Herford – Himmighausen railway line

Herford – Himmighausen
Route number :	2980
Course book section (DB) :	405
Route length:	47.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Minden of frets Herford small train 0.0 Herford ⊙ to Hamm ⊙ Aa ⊙ Werre ⊙ 7.7 Bad Salzuflen (formerly the transition to the Herford small railway ) ⊙ Salts ⊙ 9.5 Schötmar ⊙ 10.0 Awanst Schötmar ⊙ Bega ⊙ 14.3 Sylbach ⊙ from Bielefeld ⊙ 19.2 Location (lip) ⊙ to Lemgo ⊙ 23.3 Nienhagen (b Detmold) ⊙ Werre ⊙ 27.7 Detmold ⊙ Werre ⊙ Werre ⊙ Tram PESAG ⊙ 31.9 Remmighausen (Lippe) ⊙ Tram PESAG ⊙ 36.8 Horn-Bad Meinberg ⊙ 37.0 Tram PESAG ⊙ 41.4 Leopoldstal ⊙ 43.6 Awanst Sandebeck Kronospan ⊙ 44.7 Sandebeck ⊙ from Hanover ⊙ 47.3 Himmighausen ⊙ to Altenbeken ⊙ Swell:

The Herford – Himmighausen railway line is a 48 km long, single-track , electrified main line from Herford via Detmold to Himmighausen (near Altenbeken ) . It is located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the regional network Münster-Ostwestfalen (MOW) of Deutsche Bahn based in Münster. In Herford the line is also called Lippische Bahn , under this name the line from Herford to Detmold was built by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .

history

Infrastructure

Stop and block point Sylbach

The line was built in 1880 by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), branching off its main line between Bielefeld and Minden . Construction began in Herford, as it was easy to follow the course of the Werre uphill. On December 31, 1880, the line was initially only opened for freight traffic and only to Detmold.

A short time later, the CME was nationalized and with it the route fell to the Prussian state railways , as well as in 1872 by the Altenbekener Hannover Railway Company built railway line Hannover-Altenbeken , to which the Hamm-Warburg railway of the former Royal Westphalian Railway company joined.

In order to create a connection between these two railways between Hamm and Hanover, the Herford – Detmold line was extended from the Werre Valley up into the Egge Mountains. On June 12, 1895, the entire line to the newly built Himmighausen station on the Hanover – Altenbeken line was opened. At the same time, the old Sandebeck station was shut down, and passenger traffic was relocated to the new station (until 1989) and to the Sandebeck stop on the new line. The new station was of little importance as a terminus, the trains ran continuously to Altenbeken station , but it was a transfer point in the direction of Hameln .

In 1896 the line in Lage (Lippe) was expanded by the Begatalbahn Bielefeld – Hameln via Lemgo and Barntrup . This route in the direction of Lage - Bielefeld was not completed until 1904 . In order to be able to relieve the adjacent main lines if necessary, the line from Herford to Himmighausen was electrified between 1973 and 1975.

The infrastructure has been dismantled in recent years due to the decline in freight traffic. The Schötmar train station with its two platform tracks was converted into a single-track stop in the early 1990s, and the application for dismantling the neighboring junction was submitted to the EBA in 2013 . In 2005, the Sylbach station was dismantled and the crossing track was dismantled into a stop with a block ; Among other things, the listed wooden building houses the mechanics for the railway barrier, which is still operated by hand today. Lage lost track 1 at the end of the 1990s, and in 2013 most of the freight tracks were decommissioned and the associated overhead contact line dismantled. The station Nienhagen (near Detmold) , which has not been served by passenger trains since 1988, but has not been used for unscheduled train encounters, has not been available as an alternate and operating point since 2006. Remmighausen has not been used as a passenger traffic station since the mid-1980s, but thanks to the volume of goods it has been able to maintain itself as a train station to this day and has been remotely controlled by the Detmold ESTW since 1989 . The southern end of the line, Himmighausen, has not been used for passenger traffic since the late 1980s, but inevitably continues to function as a separation station .

