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>The state of Baden-Württemberg decided to take the south German subsidiary under the roof of its own state railway operator SWEG and essentially merging them
>The NRW branch wasn't able to hand in a new acceptable offer and decided today to end all operations at the end of January. The state is working with a bunch of different partners on an emergency plan for February 2022
>The east German branch of Abellio will give up about half its lines until 2023 and try to continue operating the remaining ones until the end of contract in 2030
>Currently there is no plan for what will happen with their Lower-Saxonian subsidiary Westfalenbahn aside from a slight operation cost compensation coming from the state to keep up operations till March 2022
This story lacks any comparison and is, so far, the biggest case of a private rail operator for passenger services being forced to quit in Germany, which will impact commuter services negatively in many regions for a long time.
