Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway line

Bremerhaven – Buchholz Harsefeld – Buxtehude
Route number (DB) :	1300 (Bremerhaven – Buchholz) 9128 (Buxtehude – Harsefeld)
Course book section (DB) :	122
Route length:	74.876 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Hamburg from Lüneburg / Maschen Rbf 92.940 Buchholz to Bremen Heidebahn to Soltau Main line Bremen – Hamburg 86.790 Trelde B 75 83.050 Drestedt (formerly connection to the Wenzendorf plant ) A 1 Estonian 77.950 Hollenstedt 74.650 Staersbeck - Moisburg 73.300 Rahmstorf 69.760 Beckdorf from Hamburg 190.406 0.00000 Buxtehude / Buxtehude-South (Connection until 1993) 190.469 000,000 to Cuxhaven 190.998 0.803 00 (Connection since 1993) 1.790 000,000 Green Forest 4,330 000,000 Ottensen 6.874 000,000 Apenses 10.375 000,000 Ruschwedel 11.500 000,000 Weissenfelde 12.120 012.528 (formerly overpass) 012,837 062,250 (Connection new 2004) 60,996 013,870 (Connection since 1993) 14,425 (formerly connections ...) 60,572 000,000 Harsefeld (ex-DB) 14,435 (... between DB and BHE) 14.775 Harsefeld-South (ex- BHE ) 56.030 000,000 Bargstedt (Lower Saxony) 52.580 000,000 Brest Aspe 47.770 000,000 Kutenholz from Stade 40.010 000,000 Hesedorf 37.003 150.534 from Rotenburg (Wümme) 36.908 000,000 Oste from Bremervörde harbor 36.110 000,000 Bremervörde to Osterholz-Scharmbeck 32.400 000,000 Glinde 29.30 000,000 Oerel 28.350 000,000 Oerel 24.460 000,000 Heinschenwalde 19.650 000,000 Frelsdorf 16.800 000,000 Testeth 13.160 000,000 Wehdel 7.520 000,000 Sellstedt 5.030 000,000 Apeler 0.168 180.844 from Bremen 0.000 181.012 Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf Connection to the fishing port to Bremerhaven Hbf ^ End point of the EVB trains since December 9, 2007

The Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway is a railway line in the Elbe-Weser triangle in northern Lower Saxony between the cities of Bremerhaven and Buxtehude (there is a connection to Hamburg ) via Bremervörde and Harsefeld .

Today the line between Bremerhaven and Buxtehude is used by the railways and transport company Elbe-Weser (evb) as an operational unit. It was created from three routes:

1. Bremerhaven– Stade railway line (previously Deutsche Bundesbahn )
2. Bremervörde – Buchholz railway line in the north heath (Deutsche Bundesbahn)
3. Buxtehude – Harsefeld railway line ( Buxtehude-Harsefelder Eisenbahn )

history

Railway lines Bremerhaven – Stade and Bremervörde – Buchholz

The Bremervörde – Stade line was opened in 1898 and extended from Bremervörde to Wulsdorf in 1899 . In 1902 the continuation of Bremervörde – Buchholz followed. These were state routes that were taken over by the evb in 1991. Up until this point in time, traffic was offered on the Bremerhaven – Bremervörde – Stade connection, which, in contrast to the connection via Harsefeld, only ran on state railway lines.

See also : Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf train station

Buxtehude – Harsefeld railway line

The line was opened on December 19, 1928 by the Buxtehude-Harsefelder Eisenbahn GmbH (BHE). The 15-kilometer standard-gauge line runs from the city of Buxtehude on the main line Hamburg – Stade – Cuxhaven to Harsefeld on the branch line Bremervörde – Buchholz.

From 1933 onwards, operations were carried out by the Landeskleinbahnamt in Hanover, which later became the Lower Saxony State Railway Office . After its closure, the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) took over the operation from 1959 .

Passenger traffic was discontinued on May 31, 1969; however, the Buxtehude - Harsefelder Eisenbahnfreunde eV organized regular trips with the historic WUMAG T 175 multiple unit, which was made by the former Deutsche Reichsbahn .

On September 26, 1993, passenger traffic was resumed by the railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser GmbH (evb) as part of their connection from Hamburg-Neugraben via Bremervörde to Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof .

Reorientation to Bremerhaven – Buxtehude

With the takeover of the DB routes and the Buxtehude-Harsefelder Eisenbahn (BHE) in 1992, evb owned all routes in the Bremervörde area.

In 1993 the evb stopped passenger traffic between Hesedorf and Stade and continued via Harsefeld and Buxtehude to Hamburg-Neugraben . There was a connection to the S-Bahn line S3 to Hamburg . In December 2007 the S-Bahn was extended via Buxtehude to Stade , since then the evb trains have ended in Buxtehude. Both routes were re-linked in Buxtehude.

The BHE station systems in Buxtehude-Süd have meanwhile given way to a P + R system and bus system for cars from KVG Stade . In Harsefeld-Süd, remains of the systems used today for passenger traffic are still visible, which, according to their condition, are probably still used for goods traffic.

The connection between the former DB and BHE systems was moved south in 1993 to enable direct traffic to Buxtehude. The old northern connection ends at a buffer stop just before today's platforms, the other old connection is overgrown. In 2004 a new connecting curve was built between the former DB and the former BHE line, which made the previous overpass structure superfluous.

Buchholz – Harsefeld railway line

Passenger traffic between Hesedorf and Buchholz was stopped on May 26, 1968, freight traffic only between Hollenstedt and Buchholz, because a new bridge over the newly electrified Hamburg – Bremen railway would have had to be built. Freight traffic between Hollenstedt and Beckdorf was discontinued in 1980 and the last DB AG beet train left between Beckdorf and Harsefeld on August 20, 1991. In 1997, two weeks before the date of the operational closure, a VT 798 rail bus set traveled the route from Harsefeld to Hollenstedt for the last time , partly due to the very poor condition at walking speed. About 100 railway enthusiasts took part in this last trip.

It was dismantled first from Hollenstedt, after the construction of the new bridge also from Harsefeld. The Harsefeld – Buxtehude section was partially rebuilt and used as a section of the Buxtehude line. This shortened the Buxtehude route by around 500 meters.

As a replacement for rail traffic, a Buchholz – Bremervörde bus line was set up, which was taken over by KVG Stade on November 1, 1982 (line 1870). The cross-district traffic was greatly reduced, until finally only the Buchholz – Hollenstedt section in the Harburg district remained.

service

The route has been operated every hour since December 2017. Before, there was only a two-hour service on Sundays. Class 648 ( LINT 41 ) railcars are used . On school days from Monday to Friday, an EVB class 628 multiple unit is used, arriving in Buxtehude at 7:09 a.m.

future

According to a proposal by the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD), the route is to be reactivated for seaport hinterland traffic in the port of Bremerhaven as an alternative to the Y-route and bypassing the overloaded Hamburg-Harburg train station (as part of the so-called alpha variant). The port of Hamburg is to be connected via a new line along federal highway 3 from Trelde. DB welcomed the proposal, while country representatives are rather skeptical that these measures are sufficient.

See also : American line

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  Beginning in Wulsdorf

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  Between Glinde and Oerel

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  Between Glinde and Bremervörde

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  Este viaduct behind Hollenstedt

literature

• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 10: Lower Saxony 2 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 146-161, 162-184 .

Web links

Commons : Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The operators: railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser
• Railway around Bremervörde

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rail bus VT 798 to Hollenstedt on YouTube
2. ↑ EVB from 12.2017 every hour
3. ↑ Verkehrsclub proposes an alternative to the Y-route ( memento of December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (NDR.de)