Baltic Sea transport
| Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH (OLA) | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Schwerin |
| Web presence | www.ostseelandverkehr.de |
| Reference year | 2013 |
| Managing directors | Tobias Kretschmer |
| Employee | 120 |
| sales | 33.5 million euros |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| number of vehicles | |
| Railcar | 10 Talent railcars 6 LINT |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | 4.1 million km per year |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | Schwerin , Neubrandenburg |
The Baltic Verkehr GmbH ( OLA ) was a railway company (TOC) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . It was created in 2005 through the merger of the Ostmecklenburgische Eisenbahn (OME), the first private railway in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the MecklenburgBahn (MEBA). Transdev GmbH , the parent company of the former OME, holds 70% and Nahverkehr Schwerin , that of the former MEBA, holds 30% of the shares.
The OLA operated the local rail passenger transport on several lines in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until 2013 and on two lines in the state of Brandenburg until 2011 . As of the timetable change in December 2013, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ordered the services previously operated by OLA from other providers, so that OLA has no longer operated local rail passenger transport since then. Furthermore, the OLA was the operator of the first privately operated long-distance train in Germany, the InterConnex, until 2014 .
development
In spring 2005 the Ostmecklenburgische Eisenbahn and the MecklenburgBahn merged to form the Ostseeland Verkehr. Although the names OME and MEBA were to be retained at the beginning, all railcars were given OLA stickers. Furthermore, press releases and timetable information were published uniformly via the OLA.
Data
In 2011, OLA employed 168 people and achieved an annual turnover of 48.3 million euros. It carried around 4.9 million passengers a year (as of 2008) in local , long-distance rail and bus transport .
The company owned 16 railcars , 6 of the LINT 41 type and 10 Talent , as well as 70 buses , and had workshops and branches in Neubrandenburg and Schwerin. Some Talent multiple units were sold to the Bayerische Oberlandbahn in 2014 .
Holdings
OLA has been the sole shareholder of Personenverkehr GmbH Müritz , Waren (Müritz) , since April 1, 2006 . The shares in Personenverkehr Müritz GmbH were sold to the municipal MVVG on January 1, 2017 . From the beginning of 2017, this will carry out all regular services in the Mecklenburg Lake District.
In 2006 and 2007, OLA held a 51% share in the Löcknitz company Orwat Bus GmbH & Co. KG .
Were also connected to Veolia Transport customer service and the railway workshop-Gesellschaft mbH (Neubrandenburg). The latter operated OLA's own railcar workshop in the east of Neubrandenburg. The workshop was taken over by Deutsche Bahn.
Local rail transport
After the merger of OME and MEBA, OLA took over operations on several lines in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the two predecessor companies in local rail passenger transport. She lost two lines in 2009 and 2011 as a result of tenders. In 2011, OLA also lost operations on two lines in the state of Brandenburg, which it had taken over two years earlier.
In 2012, OLA did not take part in the new tender for the connections between Lübeck, Bützow, Güstrow, Neubrandenburg, Pasewalk and Ueckermünde, which had been in operation since 2005, due to the parent company's corporate policy at the time. As a result, DB Regio was the only applicant to be awarded the contract, which will operate the connections from December 2014. The OLA later objected to this decision as the tender conditions were later changed. It was now defeated by the Rostock Higher Regional Court .
The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also decided not to give OLA a follow-up order for the contracts on all routes that expired at the end of 2013. On the one hand, this concerned the bridging services between Bützow and Ueckermünde or Neustrelitz and Stralsund from the end of 2013 to the start of the new contract at the end of 2014. DB Regio was designated by the state as the operator for this one year. On the other hand, there was the Rehna - Schwerin - Parchim line, which has not yet been put out to tender in a new tendering process. The East German Railway has been the new operator here since December 2013. The OLA had sued against these transitional awards. The suit was also dismissed by the Rostock Higher Regional Court in November 2013.
Long-distance passenger rail transport
Since 2002, OME has operated the InterConnex, the first private long-distance train in Germany. The OLA was the operator of this train from the merger in 2005 until it was discontinued in December 2014.
| Train type | Train run | Tact | Maintenance shop |
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| X | Warnemünde - Rostock Hbf - Güstrow - Waren (Müritz) - Neustrelitz Hbf - Berlin Hbf - Leipzig Hbf | 1 pair of trains (Warnemünde - Berlin) 2 pairs of trains (Berlin - Leipzig) |
Husum ( NOB ) |
Former lines
When OLA was founded, the company took over the traffic on several lines in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which had already been operated by their predecessor companies OME and MEBA.
From the OME these were the following lines:
| Train type | course | Vehicles in regular operation | Tact | Maintenance shop | ||
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| OLA | Rostock Hbf - Laage - Plaaz - Priemerburg - Güstrow | Bombardier talent |
60 min (HVZ) 120 min (NVZ) |
Neubrandenburg | ||
| OLA | Bützow - Güstrow - Neubrandenburg - Pasewalk - Ueckermünde city harbor | Bombardier talent |
120 min (overlay with RE 6 every hour) |
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| OLA | Stralsund Hbf - Grimmen - Demmin - Neubrandenburg - Neustrelitz Hbf | Bombardier talent |
4 hours (overlay with RE 5 every hour) |
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| OLA | Bergen (Rügen) - Putbus - Lauterbach - Lauterbach pier | Alstom Coradia LINT |
60 min (summer) 120 min (winter) |
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At the timetable change in December 2009, the line operation on the Bergen - Lauterbach line was transferred to the Pressnitztalbahn railway construction and operating company , which was successful in a previous tender. At the timetable change in December 2012, the Rostock - Laage - Güstrow line was part of the expanded Rostock S-Bahn and handed over to DB Regio Nordost , which was successful in the tender. Operations on the other two lines were transferred to DB Regio after the contract expired in December 2013.
OLA took over the following line from MEBA:
| Train type | course | Vehicles in regular operation | Tact | Maintenance shop | ||
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| OLA | Rehna - Gadebusch - Schwerin - Crivitz - Parchim | Alstom Coradia LINT |
60 min (HVZ) 120 min (Rehna-Gadebusch in NVZ) |
Schwerin (NVS) | ||
After the expiry of the transport contract, ODEG took over operations on this line in December 2013.
In the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB), the OLA with its Märkische Regiobahn brand took over the traffic with 34 employees and four Desiro railcars on the following regional railway lines on December 9, 2007 :
| Train type | course | Vehicles in regular operation | Tact | ||
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| MR 33 | Berlin-Wannsee - Michendorf - Beelitz City - Treuenbrietzen - Jüterbog | Desiro |
60 min (Berlin - Beelitz) 120 min (Beelitz - Jüterbog) |
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| MR 51 | Brandenburg - Pritzerbe - Premnitz - Rathenow | Desiro | 60 min | ||
At the timetable change in December 2011, these lines were handed over to ODEG , which was successful in a tender.
Since the end of 2013, OLA has therefore no longer operated any lines in local rail passenger transport.
Rates
The route network of Ostseeland Verkehr ran in different tariff areas. Ostseeland Verkehr formed a tariff association with Deutsche Bahn for the routes Güstrow – Rostock, Bützow – Ueckermünde, Stralsund – Neustrelitz and Pasewalk – Züssow, where prices and tickets from both companies were valid.
On the Parchim – Schwerin – Rehna route, the in-house tariff applied there, the amount and structure of which corresponds to the Deutsche Bahn tariff. The tariff regulations of the regional transport associations and tariff associations applied in the network areas . These were the transport association Warnow , the transport association Berlin-Brandenburg and the transport association Westmecklenburg .
Offers such as the Schöne-Wochen-Ticket , the Schleswig-Holstein-Ticket , the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ticket , the Berlin-Brandenburg-Ticket on the Pasewalk – Ueckermünde route and the discounts of the BahnCard were valid in their respective local and temporal area of validity Local traffic routes of the Ostseeland Verkehr.
Ostseeland-Verkehr is a member of the tariff association of federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE).
See also
- Märkische Regiobahn - OLA brand in Berlin-Brandenburg
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2013 and management report
- ↑ See Zwischenstopp , the magazine for employees and friends of the Veolia transport division, June 2008, p. 7; 4.0 million train kilometers and 4.3 million bus kilometers (the information in the "Facts / Figures" section at www.ostseelandverkehr.de is out of date)
- ↑ See vehicle list www.privat-bahn.de . Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ↑ railway magazine . No. 7 . Alba, 2014, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 23 .
- ↑ See information in the “Development” section at www.ostseelandverkehr.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 28, 2013 ; Retrieved January 27, 2011 .
- ^ Nordkurier: Purchase contract signed between MVVG and pvm
- ↑ See information in the section "Affiliated companies" at www.ostseelandverkehr.de . Archived from the original on February 14, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ↑ But still opportunities for the OLA? (No longer available online.) EVG Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft, May 30, 2013, archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; Retrieved July 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Confirmed off for the OLA . In: Bahn-Report , 1/2014, pp. 36–37.