Talk:Deutsche Bahn/Archive 1

Archive 1

The Deutsche Bahn (DB) [German Railways] is germanys largest and formerly only train service operator.

It has never been the only one. There always have been other companies like the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG.

-True, but they had to use their own tracks. On DB-Tracks, only the DB could operate, with extremely rare exceptions. And those exceptions had to be allowed by the DB. Since 1994, everyone can buy a free timeslot on any railway line and the DB can do nothing against it. But admittedly, my sentence is misleading.

mw, 28. Jan. 2003, 06h23

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Clarification of pre-war railway names: Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesselschaft was the name of the organisation which had control of the railways from 1920. It was abolished in 1937. Deutsche Reichsbahn was the name of the railway from 1920-1945, with the normal abbreviation being DRB. (Source: Letter to Todays' Railways magazine, May 2003) -- Arwel 02:23 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

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Someone has just put in a paragraph about rail links from Frankfurt airport:

In conjuction with an [[American Airlines]] codeshare, Deutsche Bahn operates rail service between [[Frankfurt International Airport]] and [[Bonn Rail Station|Bonn, Germany]], [[Cologne Rail Station|Cologne, Germany]], [[Dusseldorf Rail Station|Dusseldorf, Germany]], [[Freiburg Rail Station|Freiburg, Germany]], [[Hamburg Rail Station|Hamburg, Germany]], [[Hannover Rail Station|Hamburg, Germany]], [[Mannheim Rail Station|Mannheim, Germany]], [[HBF Railway Station|Munich, Germany]], and [[Nuremburg Rail Station|Nuremburg, Germany]]

Apart from correcting the error in Hannover, I've chopped out all the ",Germany"s as being tautological. I don't know if the editor is planning a series of articles on German railway stations (I thought only us Brits were that dedicated!), but the presence of "HBF Railway Station|Munich" would seem to indicate that the editor's not too knowledgable about the subject since "HBF" simply means "Hauptbahnhof" or "main railway station". -- Arwel 11:49 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Also, as long as the articles on the railway stations are not there yet, I think it is better to link to the cities. - Patrick 20:01 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

trains

There should be information here about the trains they use. --Joy [shallot] 13:46, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

First paragraph

This includes the non-English "catched". I'd rewrite it if I knew what it meant. I don't think it means "caught". I thought "Bahn" meant the railway rather than trains.

- "Bahn" means path(way), channel, alley, lane, or even orbit. (see http://dict.leo.org) I've correct the 1st paragraph with "the course" or "the path". JNAllen 23:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Corporate structure

I can't see how DB can be both fully owned by the government yet autonomous.

I've got no clue when this was written. But in Germany many companys are fully owned by the goverment and still operate autonomous. This usually ends in going to the stock exchange. This is beeing discussed quite frequently at the moment. Especally the question of putting the whole Company to the stock exchange or leaving the tracks (DB Netz) in the hands of the german govermant. Well, back to the question. It can't really operate autonomous. Ofcourse politicians start to argue with the Deutsche Bahn but by now the big boss ;) Hartmut Mehdorn does not get interferred that much any more. But still some strange routes are built by the Deutsche Bahn, just because some politican wants it so! --Chep87 16:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

To sum the whole matter up, the Deutsche Bundesbahn used to be a de:Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts. When it was merged with the DR and subsequently privatised in the early 1990s, the DBAG was newly founded as a plain old Aktiengesellschaft where the Federal Republic just happens to own 100% of the shares. The assets of the KöR were then transferred to the AG, and so DBAG happens to be a private limited company whose shares are all owned by the government, with an impending IPO as written above. --Doco 17:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Track Gauge & other info

What about their track gauge? If you take a look at a railway article I worked on, maybe an infobox for european railways is in order?
Kether83 23:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Schenker

Dear all, Schenker also does Air + Seafreight besides road haulage and logistics. I feel free to correct this. thx + b. rgds Julian (Schenker employee)

"Largest transportation company"

The United States Postal Service and Deutsche Post are both larger, and arguably what they do is transport things. -- mawa 14:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)