This list contains the railway companies currently operating in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It includes railway units that are not independent legal entities.

They are given their authority to operate by the Federal Railway Office

Federal Railway Office

The German Federal Railway Authority has been the independent federal authority for the regulation of the railways in Germany since 1 January 1994...

 (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt), as long as they are federal railways or private railway companies with their headquarters abroad. All other private railway companies are authorised by the responsible authorities of the states in which they have their headquarters.

Names of all railway companies have been left in German.

For railway companies that are no longer in existence, see the List of former German railway companies.

The bulk of the railway network in Germany belongs to DB Netz

DB Netz

DB Netz AG is a 100%-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn is a railway infrastructure provider, which owns and operates a majority of the German railway system . The company was established in the course of the second stage of the German rail reform as a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn...

, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

 – this situation is a relict from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn

Deutsche Bundesbahn

The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany on September 7, 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft '...

 and Deutsche Reichsbahn

Deutsche Reichsbahn

Deutsche Reichsbahn was the name of the following two companies:* Deutsche Reichsbahn, the German Imperial Railways during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the immediate aftermath...

 had a monopoly. The stations and halts on the DB Netz network are run by DB Station&Service

DB Station&Service

DB Station&Service is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, responsible for managing over 5,000 stations on the German railway network....

. Not included in this list are museum railways and transport unions.

A distinction must be made between railway infrastructure companies and railway operating companies; see private railways.

Deutsche Bahn AG companies

• DB Fernverkehr AG
  DB Fernverkehr
  DB Fernverkehr AG is a semi-independent division of Deutsche Bahn that operates long-distance passenger trains in Germany. It was founded in 1999 in the second stage of the privatisation of German Federal Railways under the name of DB Reise&Touristik and renamed in 2003.DB Fernverkehr operates all...
  
  , previously DB Reise & Touristik (Long-distance passenger services)
  • DB AutoZug GmbH (international car train services and German night trains under the trade name DB NachtZug
    DB NachtZug
    City Night Line is a category of night trains in Europe. They were originally operated by the former railway company CityNightLine AG...
    
    )
  • CityNightLine
    CityNightLine
    CityNightLine AG was a Swiss night train service. CNL had right of passage grants in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. It served stations in Belgium, France, Italy and the Czech Republic...
    
     (CNL) (international night services)

• DB Regio AG
  DB Regio
  DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates short and medium distance passenger train services in Germany, and operates light and heavy rail infrastructure in the United Kingdom.-Germany:...
  
   (Local passenger services)
  • DB Regio Nord (Hanover
    Hanover
    Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
    
    )
    • DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (Kiel)
  • DB Regio Nordost (Potsdam)
    • DB Regio Regionalbereich Berlin/Brandenburg (Potsdam)
    • DB Regio Regionalbereich Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Schwerin)
    • Usedomer Bäderbahn
      Usedomer Bäderbahn
      The Usedomer Bäderbahn with its head office in Heringsdorf, North Germany, is a 100 percent-owned subsidiary of the German national railway, Deutsche Bahn and the owner and operator of the railway network on the island of Usedom as well as the Züssow–Wolgast and Velgast–Barth lines. It calls all...
      
