Neumünster – Bad Oldesloe railway line

Neumünster – Bad Oldesloe
Neumünster Süd station
Map of the route
Route number (DB) :	1043
Course book section (DB) :	142
Route length:	44.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Kiel and Flensburg from Heide (Holst) from Ascheberg (Holst) 74.7 Neumunster to Hamburg Swallow from the industrial area Wrangelstrasse 76.7 Neumünster south Material handling center Neumünster Sturgeon (bridge) to Hamburg B 205 83.2 Small number field 86.1 Rickling-Ölweiche (until May 30, 1981) Rickling olive tree (until around 1983) 90.9 Rickling 96.8 Wahlstedt since 2002 von Wahlstedt industrial park 99.4 Fahrenkrug A 21 B 206 Trave from Kiel 103.1 Bad Segeberg to Lübeck 108.2 Altengörs 112.0 Wakendorf 115.3 Fresenburg 117.2 Poggensee Bad Oldesloe Ost (planned) B 75 Trave from Lübeck 119.6 Bad Oldesloe to Hamburg

The Neumünster – Bad Oldesloe railway line is a 45-kilometer single-track, non-electrified main line . It connects the middle Holstein Neumünster with Bad Oldesloe , the county town of the district Stormarn . Since December 2002 the route has been operated by the nordbahn railway company for passenger traffic.

Operation and history

Bad Segeberg train station

Bad Oldesloe train station

The line was opened on December 10, 1875 by what was then the Altona-Kiel Railway Company . In 1884 the railway company was nationalized. Until 1945 the double-track line was part of the Kaiserbahn Neumünster– Hagenow Land in Mecklenburg . The kilometer stones of this relation are still on the route today (the zero stone is in Neumünster). Since the route is currently run under route number 1043 with the start of the route in Neumünster (km 74.376) and the end of the route in Bad Oldesloe (km 119.886), contrary to the labeling, this information is listed next to the tracks in the table opposite.

The route was of strategic importance due to the possibility of running trains on the Neumünster – Hamburg route via Bad Segeberg. This mostly happened in freight transport. From the late 1950s to the 1970s there was a Flensburg – Neumünster – Bad Oldesloe – Hamburg express train that ran the route in the morning.

On September 29, 1984, passenger traffic on the Neumünster – Bad Segeberg section was discontinued. The route, however, continued to be partly used by freight traffic and kept operational. With the passenger traffic, the freight traffic between Rickling and Fahrenkrug was given up, on September 25, 1988 also between Kleinkummerfeld and Rickling, and finally on May 30, 1990 between Neumünster and Kleinkummerfeld.

After the Federal Ministry of Transport had not approved the suspension of passenger traffic on the remaining route, which had been requested by the Deutsche Bundesbahn, local passenger traffic was carried out every hour on the remaining section Bad Segeberg – Bad Oldesloe from the 1989 summer timetable . The German train set railcar series 628 a. In December 2002, the disused section was reactivated for passenger traffic after numerous delays.

The Kleinkummerfeld station , which was necessary to operate the Rickling- Ölweiche connection opened on June 3, 1956 , was not put back into operation. The Rickling-Ölweiche junction could only be reached from Kleinkummerfeld by pushing trains, as there was no bypass option. The junction between Neumünster and Bad Segeberg was closed around 1983 before operations ceased. The stop at the junction was last served on May 30, 1981.

Since the route was reactivated, the Neumünster Süd AKN and Wahlstedt stations have been re-operated.

Current operation

The route is currently used by passenger trains every hour. The nordbahn uses Alstom Coradia LINT railcars from the manufacturer Alstom . All trains travel the entire route and stop at all stations, with two stops on demand - Altengörs and Fresenburg. The journey time is around 45 minutes.

Both the country, the customer, and the operating company were surprised by the high number of passengers. The trains are often overcrowded at rush hour. As a first measure, a parallel bus service was introduced, as the platforms at some stations were too short for a double traction . Nevertheless, from December 12, 2011, a double traction was used for connections that were in high demand. After the platforms in Fresenburg and Altengörs have been extended, the double traction stop is now possible everywhere.

future

According to statements from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), the line should be expanded to two tracks and electrified. Both freight and passenger transport should have benefited from this. In 2010, in a review of the requirements plan, the cost-benefit ratio of the approx. 300 million euro project was rated with a value of 0.6 and may therefore no longer be financed with federal funds. This results from a lower demand in freight transport than originally assumed in the requirements plan , since the implementation of the fixed Fehmarnbelt link was assumed for the review .

Railway Museum

The Kleinkummerfeld station, which was closed in 1984, was acquired by the Mittelholstein Railway Friends Association . The association set up the transport museum, Eisenbahnmuseum Bahnhof Kleinkummerfeld, which has existed since 1986 .

Web links

• Website of the NBE nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nah.SH is planning seven new train stations
2. ^ Railways in Schleswig-Holstein. Rickling oil switch, history and track plan. In: eisenbahn-sh.de. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Classification of the project proposals for the rail part of the BVWP 2030. (PDF; 533 kB) Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), March 14, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ BMVBS 2010, results of the review of the requirement plans for the federal railways and the federal highways ( memento of November 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 3.9 MB)