Niederbarnimer Railway

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Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG
NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
NEB Logo 2014.svg
Basic information
Company headquarters Basdorf
Web presence www.neb.de
Reference year 2015
owner 66.92% Industriebahngesellschaft Berlin mbH , 33.08% four rural districts and neighboring communities
Board Detlef Brocker
Transport network VBB
Employee 275
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad 11
number of vehicles
Railcar 11 BR 632
13 BR 643
15 BR 650
Omnibuses 2
statistics
Passengers 14,000 / day
Mileage 5.6 million km / year
Length of line network
Railway lines 665 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots Basdorf
Other operating facilities Customer center Berlin-Lichtenberg
NEB RegioShuttle in December 2014 at Angermünde train station

The Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG (NEB) is a non State-owned railway infrastructure companies (EIU), headquartered in Berlin and part of the transport group Captrain Germany . Via the subsidiary NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH , it is also active as a railway company (EVU) and operates rail-based local passenger transport in the Berlin area.

Ownership structure

The largest shareholder in the company today is Industriebahn-Gesellschaft Berlin GmbH (IGB), which belongs to BEHALA and Captrain Germany, with 66.92 percent . Also shareholders are the Association of Towns and Municipalities and the Brandenburg District Association with a total of 6.16 percent, the districts of Oberhavel , Barnim , Märkisch-Oderland and Oder-Spree with a total of 26 percent and numerous communities along the railway line with the remaining 0.92 percent.

Infrastructure of the NEB

The main line of the NEB since 1901 was the so-called Heidekrautbahn from the train station Berlin-Wilhelmsruh (formerly Reinickendorf-Rosenthal) via Basdorf and Klosterfelde to Groß Schönebeck with a branch from Basdorf via Wensickendorf to Liebenwalde. As an EIU, Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG operates these sections today, with the exception of a section near Berlin-Wilhelmsruh that was interrupted by the construction of the Wall. The route from Basdorf in the direction of Wilhelmsruh is only used for freight traffic (connection for Stadler Pankow GmbH ). The section from Wensickendorf to Liebenwalde is currently without traffic. In addition, the NEB operates the sections from the Berlin-Karow station (excluding the station area) to Basdorf and from Wensickendorf to Schmachtenhagen, which were built by the Deutsche Reichsbahn around 1950 .

The company has also owned the Tegel – Friedrichsfelde industrial railway since 1925 . This originally connected the entire north-east of Berlin with the port in Tegel , the northern railway as well as the Kremmener railway , the Stettiner railway and the eastern railway . The industrial railway was used in parts until the 1990s intense for freight transport because of their sidings many important industrial plants and factories in East Berlin were, including Star Radio and NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH . There was also a connection to the Friedrichsfelde lean cattle farm and the northern French sector of Berlin, as well as several connections to the Deutsche Bahn network.

Regional traffic

Line network of NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (status: timetable year 2019)
VT 735 in Seelow / Gusow station

The Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn operates as an EVU in local rail passenger transport in the Berlin and Eastern Brandenburg area. Since December 2005, NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH , a subsidiary of Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG, has been operating regional traffic between Karow via Basdorf to Groß Schönebeck and via Basdorf to Wensickendorf on the Heidekrautbahn, extended to Schmachtenhagen at the weekend (line RB 27, until 2012 NE 27). Between April 16, 2007 and December 31, 2007, the NEB carried out a limited trial run on weekdays with four pairs of trains in the morning and in the afternoon between Wensickendorf and Zehlendorf (near Oranienburg) . This was discontinued due to a lack of demand.

Likewise, the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, as the winner of an operating tender from the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) , operates the Eastern Railway between Berlin-Lichtenberg and Küstrin in Poland . The route was operated by DB Regio until 2006 . The NEB took over the operation until 2014 under the brand name "Oderlandbahn" or the line number RB 26 (until 2012 NE 26)

NEB uses Talent railcars from Bombardier on both lines, which are based in the depot in Basdorf and are also maintained there. Like the other transport companies in Brandenburg and Berlin, Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn is also a partner in the VBB , whereby its conditions of carriage apply and the tickets are recognized. In 2006/07 the NEB operated 1.01 percent of all transport services (in train kilometers) in the VBB.

To relieve the traffic on S-Bahn line 2 , which was restricted due to the S-Bahn crisis , three pairs of trains were extended from Berlin-Karow to Berlin-Gesundbrunnen from the beginning of 2011 on weekdays in the morning and afternoon rush hour traffic, although there is no stop in Berlin-Karow. This offer was gradually expanded until the end of 2011.

On February 12, 2013 the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg awarded the contract to the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn for the so-called "Netz Ostbrandenburg" on behalf of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg. From December 2014 five lines and from December 2015 another four lines will be taken over. In addition to the already known Talent , Regio-Shuttle and mostly new Link- type vehicles are used on the RB 26 .

On March 31, 2014, the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association awarded the "Ostbrandenburg Vorlauf network" to the Niederbarnimer Railway. The RB 25 has been operated by the NEB since December 2014. The RB 26 was also part of the tender and will remain with the NEB. Well-known talents are used.

