Oder Valley Railway

The railway line Scharzfeld -St. Andreas Berg ( also known as Or Valley Railway ) was a single-track, non-electrified railway from Scharzfeld about Bad Lauterberg to St. Andreas Berg- Silberhütte. The name derives from the river Oder, which followed largely degraded to 2007 in several stages route.

History

The line was opened to Bad Lauterberg on July 10, 1884, extended to the former endpoint St. Andrew Berg on November 1, 1884. To this better connect with the center, there were 1913 to 1959 St. Andrew Berger little train, a train from St. Andrew Mountain West up to St. Andreas mountain town. She had two of his own gear - steam locomotives, two mountain railway passenger cars and took over in Silberhütte freight cars right up to the town's train station. There were also plans of the Prussian chief engineer Georg Fichtner from Berlin to extend the railway line to Bad Harzburg. This project was no longer running.

The traffic was early converted to railcars. In 1963, perverted weekdays ten pairs of trains, Sunday night, adding one Hasten railcars Bad Lauterberg Göttingen. In the 1980s there was even a fast train Bielefeld -Bad Lauterberg Odertal. As vehicles were on the Uerdinger rail buses railcars of series 515, 628 and 624 in use.

As part of the general that started in the 1970s branch line the route dying gradually lost its passenger service.

  • September 27, 1975: Odertal - Silberhütte
  • June 3, 1984: Bad Lauterberg Odertal
  • December 12, 2004: Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg
  • September 27, 1975: Odertal -St. Andreas Berg
  • June 1, 1984: Bad Lauterberg Odertal
  • December 31, 2001 Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg
  • End of 1976: Odertal -St. Andreas Mountain West
  • November / December 1984: Bad Lauterberg - Oder Valley
  • November 2007: Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg

On the remaining distance Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg the last run with railcar DB Class 614 passenger Herzberg Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg was set on 12 December 2004; then the Scharzfeld station was replaced by a new breakpoint Bad Lauterberg Barbis in the South Harz route the timetable change on December 11, 2005. This breakpoint with which Bad Lauterberg had another passenger traffic stop, however, is about 4 km west of the city center in the district Barbis.

The track, which was dismantled north of Bad Lauterberg for some time and was just south again in 2006 used for the parking of freight cars in Bad Loud Mountain, was dismantled in November 2007 final means of two-way excavator. The at this time parked in Bad Lauterberg freight cars were scrapped on the spot. Owner of the section Scharzfeld bath Lauterberg was last private Westfälische Almetalbahn, from their perspective, a further operation was not economically maintained, however, there were several million euros in the track superstructure and the safety technology of level crossings for a further operation must be invested.

Route

The route has its starting point in since 2005 no longer in passenger staffed station Scharzfeld, in the northern part of the train station. The Scharzfeld station is on the main route from Northeim to Nordhausen, the standard gauge Suedharz route. From Scharzfeld from the route over the past in an incision breakpoint customs first reached the bathroom Lauterberger station, which in addition to some sidings also owned several sidings and a loading dock. Then, the route crossed the narrow- Barytbahn and ran right through the town along the Oder, until they reached the center near breakpoint Bad Loud Mountain park, and ran transversely through the park. This was followed by the stations Oder Valley Sperrluttertal and St. Andrew Mountain West (Silver Hut), there existed following the standard gauge of St. Andrew Kleinbahn.

Today's state

The trackless embankment is still preserved today completely outside the cultivations Bad Loud Mountain, even with gravel. Between Silberhütte and Odertal you can walk on it. Between Oder Valley and park on the largest part of the route as a pedestrian and cycle. Only between Bad Loud and Bad Lauterberg Kurpark the former route was almost entirely built over. Also, on some level crossings still the old track bed to detect. In addition, the station building and platforms of the stations Scharzfeld, Bad Loud, Bad Loud mountain spa park and Odertal are still fully available. The old timbered style station building Bad Lauterberg originally stood in Hildesheim, where it was inaugurated on 12 July 1846. When the city of Hildesheim needed after a few decades, a major railway station, it was at the beginning of the 1880s removed piece by piece and rebuilt in Bad Lauterberg again and put into operation. While the station Bad Loud Mountain is now used as a restaurant, there are two other privately owned: Kurpark is a café and Odertal a fishing club. St. Andrew Mountain West no longer exists.

Along the entire route now runs the bus line 450 RBB, tied up by Herzberg, where connection is made to the trains. Between Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg the bus runs every hour, on to St. Andrew mountain town only every two hours.

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