Paderborn – Brackwede railway line

This article deals with the Bielefeld-Brackwede-Paderborn railway line. For the former Wiedenbrück – Sennelager railway line, see Wiedenbrück – Sennelager railway line .

Paderborn Hbf – Brackwede
Route number (DB) :	2960
Course book section (DB) :	403
Route length:	40 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Minden 40.0 Brackwede ⊙ to Osnabrück ⊙ to Hamm ⊙ 37.3 Baumgarte ( Anst ) ⊙ 37.0 Brackwede Süd ⊙ (until 2011) 36.7 Kammerichwerke (MHP) (Anst) ⊙ 35.8 Bielefeld-Senne ⊙ (since 2011) 34.6 Diaper bleach ⊙ Federal motorway 2 ⊙ 31.5 Sennestadt (formerly Kracks) ⊙ 30.8 Raba (Ravensberger) ( Awanst ) ⊙ 29.0 Wren (Anst) ⊙ 26.8 Holte Castle ⊙ 21.6 Hövelriege ⊙ from Gütersloh ⊙ 16.6 Hövelhof ⊙ 14.3 Klausheide ⊙ to Wiedenbrück ⊙ 9.7 Sennelager ⊙ Tram PESAG 7.3 Neuhaus Castle Hp ⊙ 6.3 Neuhaus Castle ⊙ 5.8 Neuhaus Castle (Awanst) ⊙ 4.4 Aw Paderborn ⊙ (until Dec 2013) from Aw Paderborn ⊙ Tram PESAG ⊙ from Bad Lippspringe (see below) ⊙ 3.5 Paderborn North ⊙ Hamm – Warburg 1.5 Paderborn Kasseler Tor ⊙ from Warburg ⊙ 0.0 Paderborn central station ⊙ to Hamm Swell:

The Paderborn – Brackwede railway line (also known as the Sennebahn ) is a single-track branch line that runs from Paderborn to the Brackwede district of Bielefeld .

The name Senne rail has the route of the landscape Senne , which they crossed in a north-south direction. The regional train RB 74 "Senne-Bahn" operated by the NordWestBahn operates on the route .

The route is part of the DB regional network Münster-Ostwestfalen (MOW) based in Münster.

history

The northern section of the Senne-Bahn between Bielefeld and Holte Castle was opened at the beginning of December 1901, the southern section to Paderborn on July 1, 1902.

The Liemke stop at km 22.7 was renamed Hövelriege in 1907 at the request of the Hövelhof community . On July 1, 1907, the Paderborn Kasseler Tor station was opened in Paderborn on the eastern edge of the city center . After the economic decline due to high inflation, the management in Kassel ordered it to be closed on May 20, 1924 because of alleged unprofitability. The city of Paderborn successfully campaigned for the reopening, which took place on July 1, 1926. In 1942, a field railway with a gauge of 600 millimeters was put into operation from Hövelhof station to the prisoner-of-war camp "Stalag 326" five kilometers away. After the conversion of the Stalag into a refugee camp, the railway remained in operation until 1952.

On May 15, 1949, the Heckeneilzug Bremen Hauptbahnhof - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof ran for the first time on the Sennebahn. In the next few years, the pair of trains enjoyed great popularity, so that relief trains had to be used for the Easter and Christmas holidays. When passenger traffic on the Büren - Brilon section of the Almetalbahn was discontinued in 1974, the beginning of the end for this pair of express trains came. Initially, the train ran for some time via Warburg, from 1979 only between Bremen and Paderborn with a stop in Hövelhof. In 1983 the express train service over the Sennebahn was completely stopped.

On November 17, 1964, the previous municipality of Liemke was renamed after its stop at Schloß Holte . This is a result of the rapid, above all economic, development in the vicinity of the station, while the previous town center has stagnated since the railway line opened.

The name Windelsbleiche for the train station in what was then the municipality of Senne I can be traced back to the successful printing of the local textile company Windel.

The station in the former municipality of Senne II was called Kracks until 1966 after the farm owner Johann Kracks, on whose grounds the station was built, and has been called Sennestadt ever since .

