VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg

Overview

The VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg (VAG) was founded in 1959 as an independent company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Städtische Werke Nürnberg. It operates urban public local transport in Nuremberg (partly also in the surrounding area, e.g. Fürth) and is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg (VGN). With around 2,300 employees and almost 400 vehicles, it keeps the Nuremberg transport system running; its roots go back to the Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn (from 1881).

Operations

The VAG operates:

• The three U-Bahn lines U1, U2 and U3 of the Nuremberg U-Bahn, including with the U3 the first fully automatic U-Bahn in Germany (opened in 2008; the U2 followed in 2010, the U1 is operated conventionally with drivers).
• The Nuremberg tram with several lines.
• A dense bus network (city bus) in Nuremberg and into the surrounding area.

History

The roots of the VAG lie in the horse tram Nürnberg–Fürth opened on 25 August 1881, which was taken over by the city of Nuremberg in 1903; omnibuses have run in Nuremberg since 1923. In 1959, as part of a reorganisation of the Städtische Werke Nürnberg, the transport company was spun off as Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg (VAG), while the tram vehicles continued to run under the name Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn until 1981. The VAG is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Städtische Werke Nürnberg and a member of the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg (VGN).