Nienburg – Diepholz railway line

Abzw Lohe – Diepholz
Route number (DB) :	1744
Course book section (DB) :	ex 219a
Route length:	67 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Nienburg 0.0 Lohe ( Abzw ) to Rahden 2.7 Flour mountains 5.5 Blenhorst 9.2 Wetting 13.3 Harbergen- Staffhorst 18.3 Siedenburg 22.5 Mellinghausen from Bassum 28.9 Sulingen (Han) to Barenburg discarded connecting clasp 34.8 Big Lessen 39.2 Wehrbleck 42.0 Sanctuary 46.6 Barver 51.1 Hemsloh ex Muna, today BTR Logistik 54.7 Rehden - Wetschen 58.9 St. Help from Hamburg-Harburg 61.5 Diepholz to Osnabrück Swell:

The Nienburg – Diepholz railway was a single-track branch line in Lower Saxony , the western section of which is still used for freight traffic. In its western section, the connection leads through sparsely populated moorland from Diepholz to Sulingen ( Hanover ). The eastern section leading to the Weser town of Nienburg is partially interrupted and no longer passable.

history

The railway line was put into operation in sections by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The first section from Sulingen in an easterly direction to Siedenburg was opened on August 1, 1921, the second section followed on October 1, 1921 in a westerly direction to Wehrbleck. From November 15, 1921, there was one stop from Siedenburg to Harbergen-Staffhorst. Almost a year later, on September 1, 1922, the gap to Nienburg (Weser) in the east was closed. In the west, Diepholz was reached on October 1, 1923.

The Sulingen – Nienburg section is interrupted at several points and can therefore no longer be used continuously. However, the line is still dedicated as a railway line today , which is very important for a later possible reactivation. The Bünde – Bassum Railway, which was founded in 2010, is also committed to maintaining the Diepholz – Sulingen – Nienburg line.

In September 2018, the Sulingen-Harbergen-Staffhorst section was sold by DB Netz to an unknown bidder at a price of 150,000 euros. Previous intervention by the district administrator of the Diepholz district to stop the auction was unsuccessful.

From March to November 2018, DB Netz is building seven new bridges between Diepholz and Sulingen, which have reached the end of their technical useful life almost a hundred years after their construction.

passenger traffic

The route has always been of minor importance for local passenger transport. In 1927, two pairs of trains were used on Sundays and three on weekdays, and four pairs in the western section. In 1963 four pairs of trains ran on weekdays, one of which was an express train, and Uerdingen rail buses were always used as the vehicle .

Passenger traffic on the western Sulingen – Diepholz section ceased on September 25, 1966, and on the eastern Sulingen – Nienburg section three years later on September 27, 1969.

Every year at the beginning of October there are special train trips to the Rehden autumn market and Sulingen city festival, which are organized by the Diepholz local group of the German Transport Club.

Freight transport

In addition to passenger traffic, the railway was initially primarily used to transport agricultural goods, but this was increasingly shifted to the road after the Second World War. In the 1970s and 1980s, the entire route was then mainly used by diesel locomotive-hauled tank wagon block trains that transported the oil and petroleum products extracted in the region .

After the cessation of freight traffic on the Sulingen – Nienburg section of the route on June 2, 1991 and its shutdown on December 31, 1997, the oil and sulfur tankers of DB Cargo Deutschland only run over the section between Diepholz and Sulingen, where the trains are heading change to reach the ExxonMobil warehouse in Barenburg ( on the route that used to continue to Herford ).

Freight trains also drive to a logistics company in Rehden in the former ammunition plant. This is served via its own siding from Rehden station. In 2012, a siding at Rehden station was completely renovated.

Sulingen connecting clasp

There were plans to create a connecting curve in the Sulingen area between the Diepholzer and Barenburger branches and thus a possibility to bypass the city of Sulingen. The site of the Sulingen train station, which was then no longer in use, with its formerly extensive track system, was to be developed according to these plans. However, the planning approval decision issued in November 2011 was revoked by the Federal Railway Authority in March 2017 .

This was preceded by a lawsuit by the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn , which had been in possession of a permit from the State of Lower Saxony to operate platform 3 on track 4 as a public transport railway infrastructure for a period of 50 years for a period of 50 years and, in 2013, from the Federal Railway Authority had the permission to operate the Platform 3 was granted as a public service facility. Contrary to the original plans, the DB Netz either had to build a branch switch or, alternatively, to initiate a prior decommissioning procedure for the Sulingen station according to §11 AEG . Because this meant that there was no longer any prospect of a change in use of the station area and the end of the sulfur trains significantly reduced transport performance, initially the city of Sulingen and, following the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court on May 25, 2016, DB Netz also distanced themselves from the project.

Web links

• Sulinger Cross at www.eisenbahnkultur.de
• Today's state of the route
• Action alliance railway Bünde-Bassum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ Route report Nienburg - Sulingen . In: Bahn-Report . No. 1/2019 , p. 48 .
3. ↑ Katharina Schmidt: Bahn renews seven bridges. In: Kreiszeitung.de. March 9, 2018, accessed March 29, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Federal Railway Office, Hanover branch: Rescission of the plan approval decision according to §18 AEG of November 16, 2011 for the "Sulingen connecting clasp" project. March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Hanover Administrative Court: Dispute about further connection of the Sulingen train station to the Deutsche Bahn network. September 17, 2015, accessed March 29, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Joern Spreen-Ledebur: Bahn AG wants to build Südschleife. In: New Westphalian. September 22, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .