Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway line

Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel-Cuxhaven
Route number (DB) :	1310
Course book section (DB) :	125
Route length:	36 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CE
State:	Bremen , Lower Saxony
Legend from Bremen 190.4 Bremerhaven- Speckenbüttel (formerly PV) to Bad Bederkesa to Bremerhaven seaport State border Bremen / Lower Saxony Grauwallkanal 195.6 Imsum 199.4 Wremen 202.5 Mulsum 205.4 Dorum 209.8 Cappel - Midlum 213.3 Spieka 216.2 Nordholz to the barracks Altenwalde 222.3 Altenwalde from Hamburg 228.4 Cuxhaven

The Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway is a non-electrified, single-track branch line in the Elbe-Weser triangle . Today it is used almost exclusively for passenger traffic and is of national importance for holiday traffic, but is only used in local traffic.

route

The line branches off from the Wunstorf-Bremerhaven-Seehaven railway line at the southern end of the Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel marshalling yard . From there to just before Nordholz, the railway runs via Wremen and Dorum through the marshes of the Wursten region . From Nordholz to Altenwalde , the Geestrücken " Hohe Lieth " is crossed with a few cuts. The route arrives in Cuxhaven -Groden to the low same sheet and is parallel to it in the terminal station out Cuxhaven.

Train stations

Since the takeover of operations by the Nordseebahn were Stations Bremerhaven-Lehe, Wremen, North wood and Cuxhaven extensively modernized, with the North Wood railway station in the course of the conversion to a single-track breakpoint has been dismantled; As a result, for years there was only a possibility for train encounters in Dorum, the route was fully occupied by passenger traffic on weekdays. Dorum was rebuilt in 2014. The reconstruction of a second track in Nordholz, but without a platform, took place in September 2014. This crossing track was inaugurated in November 2014 without the DB and the participating Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, the Cuxhaven Bundestag member Enak Ferlemann (CDU), pointing out that that essentially only the old state has been restored here. At the same time, Dorum and Nordholz were converted to electronic interlocking technology. The Bremerhaven main station was modernized by 2011. The station building in Cuxhaven is currently being fundamentally modernized.

Former stations

Former station building Speckenbüttel

Until 1991 it was also held in Altenwalde , Spieka , Cappel - Midlum and Mulsum . The stop in Imsum had already been abandoned in 1975 . The Bremerhaven- Speckenbüttel station was closed to passenger traffic in 2001.

The stop in Cappel-Midlum was reopened in 1992 after considerable protests on site. However, a few months after the reopening, the number of passengers was even lower than before the closure. The Federal Railroad then had the stop closed for the next time the timetable change. The platform was removed a little later.

Operation and history

The line from Cuxhaven to Wesermünde (Lehe) - at that time the name of today's Bremerhaven-Lehe train station - was opened on June 1, 1896.

Timetable

Weekdays except Saturdays is 5:00 to 23:00, a continuous hourly . Since the 2011/2012 timetable change, there has also been hourly service on weekends . On its journey, the regional train stops in Bremerhaven Hbf, Bremerhaven-Lehe, Wremen , Dorum (Wesermünde), Nordholz and Cuxhaven.

Operation and vehicle use

Local passenger transport was provided from December 14, 2003 to December 2011 by the Nordseebahn , a cooperation between DB Regio AG and the railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser GmbH (EVB).

After a tender jointly with the Bremerhaven – Buxtehude (“Weser-Elbe-Netz”) railway by the Lower Saxony regional transport company (LNVG) in 2010, EVB was awarded the contract for both routes. Since December 11, 2011 the traffic has been carried out by it.

Used here five are diesel railcars of type 41 LINT in the colors blue, yellow and white, from the vehicle pool of Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen mbH be rented (LNVG). The trains have thirty to forty year old railcars of series 614 and 624 detached. Two iLint hydrogen trains fueled with hydrogen have also been running on the route since mid-September 2018 .

Former long-distance transport

Express train in Cuxhaven station (1993)

Long-distance traffic existed on the route until 2001; after that the last interregions to Luxembourg and Saarbrücken were given up. Previously were coaches connections to Aachen and Stuttgart been set.

Freight transport

Bremerhaven parking station Lehe

Since longer trains could not meet on the route, freight traffic was only possible at night. In autumn 2014, a siding was reactivated at Nordholz station and extended to 1000 m. This enables goods traffic to take place on the single-track route even during the day. This means that freight traffic to the Bremen area no longer has to be handled via the greater Hamburg area.

future

The construction of a new stop in Altenwalde / Franzenburg failed at the first attempt because the city of Cuxhaven rejected the required cost sharing. On March 28, 2019, the state of Lower Saxony, LNVG and DB agreed that stops should be set up again in Altenwalde and Cappel-Midlum (alternatively Spieka).

Consideration is given to rebuilding the platforms at Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel station, which were dismantled in 2001.

Web links

• Elbe-Weser Railway

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BOTTOM LINE: Groundbreaking planning Deutsche Bahn is re-laying demolished siding on badische-zeitung.de
2. ↑ Handbook of German Railways , Dumjahn, 1984
3. ↑ World premiere: The first hydrogen train is on its way from Buxtehude , Kreiszeitung-wochenblatt.de, September 18, 2018.
4. ↑ reactivation of stations. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ train station for Speckenbüttel? ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )