Brunswick–Bad Harzburg railway

The railway Brunswick- Bad Harzburg is a 47 km long main railway Deutsche Bahn AG in the northern foreland of the Harz.

History

Opened on December 1, 1838 section of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel was the first state railway in Germany, she combined the two most important cities in the former duchy. It was 1841 and Schladen Vienenburg in today's Bad Harzburg (then "New Town" ) extended. The slope-intercept Vienenburg -Bad Harzburg was operated until 1843 as a horse-drawn railway. The route to the resin was the first of several desirable in Brunswick routes that could be enforced against Hannover.

1843 was the connection Wolfenbüttel Jerxheim - Oschersleben be opened, which was a connection to Berlin together with the Magdeburg- Halberstadt railway. After 1844 the railway line Braunschweig -Hannover was put into operation, ran east-west traffic between Berlin and Hanover on Wolfenbüttel, from 1847 ( opening of the railway line between Hanover and Minden ) to the Ruhr. This changed with the completion of the Berlin- Lehrter Railway 1871. 1856 was followed by a connection towards Kassel- Frankfurt with the Brunswick Southern Railway of Börßum Kreiensen.

In 1866 the branch line Vienenburg - Goslar, the first rail connections to the city at that time Hanoverian connected.

1924, the route was north of Vienenburg from the block location Wiedelah relocated in order to connect it to the former marshalling yard Vienenburg. the freight wrong about the new passenger trains over the old route. After 1926, the Okerbrücke had been destroyed on the old route by flooding, even the passenger trains took the road over the new route and drove over the passenger train tracks south of the freight yard to the passenger station.

Operation

The route is now used mostly to regional traffic the rather weak freight transport, which comes mainly from the railway hall - Vienenburg, plays only a minor role. The Roadmap 2011, the route is two hour drive on the regional trains Brunswick- Bad Harzburg and Goslar Braunschweig- so that north of Vienenburg nearly results in a hour. Scheduled diesel railcar class 628 are used. As of December 2014, these two lines of the railway company based in Soltau Erixx with railcars of the type operated Lint 54. On sections of trains relations Braunschweig -Wolfenbüttel - Schoeppenstedt and Hall - Vienenburg -Bad Harzburg Hannover added. The entire route is part of the composite rate Braunschweig region.

The railway track is not electrified and double track north of Vienenburg. It belongs to the " Harz -Weser- network " and you want to program in the future from an electronic signal box in Göttingen.

Pictures

The train station in Wolfenbüttel

Art Nouveau windows in Bad Harzburg Train Station

Station Vienenburg