Railway Schönebeck – Güsten

Schönebeck (Elbe) –Güsten
Eickendorf station
Route number (DB) :	6423
Course book section (DB) :	335
Route length:	28.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Schönebeck – Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen 15 kV 16.7  ~
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	Schönebeck – Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen
Legend from Magdeburg from Blumenberg 0.0 Schönebeck (Elbe) to Leipzig 1.6 Schönebeck south 3.0 Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen 6.2 Eggersdorf (formerly Bf) Federal motorway 14 9.7 Eickendorf to Etgersleben 15.3 Förderstedt Loading street of the Feldbahn Staßfurt Light railway of the Staßfurt soda factory from Löderburg / Sodawerk Bode 22.0 Staßfurt to Blumenberg 25.0 Neundorf (Anhalt) from Bernburg from Berlin 28.5 Güsten to Sandersleben to Aschersleben

The Schönebeck – Güsten railway is a main line in central Saxony-Anhalt . With the exception of the Schönebeck (Elbe) - Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen section, the line is single-track and not electrified.

history

The route was opened in two sections. On May 12, 1857, the Schönebeck – Staßfurt section was opened to traffic. The line operator was the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway Company . Along with the line, branch lines were created to the salt pans in Schönebeck and Staßfurt and a freight train line from Staßfurt to Löderburg . In the same year, a lignite mine near the line went into operation in Eggersdorf . The main purpose of the route was to open up the mines for freight traffic. En route stations were built in Eggersdorf, Eickendorf and Förderstedt . On April 12, 1866, the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway Company opened a line from Bernburg via Güsten to Aschersleben with a branch from Güsten to Staßfurt. This created a continuous connection from Magdeburg via Staßfurt to Aschersleben . In 1876 the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn took over the Magdeburg-Leipziger-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, in 1879 it was taken over by the State of Prussia . Also in the 1870s, the Berlin – Blankenheim railway line was built as part of the cannon railway project , which connected Güsten directly to Berlin on the one hand and Thuringia and Hesse on the other. Güsten thus became a major railway junction .

Güsten station

The shortest connection between the major cities and today's state capitals Magdeburg and Erfurt is via the Schönebeck – Güsten route. A pair of express trains ran here as early as 1929 . An express train -pair between Berlin and Mainz / Wiesbaden also used this route. Traffic from Magdeburg to what was then Bad Salzelmen was already dense at that time, while passenger trains ran approximately every hour on the other sections.

In 1974 Schönebeck-Salzelmen was connected to the Magdeburg S-Bahn network. The section Schönebeck-Schönebeck-Salzelmen was electrified for this purpose. In the winter of 1975 three pairs of express trains ran between Magdeburg and Erfurt, stopping in Schönebeck, Staßfurt and Güsten. Around half of the passenger trains from Schönebeck went in the direction of Güsten – Aschersleben, while the rest ended in Güsten or continued south to Sangerhausen . In the 1991/92 timetable year, the route was operated almost the same.

According to the "Law on the State Development Plan of the State of Saxony-Anhalt" of August 23, 1999, passenger transport between Magdeburg and Erfurt should be offered at interregional level. For freight traffic, an expansion of the connection Erfurt - Rostock seaport via Güsten and Schönebeck was planned. From 2000, the Berlin – Wernigerode excursion train ran on the Schönebeck – Güsten line, because the Berlin – Blankenheim line to the northeast of Güsten was closed. In the same year, diesel locomotives of the 218 series were used briefly to transport passenger trains, which were then replaced by the 232 series locomotives . In 2003 the line was included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan and planned for a double-track expansion with a maximum line speed of 120 km / h. Since 2006, passenger transport has been carried out mainly with diesel multiple units of the 642 series . In the same year was DB Regio subsidiary Elbe-Saale-Bahn with the operation of regional rail commissioned -line Magdeburg-Aschersleben, while between Magdeburg and Erfurt continue Regional Expresse of DB Regio wrong. With the timetable change in December 2018, Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland took over the operation of both lines.

On May 30, 2007, the line south of Schönebeck-Salzelmen was connected to the Güsten electronic signal box .

Todays use

The route serves regional and freight traffic. A regional train line runs every two hours on the route from Magdeburg main station via Schönebeck, Staßfurt and Güsten to Aschersleben. Regional express trains also run alternately every two hours on the Magdeburg – Erfurt route, which only stop in Schönebeck, Staßfurt and Güsten. The operator is Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland . The S1 line of the Mittelelbe S-Bahn also runs between Schönebeck and Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen .

Passenger train traffic is now carried out with diesel multiple units of the Alstom Coradia LINT 41 type or the S-Bahn trains of the 425 series .

future

In the future, Deutsche Bahn plans to invest 1.6 billion euros in the Saxony-Anhalt rail network. The Schönebeck – Güsten railway line is also to be expanded. By increasing the speed to mostly 120 kilometers per hour, DB expects travel times to be shortened by between three and ten minutes.

Others

Until 1995 there was a depot in Güsten . The Staßfurt depot existed as an independent plant until 1969 and was then the location of the Güsten depot. The facilities of the plant were built in 1994 by the association "Eisenbahnfreunde Traditionsbahnbetriebswerk Staßfurt e. V. ”and expanded into a museum depot. Railway festivals with steam locomotives take place there several times a year. The association also operates the Salzland Express museum train .

Web links

• Section Schönebeck (Elbe) –Staßfurt ( Memento from March 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
• Railway depot Güsten / operational site Staßfurt (pictures)
• Pictures of train stations along the route on posten28.de
• Public transport plan for the state of Saxony-Anhalt. (PDF (2.43 MB)) Retrieved November 12, 2010 . 
• Tradition of the railway line Schönebeck-Güsten in the inventory of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt, department Dessau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Magdeburg from 1857 .
2. ↑ Kursbuch Hendschels Telegraph / Storm, Winter 1929/39, reprint, Pürgen 1995
3. ^ DR course book winter 1975
4. ↑ Railway Report , 2/2000
5. ^ Bahn Report, 5/2000
6. ^ Bahn-Report, 1/2003
7. ↑ Railway Report, 3/2005
8. ^ Bahn Report, 4/2007
9. ↑ Bahn wants to invest 1.6 billion euros in Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 8, 2010
10. ↑ Law on the State Development Plan of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. ( Memento of February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 11, 2010