Decommissioning efforts and supply improvement

The former Schloß Neuhaus train station was dismantled as an alternative connection point in the early 1980s . The Benteler plant is still connected there for rail freight transport.

In 1987 the Deutsche Bundesbahn tried to stop passenger traffic on the Sennebahn and switch to bus services. To this end, she submitted a bus concept to the NRW Ministry of Transport with which local transport between Paderborn and Bielefeld could be offered 90 percent cheaper than by train. In 1987 the number of passengers was only 609. Local traffic was not clocked at the time, weekend traffic was discontinued as early as 1982 and operations closed in the early evening. The low top speed of 60 km / h ensured that the trains took over an hour from Paderborn to Bielefeld. Investments were not made and the infrastructure operation was labor-intensive. Unsecured level crossings caused many accidents, which gave the railway a bad image. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was able to avert the closure in 1988 with a financial contribution in the form of a framework agreement to improve the offer.

Redirected IR by Hövelhof, July 1993

In 1993, an hourly service Monday to Friday was introduced on the route and weekend operations were reintroduced. The number of passengers rose by 220 per day in the same year. In 1994, the local transport service was switched to new class 628 multiple units and the number of passengers rose to 1,164 passengers per day. During the full closure to expand the main route Paderborn-Soest 1993/94 Senne railway served as a detour route for IR trains on the 20 diesel locomotives of class 218 pulled the long-distance trains with abgebügelter electric locomotive at the end of the train without stopping on the non-electrified track. Trains in the direction of the Ruhr area changed the direction of travel in Brackwede, in the opposite direction it was changed in Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof.

Route expansion

At the beginning of the millennium, the expansion of the Senne-Bahn was one of the most urgent transport projects in the Detmold administrative district . After heated discussions about the granting of appropriate state funds in February 2006, the regional council of Ostwestfalen-Lippe decided to put the expansion project at the top of the urgency list so that the railway line is included in the integrated overall transport plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The regional council is also considering extending the Senne-Bahn to Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport with partial use of the disused Almetalbahn.

Stop at Schloss Neuhaus

At the timetable change in December 2003, the NordWestBahn then started operating local traffic on the Sennebahn after winning the tender for the "Ems-Weser-Senne network". In Neuhaus Castle, a new stopping point with access to Schatenweg has been in operation since October 30, 2008 between Schatenweg and Hatzfelder Straße; access from Hatzfelder has not yet been completed due to land disputes. With the timetable change on December 11, 2011, the operation of the Brackwede Süd stop in passenger traffic was given up. At the same time, the Bielefeld-Senne stop, which is accessible to the disabled, was put into operation and was built in September 2011.

In May 2011, the expansion of the line began with the modernization of the Hövelriege stop. Both platforms were renewed there, the trains stop behind the level crossing there in the direction of travel, so that it only remains closed for a short time. Since then the platforms in Paderborn Nord, Sennelager, Hövelhof, Schloß Holte, Sennestadt and Windelsbleiche have been converted and rebuilt. In addition, a new Bielefeld-Senne stop was built in Senne from September until the timetable change in December 2011 , replacing the Brackwede Süd stop . The primary goal of the expansion was to shorten the travel time between Paderborn and Bielefeld by increasing the maximum route speed and to enable additional journeys in addition to the hourly service. The completion of the measures was originally planned for December 2013. Level crossings were modernized and the signaling technology renewed for 34 million euros. The platforms were also renewed and brought to a uniform height of 76 centimeters.

Schloß Holte station

In the Schloß Holte station, a track was removed and a new platform was built on the continuous main track, which enables a stepless change between the trains and the buses that run at the station. As in Sennelager, there will only be one track with a platform after the modernization in Schloss Holte, as no crossing with other regional railways is planned. Train crossings with freight trains or passenger trains without stopping will still be possible.

