Jever – Harle railway line
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| Route number : | 1541 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | ex 10007, ex 221g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 20.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Jever – Harle railway was a 20-kilometer branch line in the north-west of Lower Saxony , which was mainly used for traffic to and from the ferries to the island of Wangerooge . Because shipping to Wangerooge depending on the tide (the tide), many had pairs of trains a daily changing schedule , which is why these trips as Tidezug and the track as Tidebahn were called. It was also called the Golden Line .
Route
The line branched off from the East Frisian Coast Railway at the northwest end of the Jever train station and ran largely in a straight line and right next to the road to the north. The most important intermediate station was in Carolinensiel . From there it led to the Vordeichs area at Harle Harbor .
history
The construction of the railway was initiated and supported by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in order to promote bathing on the only North Sea island of Wangerooge in Oldenburg. It was built and financed by the " Jever-Carolinensieler Eisenbahngesellschaft ", a stock corporation under the management of the Erlanger & Sons bank in Frankfurt am Main . On September 1, 1888, the Jever – Carolinensiel section was opened; However, the railway did not end in the then Prussian Carolinensiel, but at the Friedrichsschleuse in Oldenburg. The connection to the Harle pier took place on July 1, 1890. The operation was taken over from the beginning by the Grand Ducal Oldenburg State Railways (GOE). The latter also bought the loss-making line in 1897. At the same time she took over a seaside resort ship and built the Wangerooge island railway . In 1956/1957 the port was moved to the Vordeich area and the railway line was extended.
On the route, the Jever – Carolinensiel train traffic, which operates according to a fixed timetable, and that of the Sande – Harle tidal trains overlap . In 1944 there were six pairs of trains and one pair of tidal trains on weekdays, and in 1961 three pairs of trains and one or two pairs of tides.
The operation was always unprofitable. In 1966 the train service was stopped in winter. The service of the intermediate stops ended in 1968. From 1981, trains only ran on busy days. In 1987 the transfer track in Harle had to give way to the parking lot extension so that only rail buses could run. A necessary new bridge over the Tettenser Tief was the reason to shut down the route. For the winter timetable 1987/1988, the German Federal Railroad announced the discontinuation of passenger traffic , but the last train with a ferry connection did not run until May 28, 1988. Up to September 11, 1989, there were individual special trips and freight traffic was still possible. In January 1990 the line was dismantled. Since then, large parts of the route have been used as a cycle or walkway.
The station building and another railway building in Carolinensiel are used privately, and the station building is now a listed building . The station building in Harle serves as a sales point for ferry tickets to the island of Wangerooge. The former station buildings - today used privately - in Tettens and Garms are still there.
Web links
Private website about the Jever-Harle tidal railway
literature
- Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the railways - disused railway lines in Germany's passenger traffic 1986–1990 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 24-27, ISBN 3-613-01417-3 .
- Malte Werning: Wangerooge: The island railway and its history . Lokrundschau Verlag, Gülzow 1999, ISBN 3-931647-09-9 , pp. 114-117.
- Lothar Kuhne: Oldenburg Railway Directorate 1867–1934 . Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941712-16-4 .