On December 9th 2018, RRX was successfully set into operation. ABRN has started the operation with the line RE 11, which leads from Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia to Kassel in Hesse. RRX is the largest public transport project in NRW for decades and will be completed by the expansion of the existing railway infrastructure for then faster RRX lines until probably 2035. ABRN starts the second operation of line RE 1 in June 2020, which connects the cities in North Rhine-Westphalia from Dortmund to Aachen.