Lehrte–Nordstemmen railway

The railway - Taught Nordstemmen is a continuous two-track and provided with catenary main rail line in Lower Saxony. It connects the railway junction Taught with the Hildesheim main station and the North Station chiselling at the Hanoverian Southern Railway.

History

The connection Taught -Hildesheim was planned as a southern branch of the " cross train " along with the railroad tracks Hannover- Braunschweig - Celle and Taught by the Hanoverian State Railways and opened on July 12, 1846. The hitherto insignificant Taught became a railway junction, since the then King Ernst August I was skeptical about the transport and no major railways wished at his residence.

Under his son, George V changed this attitude. 1853 Hanoverian Southern Railway Hanover was opened to Alfeld (Leine), which begins directly in the capital and a few miles away is parallel to the cross rail. Hildesheim received a link to Southern Railway (opened September 15, 1853 ), which connects to the Southern Railways in Nordstemmen station. This original single-track line was double-tracked in 1875 expanded by Hannover - Altenbekener Railway Company to continue its leading west rail line Elze wages east across Hildesheim to Vienenburg.

After the Southern Railway was extended until 1856 to Kassel, transport of Harburg about Celle, Hildesheim Taught and further via Kassel to Frankfurt was now possible. This path took mainly freight trains, passenger made ​​a detour through Hanover. In Nordstemmen this traffic met those of Bremen and Hanover. Only with the completion of the freight bypass railway Hanover (1909 ) were two equivalent ways of Taught to the south.

Along the route Taught -Hildesheim the industry evolved in several wells potash was promoted.

The electrical equipment was recorded on the track Nordstemmen - Taught on May 29, 1965.

Realignment in Taught

The historical route of the left Taught station just behind the platforms directly, southern leadership. Thus, the place was cut, also handicapped by the level crossing in Station Taught north-south and east-west traffic.

Therefore, the Hildesheimer route received before the construction of the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin between Taught and Sehnde 1990 to about two kilometers long, parallel to the track direction Braunschweig running unloading, to the east, an overpass over this and now meets after a big curve back to their old railway towards Hildesheim.

In the further expansion of the node Taught the connections from the east and south were redesigned crossover-free by 2008. The passenger trains coming from Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Hildesheim were on the southwest side, which focuses freight trains on the Northeast side of the station, only the S-Bahn and still run in the direction of Celle and Hildesheim on the northeast side.

Course

The course was originally nearly straight line between Taught and Hildesheim. Since the early 1990s, she leaves Taught in conjunction with the Hanover-Brunswick railway line in an easterly direction. She makes a curve of almost 180 ° to the west and south of hits Taught back to the old route.

Now it goes in a southerly direction through largely flat terrain on Sehnde, Algermissen and Harsum to Hildesheim and there from the East to the Central Station.

From there, the route runs straight west to Nordstemmen. Since 1991 she has crossed the high-speed line Hannover -Würzburg, to which it is connected via the Hildesheimer loop south. At the end of the track there since 1893, a single-track line curve to the north, the threading in the Southern Railways in Barnten station.

Current situation

Today the route is primarily for the carriage of goods and passenger transport.

Since 14 December 2008, the S -Bahn line S3 run (Hannover ) Taught -Hildesheim and the S -Bahn line S4 ( Bennemühlen -Hannover ) Barnten -Hildesheim every hour instead of the previous regional railways. This also intermediate stations were rebuilt. The regional express trains towards the Harz On the route Barnten (at the Hanoverian Southern Railway ) Hildesheim added. On the route Nordstemmen -Hildesheim run hourly trains Nordwestbahn. With the still coming to long-distance trains from the Hildesheim loop of this part of the track is tight occupied.