Moor Express
The railway line Stade- Osterholz- Beck is a railway line in the Elbe -Weser Triangle in the northern Lower Saxony between the towns of Stade and Osterholz- Beck Bremervörde Gnarrenburg and Worpswede.
1978 regular passenger services were set on the track. Today runs from May to September weekends and holidays, tourist trains to a fixed schedule; in the winter half of the year will take place special trips. These trips operate under the name Moorexpress.
History
On October 15, 1907, the narrow-gauge railway Bremervörde Easter timber ( KBO ) was established to connect the dirt too much of Teufelsmoor to the railway. 1942, the company name in Bremervörde Easter Holzer railroad was changed. As of October 5, 1952, the BOE ran together with the German Federal Railroad a "Cities rapid transit " between Stade, Bremervörde Osterholz- Beck and Bremen, which had to be stopped on 28 May 1971 as the Federal Railroad terminated the contract. On the remaining portion Bremervörde Easter wooden passenger on 18 March 1978, adjusted and transferred to buses.
The sparse freight traffic, however, has to date is survived like a summer schedule and special trips traffic with historical vehicles of Bremervörde Easter Holzer railway and the DB, which is operated by the railways and transport companies Elbe- Weser GmbH ( evb ), the 1981 merger of the BOE with the Wilstedt - Zeven - Tostedt railway was built.
On 1 May 2000, the passenger traffic was resumed as part of a daily timetable for the EXPO 2000. After the weekend operation was conducted in accordance timetable May to October. Since May 2006, the Moorexpress Stade drives over Bremervörde and Easter Wood Scharmbeck to Bremen. It received its name because the track runs through the Devil's Moor.
The operators and initiators of the Moor Express train want to achieve long term furnished by the tourist traffic to get to public transport in the Elbe -Weser- space back on the rail. The district of Rotenburg ( Wümme) has recorded the track as a project for the reactivation of public transport in its Regional Spatial Planning program.
About this section of road in the morning and evening trains of the metronome from the depot of evb in Bremervörde to Stade or Bremervörde that are not released for public transport.
Route Bremervörde Easter wood
The railway line was opened in two parts: on 23 June 1909, the section of Bremervörde to Gnarrenburg and on 9 February 1911 by Gnarrenburg after Osterholz- Beck. The train left Osterholz- Beck five times a day toward Bremervörde. The management was itself taken over. At the beginning there were four two-axle locomotives, nine passenger cars two Post-/Gepäckwagen and 15 freight cars. On 5 October 1952 by outgoing connection Stade- Bremervörde -Bremen was introduced, which existed until 1971.
The freight consisted largely (up to two -thirds of the traffic ) from the Torfabfuhr. In addition, brick kilns and glass factories were operated and promoted agricultural products.
Transport services
Route Bremervörde -Stade
On 1 October 1898, the distance between Bremervörde and Stade was taken as the first track to Bremervörde in operation. This track was owned by the state and operated by the respective State Railways. The trains of the German Federal Railroad wrong about the relation Bremerhaven Hbf -Stade and led some Coaches with in the direction of Hamburg Hbf, which were transferred to Stade features of the relation Cuxhaven to Hamburg Hbf.
On 27 September 1992, the route was taken over by the evb. Since the riparian communities would afford no grants for funding of passenger traffic, it was set on 25 September 1993 the passenger trains from Bremerhaven drive since about Harsefeld to Buxtehude and drove to December 2007 partly to Hamburg - Neugraben.
The remaining freight was discontinued December 14, 2003.
Attractions
The track became known not only by the cities of Stade, Bremervörde and Osterholz- Beck, it connects but also the location in the operation center village Gnarrenburg, in the Marienhütte made many years glass and sent into all the world, as well as the Worpswede at the foot Weyer of the mountain. Worpswede, especially Heinrich Vogeler, participated in the planning of the building design and equipment of the stations, for example, the station Worpswede.
In Deinste there is the German field - and narrow-gauge railway museum in the station Gnarrenburg Gnarrenburg Glass Museum. Is also based in Gnarrenburg are the Bremervörde Easter Holzer railway enthusiasts who look after the former locomotive shed the BOE there and preserved in museums.
Museum operations
From May to October there is regular traffic of four pairs of trains with historic railcar on all Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Since the 2006 season, the Moor Express leaves the main station to Bremen. Actually, there are five trains in each direction: early morning trains from Bremervörde to Bremen and Stade, then drive three pairs of trains from one terminus to another, the evening runs one train a day from each terminus to Bremervörde. The journey between Bremervörde and Stade is 50 minutes between Bremervörde and Bremen two hours. The bicycle transport takes place depending on the rush sometimes in the railcar, sometimes in a hung in the unit train boxcar. On two breakpoints between Bremervörde Worpswede and the loading and unloading of bicycles is not possible.
Since it is a museum operation, are tickets of transport networks through which the route leads not valid. The special tickets are sold by the conductor on the train or can be purchased at tourist agencies in the region. The bicycle transport is possible.
Information about the stories of the railway to passengers while driving also mediated by an audio guide by MP3 player.