Abellio Deutschland

Abellio Deutschland

Type	GmbH
Industry	traffic
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Key people	Bernhard M. Kemper (CEO) Ronald Lünser Fritz Rademacher (management)
Products	transport
Net income	€ 97.468 million (2009)
Owner	Abellio
Number of employees	1233 (2009)
Website	www.abellio.de

Abellio Stadler FLIRT 3-car EMU No.ET 23005 at Siegen in June 2011.

Werner Reisen Setra S 315 NF in Bensheim, Germany in September 2005

Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany which operates both bus and rail networks. The headquarters of the company are in Berlin. Abellio Deutschland is part of the Abellio group (formerly NedRailways), the international expansion arm of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

History

Abellio Deutschland was formed by the Essen public transit company in association with the British investment company Star Capital Partners, which owned 75% of Abellio. In 2008, both parent companies sold their shares to NedRailways, the international expansion arm of Nederlandse Spoorwegen. All NedRailways companies are now branded as Abellio.

Operations

Rail

Abellio Deutschland operates several regional railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia, notably the line between Essen and Siegen / Iserlohn along the Ruhr and Lenne rivers. Abellio operates a number of Stadler FLIRT trainsets and has a maintenance center in Hagen. Moreover, Abellio operates S-Bahn services in North Rhine-Westphalia using Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units and S-Bahn services in central Germany using Bombardier Talent 2 trainsets. Since December 2016, Abellio operates three additional lines in North Rhine-Westphalia using the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway.^[1] Rail gauge:

Track gauge
By transport mode
Tram · Rapid transit Miniature · Scale model
By size (list)
Minimum   Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in) Narrow   600 mm, Two foot 597 mm 600 mm 603 mm 610 mm (1 ft ​11 1⁄2 in) (1 ft ​11 5⁄8 in) (1 ft ​11 3⁄4 in) (2 ft)   750 mm, Bosnian, Two foot six inch, 800 mm 750 mm 760 mm 762 mm 800 mm (2 ft ​5 1⁄2 in) (2 ft ​5 15⁄16 in) (2 ft 6 in) (2 ft ​7 1⁄2 in)   Swedish three foot, 900 mm, Three foot 891 mm 900 mm 914 mm (2 ft​11 3⁄32 in) (2 ft ​11 7⁄16 in) (3 ft)   Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft ​3 3⁄8 in)   Three foot six inch 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)   Four foot six inch 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in)   Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft ​8 1⁄2 in) Broad   1520 mm, Five foot 1,520 mm 1,524 mm (4 ft ​11 27⁄32 in) (5 ft)   Five foot three inch 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)   Iberian 1,668 mm (5 ft ​5 21⁄32 in)   Five foot six inch 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)   Six foot 1,829 mm (6 ft)   Brunel 2,140 mm (7 ft ​1⁄4 in)
Change of gauge
Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge · Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge
By location
North America · South America · Europe · Australia

External links

• Media related to Abellio Deutschland at Wikimedia Commons
• Official company website

Sources