Overall, the number of lines operated increased to eleven from December 13, 2015.

In January 2016, a Talent railcar burned down completely. Furthermore, the late approval for the Link vehicle type caused unstable operation. The two-part Link vehicles have been on the NEB routes since June 2016. In normal operation, these are used on the RB 26 and RB 54 lines. Since the manufacturer Pesa cannot give a delivery date for the three-part multiple units, the order for two three-part vehicles was converted into four two-part vehicles. Until their delivery, older used vehicles were used as replacements. Due to changes compared to the first series, a renewed approval by the Federal Railway Authority was necessary, which was only available in December 2018.

From December 2018 to December 2021, trial operations will take place every two hours on the Joachimsthal - Templin section. Neighboring communities and the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association want to check whether the section of the route that was canceled in December 2006 will again receive regular local public transport.

Current operation

line Train run Contract term
RB 12 Berlin Ostkreuz - Berlin-Lichtenberg - Oranienburg - Löwenberg (Mark) - Templin city December 2015 - December 2024
RB 25 Berlin Ostkreuz - Berlin-Lichtenberg - Ahrensfelde - Werneuchen December 2014 - December 2024
RB 26 Berlin Ostkreuz - Berlin-Lichtenberg - Strausberg - Werbig - Küstrin-Kietz - Kostrzyn December 2006 - December 2024
RB 27 Berlin-Karow - Basdorf - Wensickendorf - Schmachtenhagen December 2005 - December 2020
Klosterfelde - Groß Schönebeck
RB 35 Fürstenwalde (Spree) - Bad Saarow Clinic December 2014 - December 2024
RB 36 Königs Wusterhausen - Beeskow - Frankfurt (Oder) December 2014 - December 2024
RB 54 Berlin-Lichtenberg - Löwenberg (Mark) - Herzberg (Mark) - Rheinsberg (Mark) December 2015 - December 2024
RB 60 Eberswalde - Wriezen - Werbig - Frankfurt (Oder) December 2014 - December 2024
RB 61 Angermünde - Schwedt (Oder) December 2014 - December 2024
RB 62 Prenzlau - Angermünde (- Eberswalde) December 2014 - December 2024
RB 63 Eberswalde - Joachimsthal - Templin city December 2014 - December 2024

history

Between the founding and the Second World War

Participation right certificate for 100 RM from the Reinickendorf-Liebenwalde-Gross Schönebecker Eisenbahn-AG from April 1, 1926

The communities bordering the Heidekrautbahn founded the company initially under the name Reinickendorf-Liebenwalder-Groß-Schönebecker Eisenbahn AG . Since 1927 it has been called Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG. On May 21, 1901, passenger traffic between Berlin-Wilhelmsruh station (Klbf) and Liebenwalde or Groß Schönebeck was opened. On July 1, 1925, the Tegel – Friedrichsfelde industrial railway , opened December 16, 1907, with a length of 26 kilometers, came into the company's possession. The first operator of the railway was a government builder a. D. August Steinfeld .

In 1943 the city of Berlin was the main shareholder with around 67 percent of the capital, other shareholders were the Niederbarnim district (26 percent), the province of Brandenburg (six percent) and neighboring communities. Until the end of the war, the company was based in the office building in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh, Fontanestrasse 31. The railway station was initially at Berlin-Wilhelmsruh station, and later at Basdorf station . As early as the 1930s, the Heidekrautbahn was so important that the electrification of the route was planned.

Expropriation by the GDR and construction of the wall

After the war, the Soviet occupying forces briefly switched the section of the low-fat cattle farm - Weißensee industrial railway of the industrial railway Tegel - Friedrichsfelde to broad gauge in 1945 . On July 1, 1950, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the operation of the industrial railway, as far as it was in East Berlin. The Deutsche Reichsbahn also operated the tracks in Berlin (West), as the Allied railway operating rights were granted to the USSR according to the Potsdam Agreement and the latter commissioned the Reichsbahn to do so.

Because private railways in Berlin (West) were exempt from this regulation, the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn remained in the status of a stock corporation; the GDR did not expropriate it; basically this detail is still controversial today. In this way, the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the GDR, which, partly through the municipalities, were co-shareholders of the stock corporation, presumably secured access and management of the western part of the Tegel industrial railway. The "administration and usufruct" of the Heidekrautbahn had to be carried out with a contract dated 28./29. June 1950 to July 1, 1950 to be transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. On July 1, 1959, the Reichsbahn also took over the route network. The corporation had to give its assets to the Reichsbahn free of charge. A passage in the treaty stipulated that this had to be renegotiated after reunification; this happened after reunification in 1990.

The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 interrupted traffic between Wilhelmsruh and Liebenwalde and Groß Schönebeck. The GDR had the connections dismantled and the tracks in the border strip shut down. The connection to the northern line was now separated, the trains initially ran from Wilhelmsruh, from November 9, 1961 only from Schildow , and later again from Berlin-Blankenfelde , until this southern section of the line was finally open to passenger traffic on May 27, 1983 was shut down.

