Brunswick Southern Railway
The Brunswick Southern Railway was built by the Ducal Brunswick State Railway as connect their railway Brunswick- Bad Harzburg with the Hanoverian Southern Railway. You through the northwestern Harz foothills of Börßum about Salzgitter, Ringelsheim and Seesen Kreiensen.
In 1956, with the railway line Braunschweig- Salzgitter Bad created a shorter connection to Braunschweig and tied with this route for railway Brunswick- Kreiensen.
Traffic
Today it serves mainly to regional traffic next prevails weak freight. In 2011 timetable will of the regional railways Brunswick- Seesen - Herzberg am Harz hourly traveled with Train meeting at the usual symmetry minutes just before the half hour in Salzgitter Ringelsheim. The regional trains Bad Harzburg Seesen Kreiensen run every two hours ( with compressors in the HVZ ). There Lint railcar (Series 648) are normally used, which were prepared at Alstom in Salzgitter. The route is part of Brunswick collectively to Seesen to Verbundtarif Region Braunschweig and Seesen to Kreiensen about local public transport Südniedersachsen.
History
Already in braunschweigisch Hanoverian State Treaty of 1837, which regulated the construction of the railway Brunswick- Bad Harzburg, a basic agreement had been reached that the two countries strive together about a Südanbindung. It was not until 15 years later was followed by another contract. This allowed Brunswick to build the Hanoverian Southern Railway on the Brunswick Kreiensen. In turn, allowed Hanover, a railway line from Börßum ( braunschweigisch ) about Ringelsheim ( Hanoverian ) to Seesen ( braunschweigisch ) to build. From there, a building on Harriehausen (again Hanoverian ) was agreed to Kreiensen where both lines were connected. The route was opened on August 5, 1856, only three months earlier was the Hanoverian line to Kassel passable.
The track also performed well in 1865 the railway line Kreiensen - Altenbeken was taken as western union the Ruhr area in operation. 1868 was followed by the connection of Börßum after Jerxheim at the former rail link Braunschweig -Wolfenbüttel - Jerxheim - Oschersleben Magdeburg. For this connection had become an important east -west route, with traffic in the direction of Göttingen, Frankfurt was stronger than in the direction of dysentery. The 1878 connected railway Herzberg Seesen however, did not meet expectations.
After the division of Germany, the traffic changed. All railway lines between Helmstedt ( railway Brunswick- Magdeburg ) and Walk Ried ( Suedharz route) crossing the inner German border, were interrupted, and the tapering on Jerxheim compounds of Magdeburg Eilsleben and Oschersleben. For Searched for accessibility in the room Salzgitter. 1956 a direct connection from Salzgitter-Bad to Brunswick was opened by a gap circuit to Salzgitter Drütte, by Leif earth after Drütte existed since the early 1940s, the neutral ized railway Brunswick- Derneburg.
The railway track is not electrified and now single track of Salzgitter Drütte to Neuekrug - Hahausen. It belongs to the " Harz -Weser- network " and you want to program in the future from a ESTW in Göttingen.
On January 20, 2010, there was in Brunswick- Rüningen an accident. Against 07:40 clock bounced the regional train 14955 from Salzgitter Lebenstedt to Brunswick in the amount of the level crossing Berkenbusch road to a standing in the track bed truck. The driver of the truck had tried to reach the site of a lying on the railway embankment company and tries for a closed door to take a path through the track bed. However, the car stopped after a short time stuck in the track bed and then collided with the oncoming railcar of the DB - 628 series, the engine driver could not brake in time. Three of the 58 passengers on the train were seriously and 13 others slightly injured.