| Eisenbahn-Bewachungs GmbH | |
| Type: | Rail industry - |
| Fate: | Insolvent as of January 2010 |
| Foundation: | 1979 |
| Location City: | Dachau |
| Location Country: | Germany |
| Key People: | Managing Director : Wolfgang Rutkowske |
| Industry: | Rail |
| Services: | Rail infrastructure, rail freight, others |
| Homepage: | http://www.ebw-online.com/main.html |
The EBW group was a rail industry company consisting of several individual companies. It was declared insolvent in January 2010.
The group's primary business was rail infrastructure and maintenance. The company also specialised 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 was the main branch of the company, undertaking both financing and the rail freight operations of the group.[1]
The freight operating company known as EBW cargo was headquartered in Würzburg, and focused on infrastructure trains, as well as leasing EBW owned locomotives and rolling stock (wagons), and organising and managing rail head fed site logistics.
IFE (Ingenieursleistungen für Eisenbahnen GmbH translation :"Engineering services for railways limited") was anengineering firm - specialising in railway construction including catenary.[1]
IAS GmbH was a maintenance company, providing services such as trackside vegetation management as well as landscape gardening.[1]
VE-log GmbH employsd approximately 60 people in the areas of land management, bulk materials and transportation, including recycling. Road transportation logistics is also performed by this company.[1]
EBW operated a number of rebuilt, former Deutsche Bahn locomotives.[1]
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.[1]