Railway Schönebeck – Blumenberg
| Schönebeck (Elbe) –Blumenberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6857 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 711 (DR) 316 (DBAG) |
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| Route length: | 25.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Schönebeck (Elbe) –Blumenberg railway was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in Saxony-Anhalt, southwest of Magdeburg .
Route
The route begins at Schönebeck (Elbe) train station and branches off there from the route in the direction of Magdeburg to the northwest. It runs through the predominantly agricultural area of the Magdeburger Börde to the Blumenberg railway junction . Together with the Blumenberg – Eilsleben and Haldensleben – Eilsleben routes , it forms a kind of half-ring around Magdeburg.
history
Passenger traffic was opened on November 1, 1896 by the Prussian State Railways . The route was opened for freight traffic on October 8th. The route served to connect several larger Bördedörfer with the city of Schönebeck and - with a change in Blumenberg - with Halberstadt and Magdeburg. The traffic was always moderate. From the beginning of the 20th century to the mid-1990s, the route was almost always used by four pairs of trains on weekdays (at times only three on weekends). Only in the 1960s and 1970s did a few more trains run at times.
In 1995 and 1996, the range was expanded to include a pair of trains, and from 1997 there were even seven pairs a day that ran every two hours. When the Magdeburg – Halle autobahn was being built, a new underpass was built for the route. Nevertheless, the demand on the route, which ran tangentially to the main traffic flows oriented towards Magdeburg, remained low. On May 29, 1999, the traffic was canceled, at the end of the year the freight traffic officially ceased and the route closed. The tracks have since been dismantled. The section in the urban area from Schönebeck to line kilometer 3.356 was still used as a siding for some time.
Finally, the passenger was railcars of series 771 and 772 performed.