Ankum-Bersenbrücker Railway
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 Logo of the Ankum-Bersenbrücker Eisenbahn GmbH
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| Route number : | 9160 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.32 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ankum-Bersenbrück Eisenbahn GmbH (ABE) is one of the smallest railway companies in Germany. It was founded as Kleinbahn Ankum-Bersenbrück GmbH on May 21, 1913 by the Prussian state , the province of Hanover , the then Bersenbrück district and the municipality of Ankum . The company has been running the current company since 1940. The company shares belong to the municipality of Ankum (51%), the combined municipality of Bersenbrück (38%) and the city of Bersenbrück (11%).
history
Initially, the management of the Oldenburg State Railway was carried out by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , until it was transferred to the State Small Railway Office of the Province of Hanover in 1933. When its successor, the Lower Saxony State Railway Authority, was dissolved in 1959, the Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG took over the support of the ABE until the end of 1989. From 1990 to the end of 2016, operations were managed by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Osnabrück, which was formerly a partner of the ABE.
The beginning of the First World War prevented the start of traffic on the 5 km long Ankum - Bersenbrück line in 1914, where the connection to the main line Oldenburg - Osnabrück was made. It was not until August 2, 1915, that freight trains were able to run, which were temporarily carrying people from November 16, 1917. Regular passenger traffic began a few months after the end of the war on August 1, 1919.
In 1939, 48,103 people and 11,521 tons of goods were transported.
The increasing competition from road traffic forced the ABE to give up rail passenger traffic on September 30, 1962. Passenger traffic was taken over by a private bus operator on behalf of the railway company, which opened additional lines. In 1992 she brought her bus concessions to the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Osnabrück Nord. The always modest freight traffic was transferred to the German Federal Railroad on November 4, 1963 .
In 1995, the route was swiveled from the northern to the southern side of the B 214 between kilometers 0.88 and 2.25 , so that two level crossings over the main road between Bersenbrück and Ahausen were omitted.
At the beginning of 2013, the joint municipality of Bersenbrück proposed to convert the GmbH into a municipality.
In the middle of September 2013 the EIU was renamed from Ankum-Bersenbrücker Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft with limited liability to Ankum-Bersenbrücker Eisenbahn GmbH .
The Weser Ems Eisenbahn has been operating the route as an EVU since 2018 .
vehicles
When operations began, there were two steam locomotives, one of which was a two-axle Hanomag locomotive . The fleet consisted of a passenger car and a combined mail / baggage car. In 1933 a Wismar rail bus was procured, which led to an increase in passenger traffic.
gallery
Bersenbrück train station - starting point of the route
Station building of the Ahausen train station
Loading track in Ahausen with buffer stop
Station building in Ankum
Tracks in Ankum station
Railcar of the Weser Ems Railway in Ankum
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literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4 , p. 380-387 .
- Lothar H. Hülsmann: The Ankum-Bersenbrücker Railway. Traffic history in the Ankum - Bersenbrück area . Uhle & Kleimann Verlag, Lübbecke 1982, ISBN 978-3-922657-25-5 .
- Michael Schumann: Ankum - Bersenbrücker Eisenbahn: Small Railway - Big Goals , in: Lok-Magazin, issue 12/2018, p. 56ff.
Web links
- Website of the Ankum-Bersenbrücker Railway
- Ankum train station
- Freight traffic in Ankum in 1986
- Ankum station as a model railroad theme
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1 - Between Weser and Ems. P. 385
- ↑ http://www.noz.de/lokales/69287768/ankum-bersenbruecker-eisenbahn-gmbh-soll-gemeindewerk- Werden ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Conversion of the GmbH