Stendal – Niedergörne railway line

Stendal – Niedergörne

Niedergörne station in 1991

Route number :

6426

Route length:

16.4 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

	16.4	Niedergörne former. Personenbahnhof
		Anst industrial park, formerly Stendal nuclear power plant
		Stendal – Arneburg railway from Arneburg
	8.1	Sanne
	6.4	(Owner limit)
	6.1	to the Westelbe connection
	5.9	Awanst Hassel
		mil. Awanst Jarchau
	0.0	from Wittenberge
	-0.6 8.7	from Borstel
	4.3	to Stendal Ost
	4.9	Stendal city lake
		from Wolfsburg and Salzwedel
	0.0	Stendal Hbf
		to Magdeburg , to Tangermünde
		to Rathenow

The approximately 16 kilometer long Stendal – Niedergörne railway is now used for freight traffic between Stendal Hbf and the Arneburg –Niedergörner Damm industrial area . It lies partly on the planum of the former Stendal – Arneburg small railway line .

history

Kleinbahn AG Stendal – Arneburg

Registered share for 300 Marks of Kleinbahn-AG Stendal-Arneburg from October 10, 1913

The Kleinbahn AG Stendal-Arneburg was founded on March 17, 1898th The Kingdom of Prussia and the Province of Saxony each took over a quarter of the shares. The other half was divided roughly equally between the city and district of Stendal, the city of Arneburg and other interested parties.

On August 8, 1899, the company opened a meter-gauge small railway from Stendal Ost to Arneburg on the Elbe . After being converted to standard gauge, the 13-kilometer line was put back into service on May 2, 1914.

All traffic was shut down on October 1, 1972.

Route to the construction site of the Niedergörne nuclear power plant

Part of the route to Arneburg was used by the main line Borstel – Niedergörne, which opened on January 3, 1977 . It was intended as a connection for the Stendal nuclear power plant there , which, however, never went into operation. The Niedergörne terminus is near Klein Ellingen . The route was also served by passenger traffic from Stendal with an intermediate stop in Stendal-Stadtsee. The once busy passenger traffic was gradually thinned out in the 1990s and ceased entirely on December 29, 1995. Last two pairs of passenger trains ran each day.

Strategic Elbe crossing

Near the former station Hassel branches a branch line from which today around one kilometer from the River Elbe in the military terminal station Billberge ends. In the times of the GDR there was no train station here. The track led to the banks of the Elbe. This continued on the eastern side of the Elbe, where it merged with the Schönhausen – Sandau railway line . The strategic route split in front of Schönhausen train station and led on the one hand westward to Schönhausen train station, on the other hand eastward towards Rathenow . This route served as a potential diversion with the possible construction of a pontoon bridge over the Elbe in the event that the Elbe bridge in Hämerten should no longer be usable. This pontoon bridge was stored in the Jarchau military alternative junction . From the access road to the military connection station, the interrupted track to the banks of the Elbe still lies today.

Current state

Since October 31, 2003, the city of Arneburg has leased the railway from the Hassel junction. On the route, wood is transported to the company Zellstoff Stendal GmbH in Niedergörne . The digital train radio was set up between Borstel and Hassel on September 22, 2006 .