Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland GmbH is a German railway company that operates local rail passenger transport in Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The company is owned by Deutsche Bahn through DB Regio.
According to its own statements, the company would like to act “lean and dynamic” like a start-up company[1] and thus meet the increasing cost and performance pressure in German local rail passenger transport. This came about, among other things, as a result of the liberalisation of local transport in Germany and the associated tenders in German states. The DB Regio company has lost many routes under this pressure in recent years.[2]
| Hamburg Hbf – – – – | Unterelbe-Netz (12.2018–12.2027) | LNVG, HVV | Traxx P160 DE (246) + 5 double-deck coaches (LNVG rolling stock pool) | Metronom | |
| Bremen Hbf – Soltau – | Dieselnetz Niedersachsen-Mitte (12.2021–12.2029) | LNVG, Region Hannover, NWL, SKUMS, HVV | Alstom Coradia LINT (LNVG rolling stock pool) | erixx | |
| Hamburg-Harburg – Buchholz – Soltau – Hannover Hbf | |||||
| Hildesheim Hbf – – Löhne – Bünde/ | NordWestBahn | ||||
| Hildesheim Hbf – Bodenburg | |||||
| Bad Soden – (from 01.04.2023) | Taunus-Netz (12.2022–12.2034) | RMV | Alstom Coradia iLINT | Hessische Landesbahn | |
| Königstein – – Frankfurt-Höchst – Frankfurt Hbf | |||||
| Brandoberndorf – Friedrichsdorf – (– Frankfurt Hbf) | |||||
| Friedberg – Friedrichsdorf (– Bad Homburg) (from 01.04.2023) |