WestfalenBahn
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thumb|Stadler Flirt in September 2007 thumb|Stadler Kiss at Löhne in December 2015 WestfalenBahn is a railway company operating regional train service in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, Northern Germany. It was founded in 2005 by Essener Versorgungs & Verkehrsgesellschaft, Minden Museum Railway, moBiel and Verkehrsbetriebe Extertal, each having a 25% share. In 2008 Essener Versorgungs & Verkehrsgesellschaft's share was sold to Abellio Deutschland. In July 2017 Abellio bought out the other shareholders.
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Vinony's link graph records 78 inbound references to WestfalenBahn, and connects out to North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bielefeld.
Vinony files it under 2005 establishments in Germany, Abellio (transport company) and Railway companies established in 2005.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- transport company
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Bielefeld
- Owned by
- Abellio Deutschland
- Industry
- public transport
- Official website
- www.westfalenbahn.de
- Image
- WestfalenBahn ET605 Hannover 1706191251.jpg
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- official jobs URL
- www.westfalenbahn.de/erreichbar/job-und-karriere
- privacy policy URL
- www.westfalenbahn.de/erreichbar/datenschutz/datenschutz
- Commons category
- WestfalenBahn
- inception
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Services
- Fleet
- References
- External links
thumb|Stadler Flirt in September 2007 thumb|Stadler Kiss at Löhne in December 2015 WestfalenBahn is a railway company operating regional train service in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, Northern Germany. It was founded in 2005 by Essener Versorgungs & Verkehrsgesellschaft, Minden Museum Railway, moBiel and Verkehrsbetriebe Extertal, each having a 25% share. In 2008 Essener Versorgungs & Verkehrsgesellschaft's share was sold to Abellio Deutschland. In July 2017 Abellio bought out the other shareholders.
==Services== WestfalenBahn operated routes RB61, RB65, RB66 and RB72 from 9 December 2007 until December 2017, when they were taken over by Eurobahn. These were operated by a fleet of fourteen 3-car and five 5-car Stadler Flirts. Local services Wiehengebirgs-Bahn: Bad Bentheim – Rheine – Osnabrück – Bünde – Herford – Bielefeld Local services Ems-Bahn: Rheine – Münster Local services Teuto-Bahn: Osnabrück – Münster Local services Ostwestfalen-Bahn: Herford – Lage – Detmold – Altenbeken – Paderborn
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WestfalenBahn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.