📋 Tender Overview
DB Regio AG is scheduled to take over regional traffic in the Neckar Valley and on the southern Railway from August 1, 2025. The contract applies until the timetable change in December 2032.The prevailed in a tender procedure for regional traffic in the country. It should also take over the currently daughter of the states own. The core of the tender is the railway operation on the routes in the Neckar Valley and on the. The takeover is subject to a refusion law review by the and a tenth day of procurement. Sweg temporarily stated that driving was particularly particularly important to this procedure: not only the operation of the network, but the purchase of the entire company SBS was advertised. After the bankruptcy of the former Abellio Rail Baden-Wurttemberg GmbH, the state-owned Sudwestdeutsche Landesverkehr-GmbH (SWEG) had jumped in at short notice as part of a so-called procurement law emergency measure and took over the company from 1 January 2022. Minister of Transport said: We were able to ensure that the trains continue to drive stable for passengers. As is necessary in such cases, we have rewritten the services. The former Abellio Baden-Wurttemberg has now been converted to SBS. I would like to thank the SWEW for the time being at the time for stable train traffic and especially all employees for the one in the past few years. Employees can keep work. Now the company is to be taken over by the DB Regio as soon as the cartel office gives the green light. I am confident that employees at the DB Regio can find a good perspective for the future, said Winfried Hermann. As in 2022, all employees can keep their workplace in society, only the owner changes. The new contract applies from August 1, 2025 to the timetable change in December 2032. The concrete traffic services are about todays August 1, 2025 and around the Sudbahn from December 2027. In the committees of the BEG, approval of the contract has also been granted. 68 state -owned trains and workshops are ready. The 52 will continue to contribute the Talent 3 series to the SBS to the SBS 35 Lot 3. In addition, another 16 vehicles of the same series owned by the country are added, which are transferred from a expiring transport contract (Gau-Murr) into the new network of North Baden-Oberschwaben. The SFBW also provides the workshop in Pforzheim, which it had taken over to secure the location after the abellio bankruptcy. The maintenance of the trains plays a very important role for the company, explained Hermann. Conversion of vehicles to digital control technology In addition, the state of Baden-Wurttemberg provides further vehicles from the Talent 3plus series for the new transport contract, in order to at the same time convert the previous SBS existing fleet to the up to the timetable change in December 2026. This enables, for example, shorter distances of the trains while driving and thus increases the capacity of the routes around the state capital. With the commissioning of the new passage station at the end of 2026, this will be operated with ETCs. We make the trains of the state fleet fit to achieve the necessary performance of the railway node, says Hermann.
