Weetzen – Bredenbecker Kalkwerke railway line

Weetzen – Bredenbecker Kalkwerke
Route length:	6.9 km
Gauge :	600/1435 mm
Track width (last):	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend 0.0 Whet Hanover – Altenbeken railway line to Altenbeken Narrow gauge from Mävers (since 2004: Agravis) 0.6 south of Weetzen: start of new route Standard gauge: Hamelner Chaussee Narrow gauge: L 391 Standard gauge: Hamelner Chaussee 2.0 north of Evestorf : End of the new route 4.2 L 390 Narrow gauge to Gut Bredenbeck 6.9 Bredenbeck lime works

The Weetzen – Bredenbecker Kalkwerke (lime railway) was a single-track factory line between Weetzen and the Bredenbecker Kalkwerke in Deister in Lower Saxony . It branched off from the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line and ended at the lime works .

history

The line was put into operation in 1890. The only locomotive was a T 2 named "Bredenbeck". There was a small engine shed with a workshop near Bredenbeck. In the Deister, on the route, was the loading point for the approximately one kilometer long horse-drawn tram from the “Gute Hope” coal mine, which was operated until 1922 . From the royal limestone quarries in the Deister, a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 820 mm led to the lime works by means of a brake mountain .

The hiking trail on the route in the Deister

The routes were given up when the lime works closed in 1924. The railway line in the Deister has largely been preserved as a hiking trail. The sewer line from Bredenbeck to Evestorf has been running under the former route along the Bredenbeck brook since the 1970s . The subsequent cycle path on the western edge of Evestorf bears the name Kalkbahnweg .

Field railway

A field railway for transporting beet from Gut Bredenbeck to a reloading point opposite the former sugar factory in Weetzen then used two sections of the route until 1951. A new section on the other side of the road between Weetzen and Evestorf avoided the two previous intersections with Hamelner Chaussee . The track width was 600 mm. The rails were dismantled until the 1960s. The new section on the edge of the main road gave way to one of the region's first cycle paths .

Web links

• Description of the track at deisterstrecke.de ( Memento from February 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Railways in Hanover , 1991, p. 177