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Rural franchising grows: franchising of secondary rail passenger services is gradually expanding in the Netherlands. Responsibility for letting the remaining 15 concessions will be transferred to the provinces this year.

Publication: International Railway Journal
Publication Date: 01-APR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rural franchising grows: franchising of secondary rail passenger services is gradually expanding in the Netherlands. Responsibility for letting the remaining 15 concessions will be transferred to the provinces this year.(Netherlands)

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THE first passenger concessions in the Netherlands involved rural networks in the north and east of the country and date from 1999-2000. Initially, NS Reizigers had not only a monopoly on the core network but also a partnership in each of the earliest concessions.

Syntus has a contract for the lines from Winterswijk to Zutphen (45km) and Arnhem (63km) until 2009. It also operates the 19km Almelo-Marienberg line on behalf of bus operator Connexxion, which is the major shareholder in Syntus. NS and Cariane Multimodal International also have shares in Syntus.

Syntus introduced lightweight Lint-41 trains as an economic replacement of aged NS Reizigers trains on the Winterswijk services and improved train frequencies and speeds. Syntus also improved integration with its own bus services.

Passenger numbers grew from 7.6 million in 1999 to 10 million in 2003. During the same period, a...

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