Almelo – Salzbergen railway line

Almelo – Salzbergen
The Intercity Line 77 in cross-border traffic
Route number (DB) :	2026
Course book section (DB) :	375
Route length:	54.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	(NL) 1.5 kV  =
Power system :	(D) 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend von Zwolle and Deventer from Mariënberg 0.0 Almelo Almelo Verdiept 2.8 Almelo de Riet Weezebeek Zenderen 10.1 Borne Rijksweg 1 from Zutphen 15.4 Hengelo to Enschede 17.3 Hengelo Oost Rijksweg 1 Gronau – Denekamp from Gronau 26.2 Oldenzaal Rijksweg 1 Spelt 33.4 21.8 State border between the Netherlands and Germany 16.7 Guild house Gronau – Coevorden 13.7 Bad Bentheim (system change) Route to Coevorden 9.3 Schuettorf Vechte Federal motorway 31 from Norddeich Mole 0.0 Mountains of salt to Rheine Swell:

The Almelo – Salzbergen railway line is a double-track and continuously electrified main line from Almelo in the Netherlands to Salzbergen in Lower Saxony . The power system change is carried out at the Bad Bentheim border station or multi-system railcars operate .

history

The Almelo – Salzbergen railway was built by the Dutch Spoorweg-Maatschappij Almelo-Salzbergen to connect to the Hanover Western Railway of the Royal Hanover State Railways and was opened on October 18, 1865.

The Dutch section from Almelo to Oldenzaal was equipped with an overhead contact line as early as 1951, shortly after the Second World War , to which the 1500 volts DC voltage, which is usual for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen , is applied.

The German section from Salzbergen to Bad Bentheim, on the other hand, was not electrified until a quarter of a century later with 15 kilovolt AC voltage and the frequency of 16⅔ Hertz used at that time (today 16.7 Hertz, see traction current ).

Construction of the lower line "Almelo Verdiept"

With the electrification of the last remaining section on the Dutch side of Oldenzaal (also in 1976), Bad Bentheim became a system changing station, with the supply being switched to DC or AC voltage track by track (see system separation point ).

Between 2006 and 2009, an approximately one-kilometer stretch of road in the city center of Almelo was “lowered” in order to reduce the number of level crossings. The trough construction is called "Almelo Verdiept".

service

As of 2020, there will be continuous international trains in long-distance passenger rail transport :

• Intercity : Berlin  - Hanover  - Osnabrück  - Rheine  - Bad Bentheim - Hengelo - Almelo - Amsterdam (every two hours)

Using local rail transport ...

• on the Salzbergen - Hengelo section:
  • Regional train RB 61 " Wiehengebirgs-Bahn " (hourly) of the Eurobahn (until the end of 2017 only to Bad Bentheim)
• on the Oldenzaal - Hengelo section:
  • Stoptrein Oldenzaal - Hengelo - Zutphen from Keolis Nederland (every half hour)
• on the Hengelo - Almelo section:
  • Intercity of NS (every half hour)
  • Keolis Nederland Sprinter (every half hour)
  • Sprinter of the NS

Cross-border local transport between Hengelo and Bad Bentheim was reintroduced on December 12, 2010. The Dutch company Syntus and the German company Bentheimer Eisenbahn operated the route every hour as the " Grensland Express ". The trial was limited to three years and ended in December 2013 because the number of users fell short of expectations.

From December 2017 an hourly local transport service was to be introduced again on the Bad Bentheim - Hengelo section. In the new tender for the "Teutoburg Forest Network", the use of two-system vehicles is required so that the RB 61 line can be extended beyond its previous endpoint in Bad Bentheim to Hengelo. By eliminating the change in Bad Bentheim and the continuous connection to Rheine, Osnabrück and Bielefeld, those responsible are hoping for significantly more passengers than the Grensland Express, which commuted in isolation on the Bad Bentheim - Hengelo section. Instead of 300 passengers, 750 will then use the local trains in this section. When operations began, however, there were problems with the approval of the locomotives, so that operation should not start until January 14, 2018. There were also problems when switching between the power grids, so that the Bad Bentheim - Oldenzaal - Hengelo section was initially made by buses. The rail link finally went into operation on February 26, 2018.

See also

• Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line , called Emsland line
• Löhne – Rheine railway line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The official voltage of 1500 volts is increased to the highest tolerance value during operation (+ 20%), so there are de facto 1800 volts.
2. ↑ Reiner Muke, Volker Muke: The Gildehaus station. An (almost) forgotten train station . In: Bahn Regional . 12th year, no. 45 , 1994, ISSN  0933-3592 ( excerpt [accessed September 6, 2011]). Excerpt ( memento of the original from April 7, 2015 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.  
3. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
4. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
5. ↑ "Buffalo" connect Hengelo and Bad Bentheim. In: eurailpress.de. November 22, 2010, accessed January 14, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Regional train line RB 61 will run via Bad Bentheim to Hengelo from the end of 2017. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Eisenbahn Münsterland eV, archived from the original on September 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Services - 150932-2014. May 3, 2014, accessed on January 14, 2018 (entry in the European Official Journal for the Teutoburg Forest Network tender). 
8. ↑ New train connection to Holland from 2016. Grafschafter Nachrichten, March 30, 2014, accessed on January 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Will new problems stop the Eurobahn to the Netherlands? In: Grafschafter Nachrichten. January 12, 2018, accessed January 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ The Eurobahn actually runs from Bad Bentheim to Hengelo . In: GN-Online . ( gn-online.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).