Blumenberg – Eilsleben railway line

Blumenberg – Eilsleben
Wanzleben station (Börde), 2018
Route number :	6861
Course book range :	316 (2002) , 205e (1944)
Route length:	25.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D2
Legend von Egeln and Halberstadt from Schönebeck 0.0 Blumenberg to Magdeburg 4.3 Wanzleben 8.6 Connection to Nordzucker AG 10.3 Klein Wanzleben 12.6 Remkersleben 17.6 Seehausen (Kr Wanzleben) from Magdeburg from Haldensleben 25.3 Express life to Schöningen to Helmstedt

The Blumenberg – Eilsleben railway is a 25.3-kilometer, single-track railway line in Saxony-Anhalt . Because of its former main load, it has also been known as the sugar railway since the 1990s .

history

The concession for the route Blumenberg - Eilsleben was granted by the Prussian state parliament on February 25, 1881. To supply the sugar factories during the beet campaign , the first sections of the route were opened for freight traffic ahead of time: on October 5, 1882, the Blumenberg – Klein Wanzleben section and ten days later, on October 15, the Eilsleben – Seehausen section . The following year, on September 1, 1883, the entire line was put into operation and passenger services were introduced. The majority of the importance of the railway lay in freight transport. Above all agricultural products were transported, especially sugar beets in autumn. But passenger traffic was also brisk at times. In 1944, six pairs of trains ran on weekdays and three on Sundays. In 1989 it was similar: six pairs of trains on weekdays and four on Sundays. There were also individual trains on sections of the route. In the end, however, a class 771 rail bus without a sidecar was sufficient .

On September 28, 2002, passenger traffic on the entire route and goods traffic on the Eilsleben – Klein Wanzleben section were suspended. This was shut down on December 31, 2003 and, with the exception of the level crossings, dismantled in 2007. Following a public tender for the route by Deutsche Bahn , it was taken over by the Deutsche Regionalisenbahn (DRE) in 2005 . When a subsidiary of Nordzucker AG built a new bioethanol plant in Klein Wanzleben at the end of 2007 , the state of Saxony-Anhalt supported the expansion of the Blumenberg – Klein Wanzleben section (especially the increase in axle loads to 22.5 tonnes) as well as the construction of the loading station and the Sidings on the site of the sugar factory with one million euros. Since August 29, 2008, the infrastructure has again been in the position of a public railway and around 100,000 tons of bioethanol are transported annually in tank cars from Klein-Wanzleben to the Magdeburg harbor. At the beginning of 2011, the number of 1,000-ton block trains was increased to two per week. Although one train replaces 50 road tanker transports, there are safety concerns among residents at the level crossings that are not barred.

literature

• Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail - disused railway lines 2000-2005 , Transpress, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-71295-4 , p. 57 f.

Web links

Commons : Blumenberg – Eilsleben railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tradition on the Blumenberg – Eilsleben railway line in the holdings of the Magdeburg Railway Directorate in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabrina Trieger: Route operator rejects demands for more safety at the level crossing in the accident. In: Volksstimme. January 10, 2013, accessed November 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Gödecke: The last railcar chugged ten years ago on the Zuckerbahn. In: Volksstimme. September 28, 2012, accessed November 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ See DB Netz, "Offers of DB AG routes to third parties published on the Internet in 2002". Archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved October 20, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Transport Minister Daehre: Around 2.7 million euros for the renovation of the "Zuckerbahn" in the Bördekreis. (PDF; 39 kB) (No longer available online.) Ministry of Agriculture and Transport Saxony-Anhalt, January 23, 2008, archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; Retrieved October 20, 2009 . 
5. ↑ Bettina Koch: Modernized line inaugurated. Klein Wanzleber Zuckerbahn is now ready for ethanol transport. In: Article by Volksstimme on wallstreet-online.de. January 24, 2008, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved October 20, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Sabrina Krug: Just one transport saves the road 50 tanker journeys / Minister pays tribute to the success of the work. Volksstimme (Magdeburg), February 22, 2011, accessed on February 25, 2011 .