Stendal – Uelzen railway line
The Stendal – Uelzen railway is a mostly single-track, electrified main line and connects the district town of Stendal in the east of the Altmark with the district town of Uelzen in Lower Saxony . The line is double-tracked between Hohenwulsch and Salzwedel . The most important stop on the way is Salzwedel.
history
The Stendal – Uelzen connection was originally opened by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn (MHE) on April 15, 1873 as part of a direct connection from Berlin to the Wilhelmshaven naval base and known as part of the so-called " American line ". The Stendal – Salzwedel section went into operation on March 15, 1870.
In 1945 the line was interrupted at the inner-German border . West of the border there was a provisional end point in Nienbergen , as the former train station in the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony was 1200 meters east of the Iron Curtain . Overall, the second line track that had existed up until then was removed in two phases from 1946 to the 1980s: First the section from Wieren to Nienbergen was single-tracked, and later the second line track between Wieren and Uelzen was also removed.
In the later GDR, trains initially ran again between Stendal and Bergen. Due to the border security measures - the Bergen train station was only 1200 meters from the border - traffic was stopped on October 7, 1951 between Salzwedel and Bergen. One of the two line tracks between Stendal and Salzwedel was also dismantled, as the track material was supposedly required for the construction of the Berlin outer ring .
After the border was opened in 1990, the reconstruction of the Stendal – Salzwedel – Uelzen connection was added to the list of German unity transport projects as No. 3. The completely new line built on the old route was put back into operation in 1999 as a single-track, electrified main line . The route was also rehabilitated in sections, so that the reconstruction took several years. The 17.5 kilometer long section between Brunau and Kreisstraße 1005 near Klein Gartz now includes two tracks, and there is also an approximately one kilometer long siding west of the former Kläden station ; Today's stop at Kläden is closer to the town, in the single-track area to the east of it. In addition, as part of the German Unity transport project, all side and loading tracks on the line were dismantled and the sidings were reduced so that local goods transport is no longer possible on this line today. The originally planned, complete reconstruction of the line as a double-track main line has not yet been implemented.
The German Society for Project Management honored the German Unity Transport Project No. 3 in 1997 as one of five winners out of 800 applicants with the German Project Management Award .
As part of the immediate seaport-hinterland transport program , a second track was built from December 2012 to November 2013 in the Uelzen district of Veerßen (Veerßer curve, Veerßer Bogen) east of the Stendal – Uelzen line, so that the rail traffic coming from Stendal without crossing the Hanover line –Hamburg can enter this northwards.
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In July 2013, Deutsche Bahn announced the double-track expansion of the Stendal – Salzwedel section across Europe. In mid-March 2014, the tender for the double-track expansion of the Hohenwulsch – Brunau-Packebusch and Rademin – Salzwedel sections with a total length of 22 kilometers followed.
At the end of 2014, work began on the first construction stage of the double-track expansion of the Stendal – Uelzen railway line. After the preparatory work had already been carried out, the existing approximately thirteen kilometer long double-track meeting and overhaul section between Brunau-Packebusch and Rademin was extended in an east and west direction in 2015. This applies to the sections between Hohenwulsch and Brunau-Packebusch and between Rademin and Salzwedel. As it became known in July 2015, the commissioning of the double-track extensions has been postponed due to planning errors at level crossings. For both sections of the route, a second track was laid over a total of around 21 kilometers and a second platform was built in Pretzier. The Hohenwulsch - Brunau-Packebusch section was put into operation in October 2017, the Rademin - Salzwedel section at the end of 2018. The expansion was estimated at around 57 million euros. It is part of a new "east corridor" for seaport hinterland traffic. The complete dual track between Stendal and Uelzen is planned for 2028 .
