Abellio (transport company)

Abellio Transport Holding BV
Industry Public transport
Founded 2001 (as NedRailways)
Headquarters Utrecht, Netherlands
Area served
 The Netherlands
Germany
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Key people
 Jeff Hoogesteger, CEO
Parent Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Website www.abellio.com

Abellio operates public transport services in Europe, with both bus and rail networks. It was founded as NedRailways in 2001, before being renamed Abellio in October 2009. Abellio is the international arm of the Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

The Netherlands

Abellio is the owner of bus company Qbuzz which operates buses in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe and Utrecht. Qbuzz also has a minority share in HTM Personenvervoer.

In February 2015 Abellio won the contract of the Province of Limburg to provide for the entire public transport (buses and 4 regional rail lines) from 2016 up to 2031. Due to unfair behavior of Abellio during the tender for the contract, the contract was withdrawn, while the company Arriva received the contract.[1] Abellio had obtained secret information of competitor Veolia through a former employee of Veolia which was hired by the daughter company of Abellio, Qbuzz.[2]

From 2016 Abellio will operate the railway line between Gouda and Alphen aan den Rijn.

Germany

Main article: Abellio Deutschland

Abellio operates several regional railway lines in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as owning several bus companies throughout Germany, through Abellio Deutschland.

United Kingdom

A pair of Abellio Surrey Dennis Darts at Byfleet depot in November 2009
Abellio Greater Anglia 153335 at Ipswich station in June 2012

Buses

Abellio entered the UK bus market in May 2009 purchasing the Travel London and Travel Surrey businesses from National Express and rebranding them Abellio London and Abellio Surrey in October 2009.[3] Both operate in the South East of the United Kingdom.

Rail

Abellio have a 50% shareholding in Serco-Abellio that has bid for a number of UK rail franchises, operating the Merseyrail franchise since July 2003[4] and the Northern Rail franchise from December 2004 until March 2016.[5] Serco-Abellio also lodged unsuccessful bids for the Wales & Borders, West Midlands and Tyne & Wear Metro franchises.

Abellio have also bid for a number of franchises in their own right, lodging bids for the South Western (in partnership with FirstGroup), London Overground, South Central, InterCity West Coast, Essex Thameside, Thameslink Southern & Great Northern and Northern franchises.[6][7][8]

In February 2012, Abellio Greater Anglia commenced operating the Greater Anglia franchise,[9] and in April 2015, Abellio ScotRail commenced operating the ScotRail franchise.[10][11][12]

Czech Republic

Abellio bought Probo Bus and run its network in the Czech Republic in 2009. It consisted of regional bus transport in the Beroun District and surroundings and some long-distance bus lines between Prague and South and West Bohemia.

Abellio CZ founded in July 2011 is a Czech daughter of Abellio Transport CZ Holding B.V. Since 1 April 2011, their member of board is Petr Moravec, formerly general manager of Veolia Transport Česká republika and manager of personal transport of Czech Railways (ČD). In spring 2012, Abellio CZ lodged an extensive complaint about wrong assignment of the tender to running of fast train line Ostrava – Krnov – Olomouc. The complaints were completely rejected.

In November 2013, Abellio sold Abellio CZ and Probo Bus to Deutsche Bahn with 110 buses.[13]

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