Visselhövede station

• Uelzen railway - long fronds (116 )
• Bremervörde - Visselhoevede Walsrode ( dismantled )

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The Visselhoevede railway station is on the railway line Uelzen - long fronds in Lower Saxony. He is in the passenger regional rail of Erixx GmbH every two hours, served in the freight of the OHE. It belongs to the category Railway Station 6

• 2.1 Reception Building and environment
• 2.2 Platforms
• 2.3 Other systems

• 3.1 1873-1945
• 3.2 1945-1987
• 3.3 1987 to today
• 3.4 Technical reconstruction ( 2009)

Location

The Visselhoevede station is located about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the city center, on the regional road 171 in the direction of Verden ( Aller), in east -west orientation. Due to the neutral position ounces station as total distance are rather weak frequented.

Transport links

Outside the station there is the bus stop Visselhoevede station, which of the Weser -Ems Bus GmbH in regular service to Rotenburg (Wümme ) and by the local citizens bus (city traffic) is approached.

Plant

Reception building and environment

The station had a comparatively large reception building on the north side of the station facility that is no longer open to the public today in the possession of the German Red Cross and. Directly east of the building is via a small staircase access to the main platform. Here is also a ticket machine. Immediately to the west of the building would be a barrier-free accessibility to the main platform, but because of many, deep potholes located in a very bad state, whereby a wheelchair access is not possible. Prior to the reception building a small car park in the form of a paved, potholed place without parking space markings and a covered bike shed to be kept.

The train station is not accessible for expanded until today, the station environment as a whole is in a need of renovation.

Platforms

In addition to the main platform ( platform 1) the Visselhoevede station has another platform (track 2 ). This is accessed via a non- barrier-free underpass, which dates back to times with a higher volume of traffic. Earlier in this behind yet another, from the second platform accessible by pedestrian crossing, third platform. Today only the main platform, as well as, for a morning Train meeting, the island platform can be used.

Other systems

After extensive dismantling of the former goods station and sidings exist besides the two platform tracks still a private loading track and a siding. To the east of the station is a railway crossing. Around two kilometers to the east branches of direction Soltau from a loading track to the north in an industrial area, which, from Visselhoevede Station, but this is not directly passable.

History

1873-1945

The Visselhoevede station was originally opened as part of the construction of America line through the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway in 1873 as an express train station, which is still acknowledges the long platform edges. Today, a fraction of the originally available platform lengths will only be actually used. Since 1900, held in Visselhoevede no more express trains. 1890 a branch off to the southeast connection was opened to Walsrode, 1906 was a connection via Brockel added to Rotenburg, who left the station in the south-west, and then head north and pass under the America line under an underpass. Visselhoevede developed in this way to a regional rail hub, the railway station has been extended to the railway underpass and a turntable.

1945-1987

After the Second World War waned the importance of America line with the division of Germany. From then on until today presented occasional passengers commuting to and from Bremen as well as soldiers of the local garrison the majority of the passengers. In 1958 the connection to Rotenburg and 1980 that shut down to Walsrode. Both are mined today ( See also: Railway Bremervörde Walsrode ). By 1987, the western part of America line was dismantled by a partially double-track main railway on a continuous single-track branch line.

1987 to today

During this time, a massive dismantling of the previously large-scale railway systems of Visselhöveder station began. Since several smaller breakpoints had been closed in the area of the station Visselhoevede, this is the only station is now in a larger, more rural and sparsely populated area, which extends from the western Lüneburg Heath to Lintelner Geest and adjacent to the southern part of the district of Rotenburg also the extreme east of the district of Verden includes ( parts of the community Kirchlinteln ). By now great length of the block section after long fronds had to be installed 71 on the existing bare wire transmission line in this direction carrier frequency block. The freight includes today for an extensive timber transport, on the other hand one in the industrial area east of Visselhoevede -based oil company is supplied with the car. Occasionally goods trains of smaller private railway entrepreneur eg between Wilhelmshaven and targets in central Germany and Berlin.

Technical reconstruction ( 2009)

In early 2009 the renovation of the technical infrastructure was completed. In addition to the overdue since the 1990s to correct deficiencies of the route track ( VzG-Nr. 1960), the station received an automatic train detection system and H / V- light signals. One of the two signal boxes could be closed down. The Dispatcher (interlocking Vf) now has its headquarters in the former course Caretakers interlocking Vo. The manually operated level crossing and the semaphore signals at the eastern station exit had to be preserved, as the Federal Railway Authority (EBA ) had approved a complete reconstruction of the station only with the latest technology ( CBI ). To this end, there were no funds available. A relay interlocking of Siemens Dr S2 series from the 1950s, was installed next to the interlocking building Vf in containers. It replaces the previous mechanical dispatcher interlocking Vwf in the western area of ​​the station.

The conversion represents an enforced by the licensing authority EBA emergency solution of urgent security issues, and serves the preliminary livelihood security of the railway line. The Federal Railway Authority had the Deutsche Bahn AG repeatedly threatened in recent years to prohibit the operation on the track long - tailed Soltau due to the ailing infrastructure completely.

Present and future

The OHE had 2009 in collaboration with the Municipality Visselhoevede, the forest Consulting GmbH and Warengenossenschaft Heidesand eG expanded the station for timber transportation. In addition to the interlocking Vf a transmission system for the digital railway GSM -R was built. There were repeated considerations to shift to a receipt of the passenger traffic on the line America 's current passenger station downtown closer to the east.

Early 2013, is the former station building for sale.