       GmbH (UBB) (Local passenger services in West Pomerania)
  • DB Regio NRW GmbH (Düsseldorf)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Rheinland (Köln)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Rhein-Ruhr (Essen)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Westfalen (Münster/W)
  • DB Regio Südost (Leipzig)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Südostsachsen (Dresden)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Mitteldeutschland (Halle)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Elbe-Saale (Magdeburg)
    • Elbe-Saale-Bahn (Magdeburg)
    • Burgenlandbahn GmbH (Zeitz)
    • Verkehrsbetrieb Thüringen (Erfurt)
  • DB Regio Hessen (Frankfurt am Main)
    • Regionalverkehr Mittel- und Kurhessen (Gießen)
    • Regionalverkehr Südhessen (Darmstadt)
    • Regionalverkehr Rhein-Main (Frankfurt a.M.)
    • S-Bahn Rhein-Main (Frankfurt a.M.)
  • DB Regio Südwest (Mainz) (for Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland)
  • DB Regio RheinNeckar (Mannheim) (for Nordbaden)
  • DB Regio Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart)
    • DB Regio Regionalverkehr Südbaden (Freiburg)
    • DB Regio Regionalverkehr Württemberg (Stuttgart)
    • DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (Ulm)
    • S-Bahn Stuttgart
  • DB Regio Bayern
    • S-Bahn München
    • Regio Unterfranken (Würzburg)
    • Regio Mittelfranken (Nürnberg)
    • Regio Oberfranken
      DB Regio Oberfranken
      DB Regio Oberfranken is a business area with the German national railway company, Deutsche Bahn, with its headquarters in Hof . It is responsible for the majority of regional and local railway services in the Bavarian province of Upper Franconia .- Trains :Because there are no electrified railways...
      
       (Hof)
    • Regio Ostbayern (Regensburg)
    • Regio Bayerisch Schwaben (Augsburg)
    • Regio Allgäu (Kempten)
    • Regio Oberbayern (München)

• DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH
  • Erzgebirgsbahn
    Erzgebirgsbahn
    The Erzgebirgsbahn is a German railway company and a Regio-Netz subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. It operates in the Ore Mountains region of southern Saxony, near the towns of Chemnitz and Zwickau....
    
     (Chemnitz)
  • Kurhessenbahn (Kassel)
  • Oberweißbacher Berg- und Schwarzatalbahn (Mellenbach-Glasbach)
  • SüdostBayernBahn
    SüdostBayernBahn
    SüdostBayernBahn is one of several regional railway networks in Germany owned by Germany's national railway, Deutsche Bahn AG...
    
     (Mühldorf)
  • WestFrankenBahn (Aschaffenburg)

• DB Schenker
  DB Schenker
  DB Schenker is a logistics company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. The company, created by reorganisation and rebranding of various Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries, comprises a logistics division encompassing air, land and sea freight, and a rail division made up from a variety of...
  
   formerly Railion DB Logistics(Goods traffic)
  • Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (MEG)
  • RBH Logistics (RBH)

• Thalys International
  Thalys
  Thalys is an international high-speed train operator originally built around the high-speed line between Paris and Brussels. This track is shared with Eurostar trains that go from Paris or Brussels to London via Lille and the Channel Tunnel and with French domestic TGV trains. Thalys reaches...
  
   (international long-distance services, in cooperations with other European companies)

• DB Stadtverkehr GmbH
  • S-Bahn Berlin GmbH
  • S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH

Companies of the Veolia Group with railway services

• Veolia Verkehr
  Veolia Verkehr
  Veolia Verkehr GmbH is a private operator of passenger buses and trains in Germany. On April 3, 2006, Connex Verkehr GmbH was renamed Veolia Verkehr GmbH, but the sister companies kept their current names....
  
   GmbH (Local passenger services)
  • Bayerische Oberlandbahn (BOB)
  • Bayerische Regiobahn (BRB)
  • Veolia Verkehr Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH (Harz-Elbe-Express) (HEX)
  • Märkische Regiobahn (MR) (trade name of the OLA)
  • Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn (MRB) (trade name of Veolia Verkehr Regio Ost)
  • Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG (NEB)
  • Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB)
  • NordWestBahn
    NordWestBahn
    The NordWestBahn GmbH ist a private railway company providing regional train service on several routes in northern and western Germany. It Is a joint venture of the Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG, the Verkehr und Wasser GmbH in Oldenburg and the Veolia Verkehr GmbH, Berlin. The head office of the company...
    
