Operating Company
The Hamburg S-Bahn is operated by S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH, an independent subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. The company is directly answerable to DB Regio Nord and formed in 1997.
The S-Bahn as a mode of transport is represented in German cities with a logo consisting of a white "S" in a green circle. Only in Hamburg, the same logo with a red background had been used temporarily for a few years before November 2007.
The company currently employs approximately 1100 personnel in the driving, maintenance, train departure and resource management divisions. Another 300 employees are responsible for security and cleaning through subsidiaries.
Read more about this topic: Hamburg S-Bahn
Famous quotes containing the words operating and/or company:
“... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart, is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“... we may remember what the Romans ... thought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)