Hanover–Minden railway

The railway line between Hanover and Minden is one of the most important railway routes of Lower Saxony and Germany. It connects the capital of Lower Saxony Hannover Wunstorf, Hagen and Biickeburg with Minden, Osnabrück, Amsterdam and the Ruhr. The table on the right describes the long-distance tracks in the section Hannover- Seelze. The sections parallel S-Bahn and freight tracks are explained by S -Bahn Hannover and freight rail bypass Hanover.

• 2.1 Expansion for high-speed line
• 2.2 Increasing the bottleneck Haste - Wunstorf
• 2.3 Other sites

History

Construction and operation

The opening of the line took place on October 15, 1847 by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways, they opened up especially the Principality of Schaumburg -Lippe, including his capital Biickeburg and provided a continuous link from Hanover to the Rhineland ago. On December 12, 1847, the branching railway Wunstorf -Bremen was opened. Also she made since then in its history one of the most important railway routes in Germany, because it creates the connection of the Bremen ports with southern Germany. Other fastening and connecting lines are or were the railway town of Hagen- Stolzenau, the railway line Nienburg - Minden, the main line of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company as a continuation of the route to the Rhineland, the railway line Rinteln City Hagen, Minden circular orbits and the Bad Eilsener Small train of Biickeburg to Bad Eilsen and briefly about Meissen to Minden.

With the reorganization of the traffic to the reunification of these east-west railway line belongs to one of the most heavily loaded railways Deutsche Bahn (more than 100,000 trains in 2005)

Accidents

On September 6, 1923 went to the error of a block warden of D 10 from Berlin to Cologne in Seelze - Lohnde on the holding D 138 from Leipzig to Amsterdam. 18 people died, 19 were also injured.

On January 4, 1943, the locomotive engineer of the 2304 SFR overlooked before Wunstorf in heavy snow a " stop" signal at danger and drove to the D 8. 25 people died and 169 others were injured.

Extension

Expansion of high-speed line

The first Federal Transport Plan (1973 ) led the expansion route Dortmund -Hannover- Braunschweig as one of eight planned expansion projects in the field of railways. Also in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1980, the project was included.

In 1984 the business was taken up with scheduled speeds of 200 km / h in a 23.5 km section between Biickeburg and Haste. In 1985 he was a 13.0 km section between Hanover and Wunstorf. Thus, the 6.9 km long section between Haste and Wunstorf is not designed to 200 km / hr.

Expansion of the bottleneck Haste - Wunstorf

The bottleneck on the route from Minden to Haste - here the route is not expanded to four tracks on the important Ostweststrecke as in the western and eastern advance - is called the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003. In the Federal Railway Infrastructure Expansion Act of 15 November 1993, the route is mentioned as a new measure in a prior need for demand. In published in 2007 investment plan by 2010 for the federal transport infrastructure an extension was not included. In the demand plan review, published in November 2010, the expansion was postponed due to a benefit-cost ratio of less than 1. Under these conditions, a construction of the section would not be permitted. The traffic should instead develop on the routes wages -Hildesheim - Braunschweig. Against this decision, there is a resolution of the Regional Council of the District government Detmold that expects a consideration of the route Ausbaues in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2015. A 2010 estimated the cost of construction of the federal government according to the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 for the four-track expansion in the amount of approximately 900 million euros a.

Other sites

From April until the summer of 2011, the distance between Wunstorf and Minden was upgraded, replaced emerging and re-laid track. The passenger service was held on a single track, on the other was built.

As a replacement for the beschrankten crossings in Haste and scorn Horst flyovers are being built that will be completed by early 2015. In Scheller and scorn Horst also want noise barriers to be erected.

Transport supply

On the whole continuously electrified track run Intercity-Express, InterCity, Regional - Express trains and S-Bahn. In addition, there is a dense freight. Between Minden and Hanover RE trains (Braunschweig - Bielefeld or Rheine ) runs every hour as bunk sets and S-Bahn line S1 ( Haste - Hanover - Minden ). In section Wunstorf -Hannover S-Bahn traffic is compressed by the line S2 Haste -Hannover- Nienburg. This route is also traveled by RE trains on the line Hannover- Bremen-Nord dike.

Between Haste and Hanover, the tariff of the GVH applies, the district of Schaumburg is connected via a special season ticket fare with the GVH.

The route is in the range Hannover-Nord City Seelze sechsgleisig, between Hanover and Hannover Hbf North City viergleisig by separate S- Bahn tracks, expanded to four tracks through joint use of freight rail bypass between Seelze and Wunstorf, two tracks in the area Wunstorf - Minden. Freight transport needs to drive in this area again and again in the passing places to allow faster trains to pass.

A four-track expansion of the route as on the west adjoining railway line Hamm- Minden is planned. However, it is still controversial whether the existing route will be expanded continuously or whether Wunstorf should be bypassed with a new route from Haste to Seelze; Haste west of the existing line will be expanded.

The construction of one or two S -Bahn tracks between Seelze and Wunstorf is discussed on the part of the Hanover region.