Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BEG; German for ''Bavarian Railways Company'') is the passenger transport company for regional railways in

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. Founded in 1995, it is organised as a

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wholly owned by the Bavarian Government. The company does not provide any services or own tracks or rolling stock. Instead, it purchases services from railway companies that actually operate the trains.

History

In 1995, when the ''Act on the Regionalisation of Public Local Passenger Transport'' (''Gesetz zur Regionalisierung des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs'') transferred the responsibility for local passenger transport from the federal government to the ''

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'', the Bavarian Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Traffic and Technology founded the Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft to organise the local passenger rail transport in Bavaria. Owing to the market situation at that time, in 1996 it awarded the contract for most of the network to

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, the national rail company owned by the federal government, without public tender. The first contract put out for public tendering in 1998 was the operation of the railway lines between Munich and the

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and was eventually awarded to

Bayerische Oberlandbahn The Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH (BOB) is a private railway company based in Holzkirchen, Germany, and owned by Transdev Germany (formerly known as ''Veolia Verkehr''). Since June 2020 its services are operated under the brand Bayerische Regi ...

, a newly founded subsidiary of ''Connex'' (now Transdev GmbH). However, improvements planned for the service were hampered by technical difficulties caused by the Integral trains, which were a completely new model that had not been used before. Since 2003, more and more railway services have been converted to contracts awarded on the basis of competitive tendering, which contracts awarded to Regentalbahn,

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, Transdev GmbH, BeNEX and others.

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* {{Authority control ! Transport in Bavaria Railway companies established in 1995