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DB was founded after the merger between Deutsche Bundesbahn and the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1994 after the unification of Germany and has been operating ever since. Deutsche Bahn is the second-largest transport company in Germany, after the German postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL. DB provides both long-distance and ...
After the war, the German railway system was split into the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Train frequency rapidly increased on the existing East/West corridors; closed links which had formerly crossed the border were re-opened.
DB Fernverkehr AG (German pronunciation: [deːbeː ˈfɛʁnfɛɐˌkeːɐ], "DB Long-Distance Traffic") is a semi-independent division of Deutsche Bahn that operates long-distance passenger trains in Germany. [2] It was founded in 1999 in the second stage of the privatisation of Deutsche Bahn, under the name of DB Reise&Touristik and was renamed ...
Germany - Deutsche Bahn (DB) Greece - Οργανισμός Σιδηροδρόμων Ελλάδος (ΟΣΕ) - Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) Hungary - Magyar Államvasutak (MÁV) Ireland - Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) Italy - Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) - Trenitalia; Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTŽ) Latvia - Latvijas dzelzceļš (LDZ)
DB Regio AG (German pronunciation: [deːbeː ˈʁeɡi̯o]) is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany.It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and therefore part of the DB Regio business segment, which also includes DB Regionnetz Verkehrs GmbH and other independent subsidiaries headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.
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 , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG – this situation is a relic from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche ...
The Deutsche Bundesbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈbʊndəsˌbaːn], lit. ' German Federal Railway ') or DB was formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG).
An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe [3] Across the EU, passenger rail transport saw a 50% increase between 2021 and 2022, with the 2022 passenger-kilometers figure being slightly under that of 2019 (i.e. before the COVID-19 pandemic ). [ 4 ]