The electronic central interlocking (ESTW-Z) Lage went into operation on January 25, 2013. It initially only controlled the Quelle, Halle and Steinhagen stations on the Brackwede – Osnabrück line. In the following months, the Rheda-Wiedenbrück-Münster and Brackwede-Paderborn routes were also activated. On November 14, 2016, the Detmold station will also be connected to the ESTW-Z Lage and the ESTW prototype, which went into operation in 1989 as the first electronic interlocking of the Essen Federal Railway Directorate, was shut down. The remaining operating points on the Bielefeld – Lemgo and Herford – Himmighausen lines and the Bünde – Rahden line will only be added in the medium term.

The Lage (Lippe) traffic station was completely modernized between June 2014 and August 2016. The platforms and entrances were completely renewed and barrier-free access was made. A central bus station was built to the west of the reception building. The official opening of the modernized facilities will take place on September 30, 2016.

Long-distance transport

101 141 with empty train Düsseldorf – Paderborn on August 12, 2007 in location

The line was important for north-south long-distance traffic until the 1970s and 80s. There were express and D trains with through coaches from Osnabrück or Bielefeld via Warburg - Kassel to Munich via Würzburg (even a night train with sleeping and couchette cars) and Basel. In the north, express trains reached Hamburg-Altona or Cuxhaven . Some express trains ran as diesel multiple units or locomotive-hauled push- pull trains over the Solling Railway into the Harz Mountains . A pair of express trains from Enschede to Bad Pyrmont with a change of direction in Himmighausen also ran along the route .

Over the years, however, passenger transport has become more and more systematic. Instead of long-distance trains, there was a regular local traffic; regular long-distance traffic has been history since the mid-1980s. In the 1993/94 timetable year, due to construction work between Paderborn and Soest, the D-train pair D 1956/1957 Cologne - Herford - Kassel - Chemnitz ran once a week via the Altenbeken bypass; since then, the Lipperland has only been used by long-distance trains in exceptional cases. The dismantling of the last few years described above make the route increasingly unattractive for long-distance trains. B. between Altenbeken and Soest is not infrequently diverted widely via Hanover.

Local transport

143 183-2 leaves the station in November 2004 with the RB 72 to Herford

In local transport there were also supra-regional connections for a long time, e.g. B. to Rahden , Bremen , Bad Bentheim , Löhne , Dortmund, Münster and Bielefeld. After the gradual introduction of clocking, which reached its peak in the NRW cycle , the trains ran every hour Paderborn - Detmold - Herford and then alternately from / to Bielefeld ( RB 72 " Ostwestfalen-Bahn ") or Bad Bentheim (RB 62 "Der Cherusker ") As well as the line RE 82 " Der Leineweber " south of Lage on the route ( Münster -) Bielefeld - Oerlinghausen - Lage - Detmold - Altenbeken. The latter was from December 2003 to December 2013 by the North Western Railway operated, which in the earlier of the purpose associations ZVM , VVOWL and NPH conducted tender prevailed. Since then, the RE 82 line has belonged to Lot North of the OWL diesel network and is operated by the Eurobahn , most journeys ended / began in the period after the award in Detmold and Horn-Bad Meinberg. With the timetable change in December 2016, the majority of trains to Altenbeken were extended, where there are direct connections to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe.

The hourly line swap between the RB 61 ("Wiehengebirgsbahn"), 62 and 72 in Herford has been history since October 2004, since then only the RB 61 Bielefeld - Bad Bentheim and RB 72 Herford - Detmold - Paderborn have been served every hour. Continuous connections Osnabrück - Detmold and Bielefeld - Bad Salzuflen no longer exist; Bielefeld - Rheine, however, every hour. These two lines have been operated by the Westfalenbahn since December 9, 2007 , after they were put out to tender by the special purpose associations ZVM, VVOWL, NPH and LNVG . After another tender by the NWL, the Eurobahn will take over the Teutoburg Forest Network from December 2017, and with it the RB 72 line.

Freight transport

DGS 64000 Kassel – Holthausen leaves Horn-Bad Meinberg station on September 26, 2008

In the past, freight traffic consisted of regional handover trains as well as supra-regional traffic. For a long time, the sugar beet traffic in autumn was a defining factor, which also led to the construction of the road bridge over the northern end of the Lage station. For many years, Lage and Detmold each had their own small locomotive to operate the local sidings. Today, service trips still take place on working days from Paderborn to Detmold. Local customers in Sandebeck (Kronospan), Horn-Bad Meinberg ( Glunz AG - formerly Hornitex), Remmighausen (Lippische Eisenindustrie) and Detmold are served.

