Regional Passenger and Freight
Railway Operators in
Germany
NordWestBahn DMU on a service to Esens (Ostfriesland)
crossing the Ems-Jade Canal near Sande
Regional Freight Railways
BTE
local freight railway south of Bremen (Site in German)
DHE
local freight railway west of Bremen, with occasional tourist
passenger services (Site in German)
Kiefersfelden Grenzbahn (KGB) a 5km, 900mm gauge industrial
electric railway operating between a quarry in Austria and a cement
works in Germany. Operated by Rohrdorfer Zement (Site in
German, contains no information relating to railway but see also Wachtl-Bahn
tourist train, site in German)
MKB local freight railways in the Minden area
(Site in German)
RBB
freight operator in the Bitterfeld area of the Sachsen-Anhalt region
(Site in German)
RheinCargo freight
train operator and harbour facilities in Köln and Neuss-Düsseldorf
RVM local freight railway west of Osnabrück
(Site in German)
VLO local freight railway south and east of Osnabrück
(Site in German)
VWE
local freight railway southeast of Bremen (Site in
German)
Regional Passenger & Freight Railways
Erfurterbahn regional passenger and freight
operator in the Erfurt area (Site in German)
EVB
regional passenger and freight operator in the Hamburg and
Bremerhaven area
Hessische
Landesbahn a group of regional, local and freight operators in
Hesse (Site in German)
NordWestBahn regional passenger and freight
operator in the Osnabrück, Bremen and Wihelmshaven area (Site
in German)
Ortenau-S-Bahn regional passenger and freight operator
in the south west of Germany. Includes a cross-border service to Strasbourg
in France (Site in German)
Prignitzer Eisenbahn local passenger and freight
operator in the Brandenburg and Nordrhein-Westphalia regions. Includes
a cross-border service from Dortmund to Enschede in the Netherlands
(Site in German)
Rurtalbahn
passenger and freight operator in the Nordrhein-Westphalia region.
Do not confuse with the Ruhrtalbahn tourist operation (Site in
German)
VGH
passenger and freight railway 38km in length between Eystrup and
Syke in Niedersachsen (Site in German)
Regional Passenger Operators
Der 3er Ringzug
regional passenger operator in the Rottweil area (Site in
German)
AKN regional
passenger operator in northern Germany, particularly the area around
Hamburg (Site mainly in German with some information in
English)
BOB
regional passenger operator south of München (Site in German)
BRB
regional passenger operator in the Augsburg area (Site in
German)
Dessau Wörlitzer Eisenbahn local passenger operator
between Dessau and Wörlitz, about 19km (Site in German)
Eurobahn
regional passenger operator in the Bielefeld / Düsseldorf area
(Site in German)
MittelrheinBahn regional passenger operator
between Köln and Mainz (Site in German)
NEG
regional passenger operator in the Niebüll area of Schleswig, near
the Danish border, including an international service to Esbjerg in
Denmark operated in conjunction with Arriva Danmark (Site in
German)
NOB
regional passenger operator in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
(Site in German)
ODEG
local passenger operator in south Mecklenburg, east Brandenburg
and Lausitz (Site in German)
OLA
regional passenger operator in Mecklenburg (Site in
German)
Pressnitztalbahn local passenger operator between
Bergen auf Rügen and Lauterbach Mole, 12.3km (Site in
German)
Thurbo
regional passenger operator in southern Germany and northern
Switzerland (Site in German)
Usedomer
Bäderbahn passenger operator in the area around Stralsund, with several
lines one of which continues across the Polish border as far as Świnoujście
(Swinemünde) (Site in German and Polish)
Vogtlandbahn regional operator in Bavaria,
Thuringia and Saxony with cross-border services into Czechoslovakia.
Includes the Alex and Vogtland Express brands
(Site in German)
WEG regional
passenger operator on several separate lines in the Stuttgart area
(Site in German)