     (NWB) (Lower Saxony
    Lower Saxony
    Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
    
    , Bremen
    Bremen
    The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
    
     and North Rhine-Westphalia
    North Rhine-Westphalia
    North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
    
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  • Ostseelandverkehr GmbH (OLA) Shares: Veolia-Verkehr 70 % and Nahverkehr Schwerin GmbH 30 %)
  • Ostseebahn GmbH (No operating services)
  • Rheinisch-Bergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft mbH
  • Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn GmbH (SRS)
  • Veolia Verkehr Regio Ost, formerly Connex Sachsen GmbH and to June 2005 Lausitzbahn GmbH)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz GmbH (VGG) (trams)
  • Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
    Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
    The Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft or WEG is a transport company in southwest Germany that operates railway lines and services...
    
     (WEG)

Other subsidiaries of Veolia Verkehr GmbH operate bus services, especially in built-up areas.

• Schienenpersonenfernverkehr von Veolia:
  In Veolia’s long-distance trains separate fares apply, independently of Deutsche Bahn. Tickets may be obtained on the trains and elsewhere.
  • InterConnex on the route Leipzig–Berlin–Rostock/Warnemünde
  • Harz-Berlin-Express on the route Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
    
     - Magdeburg
    Magdeburg
    Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
    
     - Halberstadt
    Halberstadt
    Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. It is located on the German Half-Timbered House Road and the Magdeburg–Thale railway....
    
    (Zugteilung) - Quedlinburg
    Quedlinburg
    Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list....
    
     - Thale
    Thale
    Thale is a town in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt in central Germany.-Geography:It is situated on the river Bode, approximately 8 km west of Quedlinburg. It is the terminus of the Magdeburg–Thale railway.- History :...
    
     / Wernigerode
    Wernigerode
    Wernigerode is a town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until 2007, it was the capital of the district of Wernigerode. Its population was 35,500 in 1999....
    
     - Vienenburg
    Vienenburg
    Vienenburg is a town in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the north of the Harz mountain range on the river Oker, approx. northeast of Goslar...
    
     (Lower Saxony)

• Veolia Cargo
  Veolia Cargo
  Veolia Cargo was a European rail freight transportation company that operated mainly in France and Germany.On 2 September 2009 the company was acquired by Eurotunnel and SNCF the deal being finalised on 1 December 2009.-History:...
  
   Deutschland GmbH (Goods traffic)
  In the “network” – with 18 locations – are included:
  • Bayerische Cargo Bahn (BCB)
  • Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH (DE) (ab 1. Juli 2004)
  • Farge-Vegesacker Eisenbahngesellschaft (FVE)
  • Hörseltalbahn GmbH (HTB)
  • Industriebahn-Gesellschaft Berlin mbH (IGB)
  • Rail4Chem
    RAIL4CHEM
    RAIL4CHEM was a German rail freight transport company, and the parent company of a number of European subsidiary rail freight transport companies including rail4chem Benelux B.V. , the rail4chem transalpin AG and Fer Polska S.A. .The business was acquired by Veolia Cargo in 2008, which was...
    
    
  • Regiobahn Bitterfeld Berlin (RBB)
  • Teutoburger Wald Eisenbahn (TWE)
• Others operate goods traffic as well:
  • NeCoSS (Neutral Container Shuttle System)
  • Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB)
  • NordWestCargo (NWC)
  • Ostseeland Verkehr (OLA)
  • Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
    Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
    The Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft or WEG is a transport company in southwest Germany that operates railway lines and services...
    
     (WEG)

Companies of the Arriva

Arriva

Arriva plc is a multinational public transport company owned by Deutsche Bahn and headquartered in Sunderland, United Kingdom. It has bus, coach, train, tram and waterbus operations in 12 countries across Europe, employs more than 47,500 people and services over 1.5 billion passenger journeys each...