In August 2014, Deutsche Bahn announced that the completion of the expansion measures would be postponed for the third time by half a year. This was justified with delays in the civil engineering work at the level crossings. The aforementioned completion dates for December 2013 and June 2014 could not be met due to problems with the telemetry connection of the level crossings to the new electronic interlocking. Nevertheless, signal boxes were replaced by ESTW Lage in 2014:

On November 1, 2014 the mechanical interlockings “Pnf” and “Pw” in Paderborn Nord and on November 15, the mechanical interlockings “Sf” and “Sn” in Sennelager were taken out of service. On March 15, 2015, the Hövelhof signal box followed, and by the end of March 2015 also those in Holte Castle and Sennestadt. Thus, all conventional signal boxes on the Senne-Bahn have been replaced.

Furthermore, since the timetable change in December 2014, higher speeds of 100 km / h between Sennelager and Paderborn North and 80 and 70 km / h between Paderborn North and Paderborn Central Station have already been in effect on the Paderborn Hauptbahnhof - Sennelager section. However, the timetables have not been adjusted. Furthermore, level crossing systems are being modernized: some level crossings have been provided with nuisance grids and private crossings from field paths have been closed, others have been given technical security.

Since August 8, 2015, with the introduction of the half-hourly service during rush hour, the travel time between Bielefeld and Paderborn has been reduced by 9 and 14 minutes in each direction. In return, the trains no longer run Monday to Friday from Paderborn as RB 84 (Egge-Bahn) via Ottbergen to Holzminden or Kreiensen, with the timetable change in December 2015, the connection was completely eliminated. Neuhaus, Hövelriege and Sennelager are still only served hourly. Even on the weekend it stays at the hourly rate. After the construction work was completed, the number of users on the route continued to rise, with over 6,000 passengers already using the route in 2018.

Current operation

“Senne-Bahn” in Hövelhof station

Since December 15, 2003, local rail passenger transport on the Senne-Bahn has been operated by the NordWestBahn based in Osnabrück . Diesel railcars of the type Bombardier Talent with a design-related top speed of 120 km / h are used. The maximum line speed after the expansion is 100 km / h.

The route is served by the regional train RB 74 "Senne-Bahn" every hour, from 10 August 2015 on Mondays to Fridays during rush hour every half hour. The crossings take place at the usual minute of symmetry in Sennestadt and Paderborn Nord and at half-hourly intervals in Hövelhof. Due to the timetable alignment to the symmetry minute: 00 at the crossing points, some connections in the direction of Osnabrück and Münster are missed in Brackwede . In Paderborn there was a partial connection via the “ Egge-Bahn ” to Holzminden and Kreiensen until June 2015 .

In order to make the route more attractive for bicycle tourism, the BahnRadRoute Teuto-Senne from Osnabrück via Bielefeld to Paderborn was signposted. Many passengers carry bicycles with them, especially on weekends in summer. Cycle tourists have become an important factor in maintaining the rail link. However, with the change of operator to the NordWestBahn, bicycle transport was generally subject to reservation until 2009 due to the limited space available (today there is a reservation recommendation). Individual travelers with bicycles are transported as far as possible without prior notification.

The Aw Paderborn stop in the immediate vicinity of the Paderborn repair shop was served by a pair of trains from Monday to Friday until the timetable change in December 2013 (in the morning by a train from Paderborn, in the afternoon in the opposite direction). It was given up to speed up the Senne-Bahn.

Planning

The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) commissioned an expert opinion in 2019 with which future service concepts with a possible route electrification or accumulator / overhead multiple units are to be examined.

Rates

The Westphalian tariff applies to the entire route . The northern section of the route to Schloss Holte is in the area of ​​the “TeutoOwl” tariff network ( OWL Verkehr GmbH ). From Hövelriege to Paderborn, the Paderborn-Höxter local transport network with the “Hochstift” network applies . Nationwide journeys can be made with the NRW tariff ; the general DB tariff also applies .

Paderborn North – Bad Lippspringe

Paderborn North – Bad Lippspringe
Route number (DB) :	2962
Course book section (DB) :	last 223c; 198r (1944)
Route length:	7.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 7.4 Bad Lippspringe ⊙ 4.7 Marienloh 4.2 Benteler Talle (Anst) ⊙ former PESAG tram 3.4 Theft path ⊙ 1.3 Paderborn-Stadtheide Line from Bielefeld (see above) ⊙ 0.0 Paderborn North ⊙ Route to Paderborn (see above)

In Paderborn Nord a railway branched off to Bad Lippspringe .

