Beckedorf–Munster railway

The standard gauge railway line Beckedorf -Munster is located in Lower Saxony and heard the Osthannoverschen Railways AG.

History

The railway line was built by the local railway Celle- Soltau, Celle -Munster GmbH. It was meant as a branch line of the railway line Celle- Soltau, which was launched in 1902 to Bergen. On April 23, 1910 the extension of mountains to Soltau and also the opening of the line of Beckedorf to Munster took place.

In the beginning she was a rural development track.

As part of the upgrade several ports were created to military camps ( Poitzen, Munster). The traffic thus grew strong. Since 1940, the railway was no longer treated as a narrow-gauge railway, but as a railway public transport; which expressed itself in the new company Railway Celle- Soltau, Celle -Munster from.

Traffic

Passenger traffic rose steadily at first, the branch line was significantly involved in the traffic figures for the route Celle- Soltau. Through military transports the numbers in the First and Second World Wars increased significantly. At least three to four pairs of trains daily between Celle and Munster wrong, plus there were additional trains between Beckedorf and Munster, who had in Beckedorf connection to Celle. Lastly, there were mostly railcars, some with sidecars, who took over the market. Effective May 31, 1965, the Munster rail train station was hit and shut down the OHE station in the sequence. Instead of trains and buses were used from 1967 partially. In the 1970s, passenger services were set: On May 30, 1970 between Hermannsburg and Munster, and on May 31, 1976, the remaining traffic between Beckedorf ( Celle) and Hermannsburg.

In freight transport, mainly agricultural products were transported and timber removal played a role. In addition, the military traffic to the different ports of the military facilities was significant. Even after the Second World War or military installations were added to several stations Panzerverladerampen were built. A special role was to train during the Berlin Blockade in 1948/49, the airfield Fassberg was one of the places in the airlift. Daily had large quantities of goods to be transported to the airport, including coal trains.

Today, freight transport is carried out only still needed, however, there are political considerations to reactivate the passenger.