Wunstorf – Bremen railway line
The Wunstorf – Bremen railway is one of the most important railway lines in Lower Saxony and Germany . It connects the port city of Bremen via Verden (Aller) , Nienburg / Weser with Wunstorf and via the Hanover – Minden railway with Hanover . It is part of the 172.8 km long route 1740 Wunstorf - Bremerhaven.
The 100.9 kilometer long, double-track main railway line is electrified throughout and equipped with GSM-R digital train radio . The maximum permissible speed of the route is 160 km / h, the maximum permissible axle load 22.5 tonnes and the load per meter 3.0 tonnes / meter, which corresponds to route class D4.
history
Contrary to Prussian wishes, the railway line to Bremen financed jointly with the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen did not begin in Minden , but in Wunstorf in Hanover as a branch of the Hanover – Minden railway line of the Royal Hanover State Railways, which opened on October 15, 1847 . Since it opened on December 12, 1847, the Wunstorf – Bremen line has proven to be one of the most important railway lines in Germany, as it connects the ports of Bremen and Lower Saxony with southern Germany .
Important feeder lines are the Bremen – Bremerhaven railway (since 1862, later to Cuxhaven ) and the Bremen – Oldenburg railway (since 1867, further to Wilhelmshaven and Emden ).
The connecting lines are the American line to Stendal , the Verden – Rotenburg line and the Nienburg – Minden line . There were secondary lines from Wunstorf to Stolzenau via the Steinhuder Meer Railway , from Nienburg / Weser to Uchte or Sulingen , from Eystrup via Hoya and Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Syke , and from Verden (Aller) via Schwarmstedt to Celle ( Allertalbahn ) and to Walsrode ( Verden (Aller) –Walsrode Nord railway line ).
Electric train operations between Hanover and Bremen began on December 14, 1964.
The 375 meter long Allerbrücke near Verden with 15 brick vaults from 1867 and a 130 meter long central steel section from 1950, with separate superstructures for each directional track, was replaced by a new building from 2012 to 2015. The new structure lies on a new railway line that has been shifted 13.8 meters to the east and is designed as a trough bridge with eight openings and a maximum span of 80 meters above the Aller.
traffic
As a mixed traffic route, the route is heavily frequented by both passenger and freight trains . The construction of the Y-route Hanover – Hamburg / Bremen should relieve the line, but will not be pursued further. Most of the passenger transport services are provided by Deutsche Bahn , only the lower train categories between Bremen Hauptbahnhof and Verden since December 2010 as part of the RS1 line of the Regio-S-Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony from NordWestBahn (NWB) and between Bremen Hauptbahnhof and Langwedel since December 2011 as part of the erixx RB37 line .
Long-distance passenger transport
The long-distance passenger traffic is between Bremen and Hannover with Inter City Express trains on (ICE) of the line 25 Bremen - Munich and intercity trains on (IC) of the line 56 Norddeich Mole - Emden - Oldenburg - Leipzig in two-hour intervals unwound.
In addition to Bremen main station , the ICE only stop at Hanover main station , individual trains on the edge of the day depart from or to Oldenburg main station with a stop in Delmenhorst and partly in Verden and Nienburg. The Intercity trains, which are offset by one hour, also stop in Verden (Aller) and Nienburg (Weser). These run between Bremen and Norddeich Mole also offset by one hour to RE line 1 with stops at all stations of this line and can be used with normal local transport tickets on the section. This ensures that regional traffic runs every hour on the entire route.
Regional traffic
In rail transport Every two hours between Hannover and Bremen alternately regional express trains (RE) of the relations Hannover - Bremerhaven- Lehe (RE8) and Hannover - Norddeich Mole (RE1), so that between Hannover and Bremen an hourly yields. The trains stop in Wunstorf, Neustadt am Rübenberge , Nienburg / Weser, Eystrup, Dörverden, Verden (Aller), Achim , Bremen-Mahndorf and Bremen Hauptbahnhof. The push-pull trains, which can reach speeds of up to 160 km / h , consist of six (RE8) and seven (RE1) double-decker cars and are hauled by locomotives of the DB class 146.1 from the Bremen depot. In 2002, Deutsche Bahn procured 8 locomotives and 40 double-decker cars for this Regional Express line. The state of Lower Saxony contributed half of the total costs of around 66 million euros .