 Group with railway services

• Arriva Deutschland GmbH
  • Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) (regional goods traffic in Lower Saxony, trans-regional services)
  • PE Arriva AG
    • Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG)
    • Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG)
  • Regentalbahn AG
    Regentalbahn
    The Regentalbahn is railway company based in Bavaria, and is a subsidiary of Arriva Deutschland. It runs railway infrastructure, as well as regional and long-distance passenger services in Bavaria and Saxony with links into the Czech Republic, and Germany-wide goods trains.- Emergence of the...
    
    
    • Regental Bahnbetriebs GmbH (RBG) − the Länderbahn − with the following services:
      • Oberpfalzbahn
      • Waldbahn
        Regentalbahn
        The Regentalbahn is railway company based in Bavaria, and is a subsidiary of Arriva Deutschland. It runs railway infrastructure, as well as regional and long-distance passenger services in Bavaria and Saxony with links into the Czech Republic, and Germany-wide goods trains.- Emergence of the...
        
        
      • ALEX (ARRIVA-Länderbahn-Express, formerly Allgäu-Express)
    • Vogtlandbahn GmbH
      Vogtlandbahn
      The Vogtlandbahn is a private railway company in Germany, which runs diesel trains on regional lines in the states of Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Brandenburg, and Berlin and as well as routes into the Czech Republic...
      
       (VBG)

Under the trade name Vogtland-Express Arriva Deutschland offers long-distance passenger services on the route Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

–Riesa

Riesa

Riesa is a town in the district of Meißen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is located at the river Elbe, approx. 40 km northwest of Dresden.The world's first 110 kV power line was inaugurated between Riesa and Lauchhammer in 1912....

–Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

–Plauen

Plauen

Plauen is a town in the Free State of Saxony, east-central Germany.It is the capital of the Vogtlandkreis. The town is situated near the border of Bavaria and the Czech Republic.Plauen's slogan is Plauen - echt Spitze.-History:...

–Hof.

A

• Abellio Rail NRW GmbH (Essen)
• Ahaus-Alstätter Eisenbahn GmbH (AAE)
• AKN Eisenbahn AG (AKN) (Eisenbahn Altona-Kaltenkirchen-Neumünster) (Local passenger and goods traffic in Holstein
  Holstein
  Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany....
  
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• Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft
  Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft
  The Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft is a company, which is owned 100% by the city of Karlsruhe and operates rail and bus services in the Karlsruhe area....
  
   (AVG) (Regional tram operations and goods traffic in the Karlsruhe
  Karlsruhe
  The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
  
   and Heilbronn
  Heilbronn
  Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
  
   area)
• Anhaltische Bahn GmbH (Dessau)
• Ankum-Bersenbrücker Eisenbahn GmbH (only goods traffic)
• Anschlussbahn-Servicegesellschaft Pressnitztalbahn GmbH (Press)
• Arco Transportation GmbH Elsteraue
• Augsburger Localbahn GmbH (AL) (only goods traffic)

B

• Bahnbetriebsgesellschaft (BBG) Stauden mbH (Fischach) (only a railway infrastructure company)
• Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH (BSM) (only goods traffic)
• Bahngesellschaft Waldhof AG (Mannheim)
• BASF AG, Servicecenter Railway (Ludwigshafen)
• Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
• BayernBahn
• Bayernhafen Gruppe (Hafenbahnen)
  • Hafenbahn Aschaffenburg
  • Hafenbahn Bamberg
  • Hafenbahn Nürnberg und Roth
  • Hafenbahn Regensburg
  • Hafenbahn Passau
• BEHALA Berliner Hafen- und Lagerhausbetriebe
  Behala
  Behala is a neighbourhood in South West Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala was officially known as South Suburban Municipality until it was merged with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on January, 1984. Now it is broadly spread across Ward Nos.118 and 132 of the KMC and is...
  
