Vechta – Cloppenburg railway line

Vechta – Cloppenburg

220g (1951, 1944)

Route length:

27.6 km

		from Delmenhorst
	0.0	Vechta
		after Hesepe
	3.2	Schledehausen
	4.7	Daren
	7.5	Bakum
	10.6	Vestrup
	13.7	Schwichteler
	16.0	Tenstedt
	17.4	Cappeln (Oldb)
	20.5	Emstek
		from Oldenburg (Oldb) Hbf
	27.6	Cloppenburg
		to Osnabrück Hbf

The single- track Vechta – Cloppenburg line was in Lower Saxony . It was built and operated initially by the Vechta-Cloppenburg railway association , to which the later districts of Vechta and Cloppenburg and neighboring communities belonged.

The Vechta – Schwichteler section was opened on May 8, 1914, the extension to Cloppenburg followed on June 6, 1914. Thus, the 27.6 km long line in the Oldenburg Münsterland connected the state railway lines Oldenburg – Osnabrück and Delmenhorst – Hesepe .

On September 1, 1949, the railway association transferred the management of operations to the Deutsche Bundesbahn , NE branch in Oldenburg. However, the vehicles of the railway association continued to be used. The railway mainly transported agricultural goods. Passenger traffic was - apart from the war and the first post-war years - quite modest. From October 5, 1952, this was limited to only one weekday freight train with passenger transport , the travel time of which was over 90 minutes. All traffic was stopped on November 30, 1965. The tracks are completely dismantled today.

literature

Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1. Between the Weser and Ems . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4 , pp. 363-372.
Benno Dräger: roller coaster of emotions. The development and handling of the "standard gauge small railway" Vechta – Cloppenburg . In: train by train. Railway as the engine for economic development in the region . Lohne (Oldenburg) 2015, ISBN 3-945579-01-5 , pp. 111–120
Klaus-Peter Quill: 80 years of Vechta – Cloppenburg in the museum railway 2/1993, pages 14 and 15