The EBW group was a rail industry company consisting of several individual companies. It was declared insolvent in January 2010.

Group

The group's primary business was rail infrastructure and maintenance. The company also specialised in rail safety aspects of infrastructural work, specifically in terms of non-railway based workers performing construction tasks near or on main lines.

EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs GmbH

EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs was the main branch of the company, undertaking both financing and the rail freight operations of the group.EBW
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, and focused on infrastructure trains, as well as leasing EBW owned locomotives and rolling stock (wagons), and organising and managing rail head fed site logistics.

IFE

IFE (''Ingenieursleistungen für Eisenbahnen GmbH'' ''translation'' :"Engineering services for railways limited") was an engineering firm - specialising in railway construction including catenary.

IAS

IAS GmbH was a maintenance company, providing services such as trackside vegetation management as well as landscape gardening.

VE-log

VE-log GmbH employsd approximately 60 people in the areas of land management, bulk materials and transportation, including recycling. Road transportation logistics is also performed by this company.

Rolling stock

Locomotives

EBW operated a number of rebuilt, former

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locomotives. * The three ''V270'' class are rebuilt DB Class 221 locomotives. The locomotives are each either two

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TBD 620 V12 engines or two MTU 12V 4000 engines R 41 R both of ~ each. Total ~. * Two ''V232''/''V230'' (former DR Class 130 family locomotives)EBW Eisenbahnbewachungs GmbH (EBW), EBW Eisenbahnbewachungs-GmbH, Niederlassung Cargo
''privat-bahn.de'' of ~ power, used for transportation of track laying machines as well as ballast and sleepers for railway track construction. * 10 remotorised

DB Class V 100 These DB Class V 100 diesel locomotives were produced in the late 1950s by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for non-electrified branch lines as a replacement for steam locomotives. The V 100 class was built in three different variants. Decommissioned loc ...

s, (company names ''V100'', ''V130'', ''V150'') with installed power of between and , forming the main part of EBW's locomotive fleet for transfer of construction materials to and from site * 3

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's (company name ''V60'') for shunting work.

Wagons

The company holds and operates its own wagons - typically those designed for construction solids (with a typical capacity of ~40m³); designs suitable for moisture sensitive solids, conveyor belt and other controlled discharge methods are kept.

External links

EBW-online
Company website

images from ''railfaneurope.net''

image gallery from ''bahnbilder.de''
InnoTrans 2004 - OMB/EBW Cargo: V200.1-Modernisierung
Modernisation of ex Greek railways V200.1 for EVB. ''railfan.de''

References

{{Commons category, EBW Cargo Private railway companies of Germany Railway infrastructure companies