 225 086-8

The Lappwaldbahn uses four purchased diesel locomotives of the DB class 225 and a rented Class 66 for block train traffic . There are also three DR class V 60 locomotives for shunting .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publications in the commercial register. HRB110431, November 23, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016 (Stendal District Court).
  2. ↑ Publications in the commercial register. HRB9780, September 30, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016 (Stendal District Court).
  3. ↑ DVV Media Group GmbH: Lappwaldbahn files for bankruptcy . In: Eurailpress . ( eurailpress.de [accessed December 14, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Publications in the commercial register. HRB22976, March 22, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016 (Stendal District Court).
  5. ↑ Publications in the commercial register. HRB31068, December 6, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016 (Leipzig District Court).
  6. ^ A b Stefan Högemann: The Lappwaldbahn Group . In: Bahn-Report . tape 33 , no. 197 , September 1, 2015, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 40-45 ( website [accessed September 14, 2015]).
  7. ↑ Freight transport specialist Lappwaldbahn is negotiating a TWE route. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. February 18, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 .
  8. ↑ TWE signs contracts with the Lappwaldbahn (article in the news portal of the city magazine GÜTSEL). Christian Schröter, December 1, 2015, accessed on December 1, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Holzbachtalbahn Altenkirchen - Selters saved. In: Altenkirchener Kurier. December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  10. ^ Westerwald route. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Freight traffic on the Holzbachtalbahn again. November 11, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .