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Hamburg-Köln-Express
Hamburg-Köln-Express GmbH (HKX) was a Cologne-based Open access operator, open-access train operating company providing long-distance railway passenger services in Germany. It was founded in October 2009 as a joint venture by Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) Deutschland GmbH, an affiliate of USA-based Railroad Development Corporation, Railroad Development Corp., Locomore rail GmbH & CO. KG, and British railway investor Michael Schabas. Starting on 23 July 2012, HKX operated regular services between Hamburg-Altona station, Hamburg-Altona and Köln Hbf, Cologne. The journey took about 4h 20min, similar to that of services operated by Deutsche Bundesbahn, DB but with lower fares."Wir sind billiger". ''WirtschaftsWoche'' Nr. 15. 12 April 2010. On 24 March 2018, Flixmobility, the parent company of Flixbus, took over HKX's operations and the route was rebranded as a Flixtrain route, complementing the former Locomore train service operated by Leo Express on behalf of Flixmobility s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hamburg-Köln-Express GmbH (HKX) was a Cologne-based open-access train operating company providing long-distance railway passenger services in Germany. It was founded in October 2009 as a joint venture by Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) Deutschland GmbH, an affiliate of USA-based Railroad Development Corp., Locomore rail GmbH & CO. KG, and British railway investor Michael Schabas. Starting on 23 July 2012, HKX operated regular services between Hamburg-Altona and Cologne. The journey took about 4h 20min, similar to that of services operated by DB but with lower fares."Wir sind billiger". ''WirtschaftsWoche'' Nr. 15. 12 April 2010. On 24 March 2018, Flixmobility, the parent company of Flixbus, took over HKX's operations and the route was rebranded as a Flixtrain route, complementing the former Locomore train service operated by Leo Express on behalf of Flixmobility since 2017. Start Services were initially planned to start in August 2010 but this was postponed as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad Development Corporation
The Railroad Development Corporation is an American railroad holding company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It operates several short line railroads outside the United States and acts as an investor, with management and institutional investors as partners. It was founded in 1987 by former Conrail employee Henry Posner III. Americas Argentina RDC participated in the ownership of two rail lines in Argentina:RDC operating entities Railroad Development Corporation a line also in partnership with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locomore Rail GmbH & CO
Locomore (identifier LOC) was a German railway company that operated a higher-speed inter-city rail open access service between four of the most populous German metropolitan areas A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metropolitan area usually ... in 2016-2017 i.e. the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, Rhine-Neckar, Frankfurt Rhine-Main and Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg. The service stopped at 18 railway stations, including the major German cities of Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hanover and Berlin. It operated at a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph). The financially self-reliant Locomore passenger rail service was run by its Crowdfunding, crowdfunded parent company, Locomore GmbH & Co. KG, a privately owned German railway passenger company headquartered in Berlin. Locomor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locomore
Locomore (identifier LOC) was a German railway company that operated a higher-speed inter-city rail open access service between four of the most populous German metropolitan areas in 2016-2017 i.e. the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, Rhine-Neckar, Frankfurt Rhine-Main and Berlin-Brandenburg. The service stopped at 18 railway stations, including the major German cities of Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hanover and Berlin. It operated at a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph). The financially self-reliant Locomore passenger rail service was run by its crowdfunded parent company, Locomore GmbH & Co. KG, a privately owned German railway passenger company headquartered in Berlin. Locomore competed with express coach bus operators such as Flixbus and the state-owned German passenger long-distance train operator, Deutsche Bahn. The company was considered a low-cost passenger rail service provider. It advertised always selling its tickets at less than half the price than the ''standard fare'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Posner III
Henry Posner III is an American transport executive and investor working in the field of rail transport. Posner received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1977, and received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. In 2025, Posner was inducted into the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association's Hall of Fame, alongside Ronald Batory and the late Earl Durden. Career During the 1970s Posner started selling Amtrak passenger tickets. Summer employment during university included proofreading timetables for the Official Railway Guide and an internship at Rock Island Railroad. During a summer job working at Pennsylvania Truck Lines (part of Conrail), Posner was working for Anne Molley. After graduating from Princeton University Posner worked as a trainmaster (occupation), trainmaster (conductor) at Conrail in New York City and in Detroit. , Posner was chair of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Access Operator
In rail transport, an open-access operator is an operator that takes full commercial risk, running on infrastructure owned by a third party and buying paths on a chosen route and, in countries where rail services run under franchises, are not subject to franchising. Passenger open-access operators by country Austria * RegioJet * WESTbahn In development * Silverstar Railways Czech Republic * LEO Express * RegioJet Belgium * Eurostar * European Sleeper France * Eurostar * Trenitalia France * Renfe In development * Le Train * Proxima * Kevin Speed Former operators * Izy Germany * Eurostar * FlixTrain * Harz-Berlin-Express * Nightjet * WESTbahn * European Sleeper Former operators * Hamburg-Köln-Express taken over by Flixtrain * Locomore Stuttgart-Berlin route taken over by Leo Express Hungary * RegioJet Italy * DB/ÖBB Italia * Nightjet * NTV (Italo) * Arenaways Netherlands * European Sleeper * Arriva night services In development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Airport Station
Düsseldorf Airport (''Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen'') is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day. History The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station. It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement. The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000. On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is long and high. After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August. Current operations Up to 300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÖBB
The Austrian Federal Railways ( , formally or () and formerly the or ''BBÖ'' ), now commonly known as ÖBB (), is the national railway company of Austria, and the administrator of Liechtenstein's railways. The ÖBB group is owned entirely by the Republic of Austria, and is divided into several separate businesses that manage the infrastructure and operate passenger and freight services. The Austrian Federal Railways has had two discrete periods of existence. It was first formed in 1923, using the ''Bundesbahn Österreich'' name, as a successor to the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (kkStB), but was incorporated into the ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' during the 1938–1945 Anschluss. It was reformed in 1947, under the slightly different name ''Österreichische Bundesbahnen'', and remains in existence in this form. Major changes currently being made to the Austrian railway network are the construction of the Koralm Railway, the Semmering Base Tunnel and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuroSprinter
The EuroSprinter family of electric locomotives is a modular concept of locomotives for the European market built by Siemens Mobility. The internal Siemens product name is ES 64, with ES for EuroSprinter and the number 64 indicating the 6,400 kW power at rail. Additional information is given in the name on the usage (U as universal, P as prototype and F as freight) and on the number of electric power systems supported (e. g. 2 as two types, 4 as all four systems commonly used in Europe). Development The first prototype ES 64 P was built in 1992, as Deutsche Bahn AG was expected to issue a large order of locomotives as a replacement for the ageing Einheits-Elektrolokomotiven. The external appearance was similar to the earlier Siemens/Krauss-Maffei made dual voltage Spanish RENFE Class 252, delivered in 1991, which in turn used three phase asynchronous drive technology introduced with the DB Class 120. The prototype was used for extensive tests in some countries in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siemens
Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the position of global market leader in industrial automation and industrial software. The origins of the conglomerate can be traced back to 1847 to the ''Telegraphen Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske'' established in Berlin by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske. In 1966, the present-day corporation emerged from the merger of three companies: Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckert, and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke. Today headquartered in Munich and Berlin, Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 320,000 people worldwide and reported a global revenue of around €78 billion in 2023. The company is a component of the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock market indices. As of December 2023, Siemens is the second largest German company by market ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
