Germany - Austrian ÖBB's subsidiaries, GoAhead Germany / GoAhead Bayern

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GoAhead based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The majority of its operations are within the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Sweden and Norway. Go-Ahead was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange prior to being purchased by Kinetic Group and Globalvia by 2022.
GoAhead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland GmbH was the German rail operation subsidiary of GoAhead. It ran into financial problems and was aquired by the Austrian federal railways ÖBB. The deal was closed in February 2024. Buying GoAhead's German rail business was for ÖBB a way to get a major market share of southern Gemany's local and regional train traffic.

This train is a new Stadler FLIRT 3 XL. GoAhead has these both as three coaches long and as five coaches long. This one ia a five coaches long variant. GoAhead ordered 11 of these as three coaches long and 15 five coaches long variants. There were serious problems and delays in getting these to service. Now GoAhead uses them especially in the services between Stuttgart and Nürnberg. Due to the delays GoAhead had to rent temporary trains, originally intended to be used only until 2020, but which in the summer of 2023 were still replacing these trains.
Picture of a FLIRT 3 XL in the "bwegt" colours of the German Bundesland Baden-Württemberg from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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The same FLIRT 3 XL in the "bwegt" colours as shown above, but now seen from the other direction.
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Baureihe 2463 ia a new train type called Siemens Mireo, seen here in the blue colours specified by the German Bundesland of Bayern and operating for GoAhead Bayern. Mireo trains look like they would be a bit angry :-)
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Two Siemens Mireo trains, Baureihe 2463 "kissing".
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Two Stadler FLIRT EMU trains of GoAhead.
Picture from München Hauptbahnhof 14.10.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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The same two FLIRT trains as above but now seen from the other direction.
Picture from München Hauptbahnhof 14.10.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A train is the style of the former communist East Germany. These are old communist time DR coaches, now owned and operated by WFL, Wedler Franz Logistik and here replacing a train of GoAhead. This kind of replacement trains have been running now for more than three years while the new Stadler 3 XL trains have not yet been accepted for service.
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A closer look at the old double decker steering cab coach from the former East German Deutsche Reichsbahn, now owned by Wedler Franz Logistik and rented by GoAhead to replace missing FLIRT 3 XL trains.
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Still the same train as above. WFL had rented a former East German Br 112 as a locomotive for this purely East German style composition.
Picture from Würtzburg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
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