   (only goods traffic)
• Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG (BE) (only goods traffic)
• Berliner Parkeisenbahn
• Bocholter Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH
• Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn GmbH & Co. KG (BOB)
• Borkumer Kleinbahn und Dampfschiffahrt GmbH (BKD)
• BoxXpress.de GmbH (Hamburg)
• Breisgau-S-Bahn GmbH (BSB; Freiburg im Breisgau)
• Bremen-Thedinghauser Eisenbahn GmbH (BTE) (only goods traffic)
• Bremische Hafeneisenbahn
• Brohltalbahn
• BSB-Saugbagger & Zweiwegetechnik GmbH & Co. KG
• BVO Bahn GmbH (narrow gauge railways in Saxony), from 9 May 2007 Sächsische Dampfeisenbahngesellschaft
• Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn AG

C–D

• cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (Kassel)
• Captrain Deutschland GmbH
• Chemion Logistik GmbH
• CFL Cargo Deutschland GmbH
• Chiemgauer Lokalbahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
• Chiemsee-Bahn Feßler & Cie.
• City-Bahn Chemnitz GmbH
• CTL Rail GmbH (Hamburg) (Subsidiary of Chem Trans Logistic, Warsaw)
• D & D Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (Hagenow)
• Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahn GmbH (DHE) (only goods traffic)
• Deutsche Gleisbau Union GmbH
• Deutsche Museums-Eisenbahn GmbH (DME)
• Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn GmbH (DRE)
  • Bayerische Regionaleisenbahn
    Bayerische Regionaleisenbahn
    The Bayerische Regionaleisenbahn or BRE is a German railway company and a subsidiary of Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn . Its headquarters is in Weidenberg and, since 2004, it has mainly acted as a railway infrastructure company. Its primary aim is to prevent the closure and associated disposal of...
    
     GmbH (BRE)
  • DRE Transport GmbH
• Die-Lei-GmbH
• Döllnitzbahn GmbH (Mügeln)
• Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn GmbH (DME) (to 11 December 2004)
• duisport rail GmbH

E

• EfW - Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (EfW, Frechen)
• Eggegebirgsbahn GmbH (Altenbeken)
• Eisenbahnbau- und Betriebsgesellschaft Pressnitztalbahn mbH (Press)
• Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser
  Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser
  EVB Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH is a German railway and bus company offering passenger and freight services that is headquartered in Zeven and Bremervörde...
  
   GmbH – EVB – (Local passenger and goods traffic)
• Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH (Duisburg)
• Eisenbahnbetriebe Mittlerer Neckar GmbH (EMN) (Kornwestheim)
• Eisenbahn - Betriebsgesellschaft Neckar - Schwarzwald - Alb mbH (NeSA, Rottweil)
• Eisenbahnbau und Maschinen GmbH (EMA)
• Eisenbahnbewachungs GmbH (EBW, Dachau, Würzburg)
• Eisenbahngesellschaft Ostfriesland-Oldenburg mbH (e.g.o.o.) (Aurich)
• Eisenbahngesellschaft Potsdam mbH (EGP)
• Eisenbahninfrastrukturgesellschaft Aurich – Emden mbH (EAE)
• Eisenbahn-Service-Gesellschaft mbH (ESG, Bietigheim)
• Eisenbahn, Logistik & Transporte Ei.L.T GmbH (Ei.L.T) (Teltow)
• Elektrische Bahnen der Stadt Bonn und des Rhein-Sieg-Kreises (SSB)
• Emsländische Eisenbahn GmbH (only goods traffic)
• Erfurter Bahn GmbH (EIB) (passenger and goods traffic)
• Erms-Neckar-Bahn Eisenbahninfrastruktur AG (Bad Urach)
• ERS Railways GmbH (Hamburg, Frankfurt)
• EUREGIO Verkehrsschienennetz GmbH (Stolberg) infrastructure
• Eurobahn (local passenger services of Keolis
  Keolis
  Keolis is the largest private sector French transport group. It runs passenger railways, tramways, bus networks, funiculars, trolley buses, and airport services. The company, based in Paris, is majority owned by SNCF, the French state rail operator. AXA Private Equity and Caisse de dépôt et...
  
   Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG in Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
  
   and North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
  
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F–G

• Feld- und Kleinbahn Betriebsgesellschaft gGmbH (infrastructure company for Süderbrarup - Kappeln)

• Flensburg-Express (FLEX) (long-distance passenger services in North Germany, insolvent 2003)
• Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn
• Frankfurter Hafenbahn
• Freiberger Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH
• Georg Verkehrsorganisation GmbH (GVG) (Internationaler Nachtverkehr)
• Georgsmarienhütten-Eisenbahn und Transport GmbH
• Gleiskraft GmbH
• Groß Bieberau-Reinheimer Eisenbahn GmbH (only goods traffic)

H

• Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK) (only goods traffic)
• Härtsfeld Betriebs GmbH
• Hafen- und Bahnbetriebe der Stadt Krefeld (only goods traffic)
• Hamburger Hafenbahn
• Hamburger Hochbahn
  Hamburger Hochbahn
  Hamburger Hochbahn AG or HHA is a company operating the underground system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1911 it is headquartered in Hamburg.-History:...
  
   AG (HHA)
• Hafenbahn der Hafen Hamm GmbH (only goods traffic)
• Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
  Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
  The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways or HSB is a network of gauge railways in the Harz mountains, in central Germany...
  
   GmbH (HSB)
• Havelländische Eisenbahn AG (hlve) (only goods traffic)
• Heavy Haul Power International GmbH (HHPI)
• Hellertalbahn GmbH (local passenger services in Rhineland-Palatinate
  Rhineland-Palatinate
  Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
  
  /Hesse
  Hesse
  Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
  
  /North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
  
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• Hersfelder Eisenbahn GmbH
• Hessische Güterbahn GmbH (only goods traffic)
• Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (passenger and goods traffic in Hesse)
  • HLB Hessenbahn GmbH
  • HLB Basis AG (infrastructure company)
• H. F. Wiebe a construction and infrastructure company operating some infrastructure trains.
• Hochwaldbahn Servicegesellschaft mbH
• Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG (HzL) (in Baden-Württemberg
  Baden-Württemberg
  Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
  
  )
• HSL Logistik GmbH (only goods traffic)
• Hupac Deutschland GmbH

I–K

• Ilmebahn GmbH (ILM) (only goods traffic)
• Infraleuna GmbH (Leuna)
• Inselbahn Langeoog (shipping services for the island of Langeoog)
• Industrie Transportgesellschaft mbH (ITB, Brandenburg)
• Internationale Gesellschaft for Eisenbahnverkehr (IGE, Hersbruck) with their long-distance train Mitfahrzug
• ITL Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (Goods traffic, bought by SNCF Geodis
  SNCF Geodis
  SNCF Geodis is the division of SNCF responsible for freight transportation and logistics....
  
   in 2010)
• Kahlgrund Verkehrs-GmbH
• Karsdorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft (KEG, insolvent)
• Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn AG
• Keolis
  Keolis
  Keolis is the largest private sector French transport group. It runs passenger railways, tramways, bus networks, funiculars, trolley buses, and airport services. The company, based in Paris, is majority owned by SNCF, the French state rail operator. AXA Private Equity and Caisse de dépôt et...
  
   Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin (eurobahn)
• Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (KVB) Stadtbahn Köln on railway lines
• Kreisbahn Mansfelder Land GmbH (KML)
• Kreisbahn Siegen-Wittgenstein GmbH

L–M

• Lappwaldbahn GmbH (Weferlingen)
• LDS GmbH - Logistik Dienstleistungen & Service (Eutin)
• Leipziger Eisenbahnverkehrsgesellschaft mbH (LEG)
• LOCON Logistik & Consulting AG
• Lokomotion Gesellschaft for Schienentraktion mbH
• Lotrac Eisenbahnverkehrsunternehmen GmbH (Eisenach)
• Lüchow-Schmarsauer Eisenbahn GmbH
• Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (Lüdenscheid)
• Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli GmbH & Co KG (narrow gauge railway)
• metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH
  Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft
  Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH is a non State-owned railway company based in Uelzen, Lower Saxony, the largest since December 2005. The company is exclusively for passenger and operates on behalf of the public transportation trains on the lines Hamburg-Bremen, Hannover and...
  
