Erixx GmbH (stylized as erixx) is a private

railway company A rail transport company is a company active within the rail industry. It can be: * a manufacturing company, * a rail transport operations, railway undertaking providing services through operating rolling stock, * a railway infrastructure manager ...

operating regional train service in

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

and

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

, northern Germany. It is wholly owned by Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE). Since 11 December 2011, Erixx operates on behalf of the public transport company of Lower Saxony (''Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen'' - LNVG). The name is derived from Erica, the genus of heath plants, and "x", representing the ''Heidekreuz'' (heath cross), the services it operated over the

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (, ) is a large area of heath (habitat), heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen and is ...

until 2021.

Operations

Erixx operated routes RB37 and RB38 from December 2011 until December 2021, which together formed the ''Heidekreuz''. They operated on the Heath Railway and Uelzen–Langwedel railway. From December 2014 until December 2029, Erixx will operate the RE10, RB32, RB42, RB43 and RB47 services in

. From December 2022 until December 2035, Erixx will also operate the RB76, RE83 and RB84 in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...

Former operations

Rolling stock

Erixx operated a fleet of 27 LINT-41 diesel multiple units on RB37 and RB38. From December 2014 Erixx also uses 28 new LINT-54 diesel multiple units on the new routes.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erixx Railway companies of Germany