List of railway routes in Saxony-Anhalt

The state of Saxony- Anhalt has in rail traffic through a nationwide clock schedule with area-wide symmetric connections.

  • 5.1 network card

Routes with the scheduled passenger

From west to east the main rail route from Hannover Magdeburg proceeding according to Berlin. Of this there are compounds of the distances over Haldensleben - Oebisfelde to Wolfsburg and Halberstadt in the resin and to Dessau. From south to north, the main route of Naumburg runs over Halle ( Saale) - Magdeburg Stendal more about Salzwedel to Uelzen and to Wittenberg. Other main routes run from Hildesheim Ilsenburg - Wernigerode - Halberstadt - Aschersleben to Halle (Saale ) - Leipzig. In addition, currently come some different branch lines and the narrow-gauge railways in and around the resin.

The appointment of public transport is responsible in Saxony-Anhalt the state-owned NASA. Due to the continued decline in population density in rural areas, many routes have been decommissioned and replaced by regional bus services. Private railway companies have taken over some of the lines, partly due to cheaper deals, some routes that should not be operated by the German railway.

Frose - - reactivations already decommissioned routes, there were only few, so a section of the former line Quedlinburg was Aschersleben through the Harz narrow gauge railways of Gernrode up to Quedlinburg umgespurt so that the Selketalbahn is now also linked to Quedlinburg. Here, the old roadbed in the area was Gernrode - Quedlinburg used again and reactivated all intermediate stops.

Line overview

As of December 15, 2013

Long-distance traffic

Regional Transport

Railway transport companies

  • Dessauer traffic and railway company, Dessau
  • Elbe Saale railway, Magdeburg
  • Erfurt railway, Erfurt
  • Veolia Transport Saxony- Anhalt, Halberstadt
  • Harz narrow gauge railway, Wernigerode
  • Mansfeld mining railway, Benndorf
  • Veolia Transport Regio East, Leipzig
  • DB Regio
  • DB long-distance transport
  • DB AutoZug
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