America line

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The Amerikalinie is a west-east railway line through the Lüneburg Heath and the Altmark . It runs from Langwedel (Weser) via Soltau , Uelzen and Salzwedel to Stendal . As in the German Empire , it connects the seaports on the German Bight with Berlin , Central Germany and Silesia . In the Uelzen – Stendal section, it is now primarily an alternative and freight train route from Hamburg to Berlin. The fulcrum of the relation is the Uelzen train station .

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history

American line timetable from 1880

The American line was created as the centerpiece of a direct connection between Magdeburg and especially Berlin with the North Sea ports . The connection got its colloquial name because it was used by many emigrants from the eastern parts of the German Reich , from Russia and other Eastern European countries, via Spandau-Ruhleben (Berlin) to Bremen and Bremerhaven , where at the Lloydhalle and from 1927 on the Columbuskaje was connected to emigrant ships to America . In the opposite direction, many freight trains loaded with fresh fish drove from the fish dispatch station (Geestemünde) to the capital of the Reich. Because Kaiser Wilhelm II. Occasionally drove on this route from Berlin to the naval bases on the North Sea, is sometimes called by the Emperor line of the question. On the American line, individual express trains ran on the routes Berlin – Bremen – Wilhelmshaven and Berlin – Norddeich . The section between Langwedel and Uelzen was built and inaugurated on April 15, 1873 as the Bremen State Railway , also named "Uelzen Railway" depending on the direction of travel. The section between Stendal (1870 to Salzwedel) and Uelzen (inaugurated April 15, 1873) was laid by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft , which also operated on the western section of the route until it was merged with the Prussian State Railway .

Conditions today

Before German reunification , the double-track line was dismantled to one track. The state of maintenance was poor until the basic overhaul of a track followed in the second half of 2012. DB Netz therefore closed the western section between Langwedel (Weser) and Uelzen, which has been neglected since 1945, for extensive renovation measures; among other things, 36 km of tracks were renewed. An electrification of this section is announced.

expansion

Expansion at Pretzier (2015)

It was to be expected that the importance of the route would increase. On the one hand, this is due to the forecast cargo volume at the JadeWeserPort , and on the other hand, due to the increasing quantities of goods from the Bremen ports in Bremerhaven and the Port of Hamburg . It serves as a frequent diversion route for the Hamburg - Berlin Magistrale and as a regular IC route Hamburg – Dresden / Prague. According to the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan , the line will be double-tracked again. In Uelzen, the (western) tunnel branch has already been extended to include a direct threading into the (eastern) Hamburg track. In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, electrification and single-track upgrading were included under project number 2-003-V02.

Regional traffic

The entire route has so far been mainly used by regional passenger trains: Bremen – Uelzen as RB 37 (initially until August 2020) by erixx with class 0648 (LINT 41) railcars from the vehicle pool of the Lower Saxony regional transport company , Uelzen – Stendal as IRE1 and RE 20 and Salzwedel – Stendal as RB 32.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working timetable construction corridors 2012 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) p. 110
  2. ↑ Project profile Langwedel – Uelzen. In: hamburg-bremen-hannover.de. DB Netz, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Final document of the North Rail Dialogue Forum (DSN).
  4. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030