Nordhausen–Erfurt railway

The railway line Wolkramshausen -Erfurt is a single-track main line in Thuringia, which was originally built and operated by the Nordhausen - Erfurt railway company. It branches into Wolkramshausen from the railway hall - Hann. Munden and performs on special Hausen and Straußfurt to Erfurt.

History

The construction of the Nordhausen - Erfurt railway ( NEE ) was controlled between Prussia and the Principality of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen in a contract of 21 December 1866. The company was founded in 1866 even with the help of investments and guarantees of the Government of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen well as neighboring counties and cities received from Prussia on 24 April 1867 by Black -Sonderhausen on 17 June 1867, the concessions. The aim of the railway construction was to create a connection between the two then Prussian towns Nordhausen and Erfurt in the province of Saxony, and thus to bring both of the rule, the northern part of the Principality of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen, the first railway connection.

The track was built by a Consortium of companies Plessner, Schultze & Steinfeld from Berlin and opened on August 17, 1869. She used from Nordhausen to Wolkramshausen eight miles down the route of the Halle- Kassel railway direction Eichenberg -Kassel, though on a purpose built second track, reached the residence of Special Hausen and crossed further south the ridge of the Hainleite and led over Greußen and Straußfurt in today's state capital Erfurt, where it ended in the Thuringian Railway station. On the line later branched off a series of random and connecting tracks. In special Hausen in 1898 on a 20 kilometer route to Bad Frankenhausen. From Hohenebra (1883 ) and Greußen ( 1901) led the Bachstein tracks by Ebeleben and Keula. From Straußfurt still led a connections to Ballstädt and Kühnhausen after Langensalza.

As part of the nationalization of the private railways in Prussia and after the earnings in the face of growing competition from other tracks are no longer in line with expectations, the Company entered into a on an offer to purchase the Prussian state and gave him the title to the car to January 1, 1887. Society sparked on; of railway operations was placed under the railway department in Frankfurt am Main, soon, however, the Directorate Erfurt.

Planning

In 2009 the plans for the upgrading of the Nordhausen -Erfurt began for a maximum line speed of 120 km / h The aim here is to reduce the travel time to less than an hour and make connections to the ICE railway line to the south. In Kühnhausen the technical conditions for the coupling of railcars from Bad Langensalza be created. By the end of 2013, the first section Wolkramshausen -Sondershausen to be completed.

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