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France’s Veolia wins Bavarian train routes

The French engineering group Veolia said Wednesday that it had won a contract to operate three passenger train lines in Bavaria worth more than one billion euros over 12 years.

Published: 22 December 2010 16:10 CET
France's Veolia wins Bavarian train routes
A picture of a Dutch Veolia train. Photo: Wikipedia/Erik1980

“Veolia Transport, via its German subsidiary Veolia Verkehr, has won a major contract in Bavaria in the short-distance passenger transportation sector,” the company said in a statement.

It said operation of the three lines previously run by Deutsche Bahn for a period of 12 years starting from December 2013 will generate a cumulative revenue in excess of €1 billion ($1.3 billion).

The contract covers operation of three rail lines from Munich to the Bavarian town of Rosenheim and the Austrian cities of Salzburg and Kufstein. Germany is in the process of opening up its railways to competition.

“This is a great success,” Cyrille du Peloux, CEO of Veolia Transport, was quoted as saying in a statement. “New direct links will be put in place and the trains will be upgraded and made more comfortable.”

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TRANSPORT

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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