Passenger trains to run on German line after 44-year gap

By Quintus Vosman, International Railway Journal; March 14, 2018

THE 28km freight-only line linking Bad Bentheim and Neuenhaus will have its passenger service reintroduced in December, 44 years after they were withdrawn by German Federal Railways, following an agreement signed in Verden on March 13.

The signing event was organised by the German Association of Transport Operators (VDV). The agreement was signed by Dr Bernd Althusmann, transport minister of of Lower Saxony, Mr Joachim Berends, president of Bentheimer Railway, Mrs Carmen Schwabl and Mr Klaus Hoffmeister, managing directors of the regional public transport authority LNVG, and Mr Friedrich Kethorn, district administrator of Bentheim county.

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