Railway line Staßfurt – Blumenberg
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 Egeln Railway Station (2002)
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| Route number (DB) : | 6860 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 317 (2002) , 205h (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 32.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Staßfurt – Blumenberg railway was a 32.6-kilometer single-track line in Saxony-Anhalt . It connected the district town of Staßfurt with the Blumenberg railway junction on the Magdeburg – Thale railway line .
history
As early as 1872, the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft (MHE) was granted a concession for the route Blumenberg-Staßfurt- Güsten - Sangerhausen . However, it was withdrawn because the state of Prussia wanted to build the Güsten – Sangerhausen cannon train itself . After the MHE had made a new advance and the participating states of Prussia and Anhalt had signed a corresponding state treaty, the concession for the Staßfurt – Egeln –Blumenberg branch line was granted by Prussia on November 1, 1878 ; it came from Anhalt on November 10. The construction work began quickly, just one year later, on December 15, 1879, the first trains ran on the section between Staßfurt and Hecklingen . On January 1, 1880, the MHE was nationalized, and so the Hecklingen – Egeln section was put into operation as the Prussian state railway on September 15, 1880, and finally the Egeln – Blumenberg section on August 10, 1881. In Schneidlingen there was a transition to the private Aschersleben-Schneidlingen-Nienhagener Eisenbahn from 1897 , which continued to exist after its nationalization in 1949 until the last section to Cochstedt was closed in 1996. In Etgersleben, the line to Förderstedt branched off from 1891 to 1993 .
There was a high volume of goods along the route due to the potash mining near Staßfurt and the lignite mines near Egeln. Agricultural goods also played a role; in Hecklingen and Egeln there were sugar factories that were supplied with beets . After lignite mining and potash had ceased to exist earlier, the Hecklingen and Egeln sugar factories closed in the early 1990s.
Passenger traffic was also quite brisk. In 1944 six pairs of trains ran on weekdays and three on Sundays; In 1970 even eight pairs of trains, five on Sundays. After the German reunification , passenger traffic fell sharply; at the end of the day, only single railcars were on the road.
On May 29, 1999, passenger traffic on the Egeln – Blumenberg section was discontinued, and on September 28, 2002 also between Egeln and Staßfurt. As a result, the line between Egeln and Blumenberg was closed on July 10, 2001 and between Staßfurt and Egeln on July 31, 2003, since then this section has been used as a station track. The route from Staßfurt to Egeln was leased a little later to the Anhaltische Bahn Gesellschaft (ABG), which parked freight cars along the route. In the early summer of 2007, the ABG scrapped the existing EZMG signals along the route, shortly afterwards the AVG Ascherslebener Verkehrsgesellschaft took over the route and has been operating it again as a public railway ever since. AVG invested in the line: a bridge test and a complete main test of the line were carried out, the axle load was increased from 18 t to 21 t. Today there are daily service trips on the loading line in Egeln, where two companies handle containers. At times, larger quantities of bulk goods were also handled and shipped with the 232 series . In the meantime, an association has been founded that has made it its business to maintain the line, the Staßfurt – Egeln e. V. (NbSE). Since 2016, this association has owned a class VT 2E (VT 2.38) railcar , which was acquired from AKN after it was retired . AVG has also bought two of these vehicles (VT 2.35 and VT 2.37) and is making them available to the association for special trips. On April 2, 2016, the train was used in the new home for the first time.
literature
- Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails - disused railway lines 2000–2005 . Transpress, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-71295-4 , p. 57 f.