Visselhövede train station
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 Visselhövede station, view in east direction (2006)
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | HVIS |
| IBNR | 8006090 |
| Price range | 6th |
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| City / municipality | Visselhövede |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 58 '47 " N , 9 ° 33' 59" E |
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
The station Visselhövede is located on the railway line Uelzen-Langwedel in Lower Saxony . It is served every two hours by regional railways operated by erixx GmbH for passenger transport and by OHE for freight transport. It belongs to station category 6 .
Location and transport links
The Visselhövede train station is located around 1.5 kilometers southwest of the city center, on state road 171 in the direction of Verden (Aller) , in an east-west orientation. Due to its location on the outskirts of the village, the station and the entire route are not very frequented.
In front of the train station is the Visselhövede Bahnhof bus stop , which is served by Weser-Ems Bus GmbH in the regular service to Rotenburg (Wümme) and by the local citizen bus (city transport).
investment
Reception building and surroundings
The station had a comparatively large reception building on the north side of the station, which had been owned by the German Red Cross since 1993 and is no longer open to the public. Directly to the east of the building there is access to the house platform via a small staircase. There is also a ticket machine here. Directly to the west of the building there would be a barrier-free access to the house platform, which is in a very poor condition due to many deep potholes, which means that wheelchair access is not possible. In front of the reception building, a small parking lot in the form of an asphalted, pothole-strewn space without parking lot markings and a roofed bicycle stand are provided.
The train station has not yet been developed to be handicapped accessible, the area surrounding the train station is in need of renovation.
Platforms
In addition to the main platform (platform 1), Visselhövede station has another platform (platform 2). This can be reached via a non-barrier-free underpass, which dates back to times with a higher volume of traffic. It used to be an island platform; after the tracks have been dismantled, it is a side platform. There used to be another third platform behind this, accessible from the second platform by pedestrian crossing. Today only the house platform and, for morning and evening train crossings, the island platform are used.
Other plants
After the extensive dismantling of the former freight and shunting tracks, there is a private loading track and a siding next to the two platform tracks. There is a level crossing to the east of the station . Around two kilometers to the east, a loading track branches off from Soltau to the north into an industrial area.
history
1873 to 1945
The Visselhövede station was originally opened as an express train station as part of the construction of the America line by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn in 1873, which can still be recognized today by the long platform edges. Today only a fraction of the originally available platform lengths are actually used. Since 1900 no express trains have stopped in Visselhövede . In 1890 a connection to Walsrode branching off to the southeast was opened, in 1906 a connection was added via Brockel to Rotenburg , which left the station in a south-westerly direction, then turned north and crossed the American line under an underpass. In this way, Visselhövede developed into a regional rail hub, the station of which was expanded to include the underpass and a turntable.
1945 to 1987
After the Second World War, with the division of Germany, the importance of the American line waned. From then on, casual passengers, commuters from and to Bremen and soldiers from the local garrison made up the majority of the passengers. In 1958 the connection to Rotenburg and in 1980 the one to Walsrode was closed. Both are dismantled today ( see also: Bremervörde – Walsrode railway line ). By 1987, the western part of the American line was dismantled from a section-wise double-track main railway line to a continuous single-track branch line.
1987 until today
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During this time, a massive dismantling of the large-scale railway systems at Visselhöveder station began. Since several smaller stops in the vicinity of the Visselhövede train station were closed, this is now the only train station in a larger, rural and sparsely populated area that extends from the western Lüneburg Heath to the Lintelner Geest and, in addition to the southern part of the Rotenburg district, too the extreme east of the district of Verden (parts of the municipality of Kirchlinteln). Due to the long length of the block section to Langwedel, a carrier frequency block 71 had to be installed in this direction over the existing bare wire overhead line. Freight traffic today includes on the one hand extensive timber transports, on the other hand a mineral oil company based in the industrial park east of Visselhövede is supplied by rail. Occasionally, freight trains run by smaller private railway companies, e.g. B. between Wilhelmshaven and destinations in Central Germany and Berlin.
Technical renovation (2009)
The renovation of the technical infrastructure was completed in early 2009. In addition to the overdue rectification of deficiencies in the main line since the 1990s (VzG No. 1960), the station received an automatic track vacancy detection system and H / V light signals . One of the two signal boxes could be left open. The dispatcher (signal box Vf) is now based in the former switch keeper signal box Vo. The hand-operated level crossing and the form signals at the eastern exit of the station had to be retained, as the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) would have approved a complete renovation of the station only with the latest technology ( ESTW ). No funds were available for this. A relay interlocking from the Siemens Dr S2 series from the 1950s was installed in containers next to the Vf interlocking building. It replaces the previous mechanical dispatcher interlocking Vwf in the western area of the station.
The renovation represents an emergency solution to unsupportable safety problems enforced by the approval authority EBA and serves to temporarily secure the existence of the railway line. The Federal Railway Authority had repeatedly threatened Deutsche Bahn AG in recent years to completely prohibit operations on the Langwedel – Soltau route due to the ailing infrastructure.
Present and Future
The OHE had expanded the station for timber transportation in cooperation with the municipality Visselhovede, the Forest Consulting GmbH and Warengenossenschaft Heidesand eG in 2009. In addition to the Vf signal box, a transmission system for the digital train radio GSM-R was installed. In addition, there were repeated considerations to move the current passenger station closer to the city center to the east if passenger traffic on the American line was to be retained.
At the beginning of 2013, the former reception building was up for sale.
traffic
The regional train 37 Bremen – Uelzen runs every two hours on the route, with reinforcements in the morning and in the evening. (As of 2019)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 116 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Stellwerkumbau Vf. (No longer available online.) In: tec-gmbh.de. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013 ; Retrieved December 16, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Terms of use of the OHE track systems in Visselhövede with track plan (PDF)
- ↑ Most important train station in the region. In: Press portal Kreiszeitung.de. November 13, 2009, accessed December 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Bahn wants to build a radio mast. In: Press portal Kreiszeitung.de. September 28, 2009, accessed December 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Newspaper article on building sales
