Hanover – Celle railway line

Hanover Hbf – Celle
Metronome in the Celle train station
Route
Route number (DB) :	1710
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	200 km / h
Dual track :	continuous
Legend from Cuxhaven from Soltau and from Wittingen 40.816 Celle 39.641 Celle Gbf to Schwarmstedt to Gifhorn and Braunschweig according to Lehrte 33.700 Dasselsbruch 31,146 Burgwedel change of rabbits 27.700 Moor (until 1964) 21,916 Großburgwedel A 7 17.650 Isernhagen from Walsrode from Hanover Airport 11.400 Langenhagen horse market 9.900 Langenhagen center A 2 8.540 Hanover-Vinnhorst Mittelland Canal Hanover-Ledeburg (Abzw) from here 3rd track to Hainholz Hanover-Ledeburg Hanover-Herrenhausen from Minden from Seelze (S-Bahn) Hanover Nordstadt ( Bft ) from Seelze Rbf Ost 3.190 Hanover Castle (Bft) Hanover-Hainholz (Bft) 0.000 Hanover Central Station to Braunschweig to Altenbeken to Göttingen and Würzburg Swell:

The Hanover – Celle railway is a railway line in Lower Saxony . The Langenhagen – Celle section was built as a so-called Hasenbahn to introduce the Lehrte – Hamburg-Harburg railway line from the west into the Hanover node. Between Langenhagen and Hanover, the line runs parallel to the Hanover – Bremervörde railway line , which is mainly used by the Hanover S-Bahn on this section .

history

initial situation

The Lehrte – Hamburg-Harburg railway, opened in 1847, served as an important north-south connection. Instead of going directly to Hanover, however, the route ends in Lehrte , about 10 kilometers east of Hanover, and runs from the west into the train station. In order to get to Hanover via the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line , it was necessary to change direction in Lehrte. In addition, a further change of direction in Hannover Hbf was necessary to continue to the south via the Hanover – Kassel railway line .

construction

In 1913 the construction of a connection from Celle to Langenhagen began. From there, the Hanover – Bremervörde railway could be used, via which Hanover Central Station can be reached from a north-westerly direction. Due to the First World War , however, the construction was stopped and then there was initially a lack of money for further construction. Only four-legged friends were to be found on the completed piece, which led to the nickname “Rabbit Railway”.

Rocket car near Burgwedel, 1928

The route between Langenhagen and Großburgwedel was released for speed tests from 1927. On June 23, 1928, the RAK 3 rocket car built by Fritz von Opel and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander reached a top speed of 254 km / h. In 1930 there were test drives of Franz Kruckenberg's rail zeppelin on the route.

It was not until May 15, 1938 that the line was opened for through traffic. Since then, passenger trains have been able to run from Hamburg to southern Germany without the detour via Lehrte and head-to-head in Hanover. However, this route had only been double-tracked since November 2, 1964, so that until then many passenger trains continued to pass through Lehrte and past Lehrte.

The line has been electrified throughout since April 6, 1965.

Line expansion and new lines

See also : Railway line Lehrte – Hamburg-Harburg # Extension of the line

Around 1970, extensive test drives took place on the route, with which the conditions for regular train traffic at 200 km / h were to be researched. The 78.4-kilometer section between Langenhagen and Celle and on to Uelzen went into operation in sections between 1978 and 1984 as the first expansion section for 200 km / h.

Various expansions and new lines were planned for the congested Hanover – Hamburg connection. The best known is the unconverted Y-route Hamburg / Bremen – Hanover .

S-Bahn Hanover

As part of the preparations for Expo 2000 , two new S-Bahn tracks were built between Hanover main station and Langenhagen (now the horse market) . The stop Hannover-Herrenhausen was given up and replaced on November 10, 1997 by the S-Bahn stop Hannover-Ledeburg . The Langenhagen-Mitte stop for the S-Bahn and long-distance tracks was rebuilt.

business

Current operation

Intercity express , intercity and metronome trains run along the entire double-track, electrified route . S-Bahn trains run between Langenhagen Pferdemarkt and Hanover on the parallel Hanover – Walsrode line . The GVH tariff applies between Großburgwedel and Hanover , the district of Celle is connected to the GVH via a special season ticket tariff.

Accidents

• On July 23, 1947, the P  782 and the Sgb 5509 met on the open road . The lock of a door of a refrigerated car traveling along with the freight train was defective and this left it open. According to the circumstances at the time, many passengers traveled on the passenger train on the running boards of the passenger car . The open door of the freight car tore a number of these travelers off the train. 11 people died and another 12 were injured.
• On June 5, 1970 , the D 47 "Konsul" crashed in Celle in the area of ​​the southern station apron, at the level of the Allertalbahn junction , in front of the overpass of the Tangente, at a speed of 155 km / h. Five dead and 40 injured were the result. The cause was improper track repairs.

Web links

Commons : Hanover – Celle railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points and some permitted speeds on the OpenRailwayMap

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ DB Netze - route finder
4. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: Hanover and its railways. Alba, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-87094-345-9 , p. 72.
5. ↑ In detail: Matthias Blazek, Wolfgang Evers: Construction of the Reichsbahnlinie Celle – Langenhagen. "Hasenbahn" was double-tracked 35 years ago / Most of the line runs dead straight - First World War put an end to the construction work for the time being. Sachsenspiegel 21 and 22, Cellesche Zeitung of May 29 and June 5, 1999.
6. ^ Rüdiger Block: ICE racetrack: the new lines. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier Special: High-speed traffic . No. 21, 1991, excluding ISSN, pp. 36-45.
7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present. (= Railway accidents in Germany. Volume 2). Pürgen 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 21.
8. ↑ He'll never get the curve . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1971 ( online ).