RP Eisenbahn GmbH ''(RPE)'' is a railway infrastructure manager founded in 1998. The company is based in

Wachenheim an der Weinstraße Wachenheim an der Weinstraße (formerly called ''Wachenheim im Speyergau'') is a small town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, roughly 1 km south of Bad Dürkheim and 20 km west of Ludwigshafen. It is known ...

, Germany.

History

RP Eisenbahn GmbH was founded in April 1998 by two private shareholders. The company's activities began in 1999 with the reopening of decommissioned railway lines in the

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...

and Palatinate regions. In 2000, the approximately 31 km long Freiberg-Holzhau railway in Saxony was leased from

Deutsche Bahn AG The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

and was completely renovated during a 6-month line closure. While the Deutsche Bahn previously only used one train per direction every two hours and required a travel time of over 60 minutes, the modernization made it possible to reduce the travel time to 40 minutes, so that rail transport is now offered at hourly intervals with the same number of vehicles and without the need for additional personnel. Instead of 54 million Deutsche Mark, as assumed by the DB, the modernisation was achieved with 15 million Deutsche Mark. In spring 2001, RP Eisenbahn GmbH founded Regio Infra Service Sachsen GmbH together with the Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (CVAG).

TÜV certificate

The company is certified by TÜV Rheinland in accordance with the ISO 9001:2015 testing standard.

Network

Rhineland-Palatinate

The route length in Rhineland-Palatinate is 23 kilometres: * Donnersberg Railway *

Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder railway Heimbach is a town in the district of Düren of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, in the Eifel hills, approx. 20 km south of Düren. Heimbach has the smallest population of any town in North Rhine ...

(since September 2006)

Saxony

The route length in Saxony is 34 kilometres: * Freiberg (Sachs)–Holzhau (since May 2000) * Berthelsdorf–Großhartmannsdorf railway (since May 2000)

References

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