Today's Talent multiple unit of the NEB at the Schönwalde stop (Barnim)

Shortly after the construction of the Wall, the Deutsche Reichsbahn had the Heidekrautbahn traffic routed back to the Berlin S-Bahn network via the existing Berlin-Karow-Basdorf bypass line, a connecting line that was part of the original outer freight ring . For this purpose, a makeshift platform was built on the freight track in Berlin-Blankenburg . Since February 3, 1976, the trains turned there and were used directly from the Karow S-Bahn station. From this point on, it was possible to change directly from the S-Bahn to the Heidekrautbahn on the same platform. As a result, the Deutsche Reichsbahn also had two new subway stations, Schönwalde and Schönerlinde , built. To the north, the line was connected to the Deutsche Reichsbahn network via the Wensickendorf – Oranienburg line.

The NEB board had already moved to West Berlin in the 1950s, and the company's headquarters were in an office building on Westhafen . From there, a lawyer administered the company in trust, a unique experience in the economic history of the GDR.

Reunification and start of operations

The reunification had a big impact on the NEB. In 1993, the NEB was able to carry out rail freight traffic on the route between Wilhelmsruh and Basdorf for the first time . More important, however, was that the contract concluded between the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn came into effect, as a passage provided for the expropriation of the Heidekrautbahn to be reversed. After lengthy negotiations between Deutsche Bahn AG, the legal successor to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, the transfer back was completed on September 1, 1998.

New bridge over the Oder-Havel Canal (Zerpenschleuse)

Regional traffic on the Heidekrautbahn continued to be carried out by Deutsche Bahn, so that this train path fees had to be paid to a private RIU. On July 1, 2000, NEB acquired the Karow – Basdorf bypass and the Wensickendorf – Schmachtenhagen section from Deutsche Bahn AG. Between 1999 and 2002, the NEB invested a total of around 17 million euros in the renovation and expansion of the Heidekrautbahn, including the renovation of the bridge over the Havel-Oder waterway near Zerpenschleuse .

In 2004, the NEB won the tender for the Heidekrautbahn from the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association and was thus able, after 55 years, to take over operation on its own infrastructure again from December 2005. In order to guarantee the legally required separation of route and operation, NEB founded the subsidiary NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH on December 17, 2004, which operates as an EVU. The parent company Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG remains responsible for the infrastructure as an EIU .

Train of the "Oderlandbahn" in the station Berlin-Lichtenberg
NEB VT 632.004 / SA139 018 in Gorzów Wlkp. - The toilet container is emptied with a motor pump.

This was the basis for the NEB's activities to be expanded over its own routes. The Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn also participated in other tenders from the VBB. In the tender for cross-border regional traffic between Berlin-Lichtenberg and the Polish Küstrin (Kostrzyn nad Odrą), the NEB won the operating rights against the competitor DB Regio for eight years, from December 2006 to December 2014. After numerous negotiations with the Polish railway authority UTK , the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn will start operating with talent railcars under the title "Oderlandbahn" on December 10, 2006. The infrastructure of the route belongs on German territory to DB Netz .

On the branching line to Wensickendorf, the line speed was increased from 50 km / h to 80 km / h for 2.3 million euros. In July 2010, the NEB was provided with 1.7 million euros in funding from the EU structural fund ERDF.

literature

Web links

Commons : Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data according to Beefland Privat and Kleinbahnen
  2. ↑ Press release Heidekrautbahn travels back to Zehlendorf near Oranienburg ( memento from September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG, April 13, 2007
  3. ^ Peter Neumann: More trains from Strausberg to Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 2, 2005.
  4. ↑ RE remains RE - OE, NE, PE becomes RB! Uniform names in the regional rail traffic of the VBB. (No longer available online.) In: vbb.de. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2012 (press release).
  5. ↑ VBB Group Report 2006/2007 (PDF; 4 MB) p. 28
  6. ↑ Additional trips on the Heidekrautbahn (NE27) to Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. (PDF) (No longer available online.) December 30, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neb.de
  7. ↑ Additional timetable for the Heidekrautbahn (NE27) to and from Berlin-Gesundbrunnen - valid from February 28, 2011. (PDF) (No longer available online.) February 24, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Award for the Ostbrandenburg network (PDF; 40 kB)
  9. ↑ NEB successful - second "Link" deployment in Germany . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 4 , 2013, p. 159 .
  10. ↑ Contract for the Ostbrandenburg Vorlauf network awarded
  11. ^ Peter Neumann: Regionalverkehr: Lots of commuters, full trains, no seats. In: Berliner Zeitung. December 16, 2016, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Germany approval for further link vehicles. Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, December 21, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mobility for rural areas: the Schorfheide railway RB63 is being extended to Templin. Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning Brandenburg, November 26, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Erich Preuss: The Niederbarnimer Railway. From Berlin to the heather . Transpress, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-71150-8 , pp. 68-83 .
  15. ↑ History - More than 110 years of railway history. Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, accessed December 4, 2018 .
  16. ↑ 1.7 million euros for the expansion of the Heidekrautbahn. DPA archived from the original on July 16, 2010 ; Retrieved July 7, 2010 .