   (local passenger services in the area of Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
  
  )
• MEV Eisenbahn- Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
• mgw Service GmbH & Co KG Kassel
• Mindener Kreisbahnen GmbH (MKB) (only goods traffic)
• Mittelweserbahn GmbH
• Muldental - Eisenbahnverkehrsgesellschaft mbH (MTEG)

N

• Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn-Ges. AG (NME) (only goods traffic)
• Neusser Eisenbahn
• Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG (NIAG) (only goods traffic)
• NiedersachsenBahn GmbH
• nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH
• Nordbayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (NbE)
• Norddeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (neg)
• Nordic Rail Service GmbH (NRS)
• Nordfriesische Verkehrs-AG (NVAG) insolvent (2003)
• Nordseebahn (Local passenger services Bremerhaven–Cuxhaven railway): trade name, not a company

O–P

• Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (now MVV OEG AG) (electric operations)
• Ortenau-S-Bahn GmbH (Offenburg)
• PBSV GmbH Magdeburg (goods traffic)
• PCT Private Car Train GmbH (Automobillogistik, Tochterunternehmen der ARS Altmann AG)

R

• Rail Center Nürnberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Rail Technology & Logistics - Magdeburg
  Magdeburg
  Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
  
   (RTuL)
• RBH Logistics GmbH (Gladbeck), formerly RAG Bahn und Hafen GmbH
• RbT Regiobahn Thüringen GmbH - Bleicherode
  Bleicherode
  Bleicherode is a town in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, 17 km southwest of Nordhausen. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Obergebra was incorporated by Bleicherode. Every Thursday, there is a market held in the town.One of...
  
  , only infrastructure
• Regiobahn GmbH – regional railway company Kaarst
  Kaarst
  Kaarst is a town in the district Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Geography :Kaarst is located west of the city Neuss and east of Mönchengladbach .- Division of the town :Kaarst consists of 5 subdivisions...
  
  -Neuss
  Neuss
  Neuss is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district and owes its prosperity to its location at the crossing of historic and modern trade routes. It is primarily known...
  
  -Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
  
  -Erkrath
  Erkrath
  Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany-Geography:Erkrath is situated on the Düssel river, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal....
  
  -Mettmann
  Mettmann
  Mettmann is a Rhenish town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Mettmann, Germany's most densely populated rural district...
  
  -Wuppertal
  Wuppertal
  Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
  
   mbH (Mettmann)
• Regionalbahn Kassel GmbH
• Rent-a-Rail AG (RAR)
• Rennsteigbahn GmbH & Co KG − heritage railway services on the Rennsteigbahn, tourist runs and goods traffic
• Rhein-Haardtbahn GmbH (RHB) (Elektrischer Betrieb)
• Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV)
• Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
  Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
  The Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn or RSE is a German company founded by the Verkehrsclub Deutschland and interested private individuals with the primary purpose of saving a threatened industrial line, the Beuel–Großenbusch railway.Today the RSE operates Germany-wide, not least as the railway infrastructure...
  
  gesellschaft mbH (RSE) (Bonn)
• Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (RSVG)
• Rhenus Veniro GmbH & Co. KG
• Rinteln-Stadthagener Verkehrs GmbH (RStV) (only goods traffic)
• Rügensche Kleinbahn GmbH & Co
• Röbel-Müritz-Eisenbahn GmbH
• RuhrtalBahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
• Rurtalbahn GmbH & Co KG (formerly Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH)

