America Line

America Line is the unofficial name of a railway line with today predominantly regional importance in northern Germany. It runs east-west and connects Stendal in Saxony -Anhalt with the Hanseatic city of Bremen. It combines the larger towns Salzwedel, Uelzen and Soltau each other.

History

The American Line was built as the centerpiece of a direct connection of Magdeburg and Berlin especially with the North Sea ports. Your colloquial name from the link because many emigrants from the eastern parts of the German Reich went to her to Bremerhaven, where there was at the Columbus port of emigrant ships to America. In the opposite direction, many laden with fresh fish freight trains from Bremerhaven drove into the capital. As Kaiser Wilhelm II occasionally drove this route from Berlin to the naval bases on the North Sea, sometimes also of the Emperor line of the speech. On the America line went single speed trains in the relations Berlin- Wilhelmshaven and Berlin- north dike. The section between Long -tailed and Uelzen was built as the Bremen State Railway, the section between Stendal and Uelzen put on the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway Company, the operation also performed up to their absorption into the Prussian state railways on the western branch.

Today's conditions

The importance of the route 1960 (KBS 116 - America line) rises again today. This is due to the new deep water port JadeWeserPort and on the other by ever-growing quantities of goods of the Bremen ports for which this route is a direct connection towards the east / southeast. For this reason, DB Netz AG will lock completely in the second half of 2012, up to now neglected in the maintenance of the western part between long -tailed and Uelzen and perform extensive remedial measures, including 36 km of track renewed. However, an electrification of this section is not yet in sight.

The eastern part of America line will also still shares of freight transport activity of the Hamburg harbor towards the east / southeast and serves as a detour route for the highway Hamburg- Berlin. Here we therefore considering the construction of a second track on the single-track electrified line ( Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan ). On March 13, 2013 America Line became known on an info event of the citizens' initiative, which is to be installed a second track between Hohenwulsch and Brunaupark - Packebusch from 2014 and taken to the timetable change in 2015.

The entire route is also used by regional trains in passenger transport: Bremen - Uelzen ( initially until 2019) by Erixx - The Heath Sprinter railcars of series 0648 ( LINT 41) from the vehicle pool LNVG and Uelzen -Stendal than RE 20 and Salzwedel - Stendal RB 29

Operation

The Lower Saxony Uelzen on the railway line between Hamburg, Hanover is the geographical center of " American Line " is where the track developmentally, operationally and scheduled technically in the now electrified and upgraded railway line Stendal - Uelzen and the largely non - electrified railway Uelzen - long fronds (short " Uelzen railway" ) is divided.

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