lumber train on the sol r line in norway hector rail is a swedish based independent train haulage provider operating in the european rail transport market operating 50 locomotives . the company provides locomotives and drivers to freight customers who need to have whole unit trains hauled between two places with a regular time table . from start the majority shareholders were the h egh family from norway through h egh capital partners . 1 in september 2014 the company was sold to eqt infrastructure ii . contents 1 history 2 locomotives 3 references 4 external links history edit hector rail ran its first train on 12 december 2004 and now operates around 5 million train km a year in sweden and norway . it began operating in denmark and running trains from sweden to germany during january 2008 . 1 in 2009 hector rail started to haul a passenger train for veolia . locomotives edit hector rail class 441 the eurosprinter the company operates diesel and electrically powered locomotives 2 3 class 141 ex bb class 1012 prototype locomotives 11 class 142 ex bb class 1142 locomotives 8 class 143 ex sj rc3 locomotives 6 class 161 ex nsb el 15 locomotives 12 class 241 bombardier traxx locomotives 7 class 242 siemens es64u2 eurosprinter locomotives 2 class 441 siemens es64f4 eurosprinter locomotives 3 class 921 diesel shunting locomotives ex sj z70 2 class 941 vossloh g 2000 bb diesel locomotives 4 class 841 nohab diesel locomotives ex sj t43 2 class 942 mak 1205 diesel locomotives the first digit indicates the number of different electrical voltages supported but 8 for diesel electric and 9 for diesel hydraulic . the second digit is the number of axles hinting the tractive effort . references edit a b mats nyblom october 2007 . hector rail s growth strategy . railway gazette international . fleet . www.hectorrail.com . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to hector rail . hector rail hoegh retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hector rail & oldid 675854639 categories railway companies of swedenhidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinadanskdeutschnederlandsnorsk bokm lsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 13 august 2015 at 03 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view