GERMAN Rail (DB) presented one of the first Pesa Link DMUs to the public at the DB Regio depot in Dortmund on June 14, two years later than scheduled.
SIEMENS has begun final assembly of the first Mireo EMU vehicles for DB Regio, which ordered 24 three-car trains in February 2017 for the regional services on the Karlsruhe - Basle Rhine Valley Line.
THE Transdev subsidiary North West Rail (NWB) has been chosen by Hannover’s Regional Assembly to operate the 10-line Hannover S-Bahn network totalling 9.1 million train-km annually.
DB REGIO subsidiary Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ostsachsen has won a contract to operate regional services on a group non-electrified routes in eastern Saxony from December 2019, taking over from Netinera company Länderbahn.
FOLLOWING an international tender, northern Rhineland Palatinate regional rail authority ZSPNV-Nord has selected DB Regio as preferred bidder for a contract to operate new regional services between Trier and Luxembourg from December 2019.
ALSTOM has announced orders for 25 140km/h two-car Coradia Lint regional DMUs with operators in southern Germany in deals worth a combined €116m.
PROPOSALS to significantly reduce the use of diesel traction on regional services in southern Germany were presented to the Bavarian cabinet by the state’s transport minister Mr Joachim Herrmann on January 23.
DB Regio’s new fleet of Bombardier class 445 and 446 Twindexx EMUs finally entered passenger service in early December.
