Abellio makes a quick start

With the timetable change in December 2015, Abellio began operating the Saale-Thüringen-Südharz network under a contract that runs to December 2030. Spanning 575 route-km across five Länder and requiring the operation of 9·2 million train-km, it was the largest regional railway concession to be awarded since the  reform of the German rail market in 1994.

Christian Teschner, Hannah Dold, Lutz Trostorf: Abellio makes a quick start, in: Railway Gazzette, September/2016

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