Etgersleben – Förderstedt railway line

Etgersleben – Förderstedt
Route number (DB) :	6907
Course book range :	205g, 205e (1967)
Route length:	17.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Blumenberg 0.0 Etgersleben to Staßfurt 2.3 Egeln Nord used to be Bleckendorf 6.2 Wolmirsleben 9.5 Unseburg 11.7 Pit Marie 12.8 Mine railway shaft Marbe 15.4 Industrial connection from Güsten 17.7 Förderstedt to Schönebeck

The Etgersleben – Förderstedt railway line was a non-electrified single-track branch line in the Magdeburg Börde , which was largely located in the Bode valley . It connected Etgersleben on the former Staßfurt – Blumenberg railway line with Förderstedt on the Schönebeck – Güsten railway line, opening up the lignite mines near Unseburg . Today it is closed and mostly dismantled.

history

The section between Etgersleben and Unseburg was opened on November 15, 1891, followed a year later by the eastern section between Unseburg and Förderstedt. Passenger traffic began on October 1, 1893. The line was then under the Prussian State Railways and served both freight and passenger traffic. Mostly lignite was transported , which was extracted in the pits around Unseburg. The coal extracted in the Marbeschacht was only transported by freight trains on this route and delivered to a briquette factory. On February 5, 1967, passenger traffic on the route was abandoned. On May 28, 1967, the largest section of the line east of Egeln Nord was shut down and later dismantled; only a section about five kilometers long west of Förderstedt remained. Freight traffic between Etgersleben and Egeln Nord was stopped on May 22, 1993. Today the line is closed and dismantled between Egeln Nord and Unseburg.

Route

The route began in Etgersleben station. Then the railway branched off from the line to Staßfurt and the Egeln Nord station was reached. Then the route continued to Wolmirsleben and then Unseburg. From there the valley of the Bode was left and the Marie pit and the Marbe shaft reached. Finally, the line reached the Förderstedt station, where it had its own station section separate from the tracks of the main Schönebeck – Güsten line. Only then did the branch track join the main line.

Web links

• Former routes - Saxony-Anhalt
• Tradition on the Etgersleben – Förderstedt railway line in the holdings of the Magdeburg Reich Railway Directorate in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau Department

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website about the RBD Magdeburg , accessed on December 28, 2010
2. ^ Lignite in the Staßfurt district ( memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 27, 2010
3. ^ Atlas DR, Drucksachenverlag der Deutsche Reichsbahn (ed.), 1979