GERMANY: Sachsen-Anhalt transport authority NASA and its Berlin-Brandenburg counterpart VBB have awarded Hanseatische Eisenbahn a contract to operate Elbe-Altmark II passenger services for six years from the December 2022 timetable change.
The contract covers local services RB 34 Stendal – Rathenow and RB33 Stendal –Tangermünde. The two routes total 380 000 train-km/year and have been operated by HANS under contract to the Länder since 2018, when it took over from Ostdeutschen Eisenbahn and DB Regio.
‘Our previous services seem to have made the appropriate impression and to have made a positive contribution to the decision in favour of our tender to continue operating the routes’, said HANS Managing Director Dr Ralf Böhme on April 13.
HANS will continue to use Alstom Lint 27 diesel railcars on the routes.