This was opened on October 8, 1906. The station building in Bad Lippspringe was built with ancillary buildings in solid construction and a three-gate freight shed in specialist construction. There was a 40-meter-long combined side and head ramp on the loading tracks. In the 1950s, six people were employed at Lippspringe Bf. The station was independent until 1953, after which it became the office of Paderborn Nord station.

The passenger traffic was always only moderate. After 1945, the passenger never again reached its earlier volume of an average of six pairs of trains between the opening and the war began in 1939. Of the three pairs of trains in 1949 was up to the attitude of the passenger traffic on May 30, 1965 only one pair of freight trains with passenger transport (GmP) left . A high proportion of the passenger traffic were employees of the Paderborn repair works. For them, even after 1965, their own passenger trains were used from the AW to the main station. Between 1980 and 1987 there were several special trips on museum railways between Bad Lippspringe and Paderborn.

The station building in Bad Lippspringe was acquired by the city after the cessation of passenger traffic, but demolished in 1973 due to dilapidation. The goods shed was initially leased as a warehouse, but was also demolished after a fire in 1981.

The sharp decline in freight traffic on the section between the Benteler and Bad Lippspringe junction ended on January 30, 1988. In 1990, the city bought the former station area from the state development company and released it for development. The remainder of the railway line was officially closed on April 30, 2005 and sold to the Benteler company. It still operates this as a private line to this day.

See also

• List of German railway companies
• List of German tariff and transport associations
• List of local rail transport lines in North Rhine-Westphalia
• List of the first railways in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1930

literature

• Jürgen Büschenfeld, Wolfgang Klee, Rüdiger Uffmann: Railways in Bielefeld. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1997, ISBN 3-927587-75-3 .
• Didier Verschelde, Josef Peters: Between two main roads. On the history of the Paderborn - Brackwede (- Bielefeld) railway line 1845–1994. SH-Verlag, Vierow near Greifswald 1995, ISBN 3-89498-003-6 ( Paderborn Contributions to History 5).
• Ulrich Rockelmann (Ed.): The great archive of the railway lines in Germany. Route 403 (2960) Brackwede - Paderborn Hbf. Loose-leaf collection. GeraMond, Munich 2004, ISSN  1614-9181 .
• Josef Högemann: Brackwede - Paderborn. Supplementary delivery to: Wolf-Dietger Machel (Ed.): Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany. GeraNova-Zeitschriften-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISSN  0949-2143 .
• Werner Czapski, Werner Köhler, Hans-Erwin Schlenger: Paderborn-Bad Lippspringe (ex-KSB 174m). In: Yearbook 1994 Federal Association of German Railway Friends eV Verlag Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke, pp. 165–180.

Web links

Commons : Senne-Bahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2960
• Description of route 2962

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Neue Westfälische, 30 years of the Sennebahn: From problem child to lifeline, January 14, 2018
4. ↑ Neue Westfälische, 30 years of the Sennebahn: From problem child to lifeline, January 14, 2018
5. ↑ Sennebahn: Delays in civil engineering work at the level crossings ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Extensive new features regarding the timetable change in December 2013 ( memo from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Modernization of the Sennebahn is further delayed ( Memento from May 8, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ http://www.nw-news.de/owl/kreis_paderborn/paderborn/paderborn/11066416_Sennebahn_haengt_Ortsteile_ab.html
9. ↑ Neue Westfälische, 30 years of the Sennebahn: From problem child to lifeline, January 14, 2018
10. ↑ http://www.nordwestbahn.de/ostwestfalen/fahrplan/linienfahrplaene-2015.html Timetable of the NordWestBahn
11. ↑ Nahverkahrsverbund Paderborn / Höxter, Association Assembly February 11, 2019, Item 6: Status report on the electrification of the Sennebahn and reactivation of the Almetalbahn

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