On the northern section of the route between Verden and Bremen Hauptbahnhof, the RS1 Verden - Bremen-Vegesack - Bremen-Farge line of the Bremen / Lower Saxony (RB) regional S-Bahn runs every hour, which runs every weekday morning and late afternoon on a 30- Minute-cycle is compressed. The Regio-S-Bahn stop at all train stations and stops along the route. 3 and 5-part units of the Alstom Coradia Continental type are used.
The traffic is increased by the Uelzen - Bremen regional trains running every two hours on the American line , which only stop in Langwedel and Achim, and since December 2016 also in Mahndorf. With the timetable change in December 2008, the train runs were temporarily shortened to the Uelzen – Soltau – Langwedel route. Diesel railcars of the 628 series located in the Braunschweig depot were used . Since December 2011, traffic on the Uelzen - Bremen route has been provided by erixx with class 648 railcars .
The transport services in suburban traffic in Hanover are provided by the S-Bahn Hanover . The S-Bahn runs between Hanover and Seelze on their own route. The S1 Minden - Wunstorf - Hanover - Haste and S2 Nienburg - Wunstorf - Hanover - Haste lines run every 30 minutes at one hour intervals, so that the Wunstorf - Hanover section runs every 30 minutes.
Additional regional express trains are also used between Nienburg and Hanover during commuter traffic. Since December 2016, two of these trains have been running south in the morning and north in the afternoon / evening over the entire route. The Wunstorf - Hanover section is also used hourly by Regional Express trains on the Minden - Hanover route with a stop in Wunstorf, whose frequency is increased during the week in the morning (towards Hanover) and in the afternoon (towards Minden).
The section between Nienburg and Verden was used on weekends by regional trains of the "Weser-Aller-Bahn" (Minden - Rotenburg) until 2017. The trains ran every two hours and stopped at all four stations on this section.
On the Bremen - Eystrup route section, the tariff of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association (VBN) applies on regional trains , and that of the Greater Hanover Transport Authority (GVH) from Hagen (Han) to Hanover .
Freight transport
The railway line is regularly used by container trains to and from Bremerhaven as well as by car transport trains. The Seelze Rbf marshalling yard is a hub for rail freight traffic in northern Germany. Freight trains use their own freight train route between Seelze and Wunstorf and are then mixed between the passenger trains. In Verden and Nienburg, further goods traffic is brought onto the route via the Weser – Aller railway from Hamburg and Minden.
literature
- Regional connections Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein . In: DB Vertrieb GmbH; DB Regio AG, Region Nord (Ed.): Course book 2007/2008 . B, September 28, 2007, pp. 388-392, 435-442 .
Web links
- Presentation of the network district Wunstorf on a private website, as of January 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG (ed.): Rail network conditions of use . Network timetable 2008 (2008-10-27).
- ^ Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (Ed.): 1843–1983. 140 years of the Hanover Railway Directorate . Hanover (without date).
- ↑ Andreas Keil, Thomas Fackler, Tobias Steigerwald: The new Allerbrücke near Verden . In: Structural Engineering . tape 92 , issue 2, 2015, p. 116-122 .
- ↑ Planners are tackling the Y-route. In: Welt Online, Berlin. October 20, 2008, accessed October 27, 2008 .
- ↑ ICE line network 2020 of Deutsche Bahn AG (PDF; 445 KiB)
- ↑ EC / IC line network 2020 of Deutsche Bahn AG (PDF; 667 KiB)
- ^ The 146 locomotives in front of the Regional Express Hanover – Norddeich Mole. Long distances - short breaks. (PDF; 1.01 MiB) (No longer available online.) In: Takt - the customer magazine of the Lower Saxony / Bremen region. DB Regio AG, Regio Nord, Hanover, September 2008, p. 3 , formerly in the original ; accessed on October 20, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ 40 new double-decker cars for the Hanover – Bremen-Norddeich regional line. (PDF; 15.1 KiB) Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Technology and Transport; Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen mbH; Deutsche Bahn AG, February 22, 2002, accessed on October 27, 2008 (Joint Press Release 58/2002; Hanover).
- ↑ Timetable change 2011 with the new RS 1 - Verden connected to the regional S-Bahn ( Memento from December 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Pulling power for the north-west. ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Langwedel . In: Josef Högemann, Erich Preuß (Ed.): The large archive of German train stations . GeraMond-Verlag, ISSN 0949-2127 .