Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line

Oldenburg – Osnabrück-Eversburg
Route Oldenburg – Osnabrück-Eversburg
Route number :	1502
Course book section (DB) :	392
Route length:	108.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Top speed:	120 km / h
Train control :	PZB
Dual track :	Oldenburg - Oldenburg-Osternburg Bramsche - Achmer formerly until May 16, 1993: Oldenburg-Osternburg - Sandkrug
Legend from Wilhelmshaven from Leer 0.0 Oldenburg (Oldb) central station former route to Brake Hunte ( bascule bridge ) to Bremen 2.3 Oldenburg- Osternburg ( Üst , until 1979 Bf with PV ) 4 m 2.7 A 28 (former bypass road) from Bremen 3.5 former Hemmelsberg curve 3.6 Hemmelsberg curve 3.7 Oldenburg- Tweelbäke ( Abzw ) 5.2 Oldenburg Rbf (until 1976) 5.5 Oldenburg- Krusenbusch 6.9 7.8 Item 8 A 29 10.5 Sand jar 10 m 14.2 Barnführerholz Hunte 17.9 Huntlose 20 m of ExxonMobil processing plant 23.3 Grossenkneten 40 m formerly from the Gräper sand-lime brick factory 28.9 Ahlhorn 48 m former route to Vechta A 29 35.0 Höltinghausen / Deuka ( Gla ) 51 m B 72 (Cloppenburg bypass) former route from Vechta Niemeier concrete works by Friesoythe formerly from the Cloppenburg industrial park formerly Cloppenburger Kreisbahn 41.2 Cloppenburg 43 m 45.4 Nutteln (oldb) 49.2 Hampered 53.0 Bartmannsholte 35 m B 68 (Essen bypass) from Meppen 56.6 Food (oldb) 29 m Camp bunny Essen Canal 60.0 Brokstreek (Oldb) Little rabbit 62.7 Quakenbrück 25 m formerly Kleinbahn Lingen – Berge – Quakenbrück former route to Rheine 67.6 Badbergen 71.2 Langen (Kr Bersenbrück) B 68 B 214 from Ankum 76.8 Bersenbrück 37 m 82.3 Alfhausen (until 2000 PV , reactivation planned) 43 m Ueffelner Aue from Delmenhorst 89.4 Hesepe 45 m to the FBG tank farm 92.6 Bramsche 53 m B 68 / B 218 formerly for the Achmer industrial park 96.3 Achmer 57 m Mittelland Canal 97.4 Achmer South ( Anst ) State border NDS / NRW 102.1 Halen (formerly Bf) 53 m Goodness A 1 Tecklenburger Nordbahn (since 1989) State border NRW / NDS Parallel routing of the railway lines (until 1989) formerly Tecklenburger Nordbahn (until 1989) Mining railway / harbor railway from Rheine 108.1 Osnabrück-Eversburg ( Keilbf , PV until 1991 ) 62 m according to wages Swell:

The Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line (also known as the “Oldenburger Südbahn” ) is a largely single-track , non- electrified main line in Lower Saxony . It runs from the former royal seat of Oldenburg (Oldb) in a southerly direction to Osnabrück .

history

The Oldenburger Südbahn was built between 1870 and 1876 by the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Railway (GOE). The opening of the first section Oldenburg – Quakenbrück took place on October 15, 1875.

The section from Quakenbrück via Halen to Osnabrück-Eversburg led over Prussian territory and was only completed just under a year later, on June 30, 1876. The official commissioning took place on November 15, 1876.

Responsibility for the route was taken over in 1918 by the Reichsbahndirektion Oldenburg. This year the GOE company was also dissolved.

In the area of ​​the Eversburg station, the threading to the Tecklenburger Nordbahn was changed on October 23, 1989. The switch previously located in Eversburg station was moved more than a kilometer to the north and the parallel tracks of the railway lines up to the station were abandoned.

There was a modest long-distance transport offer until around the mid-1990s: a daily pair of D-trains (Koblenz -) Cologne - Wilhelmshaven and a D-train (primarily offered for weekend Bundeswehr family trips home) exclusively with second class from Mönchengladbach to Wilhelmshaven, the latter only stopped in Ahlhorn between Osnabrück and Oldenburg.

Electrification of the railway line was considered as early as the mid-1990s . A possible double-track expansion was meanwhile out of discussion. However, Deutsche Bahn refused to electrify the line in the spring of 1994.

The infrastructure was expanded by the year 2000 in order to be able to introduce a local transport concept with shorter travel times and better connections. Part of the expansion included increasing the line's top speed to 120 km / h and the removal of less frequented access points. As a result of the expansion between Oldenburg and Osnabrück, travel time fell by 22 minutes to 87 minutes. In Oldenburg, the long idle times can be dispensed with and there is an optimal timing node with the RE / IC trains on the Bremen – Emden route. The travel time on the Wilhelmshaven – Osnabrück route fell by a total of 45 minutes.

Todays situation

The Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line can mostly be driven at 120 km / h and, apart from three short sections, is largely single-track. Only the sections between Oldenburg Hbf and the transfer point Oldenburg- Osternburg , Bramsche and Achmer , and between the wedge station Osnabrück-Eversburg and Osnabrück Hbf are double -tracked . Strictly speaking, the last section already belongs to the Löhne – Rheine railway line .

The operation of the Wilhelmshaven – Osnabrück line was put out to tender together with two other lines in the “Weser-Ems” network. The network was the first public procurement network. which the local transport company Lower Saxony (LNVG) has put out to tender. The contract was awarded to the NordWestBahn , which started operating on November 5, 2000 with LINT diesel multiple units from the LNVG vehicle pool. The associated transport contract was extended by the LNVG for twelve years at the beginning of 2005. As a result of the improved supply, the demand for transport doubled between 2000 and 2008. On average, 11,800 people used the train service on the Osnabrück – Wilhelmshaven route every day in 2009. The line is still owned by Deutsche Bahn .

