Weddel loop

(Braunschweig -Wolfsburg )

The Weddeler loop is a 21.1 km long railway line between German Weddel ( town of Cremlingen near Braunschweig) and Faller life (district of Wolfsburg). She is single-track, electrified and part of the Route number 301 (Braunschweig -Wolfsburg -Stendal ).

Course

The line branched at the branch point Weddel at kilometer 10.0 ( 6.6 rail kilometers east of the main station Braunschweig) of the railway line from Brunswick- Magdeburg and single track runs to the operation station teaching. The twin-track railway station (without passengers ) is the only of passing and crossing ability of the track. It runs on a single track to the junction Sülfeld and branches out there again in two tracks. One of them crossed the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin ( km 187.5 ) and threads there in the northern track ( Hannover). The other track runs parallel to the high-speed line, with a transition in the Southern Railway ( direction Wolfsburg / Berlin), on the third track ( line 6399 ) until after Oebisfelde.

Between the two branches ( 3.7 and 22.0 km ) The track is scheduled to open to traffic at 160 km / hr. The inputs and unloading, in Fallersleben Train via high-speed switches with up to 160 km / h Nearby points of the maximum speed limit is 130 km / h Between the route kilometers 22.4 and 24.2 km, a train control is installed. The route is controlled from the electronic interlocking Faller life out.

The track is prepared for the installation of a second track. Also an extension of 200 km / h is provided as an option.

Operation

The route binds to the remote stations Braunschweig and Hildesheim to the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin and was also built along with this. In Hildesheim long-distance trains a thread about the Hildesheimer loop in the high-speed line Hannover- Würzburg.

Per hour depending runs an ICE train pair (Berlin- Frankfurt -Mannheim ( ...)) and a regional train - pair on the track.

Regional trains between Braunschweig and Wolfsburg also use the route. The ridership in regional traffic is around 1900 passengers per day.

In addition to the Hildesheimer loop is the loop Weddeler one of the bottlenecks between Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. In particular, the same height- threading in Weddel has proven to be susceptible lateness.

History

Prehistory to 1989

Already 1901-1904 the Schuntertalbahn was built as the first rail link between Faller life and Brunswick. It was a branch line of the Brunswick State Railway Company, which left Faller life on the east side, east of teaching the current route crossed, then along the Schunter to Braunschweig - Gliesmarode (then without connection to the railway Brunswick- Uelzen ), and finally in the former North Station Braunschweig country railway led. This line was nationalized in 1938 and built a new connection via Gliesmarode at that Central Station at the west end. On the east side of the railroad planned a two-track main line of Faller lives there today Volkswagen plant was connected to the Lehrter, to the then planned Braunschweig Hauptbahnhof ( approximately where he then 1960 really was ) and on to the newly built steel plants in Salzgitter. The course should rely on the west side and then run straight south Faller life. Of these plans just north of the gage section was until 1942 a single track completed and temporarily connected to the existing branch line, the construction was stopped and shut down the old route teaching - Faller life. This temporary connection it then remained more than fifty years, even though the track was for a branch line tight with freight, up to 20 trains a day, occupied. The northern embankment of crossing-free unloading, Faller life - Sülfeld lay unused.

Planning from 1990 and construction 1996-1998

After the landmark decision of July 1990 to build the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin via the northern route over Wolfsburg ( instead of the alternative Südtrasse via Magdeburg and Potsdam) a connection between the stations Wolfsburg and Braunschweig was necessary. It also has a diagonal line between Oebisfelde and Brunswick was considered but rejected in favor of the city of Wolfsburg due to ecological arguments.

The track was included as a section of the rail line wages -Braunschweig- Wolfsburg in 1992 as urgent requirement in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan. Also in the Federal Railway Infrastructure Development Act of 1993, the project found its way. In the summer of 1993, the regional planning process was completed towards the end of the same year the plan approval procedures were initiated.

The southern, about 12 km long section between Weddel and Great Brunsrode ( in theory ) was rebuilt; section to Faller life which built in the 1940s track for 160 km / h was expanded and electrified.

Remained unclear for a long time the question of funding. In order to be able to finish the route to the planned 1997 start-up of high-speed line between Hanover and Berlin in time and financial savings were explored in order to stress the tight federal budget as little as possible. The Federal Railroad went into an economic appraisal assumes provisionally by the only single-track expansion of the estimated cost (and thus the burden on the budget ) of 300 to 350 by about 50 to 100 million DM to reduce.

In November 1996 the federal government for the expansion of Weddeler loop and the construction of the section wage -Braunschweig- Hildesheim gave funds of 242 million DM free. After completion of all plan approval process 1997, the large-scale construction began.

At this time was not yet assumed an opening before the beginning of 1999, several months after the opening of the high-speed line between Hanover and Berlin. In May 1998, the remodeled branch Weddel was put into operation. Per Board Resolution of the Deutsche Bahn a completion had been provided with the new line in September 1998 from May. In the remaining four months, around the clock, built on seven days a week, in three-shift system. With crucial for this acceleration were foreseeable bottlenecks in the node Hannover, the running every hour in both directions trains between Frankfurt am Main and Berlin about the capital of Lower Saxony would have gone ( with change of direction ). Addition was through the leadership of the trains on the loop Weddeler a shorter journey times by about 40 minutes compared to the previous schedule ( via Magdeburg ) expected. The time advantage over the longer route via Hanover ( with change of direction ), however, is only about 10 minutes.

The opening took place on 20 September 1998.

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Volkswagen is committed to a doubling of the track. The Federal Ministry of Transport will consider such a development, the extent of additional regional services ordered and the company was shifting traffic to rail.

The cost of such expansion are approximately 120 million euros estimated (as of 2014).

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