NedTrain

NedTrain are the locomotive and rolling stock maintenance and repair company of the Dutch Railways company, Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

NedTrain
TypeState-owned company
IndustryRail Transport
Founded1938
Headquarters
Utrecht
,
Netherlands
Key people
Karel Noordzij, CEO
ProductsRail Transport maintenance
Number of employees
3,500
WebsiteNedTrain

History

Always historically part of Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NedTrain's history closely follows that of its parent company and main customer. In the early 1990s under European Union Directive 91/440, which included the need for formal separation of the national railways from Governments and into a two separate companies, one which deals with the infrastructure, and the other which deals with the transport activities; NS began to be separated into separate divisions. NedTrain was formed at this point, not only to comply with the EU Directive and NS's strategy, but also to take advantage of the Dutch Government's desire to create competition in both passenger and freight transport by offering an "independent" locomotive and rolling stock maintenance and repair facility.

Although much of the reorganisation of NS was reversed in 2002 when new CEO Karel Noordzij was put in place, and NS being granted by the Dutch Government the sole concession to run on the main passenger lines until 2015, NedTrain had built up enough non-NS business to remain owned by a separate division of NS.[1]

NedTrain Consulting

In October 2006, the Lloyd’s Register Group acquired the 230 employee subsidiary NedTrain Consulting (NTC), the rolling stock Centre of Competence which covers whole life cycle of rolling stock and its systems.[2][3]

Locations
NedTrain facilities, showing outsourced ICE train under maintenance

Refurbishment & Overhaul

NedTrain Services

References
  1. http://www.railway-technology.com/contractors/overhaul/nedtrain
  2. Lloyd's Register Group acquires Dutch rail consultancy Lloyd's Register - October 05, 2006
  3. Lloyds Register Group acquires NedTrain infrasite.nl
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