National Express announced that local transport authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia have confirmed it as the preferred bidder for a further two rail contracts in Germany.
These contracts are for two of the three that cover the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) services which operate between cities including Cologne, Dusseldorf and Dortmund, in Germany’s most populous region. National Express’ services will carry approximately 30 million passengers a year.
The first of the contracts starts in December 2018 and the second in December 2020. Both will run until December 2033.
These RRX services serve the same region and some of the same cities as the two contracts that National Express will begin operating in December this year. Together these two new contracts are expected to generate revenues of around EUR 1 billion over their lifetimes.
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