The route is served every hour by diesel railcars of the type Lint 41 , which, depending on the volume of traffic, are coupled in multiple units. The average speed is 73 km / h. Due to the high average speed and the connection function between the three regional centers Osnabrück, Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven, the line is run by the LNVG as an express line with the line designation RE 18. Deutsche Bahn had previously used class 624 diesel multiple units.

In freight transport, liquid sulfur is transported from the natural gas processing plant in Großenkneten by tank wagons to the port of Brake or via Osnabrück, first to the south and then via Bremen to the north. In addition, freight trains run irregularly between the tank farm in Hesepe and Osnabrück.

In addition, freight trains loaded with sand / gravel have increasingly been running on the route in recent years. In addition, the feed plant at Höltinghausen station is supplied with feed via this route by one or two trains per week.

In mid-November 2014, the NordWestBahn again won the tender for the Weser-Ems network and thus also for this route. After winning this tender, NWB will operate local passenger transport on this route for another ten years until 2026. Deutsche Bahn and DB Regio - along with other interested parties - also applied for the network, but could not prevail. LNVG is having the multiple units modernized for further use and is also purchasing six new Lint 41 multiple units, which it is making available to NordWestBahn.

Planned expansion

In the course of the opening of the Jade-Weser-Port in Wilhelmshaven , the expansion of freight traffic on the route is planned in order to relieve the Bremen – Oldenburg line from the expected additional traffic. For this purpose, the line is to be expanded to two tracks and electrified. In order to connect to the Oldenburg – Wilhelmshaven railway line , an expansion of the city line and a new eastern railway bypass for Oldenburg were discussed. The proposed route, which should be based on the location of the disused Oldenburg – Brake railway line , would, however, lead to considerable lengthening of travel times and reduced entry and exit speeds in the Oldenburg train station due to insufficient curve radii. Alternatively, a complete new construction of the east head of the main station would be necessary.

Citizens protests, especially from the Oldenburg district of Osternburg , which is cut through by both routes, are directed against an expansion of the city route or the Hemmelsberg curve . A bypass of the southern districts is also required.

In November 2013, however, another variant was discussed which, using the route of a never-built rail link to the Tweelbäke industrial park, would not only make it unnecessary to expand the route in Osternburg, but also enable it to be completely dismantled. However, this variant was not pursued any further, as the planned route was partially built over and is no longer included in the zoning plan as a railway route.

A planned relocation of goods traffic to the disused Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway line became obsolete when the tracks between Fürstenau and Spelle were dismantled in 2016.

In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, all three variants submitted were rejected in autumn 2016. Despite the demands of the federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as numerous business associations and the considerably increasing transport performance, the Federal Ministry of Transport sees no need for an expansion of the railway line.

For the Alfhausen station, which was closed in 2000, the state of Lower Saxony has been aiming to reactivate passenger traffic since 2015. The line, which was named the most punctual railway line in Lower Saxony after the start of the Northwest Railway, has meanwhile become one of the country's railway lines susceptible to delays. The reason given for this is a lack of dual track on sections of the line or a lack of electrification of the railway line.

Tariff

The trains can be used with nationwide tickets within the framework of a recognition agreement between Deutsche Bahn and NordWestBahn. North of Ahlhorn , the tariff of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association also applies . The Münsterland tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Münsterland is also recognized between Halen and Osnabrück Hbf .

Picture gallery

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  Oldenburg train station

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  Crossing under the A 29 at Sandkrug

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  Sandkrug station

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  Huntlosen station with NWB

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  Cloppenburg train station

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  Quakenbrück train station

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  former reception building in Halen

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  Bramsche station

literature

• Herbert Schmidt: 100 years of the Oldenburg - Quakenbrück railway . In: Handbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1975 . Vechta 1974, pp. 86-100

Web links

Commons : Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Hoffmann among other things: Development version of the historical atlas of the railway lines in Germany. ( Memento from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). As of May 29, 2005.
• History of the Oldenburg Southern Railway
• Information on rail routes around Osnabrück
• Operating company NordWestBahn
• Outline of the history of the railway lines in the Oldenburger Land

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e register of} infrastructure. In: deutschebahn.com. DB Netz AG , accessed on July 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
4. ^ Dieter Riehemann: "The Tecklenburger Nordbahn", p. 101
5. ↑ 25 years ago . In: Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt . May 28, 2019.
6. ↑ ^{a b} LNVG, SPNV-Konzept 2013+, pp. 125–127  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Press information: NordWestBahn will continue to run until 2017. (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony regional transport company, February 3, 2005, archived from the original on March 2, 2005 ; accessed on March 23, 2014 .  
8. ↑ Press release of the LNVG from May 5, 2009: NordWestBahn and LNVG rely on more service and security ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. 
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
10. ↑ Interpretation superimposed on information in Nordwestzeitung from October 2, 2013
11. ^ Another variant for rail bypass in Nordwestzeitung from November 18, 2013
12. ↑ City wants to see plans for the railway to expand, requests to inspect files - Blenk route without current basis. in Nordwestzeitung on November 27, 2013
13. ↑ http://www.dvz.de/rubriken/landverkehr/single-view/nachricht/hafenwirtschaft-wilhelmshaven- sucht-zuegigen- bahnausbau.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Port calls for expansion  
14. ↑ http://www.bvwp-projekte.de/kb_schiene.html Section 1-156, 1-157, 1-158
15. ↑ Martin Schmitz: Alfhausen train stop: Baier and Rolfes contradict . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on July 25, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2018