Cloppenburg – Ocholt railway line

Cloppenburg – Ocholt
Route number (DB) :	1521
Course book section (DB) :	ex 220d (1961), 220f (1950)
Route length:	62.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Minimum radius :	230 m
Top speed:	40 km / h
Legend former route from Ellenserdamm Line from Oldenburg 62.5 Westerstede-Ocholt 5  m Route to Leer 57.5 Godensholt 57.0 Establishment of Godensholt Westfalen AG 54.6 Carolinenhof (until approx. 1955 Bf) 52.5 Barßel Soeste Elisabethfehnkanal (bascule bridge) 49.4 Elisabethfehn 5  m 45.9 Straps 42.4 Ramsloh 4  m 39.7 First Scharrel Brinkmann 39.0 Scharrel 36.8 First Scharrel Union 34.9 Sedelsberg Coastal channel 26.3 Friesoythe 9  m 26.0 Friesoythe 24.8 First Friesoythe Bruns 24.8 Initially Friesoythe management 19.8 Evil 17  m Glassdorf 12.6 Garrel 20  m 6.2 Staatsforsten-Varrelbusch (formerly Varrelbusch) 42  m 2.9 Bethen Route to Oldenburg 0.0 Cloppenburg 43  m Route to Osnabrück

The Cloppenburg – Ocholt railway is a only partially existing, single-track, non-electrified branch line in Lower Saxony.

history

Scharrel station

It was first opened as the Cloppenburg – Friesoythe branch line on October 1, 1906 by the Grand Ducal Oldenburg State Railways (GOE). A year later, on October 1, 1907, it was extended to Scharrel, the connection to the Oldenburg – Leer railway line was established on September 1, 1908 in Ocholt.

In 1950 five pairs of trains ran the entire route every day. Passenger traffic was discontinued on September 29, 1968, with traffic since the early 1960s consisting of only one pair of trains every weekday.

In 1973 the combined road and railway bridge over the coastal canal was dismantled to widen the canal and replaced by a pure road bridge. The money for a railway bridge was not available, and as a result, the line between Sedelsberg and Friesoythe was also dismantled.

The Cloppenburg – Friesoythe route remained in the possession of Deutsche Bahn AG and was regularly served by DB Cargo until January 1, 1999 .

On April 1, 2001, the Emsland Railway took over the Ocholt – Sedelsberg line for the symbolic price of one DM and continued to operate goods traffic. The main cargo is still peat, and a freight train runs every day.

Since 2004 the line has belonged to the Friesoyther Railway Infrastructure Company founded by the city of Friesoythe , which enables timber to be transported on this line. In addition, since 2006 there have been museum train trips from Friesoythe to Cloppenburg and back several times a year.

The museum railway Ammerland-Saterland operation since the mid-1990s, two Saturdays per month a tourist passenger in the summer months. The location of the association, which has called itself the Ammerland-Barßel-Saterland Museum Railway since 2013 , is the locomotive shed in Ocholt on the Oldenburg-Leer line. The three-part rail bus set , which is also allowed to drive on the DB tracks, is usually used. The club also has a Köf III and two blunderbusses , which are only used on the route between Ocholt and Sedelsberg. Since 2008, the association has regularly started its trips from Bad Zwischenahn on the Oldenburg – Leer route, the destinations of the trips being the Barßel, Elisabethfehn or Scharrel stations. The Sedelsberg terminus is rarely used. In 2014, most journeys start in Oldenburg Hauptbahnhof, but the number of journeys has decreased compared to previous years.

accident

On July 7, 1944 there was a collision between a train and a Wehrmacht personnel carrier at the level crossing at Varrelbusch airfield , in which all nine vehicle occupants were killed.

literature

• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1. Between the Weser and Ems . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4
• Railway Atlas Germany, 2007/2008 edition . Verlag Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9

Web links

• http://www.museumseisenbahn-friesoythe-cloppenburg.de/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Annual report on the operational management of the Oldenburg Railways for 1915 . Büttner, Oldenburg. Quoted from Oliver Westerhoff: Cloppenburg – Ocholt. In: Laenderbahn.info. Retrieved October 7, 2008 .  
2. ^ ^{A b} Lower Saxony Ministry for Economy, Labor and Transport: State and future of rail traffic in Lower Saxony. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony State Parliament, September 2, 2008, p. 19 , archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved September 25, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Museum Railway Friesoythe – Cloppenburg: Sonderfahrten 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Homepage of the Ammerland-Barßel-Saterland museum railway ( memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ NWZ Online, October 21, 2016: Nine soldiers died in a military accident , accessed on October 21, 2016