RBH Logistics

RBH Logistics GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	* Establishment of the Royal Mining Railway: 1913 Establishment of the independent GmbH: 1993
Seat	Gladbeck , Germany
management	Gerhard Hartfeld, managing director Otto G. Niederhofer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Number of employees	572 (2015)
sales	EUR 153 million (December 31, 2011)
Branch	logistics
Website	www.rbh-logistics.com

The RBH Logistics is a subsidiary of DB Cargo AG Germany and the successor of the company factory, coal mines and port railways in the area of mining management Recklinghausen. The various company mergers and divisions resulted in an eventful history since 1913. The acronym RBH, which is used today as part of the company name, stood for the RAG -Bahn- und Hafenbetriebe for some years and was retained when it was sold to Railion Deutschland in 2005. According to the new owner at the time, the letters R, B and H now stand for the company's core competencies: rail transport, inland waterway transport (barge) and port handling (harbor).

history

Westerholt colliery around 1910 with the mine railway's locomotive

Handling facilities at the Bergmannsglück colliery in 1959

Locomotive 679 with lettering of the RAG Bahn und Hafen (BuH)

RBH track systems at the Walsum colliery

After the sinking of the shafts Möller (1897) and Rheinbaben (1898), both of the Royal Prussian Mining Headquarters Recklinghausen were subject, first was Zechenbahn the station Bottrop opened the dispatch of subsidized coal by rail. This was followed in the next few years by a connecting route to the Zweckel , Scholven , Bergmannsglück and Westerholt collieries further east , which was completed in 1910. Two collecting stations were built in Gladbeck and Hassel , with which the mines also got a connection to the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn , which had recently opened .

From 1912 a separate port was built on the Rhine-Herne Canal near Bottrop for the handling of coal on inland vessels, which was also subordinated to the Recklinghausen Mining Directorate and opened in 1914. The Königliche Zechenbahn- und Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft ( Königliche Zechenbahn- und Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft) , based in Gladbeck , was founded in 1913 from the mine management to manage the railways and the port together . A year later the name is changed and the company is now called the Royal Mine Railway and Harbor Administration .

In 1917 the administration also took over the facilities of Hibernia AG , whereby the railways of the collieries General Blumenthal and Schlägel & Eisen were added to the portfolio of the colliery railway and port administration in the next few years . In addition, two further state rail connections will be realized in Recklinghausen and Westerholt . In the following years, further connections of colliery railways and other production sites to the existing network and newly built ports followed, in 1926 the network of the colliery railway and port administration was 34 km long.

During this time, the mine management was transformed into the Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen, after the addition “royal” had already been dropped in 1918 with the end of the kingdom in the management and mining railway and port administration. The latter is increasingly abbreviated as ZuH in the following years . In 1935, the operations of Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen are again merged with those of Hibernia AG under their name, the railway and port operations continue to operate under the previous name.

This remains even after the Second World War made, for transporting conveyed in the associated coal mines coal and gained from coke now also occurs petroleum -Transport from the port Bottrop as a chemical plant in Scholven. In the 1960s, the length of the line reached its peak, in 1963 the ZuH operated 170 km of track.

After the founding of Ruhrkohle AG in 1968, the colliery and port railways as well as the port facilities of a total of nine mining companies are combined in the ZuH, which now operates under the name of Zechenbahn- und Hafenbetriebe Ruhr-Mitte as part of the new company. With a license agreement for the Deutsche Bundesbahn track systems , all RAG mines can now be served with ZuH's own vehicles. For this purpose, 97 diesel, 36 electric locomotives and 3,764 freight wagons are used on 136 km of own tracks and some connecting lines of the Federal Railroad in 1985. In the previous year, 1252 employees achieved a daily throughput of 150,000 tons.

In the 1980s, the track network shrank due to the closure of some mines and processing plants, and in 1991 further track lines from Ruhrkohle AG were added. This closed a large-scale connection between mines, coking plants, chemical plants, power plants, heaps, ports and interim storage facilities. In 1993, the company was renamed RAG Bahn und Hafen Vertriebsgesellschaft (BuH) and in the years that followed the rail reform , it continued to take over transport services on Deutsche Bahn routes .

With the takeover of Saarbergwerke in 1998 and Preussag Anthrazit in 1999, more mining railways came to RAG, but these were managed as an independent works management for rail and port operations in the subsidiary DSK .

