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Netherlands - 2001 - private operator train/light rail/bus - UK, DE, NL
Subsidiary of NS - 20,000 people - 1.7 billions journeys
Abellio is a subsidiary of the Dutch Railways NS,
founded in 2001 as NedRail before being
renamed Abellio in October 2009. The company provides both bus, tram and train services.
According his website, every day 20,000 Abellio people provide public transport
for more than 1.7 million passengers in three European countries.
In Germany,
Abellio Deutschland serves communities in North Rhine Westphalia by rail,
mostly between Essen and Siegen / along the Ruhr and rivers. Abellio
operates with Stadler FLIRT
trainsets and the maintenance depot is located at Hagen. Abellion currently has
134 train vehicles, over 460 train services per day, together serving ca.
65,000 passengers a day. In 2016 the company will run 507 train vehicles on 850
train services per day. As of December 2016, Abellio Germany will service up to
150,000 passengers per day.
In the Netherlands, the company operates three
bus/tram concessions. Abellio run with Qbuzz which operates concessions in
Groningen-Drenthe, Zuidoost Friesland and Utrecht, with 700 busses for around
300,000 passengers per day. HTM provides tram and bus services (by HTMbuzz) in
the area of The Hague with 115 buses and 209 trams and light rail vehicles. There
are no trains services in Netherland, which stay provided by the national
incumbent NS.
Abellio thus benefits the legal requirements of
liberalization instilled by European policy. This liberalization was detailed
to Britain in this article and for the Netherlands at this link.
