Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway

The railway line Altenbeken - Kreiensen is part of the former remote connection from the Ruhr area on Altenbeken, Ottbergen, wood Minden, Kreiensen and Seesen towards Berlin. The once consistently double-track railway main line is now operated single track from Ottbergen. You through the Eggegebirge and on the northern edge along the Solling.

The section in North Rhine -Westphalia up to and including wood Minden is also called Eggebahn.

History

The route from Altenbeken after Godelheim was opened on 1 October 1864 and the connection to the Brunswick Southern Railway ( Duchy of Brunswick State Railway ) Wood Minden- Kreiensen Brunswick on October 10, 1865. To stay on the Brunswick area, the city of Einbeck was bypassed with two tunnels and a long slope. Originally, the track was intended to be a remote connection from the Ruhr area to Braunschweig and Berlin. The area east of Ottbergen ( Hoexter ) remained secondary, because it is rich gradient and after unification in 1871 was no longer necessary to connect to bypass the Kingdom of Hanover. The section of Altenbeken to Ottbergen was continued on the Solling Railway and the South Harz route to an important east-west connection to Göttingen, Halle ( Saale) and Leipzig. The track lost by the division of Germany after 1945 over the decades in importance, as the traffic shifted more north-south direction. The most striking building of Eggebahn is the 1631 m long tunnel at Rehberg Altenbeken.

As recently as the 1980s, there was continuous D- trains with coaches, which were separated in Altenbeken and where a car drove towards Hoexter. In the 1990s and through trains were led to Nordhausen in Thuringia about the route Ottbergen. The partly continuous operation Paderborn- wood Minden- Kreiensen ended with the hand-over to the North Western Railway in December 2003. Until then, for the entire route to Kreiensen the course book number 355

The route is double track today Altenbeken to Ottbergen and between urban and Oldendorf Vorwohle. It is since October 2008, remotely controlled by an electronic signal box in Göttingen.

Service offer

The passenger traffic on the route is today divided into Holzminden into two sections.

Paderborn- wood Minden

The " harrow -Bahn " is bound by the hour and on Sundays and holidays every two hours to Bielefeld weekdays in Paderborn on the RB 74 " Senne -Bahn ". The passengers must so do not change in this compound; the railcar merely change their direction of travel.

The rail transport of the North Western Railway, the Talent railcars for speeds is carried out up to 120 km / h uses; the distance allowed east of Altenbeken predominantly 100 km / h The travel speed is 66 km / h

Wood Minden- Kreiensen

The eastern section is frequented mostly every two hours from Deutsche Bahn with LINT railcar. In Kreiensen was following the metronome plays on the Hanoverian Southern Railway to Hanover and by December 2009 to the IC trains to Göttingen. Most railcars crossed the railway line Braunschweig- Kreiensen to Bad Harzburg on. The connection Ottbergen wood Minden- Kreiensen -Bad Harzburg was marketed by Deutsche Bahn in 2005 as "resin Weser Railway".

Paderborn-Ottbergen-Kreiensen/Göttingen

With the timetable change on December 15, 2013 both lines were added to the line RB 84 Paderborn within the OWL - diesel network - combines Kreiensen and adopted by the North Western Railway - Ottbergen. In Ottbergen this line to the RB 85 Ottbergen - are winged Göttingen, so that the passengers can change trains depart from Paderborn directly to Kreiensen or Göttingen, this is due to the structural conditions but is not yet possible. Trains run every hour.

Tariff

For the entire public transport

• In North Rhine-Westphalia regional " high pin - Tariff" ( Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn- Hoexter ) and the NRW - tariff,
• Lower Saxony in the tariff of the transport association southern Lower Saxony.

Freight traffic

The local freight is currently (2012 ) is largely set. The free loading track in town Oldendorf 2012 was again taken on the initiative of the Lower Saxony State Forests in operation to load wood can, which is worn down to three times a week. In addition, at irregular intervals retracts oil train to Brakel to operate a tank farm based there.