S

• Saarbahn GmbH
• Sächsische Dampfeisenbahngesellschaft mbH (SDG)
• Sächsisch-Böhmische Eisenbahngesellschaft (SBE)
• Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (SOEG)
• SBB GmbH (Konstanz)
• Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn GmbH (SHB)
• Schweizerische Bundesbahnen GmbH (SBB GmbH)
• Seehafen Kiel GmbH & Co KG (SK)
• Städtische Eisenbahn Krefeld (port and industrial railway)
• Städtische Werke Krefeld AG – Krefelder Eisenbahn (SWK Mobil GmbH)
• Spitzke Logistik GmbH
• Stauden-Verkehrs-GmbH (SVG) (a railway infrastructure company, see Bahnbetriebsgesellschaft Stauden GmbH)
• Strausberger Eisenbahn GmbH (STE)
• Süd-Thüringen-Bahn GmbH (STB)
• Südharzeisenbahn GmbH
• Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs AG
  Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft
  The Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft or SWEG is a transport company in southwest Germany that operates railway lines and bus services...
  
   (SWEG), formerly Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (local passenger services in Baden
  Baden
  Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....
  
  )

T–U

• Tegernsee-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
  TAG Tegernsee Immobilien und Beteiligung
  TAG Tegernsee Immobilien und Beteiligungs-AG is a property company from Germany with its head office in Hamburg. Until 1998 as Tegernsee-Bahn it operated the railway line from Schaftlach via Gmund to Tegernsee...
  
  
• Thüringer Eisenbahn GmbH
• TransRegio Deutsche Regionalbahn GmbH (local passenger services in Rhineland-Palatinate
  Rhineland-Palatinate
  Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
  
  )
• Trossinger Eisenbahn
• TX Logistic AG
• Unisped (shunting services in southwest Germany, subsidiary of Wincanton)

V

• vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
• Verden-Walsroder Eisenbahn GmbH (VWE) (only goods traffic)
• Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH (VGH) (only goods traffic)
• Verkehrsbetriebe Extertal - Extertalbahn GmbH (VBE) (only goods traffic)
• Verkehrsbetriebe Kreis Plön GmbH
• Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter GmbH
• Verkehrsgesellschaft Dormagen mbH (Industriebahn Zons-Nievenheim)
• VLO Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Osnabrück GmbH (only goods traffic now)
• Verkehrsverband Hochtaunus (VHT) (infrastructure company)
• VIAS GmbH (Odenwaldbahn)
• Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (VEV)
• Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH

W–Z

• Wanne-Herner Eisenbahn und Hafen GmbH (WHE)
• Wedler & Franz Lokomotivdienstleistungen GbR (WFL Potsdam)
• Weserbahn GmbH
• Westerwaldbahn des Kreises Altenkirchen GmbH (WEBA)
• Westfälische Almetalbahn GmbH (WAB Altenbeken)
• Westfälische Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (WVG) runs the businesses for:
  • Regionalverkehr Münsterland GmbH (Rheine)
  • Regionalverkehr Ruhr-Lippe GmbH (RLG) (only goods traffic)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Kreis Unna mbH (VKU)
  • Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn GmbH (WLE) (goods traffic in the area of Lippstadt
    Lippstadt
    Lippstadt is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest town within the district of Soest.-Geography:Lippstadt is situated in the Lippe valley, roughly 70 kilometres east of Dortmund and roughly 30 kilometres west of Paderborn...
    
     in Nordrhein-Westfalen)
• Westfalenbahn GmbH (Bielefeld)
• Westmecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (WEMEG Bantin)
• H.F. Wiebe GmbH & Co. KG
• Wincanton Rail GmbH (WRS) (goods traffic) (St. Ingbert, Saarland
  Saarland
  Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
  
  )
• Zweckverband ÖPNV im Ammertal (Tübingen)
• Zweckverband Schönbuchbahn (Dettenhausen)
• Zweckverband Verkehrsverband Wieslauftalbahn (Rudersberg)

External links

• Overview of railways, infrastructure companies and authorites of the Federal Railway Office in Germany