Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser

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Bremer Straßenbahn AG

Information
Head offices	Bahnhofstraße 67 27404 Zeven www.evb-elbe-weser.de
Transport association	VBN / HVV
Employees	230 (2006)
Gauge	1435 mm
Network
Rail network	261 km own lines
Bus network	17 lines
Vehicles
Railway (2006-03)	Coradia LINT 41 DMUs Class 628 DMUs various freight locomotives
Omnibus (2006-03)	80 Setra buses
Statistics
Passengers (per year)		5 million
Source: Geschäftsbericht 2004

EVB Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH is a German railway and bus company offering passenger and freight services that is headquartered in Zeven and Bremervörde. The company was created in 1981 by the merger of the two companies Wilstedt-Zeven-Tostedter Eisenbahn GmbH (founded in 1912) and Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn GmbH (founded in 1907).

Between 1991 and 1993, the company acquired further railway lines from the Deutsche Bundesbahn and merged with the Buxtehude-Harsefelder Eisenbahn in 1993, so that the total network length reached 285 km.

The company offers a passenger rail service between Bremerhaven and Hamburg via Bremervörde that carries one million passengers per year. It also operates seventeen bus lines with four million passengers per year as well as freight services between Bremerhaven, Bremen and Hamburg. Using rented Siemens Dispolok locomotives, it also operates freight trains to Southern Germany and has recently announced to acquire two new Eurorunner diesel locomotives. During the summer months, a heritage railway service between Bremervörde and Osterholz-Scharmbeck, called the Moorexpress, is in operation.

[edit] Stations served

The current (as of 2007) EVB passenger line leads from Bremerhaven Hbf via Bremervörde to Buxtehude and Hamburg-Neugraben. When the new metronom line between Cuxhaven and Hamburg becomes operational in late 2007, EVB trains will terminate at Buxtehude instead of Hamburg-Neugraben.

The current stations are: