Group

The groups primary business is rail infrastructure and maintenance. The company also specialises in rail safety aspects of infrastructural work, specifically in terms of non-railway based workers performing construction tasks near or on main lines.

EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs GmbH

EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs is the main branch of the company, undertaking both financing and the rail freight operations of the group.

The freight operating company known as EBW cargo is headquartered in Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

, and focuses on infrastructure trains, as well as leasing EBW owned locomotives and rolling stock (wagons), and organising and managing rail head fed site logistics.

IFE

IFE (Ingenieursleistungen für Eisenbahnen GmbH translation :"Engineering services for railways limited") is an
engineering firm - specialising in railway construction including catenary.

IAS

IAS GmbH is a maintenance company, providing services such as trackside vegetation management as well as landscape gardening.

VE-log

VE-log GmbH employs approximately 60 people in the areas of land management, bulk materials and transportation, including recycling. Road transportation logistics is also performed by this company.

Locomotives

EBW operates a number of rebuilt, former Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

 locomotives.

• The three V270 class are rebuilt DB Class 221 locomotives. The locomotives are each either two Deutz TBD 620 V12 engines or two MTU 12V 4000 engines R 41 R both of ~1500 hp each. Total ~3000 hp.
• Two V232/V230 (former DR Class 130 family
  DR Class 130 family
  The DR 130 family of locomotives comprises the DR Class 130 , DR Class 131 , DR Class 132 and DR Class 142 .They were produced in the Soviet Union in Lugansk,...
  
   locomotives) of ~ 2200 kW power, used for transportation of track laying machines as well as ballast and sleepers for railway track construction.
• 10 remotorised DB Class V 100
  DB Class V 100
  These DB Class V 100 diesel locomotives were produced in the late 1950s by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for non-electrified branch lines as a replacement for steam locomotives...
  
  s, (company names V100, V130, V150) with installed power of between 1000 hp and 1500 hp, forming the main part of EBW's locomotive fleet for transfer of construction materials to and from site
• 3 DB Class V 60
  DB Class V 60
  The DB Class V 60 is a German diesel locomotive operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn and later, the Deutsche Bahn AG , which is used particularly for shunting duties, but also for hauling light goods trains. Seventeen locomotives were bought used by the Norwegian State Railways and designated NSB...
  
  's (company name V60) for shunting work.

Wagons

The company holds and operates its own wagons - typically those designed for construction solids (with a typical capacity of ~40m³); designs suitable for moisture sensitive solids, conveyor belt and other controlled discharge methods are kept.

External links

• EBW-online Company website
• EBW-Cargo locomotives and shunters images from railfaneurope.net
• EBW Cargo Fotos image gallery from bahnbilder.de
• InnoTrans 2004 - OMB/EBW Cargo: V200.1-Modernisierung Modernisation of ex Greek railways V200.1 for EVB. railfan.de