Overview

• CEO Veit Salzmann reported higher outage rates in 2025 and said a near‑term improvement for commuters is not expected.
• Last year about 12% of services were canceled due to construction, short‑notice work extensions, and unstaffed signal boxes that HLB cannot influence.
• HLB posted a €1.5 million operating loss in 2024 and expects a loss again this year, though group revenue reached €468 million with €19.8 million pre‑tax profit.
• Since May, 32 new electric trains have been running on the Mittelhessenexpress between Frankfurt and Gießen with branches to Dillenburg, Marburg and Schwalmstadt‑Treysa, plus Friedberg–Hanau, performing reliably where network conditions allow.
• The company is testing three battery trains in the Westerwald and advancing a new Butzbach maintenance facility, while its bus operations helped cushion rail shortfalls and it employs about 1,700 staff.