NATIONAL Express has won a 10-year extension of the emergency operating contract it took over in February 2022 to run RheinRuhrExpress (RRX) routes RE1 (Aachen to Hamm) and RE11 (Düsseldorf – Paderborn/ Kassel). National Express already operates the other RRX-branded routes and replaced Abellio, which was insolvent, operating RE1/RE11 last year. The new contract is worth about €1 billion over the decade.