Beckedorf – Munster railway line
| Beckedorf – Munster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 9172 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 211h (until 1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 23.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The standard gauge railway line Beckedorf – Munster is located in Lower Saxony and belongs to the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG.
history
The railway line was built by Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster GmbH. It was intended as a branch of the Celle – Soltau railway line , which had opened to Bergen in 1902. On April 23, 1910, it was extended from Bergen to Soltau and at the same time the line from Beckedorf to Munster was opened.
In the beginning it was a rural development railway.
In the course of the upgrade, several connections to military installations were made (Trauen, Faßberg, Munster). The traffic grew as a result. Since 1940, the railway was no longer treated as a small railway, but as a public transport railway; this was expressed in the new company Eisenbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster .
traffic
Passenger traffic increased steadily at first, and the branch line made a significant contribution to the traffic figures for the Celle – Soltau line. Military transports increased the numbers considerably in the First and Second World Wars. At least three to four pairs of trains ran daily between Celle and Munster, plus there were additional trains between Beckedorf and Munster that had a connection to Celle in Beckedorf. Most recently it was mostly railcars, some with sidecars, which took over the traffic. From May 31, 1965, the Munster station of the DB was approached and the OHE station was subsequently shut down. From 1967, buses were sometimes used instead of trains. In the 1970s, passenger traffic was stopped: on May 30, 1970 between Hermannsburg and Munster and on May 31, 1976 the remaining traffic between Beckedorf (Celle) and Hermannsburg.
Agricultural products were predominantly transported in freight traffic, and timber removal also played a role. In addition, the military traffic to the various connections of the military facilities was important. Even after the Second World War, military installations were added, and tank loading ramps were built at several train stations. The railway played a special role during the Berlin blockade in 1948/49; the Faßberg airfield was one of the launch sites for the airlift. Large quantities of goods had to be transported to the airfield every day, including coal trains.
Today, freight traffic is only carried out when required, but there are political considerations to reactivate passenger traffic.
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 10: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, pp. 226-258, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ By train to Bergen? ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cellesche Zeitung, August 7, 2013