While the transport services and route lengths of the mine railways tended to decline in the 1990s and 2000s due to the mine closures, the chemical and power plant railways as well as the pure logistics services (independent of coal, ore and steel) increased.

In 2004, as a result of restructuring within the RAG Group, the entire rail and port business is combined in the BuH and this is converted into a GmbH . The new name is now RAG Bahn und Hafen GmbH (RBH). The new company also offers inland waterway transport .

One year later, RBH is sold to Railion Deutschland (today DB Cargo ) and thus the transformation into a logistics company that is independent of the RAG Group. It has been called RBH Logistics GmbH since December 2006.

As of 2007, around 900 people were working at RBH Logistics. The transport performance in 1939 was million tkm . 5.3 million tons were handled in the ports, plus a further 7.6 million tons in the handling terminal in the Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports .

The central workshop in Gladbeck was closed in October 2014. In addition, the mines still in operation had their own depots .

From August 22, 2011, Zehlendorfer Eisenbahn und Hafen GmbH (ZEUHAG) in Berlin also belonged to RBH Logistik. The operation was carried out with a DB class 365 diesel locomotive , which was equipped with a yellow all-round light on the roof due to the high accident rate of the route . Due to the cancellation of freight traffic, train traffic was discontinued on July 2, 2018.

Current condition

Today RBH Logistics owns 62 locomotives and 63 freight wagons ( Falns ). The locomotives are serviced by DB Cargo in the Oberhausen-Osterfeld plant, and the wagons in Cologne-Gremberg and Hagen.

Railway lines that are no longer used have generally been dismantled and are now often used as cycling or hiking trails.

vehicles

Locomotive 006 ( Henschel E 1200 ) of the ZuH in 1988

A double unit of the class 143 from RBH Logistics GmbH with a block train consisting of tank wagons on the Dill route near Sechshelden (March 2017).

Electric locomotive RBH 121 in the current paint scheme

RBH 263 (DB class 151)

RBH 902 ( Vossloh G 2000 BB ) in front of an empty train at the entrance to Bottrop Süd station , 2015

145 071 and one other machine parked in Oberhausen West train station , 2019

For a long time, steam locomotives of various industrial designs predominated in the fleet , and some former state railroad locomotives were also used on colliery tracks for a few years after they were retired, for example the 80 039 still preserved today . The use of diesel locomotives began in the 1950s , and for a long time there was a large variety of types and manufacturers, due to the large number of individual mining operations.

Standardization only began with the establishment of Ruhrkohle AG and the merging of all railways into a joint company. Since then, locomotives of the type Krauss-Maffei M 700 C and various types of MaK ( DE501 , DE502 and G1204BB ) have been purchased, some of the previously taken over Henschel DHG 500 C and other older shunting locomotive types are still in use today.

The Henschel E 1200 locomotive was developed especially for RAG in the 1970s ; other electric locomotives were, for example, the EA 500 and EA 1000 , which had been procured by Hibernia AG.

In 1997, the procurement of more powerful diesel locomotives of the type MaK G 1206 began , which are mainly used on DB routes under the name "Ruhrpott-Sprinter". In addition to its own eleven locomotives of this type, others were later hired. A MaK G 2000 BB is also used.

Various modern electric locomotive designs such as Bombardier TRAXX and Siemens ES64U2 were also rented for transport on DB routes . After the takeover by the DB, the fleet was supplemented by several locomotives of the 143 series , which were sold by the DB to the subsidiary. Since 2012, locomotives of the series 140 and 151 rented by DB have also been in use (initially) . Most of the vehicles are painted in the current silver-blue color scheme.

The class 143 is now being replaced by newer class 145 locomotives, which are taken over by DB Cargo.

There are several road- rail vehicles , a Rottenkraftwagen and a tower railcar for rail service purposes .

literature

Christoph Weleda, Norbert Tempel: The railway and port operations of Ruhrkohle AG. LOK Report-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935909-21-7

Web links

Commons : RBH Logistics GmbH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• RBH Logistics website
• Detailed company history
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~15~11530

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company in figures ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Company in numbers 
2. ^ Extract from the company register : RBH Logistics GmbH annual report
3. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin, issue 5, 2014, p. 22
4. ↑ Register information on HRB 1264 B

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 56.6 ″  E