Bremen – Bremerhaven railway line

Bremen Hbf – Bremerhaven seaport
Route number (DB) :	1740
Course book section (DB) :	125
Route length:	69.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend Line from Osnabrück , line from Hanover 122.3 Bremen Hbf to Oldenburg Route to Hamburg Bremen Hgbf 125.3 Bremen-Walle Bremen Rbf 130.1 Bremen-Oslebshausen to Bremen Inlandshafen / Bremen Stahlwerke A 281 Lesum 133.6 Bremen Castle to Bremen-Vegesack A 27 138.2 Ritterhude 143.4 Osterholz-Scharmbeck to Stade marriage. military. Siding of Garlstedt (dismantled) 150.3 Oldenbüttel to Hambergen marriage. local military connection (dismantled) 157.2 Luebberstedt 164.2 Stubben ( Beverstedt train station ) Lune 169.4 Lunestedt 176.3 Loxstedt A 27 pipe Wulsdorf Klbf of the Niederweserbahn from Farge from Hamburg 181.1 Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf to the fishing port Showcase fishing port 184.3 Bremerhaven Hbf from 1914 Geestemünde Personenbf until 1914, later goods station until 1921: overseas ports after Lehe (1896–1914) Geeste 187.8 Bremerhaven-Lehe Pbf Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel 190.7 to Bad Bederkesa to Cuxhaven 191.9 Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel ( Rbf ) 194.2 Bremerhaven seaport Bremerhaven Seaport Columbusbahnhof Railway station part of Bremerhaven Seaport Swell:

The Bremen – Bremerhaven railway line was opened in 1862 as a continuous double-track main line of the Deutsche Bahn that has been electrified since 1966 and connects the two cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven . It is part of the 172.8 km long Wunstorf – Bremerhaven seaport DB border ( route number 1740). It is approved for speeds of up to 160 km / h.

service

The line was integrated into the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn until 2001. Various long-distance trains ran on it - from F-Zug, D, IR and IC trains to the ICE. An ICE from Bremerhaven to Munich or IR trains between Cuxhaven and Luxembourg or Saarbrücken are the more recent examples.

The most important intermediate station is Osterholz-Scharmbeck , where the Regional Express trains also stop. The RE of the Bremerhaven  - Bremen  - Osnabrück and Bremerhaven - Bremen - Hanover lines each run every two hours and together result in an hourly express offer on the route. Until 2010 there was an hourly regional train line between Bremen Hbf and Bremerhaven-Lehe. DB Regio Nord used class 110 locomotives here together with n-wagons . As part of a Europe-wide tender, the NordWestBahn has been awarded the contract to operate the regional S-Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony . Since December 2010 the RS 2 line has been running every hour between Bremerhaven-Lehe and Twistringen , since mid-December 2011 the RS1 line has been running every half hour on the section between Bremen Hauptbahnhof and Bremen-Burg, and every quarter of an hour during rush hour. Electric multiple units of the Coradia Continental type are used .

In addition, there is extensive freight traffic, which consists in particular of the transport of containers and cars, to and from the Bremerhaven seaports. More about the railways in Bremerhaven and its ports in a separate article.

From the timetable change in December 2021, the route is to be served by long-distance traffic again. An intercity train pair is to connect Bremerhaven and Cologne via Bremen and also stop in Osterholz-Scharmbeck.

Naming

In historical sources, the route is also known as the "Geestebahn" (after the Geeste river where it ended). However, this name is not clear because the Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway line (west of Bremervörde ) is also called this.

history

The route was a hard-fought compromise between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Around 1850 Bremen requested a short connection from Vegesack and Blumenthal to the Weser estuary. In particular, the wealthy villages of the Osterstader Marsch should be developed. Hanover, on the other hand, preferred a route via Lesum , Scharmbeck and Beverstedt . In Beverstedt, for example, a branch in the direction of Hamburg would have been made possible so that Hanoverian Geestemünde could be used as a winter port for Hamburg. As a compromise, Bremen proposed today's Federal Highway 6 , built between 1817 and 1839, as a rough route. Ultimately, the two countries agreed "in the middle," so that the railway line runs at Stubben and Loxstedt .

The end point of the route was the Geestemünder train station . The port of Bremerhaven (and initially also the Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway line in 1896 ) was connected via a branch line branching off shortly before it. It was not until 1914 that today's route was created via today's main train station , then Geestemünde train station. The line has been electrified throughout since 1966.

See also : Railway in Bremerhaven

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literature

• Hans Heinrich Seedorf: The district of Wesermünde . Walter Dorn Verlag , Bremen 1968
• Walter Bollen, Bahnhof am Meer: The railway on the Lower Weser . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2006, ISBN 978-389757-343-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Bahn plans IC connection for Bremerhaven from 2021. Accessed on August 25, 2020 .