Nienburg – Rahden railway line

Nienburg (Weser) -Rahden

Route number (DB) :

1743

Course book section (DB) :

12388 (museum railway)

Route length:

59 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

		from Wunstorf
	0.0	Nienburg (Weser) ⊙52.645296 9.21783
		to Bremen
		Weser
	5.4	Abzw Lohe
		to Diepholz
	6.8	Lemke
	8.7	Oyle
	10.1	Inland charges
	14.8	Liebenau (Han) ⊙52.600402 9.103557
		Connection to the "Am Hasenberge" industrial park
	18.7	Wellie
	21.9	Steyerberg
	24.9	Bruchhagen
	29.6	Hoysinghausen ⊙52.531312 8.928657
	33.5	Uchte ⊙52.501306 8.908088
		to Wunstorf
		to Minden ⊙52.487112 8.906219
	40.4	Warmsen ⊙52.456426 8.853303
		Gehannfors Hof ⊙52.445427 8.844611
	44.8	Bohnhorst ⊙52.432686 8.806955
	49.5	Lavelsloh - Diepenau ⊙52.424803 8.739351
		State border Lower Saxony / North Rhine-Westphalia ⊙52.420822 8.70659
	52.2	Hahnenkamp ⊙52.418812 8.695848
	54.7	Ton heather ⊙52.424762 8.666299
	57.9	Baronia (Anst) ⊙52.440133 8.629718
		from Bassum ⊙52.437281 8.624032
	58.8	Rahden ⊙52.432428 8.623924
		to Herford

Swell:

The Nienburg – Rahden railway was opened on January 15, 1910 by the Prussian State Railways . The single-track branch line ran from Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony via Uchte through sparsely populated moorland to Rahden in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is still used today in some areas for goods and museum traffic.

Shutdowns

RBH 904 with tank car train from Liebenau (Han) in Lemke

Their importance for the regular public transport was minor. It was therefore discontinued on May 26, 1968. But even after that, when the Weser floods, people were transported by rail between Nienburg and Lemke, as the only road connection on federal highway 6 was in the floodplain until the Lemke bypass was built and could not be used during floods.

Freight traffic was discontinued gradually. The Steyerberg - Uchte section was de - dedicated in 1970, the tracks were later removed here.

Traffic between Liebenau and Steyerberg was stopped on May 29, 1994 and the line closed on January 1, 1995. This also includes the connection to the Liebenau harbor, which was once set up specifically for the Eibia powder factory .

In addition to the Rahden – Uchte museum railway, the Nienburg – Liebenau section of the route, on which tank car trains regularly run to supply the Oxxynova company in Steyerberg , is currently passable and in operation .

Museum train

Vehicles of the Rahden – Uchte museum railway on the grounds of the Rahden depot (Kr Lübbecke)

Museum trains have been running on the section between Uchte and Rahden since 1991 . Various historical diesel locomotives and sidecars are used, such as a set of Uerdingen rail buses .

Until 2002, the journeys were carried out by the Rahden branch of the Minden Museum Railway (MEM). On January 1, 2003, the group separated from the Minden Association and founded what is now the Museumseisenbahn Rahden-Uchte e. V. (MRU). Vehicles from MEM, but also from other museum railways, are occasionally used on special occasions. Otherwise you will drive your own vehicles, such as B. a three-part rail bus set.

The railway line is owned by the city of Rahden and the municipality of Uchte. The Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn has been a railway infrastructure company since 1999 .