The route is to be equipped with digital interlockings and ETCS by 2030 as part of the “starter package” of Digital Rail Germany , as part of the TEN core network corridor Scandinavia-Mediterranean .
business
In the 2020 timetable, the RE 20 runs every two hours between Uelzen and Stendal and the RB 32 between Salzwedel and Stendal, which also runs every hour on weekdays. Both lines are operated by DB Regio . Drive the RE trains than locomotive-hauled trains usually with locomotives of series 146.0 and double-deck coaches for the RB-trains are electric multiple units of the 425 series used. The two-hour RB 47 Uelzen – Braunschweig from erixx runs between Uelzen and Wieren a few minutes after the RE 20 (regardless of the direction, as the RE 20 has no minute of symmetry ). The EuroCity “Wawel” , a pair of trains on the Hamburg- Berlin- Wroclaw - Krakow route, ran the route until December 13, 2014, and the Interregio-Express has been running here between Hamburg and Berlin since April 2014 . In the event of operational disruptions on the Hamburg – Berlin long-distance connection via Wittenberge , diversions are often made via Uelzen – Stendal.
Since the completion of the second track, the Meßdorf stop is no longer served. The construction of a second platform was not worthwhile given that there were only 30 boarding and disembarking passengers per day. The cancellation of the two-hour regional train RB 32 without replacement, which was considered by Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt (NASA) , will not be implemented for the time being. This would also have meant closure of the Steinfeld, Kläden, Brunau-Packebusch and Pretzier stations. The RE are used by 1,200 passengers every day and by 1,400 passengers on weekends, the RB by 200 to 300. As the double-track expansion progresses, the Steinfeld stop is to be closed in 2025, but Kläden will remain in place.
See also
literature
- Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails 1945–1990. 2nd Edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 .
- Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit mbH (Ed.): Rebirth of a railway line. Uelzen – Salzwedel – Stendal line to be upgraded . Magdeburg 1996 (24 pages).
Web links
- East Corridor - North section DB Netz project website
- More on the Uelzen – Salzwedel section
- Course book from 1944 with express train connections
Individual evidence
- ↑ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit (Ed.): Build economically. Drive faster. Brochure, Berlin, November 30, 1997, p. 13.
- ↑ DB press release of May 3, 2013: Construction work in Uelzen as part of the immediate program "Seaport hinterland traffic " ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Germany-Leipzig: track construction work . Document 2013 / S 130-225260 of July 6, 2013 in the supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union .
- ↑ Germany-Frankfurt am Main: permanent way work . Document 85822-2014 of March 13, 2014 in the supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union .
- ↑ https://www.az-online.de/altmark/bismark/alle-bahnuebergaenge-pruefstand-5211549.html Altmarkzeitung online: All level crossings on the test stand Newspaper report from 7 July 2015
- ↑ http://bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/stendal-salzwedel-uelzen Timetable as of June 23, 2016: "In addition, the sections Hohenwulsch - Brunau-Packebusch will probably be expanded by 2017 and Rademin - Salzwedel by probably 2018."
- ↑ http://bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/stendal-salzwedel-uelzen Timetable as of November 5, 2017: “These [nine level crossings] were opened to traffic on October 2, 2017 together with the Hohenwulsch - Brunau-Packebusch section . [...] The Rademin - Salzwedel section is expected to go into operation on October 29, 2018. "
- ↑ Responsible for content: Oliver Schumacher: Two-track expansion Stendal ‒ Salzwedel ‒ Uelzen. Expansion of the Hohenwulsch ‒ Brunau-Packebusch and Rademin ‒ Salzwedel sections. (PDF) Fact sheet 001/2015 EPF / JB ST 1/1. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn, March 31, 2015, archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
- ^ Deutsche Bahn, March 20, 2015: Country profile: The DB in Saxony-Anhalt. Numbers, data and facts about Deutsche Bahn in Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Conny Kaiser: Expansion to two tracks. In: Volksstimme. August 15, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Digital Rail Germany #####. (PDF) The future of the railroad. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, September 2019, p. 10 f. , accessed on May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Axel Junker: The second railroad track could cost Meßdorf the stop next year. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .
- ↑ NASA has Salzwedels train station in its savings plan . In: https://www.az-online.de . September 25, 2014 ( az-online.de [accessed June 16, 2017]).
- ^ Antonius Wollmann: Railway stations on probation. In: Volksstimme. January 26, 2018, accessed March 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Back to the two-pronged approach. In: volksstimme.de. November 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .