Private railway
Railway companies that are usually not owned by the respective central state are referred to as private railway , also obsolete private connecting railway; the term private railway is mainly used to distinguish it from the state railways . The private railways are partly corporations owned by private investors , partly also by the public sector (states, districts, cities, etc.). Railways that exist as own operations under public law are also referred to as private railways.
Private railways can be both railway infrastructure companies and railway companies .
A private railway can also mean a single railway line . Private railways do not always represent coherent networks; the various operational parts of a private railroad are often only linked by state railways.
Germany
In the Federal Republic of Germany, private railways have been officially referred to as non- federal railways (NE-Bahn) since 1949 .
Switzerland
Austria
In Austria, private railways are all railways whose operators are not regulated in the Federal Railways Act (valid for the Austrian Federal Railways ). No difference is made according to who owns the railway. A railway that is owned by the federal government, such as the Graz-Köflacher-Bahn GKB , can therefore also be a private railway.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Operating regulations for private connecting railways as amended by the decrees of April 13, 1909 - IV A 18.293 - and June 9, 1927 (HMBl. P. 234). (unofficial version)
- ↑ § 1 of the Austrian Federal Act on Services for Private Railways (Privatbahngesetz 2004 - PrivbG), Federal Law Gazette I No. 39/2004 in the version No. 95/2009.