Hanover–Brunswick railway

The railway line between Hanover and Braunschweig is a 1843 and 1844 opened the main track in Lower Saxony. She was the first railway line reached the town of Hanover, and the first, which was operated by the Hannover State Railways. Today it is one of the most important routes in the east-west traffic. The most important stopover is Peine.

Course

The course is flat and straight through the North German Plain. She leaves Hanover to the east. Originally, they led almost straight after Taught, today's connection makes a slight curve on Anderten south. In Taught she is with several other major routes, including the Berlin Lehrter track which is here extended to the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin, linked. From here it turns southeast to Peine. It extends further to the south-east and takes in large sliding things, a district of Vechelde, 44 years younger than railway Hildesheim - Braunschweig. Here she returns to the east and reached Braunschweig from the southwest.

History

Hanover and Brunswick time

The Duchy of Brunswick was open early in the opposite rail. At the instigation of the then Minister of Finance and the State Bank of Brunswick Heads Philip Augustus of Amsberg 1838, the portion of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel today's railway Brunswick- Bad Harzburg already opened as the first public railway in Germany. Both Brunswick and Prussia made ​​pressure on the Kingdom of Hanover, allow an east -west connection with the new transport. However, the then King Ernst August I was still negative. Only when he himself had taken part in a test drive on the Brunswick line and selbige proved successful, he agreed in 1841 a railway to his capital to. There a treaty with Prussia and Brunswick was closed, which provided a connection from the Prussian Minden via Hanover to Braunschweig. However, the skepticism enough yet to require the State Railway to build in Hanover, a small train station and set up the operation center and the first branching routes Taught. 1842 construction began. On October 22, 1843, the route Hanover was opened up Taught; on December 3, Peine was reached and on May 19, 1844 Braunschweig. Also located east of Peine Brunswick section was operated by the Hanoverian State Railways. As early as July 1843 could drive from Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel, Jerxheim Oschersleben to Magdeburg.

In Brunswick, already the first station was replaced by a second, just nine years after the first railway in Germany; it remained at a terminal station. This has impeded the passage of traffic until 1960.

The network has now evolved rapidly. In 1845, the railway line Taught - Celle, which opened in 1846 Taught of Hildesheim. There they lie transversely to braunschweiger route, this structure is referred to as " cross- train". 1847 was achieved by Celle from Harburg. Months later could drive from Hanover to Minden and from there to Cologne; so that was the first remote link between Berlin and Cologne. Also still in 1847 was set up with the railway line Wunstorf -Bremen the second major inflow from the west. 1853 a branch in Hanover itself was created with the " Southern Railway " Hannover -Kassel for the first time.

From 1870

1871, the Berlin- Lehrter railway was connected to this route that bypassed the critical node Brunswick. Now you took on the fast traffic to and from Berlin. The rapidly growing traffic made ​​sure that on the connection of Braunschweig was continued to be used extensively.

From 1876 to 1879 present Hanover Central Station was built, because the old one was overloaded.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the railway facilities were fundamentally transformed in Hanover. Here also the route towards Braunschweig in 1906 moved between the Tiergarten and Taught south to relieve the Misburg station. The old route was part of the 1909 new freight bypass rail traffic. Taught was significantly expanded. A compound curve now also allowed for trips from Hannover to Hamburg without changing direction. This was also then used until the opening of the "rabbit path " Langenhagen - Celle in 1938 and their doppelgleisigem expansion and electrification in 1965 by long-distance passenger Hannover- Hamburg, only of individual long-distance trains Cologne -Hamburg.

1950s to today

You put the plans to build a transit station in Braunschweig, final order. Since October 1, 1960, the current Braunschweig Hauptbahnhof has been approached. Also the Hanoverian counterpart was redesigned in the seventies in the construction of light rail, which passes under the main railway station.

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1973 led the expansion route Dortmund -Hannover- Braunschweig as one of eight planned expansion projects in the field of railways. One of the first measures was placed the third track between Great Gleidingen and diversion Devil Spring to Salzgitter - Beddingen.

1976, the electrical equipment was taken. Until then, were still frequently used steam locomotives in freight transport, while in Hanover and Brunswick Diesel locomotives of the series 216 and 220 were kept for passenger transport.

Taught in the introduction of Hildesheim track was laid in 1990. A little later, here began the expansion of the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin, drive their trains from Hanover to Taught on this route.

At Expo 2000 Hannover received a S -Bahn system. Between Hanover and Taught an additional route north of the previous track was moved from the central station until just before the breakpoint Karl- Wiechert -Allee single track, from there until just before the breakpoint Ahlten double track, to single track again Taught then. In 1998, she was put into operation. The historic railway platforms in Hannover- Kleefeld and Anderten - Misburg were demolished, platform edges are located only at the S- Bahn tracks (except station Karl- Wiechert -Allee in Hannover). Here, the barely -used branch Tiergarten was abandoned, leaving the old route between Tiergarten and Misburg station is no longer passable.

By the summer of 2008, the node was redesigned again in Taught to give freight trains from the bypass path and from Celle a ride opportunity to Hildesheim and Braunschweig, where the tracks of the high-speed line will go under. The long-distance trains from Wolfsburg and Braunschweig can Taught by driving since then at 120 km / hr.

On 16 June 2010, a train accident occurred around 23.23 clock just before a bridge at Peine -Horst. The Regional Express 14019 Rheine to Braunschweig collided with a freight train derailed immediately before the Mittelweserbahn, who was traveling with gravel from the resin into the Emsland. Train drivers and train conductors and 18 travelers of the regional express train were injured, some seriously. Reason for the accident was a loose wheel tires on the tenth car of the freight train, which was not detected due to lack of recognizable Verdrehmarkierungen the one whose car to another but already therefore no longer should have been in a train. Further, the accident could have been prevented if the driver of the freight train and the train dispatcher of the last two traversed sections have consistently kept to the rules.

Current operating

The route will continue to be operated alternately in the whole length of each hourly Intercity train from Leipzig to Hannover, Oldenburg and Cologne, as well as of regional express trains Braunschweig-Hannover-Rheine/Bielefeld. West of Taught come the trains Lehrterstraße train, including the ICE from Berlin, the S-Bahn line 6 ( Celle- Hannover), the S -Bahn line 7 ( Celle- Taught -Hannover ) and the S -Bahn line 3 (Hildesheim -Hannover - Taught ) added. Between upper Gleidingen and Brunswick also over the train track Hildesheim - Braunschweig trains running, including the ICE Frankfurt drive (M) - Berlin.

On the route there east of Taught strong freight; the up to 6000 ton ore transports Port of Hamburg - Groß Gleidingen - Salzgitter steelworks are the heaviest trains in Germany.

The route is electrified and can be driven up to 160 km / hr. From Taught to large sliding things she is two-pronged, otherwise extended at least three tracks; the S- Bahn tracks in Hanover can unlike power-rail commuter trains will be shared when required by "normal" trains.

More images

The struck since 1960 the main railway station in Braunschweig

Old signal box in Lehrter track triangle