Chronicle

1907 Establishment of the Bremervörde & Osterholz Railway (BOE)
1912 Establishment of the Wilstedt, Zeven & Tostedt Railway (WZTE)
1981 Entering of the EVB into the trade register of Zeven
1984 Shareholder of the ZOB Bremen Ltd.
1988 Founding member of the transport association Bremen/Niedersachsen
1989 Opening of the EVB travel agency in Zeven
1991 Contract with the Deutsche Bundesbahn (Federal Railway Company of Germany) of the following railtracks:
Bremerhaven - Bremervörde - Hollenstedt
Hesedorf - Stade
Bremervörde - Rotenburg (Wümme)
Rotenburg (Wümme) - Brockel
1992 Opening of the EVB travel agency in Bremervörde
1993 Take over of the Buxtehude & Harsefeld Railway Company Ltd.
1993 Start of public transport on the railway line Bremerhaven - Bremervörde - Harsefeld - Buxtehude - Hamburg-Neugraben
1993 Opening of the EVB travel agency in Harsefeld
1993 Founding member of the VBN-Regiobus-Cooperation
1995 Start of cargo trains (container) between Bremerhaven and Hamburg
1995 Founding member of the Verkehrsverbund Northeast-Lower-Saxony (VNN)
1996 Shareholder of the Kraftverkehr Company Ltd. (KVG), Stade
1996 Founding member of the Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen GmbH (VBN)
1997 Founding member of the Northgerman Railway Company Ltd. (Norddeutsche Bahngesellschaft mbH [NBG)])
1998 Start of cargo trains (container) NTT 2000 between Bremerhaven and Bremen
1999 Start of the cargo train (container) between Hamburg-Munich-Bremerhaven-Hamburg (Munich-Shuttle)
2000 Extension of the NTT 2000 (Bremerhaven-Bremen-Hamburg)
2000 Shareholder of the NTT 2000-Neutral Triangle Train Company Ltd.
2001 Shareholder of the Trimodal Logistik Compnay Ltd
2001 Financial support through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the framework of the project MobiTour
2001 Financial support through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the framework of the project Neutral Triangle Train
2001 Cooperation with the ports and the Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK, cargo transporter) and Connex Cargo Logistics Company Ltd. concerning cargo
2001 New garage for busses (depot) in Zeven
2002 Founding member of the Niedersachsen Railway Compnay Ltd. (NB)
2002 Establishment of the Metronom Railway Society
2002 EVB becomes shareholder of the NeCoSS company Ltd. GmbH-Neutral Container Shuttle System
2002 New maintenance and storage facilities in Grasberg
2003 EVB becomes shareholder of the MegaHub Lehrte operating company Ltd., Hannover
2003 EVB becomes shareholder of the Weser Mittellandkanal Container Shuttle (WMCS), Bremen
2003 Financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in terms of the project TchiLOG
2003 Start of passenger transport between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven as the Nordseebahn (Cooperation with DB Regio)
2003 Start of passenger transport between Bremen and Hamburg, respectively Hamburg and Uelzen as the Metronom
2003 Use of 9 new LINT-railcars from the train-pool of the LNVG
2003 Rebuilding of the railway maintenance garage in Bremervörde
2004 Financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in terms of the project Regionalverbund Nord (regional network north)
2004 Extension of the range of NeCoSS (daily connections between Bremen und Hinterland)
2004 Financial support from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in terms of the project Transport and Incident Management (TIM)
2004 Financial support from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in terms of the project EU Net
2004 Integration of the EVB busses and trains into the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV)
2005 Take-over and re-establishment of the Omnibusbetrieb von Ahrentschildt ltd.
2005 Start of regular passenger transport on the line Uelzen - Hannover - Göttingen with the Metronom
2006 Take-over of TUI-ReiseCenter Zeven
2007 Extension of the railway maintenance garage in Bremervörde
2007 Start of regular passenger transport on the line Cuxhaven - Hamburg with the Metronom
2007 Start of regular passenger transport on the line Hamburg - Tostedt und Hamburg - Lüneburg with the Metronom
2008 Foundation of Jade-Weser-Bahn ltd.

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