Hildesheim–Brunswick railway

The railway line Hildesheim - Braunschweig is a 43 km long main line in Lower Saxony. The until December 2012 and single-track electrified line runs right through the Hildesheimer Borde. It was two-pronged expanded to improve the compatibility between long-distance and local transport.

History

Hildesheim and Braunschweig had received their railway connections already in the 1840s. A direct connection of the former border between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick was, however, at least not desirable in Hanover. The east -west traffic ran over and Taught Kreiensen, Hildesheim was connected only after Taught in the north and with a branch line to Nordstemmen station on the southern railway Hannöversche.

After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, things changed slowly. The Hannover- Altenbekener Railway built the Weser Railway and extended this in 1875 with the railway line Hildesheim - Goslar to the southeast. This Hildesheim was connected to the east-west traffic. Only had to put in the northern Harz area of ​​iron ore mining for direct connection to Braunschweig; 1888, about 35 km connection of Hildesheim was taken to the railway line between Hanover and Braunschweig in large sliding things into operation. Four years later reversed the first German D- train, the D 31/32 between Cologne and Berlin, across the track, as they represented the shortest distance in kilometers.

The track was still secondary. It is tangent to Hannover it came up to 1960 the old Brunswick train station, which inhibited as the head station to through traffic. As of 1945, the inner German border blocked the majority of the traffic from Braunschweig to the east.

In the construction of the high-speed line Hannover -Würzburg and the Hildesheimer loop was built to connect to Hildesheim and Braunschweig towards the south. Since 1991, traveled IC trains from Frankfurt and Gottingen, Hildesheim, Braunschweig and Magdeburg to Berlin. These were replaced by ICE in 1993; since 1998, they take the route via the east Brunswick Weddeler loop and the high speed line Hannover- Berlin. The single-track operation proves to be susceptible lateness. The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1992 and his successor in 2003, a rail line wages -Hameln -Hildesheim - Braunschweig is included, inter alia, the continuous two-pronged expansion is planned.

The section between Hildesheim and Great Gleidingen was 20 June to 12 September 2002 completely blocked for a renovation.

Operation

Long-distance traffic

The trunk is used every hour of the ICE line Berlin -Braunschweig- Hildesheim -Kassel- Frankfurt (Main) -Mannheim-München/Basel. In addition, it is used as a diversion and discharge route for the railway route between Hanover and Braunschweig.

Regional Transport

On the way there on weekdays, an approximate two-hour clock, which is compressed but in the rush hours. Saturdays and Sundays, at eight seven pairs of trains. For use come n- trolleys, which are covered with locomotives of the series 143. Since 9 December 2012, the travel times have been reduced by expanding the range of 43 minutes to 33 minutes.

Double-track lines for 160 km / h

In spring 2000, examined the Federal Ministry of Transport plans that axis Braunschweig - Hameln - expand wages as freight - southern bypass of the node Hanover twofold. The routes should be the main axis for freight transport in the east-west direction then. A decision was expected by 2002. The planning approval for the three sections and a total of 34 km comprehensive two-pronged expansion became effective on 14 November 2001 12 December 2001 and 24 February 2002.

The end of 2007 was achieved with the clarification of financing a breakthrough for the project of the two-pronged expansion. The Federal Government should therefore finance the doubling of 80 million euros, the country with 40 million euros the rest of the total. It provided for the upgrading of the line for a top speed of 160 km / h instead of 140 km / h In January 2009, the federal government announced that it would take over 131 million euros of the total investment of 139 million euros. Construction should begin in summer 2009 and be completed by the end of 2012. In addition, the state of Lower Saxony and the German train involved in the financing.

Mid-December 2008 finally wrote the German train the doubling of a length of 34 kilometers. The package included a contract worth 100 million euros ( net). On 20 January 2009, the financing agreement for the expansion has been closed. On 23 January 2009 then the ground-breaking ceremony should be set. However, the German railway wrote the work until mid-July 2009, with the construction contract to be awarded by November 2009 will run until the end of December 2012.

With the expansion was eventually started on 18 January 2010. The total cost of the expansion are now given with 140 million euros.

In October 2011, the section between Hildesheim and Hoheneggelsen was put into operation. The ceremonial start of the second track track took place on November 5, 2012. The investment share of the federal case was given 137 million euros. After the completion of remaining work of the two-track operation can be added to the timetable change on December 9, 2012. The elimination of waiting times and the higher line speed, the travel time in transport by up to ten minutes long-distance transport by two minutes shorter. Addition to the construction of 34 kilometers of track 19 railway bridges were widened, two streets and replaced a railway bridge and building a new railway bridge over the puncture channel Salzgitter. Three new electronic interlocking in Bettmar, Hoheneggelsen and Lengede - Broistedt now control the stretch.

Pictures

The since 1960 approached, New Brunswick Hauptbahnhof