Aller Valley Railway
The Allertalbahn was a railway line with regional significance in Lower Saxony. It ran along the river Aller, joining Gifhorn about Celle, Schwarmstedt, Rethem (Aller) and Wahnebergen with Verden ( Aller).
Course
The Celle railway reached and left the track in a southerly direction, so that through trains had to change their direction of travel there. Thus the Allertalbahn was divided into two branches without continuous passenger traffic, which is also reflected in the fact that the eastern part of the route number Gifhorn 1724 the western part after Wahnebergen was assigned the number 1721. In Celle passed transition options to the Osthannoverschen railways, the railway route between Hanover and Hamburg, the railway line Celle- Brunswick and to cross train Celle- Taught.
History
According to the plan by Taylor Vignoles the first railroad from Hanover should lead by Allertal to Bremen. But here already sat down to 1847 today's route on Nienburg through. Subsequent plans to build a route from Magdeburg to Bremen by the Allertal existed since 1866. However, it went only in the 1890s to the concrete implementation. The western section of Verden Wahnebergen and Schwarmstedt to Celle opened in 1903-1905, the eastern section from Celle to Gifhorn followed in 1913.
In Oldau station a siding to the east -chain for potash unity II ( Prince Adalbert ) in Ovelgönne from, the mine existed from 1905 until 1925.
In Südwinsen station chain in the western area from a connecting track to the potash plant Steinförde, the potash plant in Wietze - Steinförde was operated from 1907 to 1923. To the north, a Anschlussgeleis branched off to the nearby Hartsteinwerk. On the was, inter alia, Lime is transported for the production. Over the period of decommissioning is not yet known.
During the construction of the main air ammunition depot I / XI Hambuhren 1939, a railway siding for transport of raw materials and the finished ammunition has been created. There threaded from the route from south- eastern direction and proceeded in a tight arc to the west. It was scaled back after 1945.
As part of the Berlin Airlift was in Wietzenbruch a branch to the former Royal Air Force Station Celle, today's Army Airfield Celle created in 1948.
In the late 1950s it came regularly to midday train crossings in Schwarmstedt. Four steam locomotive hauled trains met at the station and allowed switching from all directions in all directions. These had to be operated numerous turnouts, signals and level crossings in no time. Baggage, mail and express delivery bag were handled.
The setting of the passenger traffic on the western section was made on September 25, 1966, the freight Wietzenbruch to Schwarmstedt on 31 January 1985. Between Rethem and Ahlden the freight went until 31 January 1981 between Ahlden and Gilten to 31 December 1988th of Verden for the wrong goods trains until 28 May 1994 or until Rethem, and Schwarmstedt after Gilten until 31 December 1993. Much of the route were completely degraded after the final closure in 1995. Between Ahlden (Aller) and Dörverden -west of the railway embankment has been converted into a cycle path, which is partly a section of the Aller- cycle path.
In the eastern section of the passenger traffic on 27 September 1981 set. Same time, the transport of goods between chamois - Kästorf and weary - Dieckhorst was adjusted. The freight of Gifhorn city to chamois - Kästorf still up to March 1, 1983 was possible between Celle and weary - Dieckhorst until May 22, 1993, and last, this section was operated as a station track. The eastern section has now been dismantled to a large extent.
The section from Celle train station to the military airfield in Wietzenbruch was until 2005, from 1998, driven by the Osthannoversche railways. The until then existing route from Celle railway station to the Airlift Memorial in Wietzenbruch and from there take a hairpin turn in the direction of the airfield was built back in 2007. The tracks on nationwide private are currently, but have no connection to the public rail network.