Railway Schönhausen – Sandau
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| Route number : | 6887 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | DB AG: 267, DR: 706, 208d | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 24.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Schönhausen – Sandau railway line was a single-track, non-electrified line in the northeast of Saxony-Anhalt . It was opened on September 19, 1909 by Genthiner Kleinbahn AG .
Route description
The railway line runs from Schönhausen on the Berlin-Lehrter Bahn east of the Elbe northwards to the town of Sandau .
As the terminus, Sandau received a very representative reception building with service apartments, station management and ticket issuance as well as goods sheds . A locomotive shed with an attached water tower and a toilet block were also built. There was also a loading ramp .
The Lübars-Neuermark station was halfway between the eponymous villages. Like all intermediate stations along this route, its layouts were kept simple. At the loading track , a small brick ramp was located behind the confluence of charging track and main track was the short platform . There was the simple station building with waiting and service room as well as an attached general cargo shed .
history
On April 1, 1949, the line was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
East of Schönhausen a connecting curve, the Göhrener curve, was built in 1978 at the urging of the military . It branched off at the selectable Göhrener Damm block and was used until 1990. This enabled trains from Berlin to reach the Schönhausen – Sandau route. At the Lübars / Elbe depot, which had two siding tracks in addition to the through track, there was a branch to the Elbe , from where the ESB 16 (combined military road-rail bridge) developed in the GDR could be used to reach the railway line on the west bank near Hassel in an emergency .
Until recently, a scrap dealer in Sandau was served by freight cars. On August 1, 1993, passenger traffic was stopped. The main reason for this was that the line created a crossing obstacle for the high-speed line Hanover – Berlin . The Schönhausen – Sandau railway crossed the main line at the time, next to which the new high-speed line was built, in a wide arc on a high embankment. The bridge had to be dismantled for the construction of the new line. If it had been rebuilt, the bridge would have had to be built higher than before because the high-speed line is electrified. In view of the comparatively low volume of traffic, the bridge was therefore not rebuilt.
On December 20, 1997, all traffic was officially shut down.
Others
The former district town of Havelberg is only a few kilometers north of Sandau. But it was never connected to the Schönhausen – Sandau railway line. Instead, it received a connection in a northerly direction to the Berlin-Hamburg railway ( see also: Small railways in the West and Ostprignitz districts and the Glöwen – Havelberg line ) .