Supra-regional freight trains are quite rare today, but still take place. Due to the dismantled crossing tracks, the route is now less attractive for freight traffic.

Vehicle use

Class 624 multiple unit as RE 82 Altenbeken – Bielefeld on December 11, 2003 in Detmold

After electrification, electric locomotives dominated the scene, especially the DB series 110 , 140 and, for decades, the 141 in particular , but the series 211, 216, 290/291 and also the formative 624 continued to appear on the line. In the case of locomotive-hauled trains - initially in addition to conversion and express train wagons - mainly n-wagons were used, most recently as push -pull trains .

After the turn of the millennium, new class 425 electric multiple units were increasingly used, especially to the south of Lage, supplemented by class 624 , 628 , 640 and 643 diesel multiple units . Currently (Dec. 2017 to Dec. 2032) the RB 72 is served by three-part electric multiple units of the type FLIRT of the Eurobahn . The Eurobahn uses Talent diesel multiple units on the RE 82 line south of Lage , mostly the VT 2.01-07 that was acquired in 2000.

Service offer

Train crossing in Lage with the Eurobahn to Lemgo and Nordwestbahn to Bielefeld on May 15, 2006.

The route is used every hour by the RB  72 “Ostwestfalen-Bahn” Herford – Altenbeken – Paderborn and between Lage and Altenbeken by the RE  82 “Der Leineweber” Bielefeld –Detmold (–Altenbeken). The RE 82 runs every hour to Detmold, but only every two hours on Sundays, and every two hours every day to Altenbeken with a connection to the IC trains of the Central Germany connection to East Germany and the ICE to Munich. Above all, the passenger association Pro Bahn complains that there is no direct train connection to the ICE train station Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe , so that travelers from Lippe have to change trains in Altenbeken to get to southern Germany.

In the late evening there is a one-off line swap in Herford, which connects Bad Bentheim – Detmold and Paderborn – Bielefeld. "Der Leineweber" (RE 82) turns in Bielefeld on the RB 73 to Lemgo. Local passenger transport is carried out by the Eurobahn . The average speed of the RE 82 between Bielefeld and Altenbeken is 62 km / h.

In Lage there are attractive connections every hour on the Bielefeld – Lage – Detmold / Paderborn route. In the other three possible routes, however, no connections are offered, the change is then associated with considerable waiting times (e.g. Herford – Lemgo: 54 minutes stopover).

Tariff

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund OstWestfalenLippe ("Der Sechser") applies to all local public transport in the northern section of the route to Leopoldstal , in the south the tariff of the Paderborn-Höxter local transport association ("Hochstift tariff") and the NRW tariff across the tariff area .

Detmold Military Railway

1946 took over British Army of the Rhine , the railway line from the German National Railroad and taught there a training track for railway pioneers , which were to learn the operation of a German railway. As a result, the British took over the entire operational management of the line, both passenger and freight traffic as well as the manning of the signal boxes. The Royal Engineers' 3 Railway Operating Group was in charge. The 153 Railway Operating Coy, which was stationed specifically in Detmold for this purpose, was responsible for the management. For this purpose, the British Army brought British war locomotives of the "Austerity" type (1D wheel arrangement) to Detmold, which were soon supplemented by seized locomotives from the Reichsbahn and withdrawn in 1947. In 1948, shortly before the establishment of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , the railway line was returned.

See also

• List of German railway companies
• List of railway lines in Germany
• List of German tariff and transport associations
• List of local rail transport lines in North Rhine-Westphalia
• History of the railways in Germany
• List of the first railways in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1930

literature

• Werner Menninghaus: 100 years of the railway in Lippe. Verlag Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1981, ISBN 3-922657-15-X .
• Garrelt Riepelmeier, Ingrid and Werner Schütte: The railway in Lippe. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2005, ISBN 3-937189-17-3 .
• Wolfgang Klee: Railway landscape Westphalia-Lippe. Self-published, Paderborn 1989, ISBN 3-927144-03-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Detmold Military Railway (English)

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2980 (Herford ↔ Himminghausen)
• Description of the route 1760 (Himminghausen ↔ Altenbeken)

Further evidence:

• Lippebahn: Railway in Lippe
• Detmold Military Railway

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