Frose–Quedlinburg railway

The railway line Frose - Quedlinburg, popularly referred to as the Balkans, was a standard gauge branch line at the northern edge of the Harz in Saxony- Anhalt. The route led from Frose about Gernrode to Quedlinburg. She was decommissioned in 2004. The section Gernrode - Quedlinburg was then rebuilt by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways on meter gauge. Since 26 June 2006, the route is as part of the Selketalbahn again.

• 3.1 Bad Suderode
• 3.2 Quedlinburg Quarmbeck
• 3.3 Quedlinburg

History

Background and construction

On 28 July 1864, the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway Company ( MHE ) received from the Duchy of Anhalt approval to purchase the Cöthen - Bernburg railway and the concession to build, the Halberstadt - Aschersleben -Bernburg - hall. Part of the concession was the requirement to build a branch line from Frose to Ballenstedt the summer residence of the Dukes of Anhalt.

In 1865 work began on the route from Frose to Ballenstedt, but these were soon delayed due to the 1866 war erupted Germans between Prussia and Austria. On January 7, 1868, the route Frose - Ballenstedt is (later Ballenstedt West ) Palace inaugurated.

1878, the route was graded to the secondary path. On 1 July 1885, the extension to Quedlinburg was put into operation. The construction of the route a few years ago held plans for railway development of the eastern Harz could already be realized. 1887, the narrow gauge Selketalbahn was put into operation, which followed in Gernrode to the standard gauge line from Frose. There was not a dolly or trolley traffic on the narrow gauge railway because of the tight curve radii possible, the goods in Gernrode had to be reloaded.

After the Second World War

1951 the route Frose - Quedlinburg was affected by the measures for the recovery of upper materials for the Berlin outer ring. In addition to the dismantling of sidings the design were S33 instead of the existing rail design S49 weaker installed, among other things, it came from the partially disused Windbergbahn in Saxony. As a result, the permissible axle loads and the line speed had to be reduced, leading to longer driving time.

The freight was set in sections. Between Gernrode and Frose drove since January 1, 1998, no more freight train between Quedlinburg and Gernrode since 10 June 2001. The track is frequented by 2003 in the regular rail passenger transport. The annual schedule in 2003 and among the KBS - 332 Quedlinburg Gernrode - Aschersleben of eight pairs of trains daily circulating in the relation Quedlinburg - Aschersleben. Because of the route, these trains had to change in Frose the direction of travel. Other trains compacted weekdays the offer between Quedlinburg and Ballenstedt East to a hour.

On 28 June 2003, the interlocking Ballenstedt East was heavily damaged by arson. Attempts to repair have not been undertaken by the German Bahn AG, corresponding rejected requests from the counties. Instead, the rail replacement bus service between Ermsleben and Gernrode was maintained. At the same time, preparations began for the decommissioning of this route. After the operation between Aschersleben and Ermsleben was terminated on 13 December 2003, drove the last train between Gernrode and Quedlinburg on 31 January 2004. The traffic on the railway line between Quedlinburg and Aschersleben was formally canceled on 31 December 2004 by the country after the parallel bus services had since been expanded.

On 15 June 2004, the Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the section Frose - Gernrode, it was completed legally on 31 July 2004. At some level crossings ( including on the L85, at the Rose Castle and most recently in June 2012 in Ballenstedt and Ermsleben ) are already separated out the rails and the transition was paved.

Reconstruction of the leg Quedlinburg Gernrode

Already since 1990 had plans and documents to a three -rail track between Gernrode and Quedlinburg, but the long failed due to the lack of financial support from the Land and the German Bahn AG. After the Harz narrow gauge railways bought the stretch and lined up its own financing for the conversion of meter gauge and the renovation of all level crossings, also promoted the state of Saxony -Anhalt the project with a total of 6.5 million euros. On 18 April 2005, the construction began.

On 17 February 2006, the converted route of the railway supervisory authority of Saxony-Anhalt was released. It was opened on March 4, 2006 with a ceremony with special trains. Since different residual work still had to be carried, upside until the start of scheduled passenger traffic on 26 June 2006, only some special trains.

The schedule includes daily from six pairs of trains between Gernrode and Quedlinburg, of which two steam locomotive hauled train pairs are.

Name

The track was popularly the name Balkan, apparently a variant of the term " Balkan Express " sarcastically used.

Operating points

Bad Suderode

To convert the unused since 1927 Verkehrslandeplatz Quarmbeck from 1934 for the German Air Force airbase to the Roman ditch, a three-kilometer long railway siding from Bad Suderode was built. This was just before the breakpoint Quedlinburg Quarmbeck parallel to the route to Quedlinburg before they led in a right-hander to barracks.

Quedlinburg Quarmbeck

The breakpoint, located on the provincial road 239 ( Quedlinburg bath Suderode ) was taken on October 2, 1936 under the name Roman ditch in operation.

Quedlinburg

Quedlinburg Train Station was built in 1863 as a through station. Track 3 had a connection before the conversion to narrow gauge railway in Halberstadt, now allows Umfahrgleis reacting the locomotives. From platform 1 West led from 1908 to 1969 in the so-called passenger Quäke about Thale - Bode Valley to Blankenburg (Harz ).