Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Railway

Delmenhorst – Harpstedter Eisenbahn GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters	27243 Harpstedt
Web presence	http://www.dhe-reisen.de/
Reference year	2008
owner	City of Delmenhorst 35% District of Oldenburg 27% Municipality of Harpstedt 22% Municipality of Stuhr 12% Municipality of Kirchseelte 2% Municipality of Dünsen 2%
Managing directors	Transport specialist Harald Wrede
Transport network	VBN
Employee	40
Lines
bus	12
number of vehicles
Locomotives	2
Railcar	1
Omnibuses	22nd
statistics
Passengers	0.984 million per year
Mileage	0.6 million km per year
Length of line network
Railway lines	23.4
Bus routes	321 km

Delmenhorst – Harpstedt
Route number :	9150
Course book section (DB) :	211h (1958)
Route length:	26 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Bremen – Oldenburg railway line 1.068 from Lemwerder from Delmenhorst Pbf until 1970 Bremer Strasse CSM, formerly master brands CSM, formerly master brands 0.950 Delmenhorst South 1.060 Stump Track (until October 17, 2015) Hoyersgraben 2.050 Hasporterdamm towards Delmenhorst Süd 2.100 former Delmenhorst building yard 2.100 Hasporter Dam 2.150 Hasporterdamm towards Harpstedt former Delmenhorst building yard At the stadium 2,800 A28 Riedeweg Annenriede ("monkey cage") 3,740 Barracks Adelheide 4.5 km 3,770 Annenheider Str. 3,800 Annenheide 3,860 Klingele paper mill (until October 2017) 4.030 Klingele paper mill 4,450 Holzhandlung Poppe, formerly Algostat 4,650 ADG (Waste Management Delmenhorst), formerly Hadler 4,675 Wollert GmbH (until March 2017) 4,915 Water train at Albertushof 5.015 Thin brook 6,550 Job 7.475 A1 8,300 to the company FIT 8,560 to the company FIT 8,600 Great Mackenstedt 8,900 K110 10,470 Heiligenrode 10,900 K110 12,450 Bürstel "Schullandheim Gerdshütte" 13,850 Dead end 13.915 Kirchseelte 17.275 Great Ippener 20,050 Jets Locomotive shed of the DHEF e. V. Raiffeisen goods cooperative 22,470 Harpstedt

Annenheide – Adelheide
Route number :	9157
Route length:	4.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Delmenhorst – Harpstedt railway line Delmenhorster cork factory Agricultural machinery rowedder Brendelweg Additive chemistry Luers DACHSER warehouse, formerly DHL; Movex special items DACHSER, formerly DHL Supply Chain; Danzas; FedEx DACHSER, formerly DHL Supply Chain; Danzas; FedEx Albertusweg Stump track (until December 2016) Annenriede Agricultural reference cooperative L776 Adelheider Strasse Feldwebel Lilienthal barracks

The Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahn GmbH (DHE) operates a 23 km long standard gauge railway in the Delmenhorst urban area and in the Diepholz and Oldenburg districts .

history

The company was founded as Kleinbahn Delmenhorst-Harpstedt GmbH with headquarters in Harpstedt by the states of Prussia and Oldenburg, the province of Hanover and the city of Delmenhorst along with six rural communities. It opened its main line on June 6, 1912. The current company has been run since 1951. The city of Delmenhorst , the district of Oldenburg and the communities of Harpstedt, Stuhr , Kirchseelte and Dünsen have been shareholders since 1985 . From 1922 to 1959, the Hanover Regional Small Railway Authority was the operator .

Passenger traffic was discontinued on September 23, 1967 and taken over by the company's own bus company, which had opened for regular services in 1949.

From 1998 to 2014 the DHE also operated the Delmenhorst – Lemwerder branch line . This was still licensed for the Grand Ducal Oldenburg State Railways , but was opened by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on November 1, 1922 and was used by passenger trains until May 27, 1962. When the Deutsche Bundesbahn wanted to give up freight transport, the city of Delmenhorst and the municipality of Lemwerder in the Wesermarsch district acquired the infrastructure of the line in 1999. The connecting railway was shut down in 2015.

In Delmenhorst, DHE operates the siding (route number 9157) Annenheide-Adelheide (4.5 km) built by the Wehrmacht in 1935, which is now owned by the Federal Real Estate Agency (formerly the Federal Property Office ) .

The DHE belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Bremen-Niedersachsen (VBN), as well as the Eisenbahnnetzwerk Bremen-Niedersachsen (EBN), a working group founded on July 1st, 2001 by five private railway companies (EVU) in northwestern Lower Saxony. The DHE is a founding member. As of August 1, 2013, the cooperation consists of eleven EVUs.

Jan Harpstedt museum railway

From Harpstedt, the Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahnfreunde e. V. (DHEF) since the foundation of the association on February 20, 1976, trips of the museum train "Jan Harpstedt" to Delmenhorst on several weekends in the summer half year . Museum trains currently also run in the run-up to Christmas and occasionally in the winter months of the New Year. Until December 2009 trips to Lemwerder were also carried out. Since 2010, the "Historic Small Train Jan Harpstedt" has been Station 2 of the Route of Industrial Culture in the northwest and thus part of the European Route of Industrial Culture

Mainly two rail vehicles are used on the operating days: the steam locomotive 2 and the diesel powered railcar T 121. Locomotive 2 was built by the Krupp company in 1955 and is a type 3437. The T 121 railcar was built by WUMAG in 1940 and is made available by DHE for museum railroad operations.

On special occasions (this was the case, for example, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the DHE on June 6, 2012), museum trains operated by friendly railway associations are also in use on the Kleinbahn route.

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  The club's own steam train (pulled by locomotive 2) entering Harpstedt station

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  T 121 railcar with wagons in Harpstedt station

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  The DHE diesel locomotive 10 pulls the museum train to the stop point.

Current route (2013)

Connection to the Bremen – Oldenburg railway line

The currently (2013) existing line begins with a junction from the Delmenhorst marshalling yard on the Bremen – Oldenburg railway line . Following a slight gradient, the line runs south of the Bremen-Oldenburg route parallel to it at two discount stores, where the Delmenhorst-Lemwerder connecting line branches off to the north at km 1.068 . The connecting railway was shut down in 2015. The route continues along the Bremen-Oldenburg route past the company “Neue Arbeit” (a formerly multi-track small freight station), where some vehicles for the DHEF e. V., and then takes a left curve at the level of the old cemetery and Fischstraße to cross Bremer Straße and into the Delmenhorst Süd freight yard with the adjacent premises of the Corbion factory (formerly BakeMark, formerly Meistermarken) and branches off on a total of three tracks. The easternmost track runs directly next to a building in the plant and is also covered. It is used to load the plant's products into refrigerated wagons, which DHE drives several times a day to the DACHSER loading hall (formerly DHL, formerly Danzas, formerly Federal Express) on the Annenheide-Adelheide route. This track complex is also used to maneuver freight wagons and to turn the steam locomotive of DHEF e. V.

Delmenhorst South

The platform of the Delmenhorst Süd station is still on the site of the Corbion factory at km 0.950. There is also a DHEF e. V. built in the style of the former cupboard keeper's house (this was used by railway enthusiasts as ticket issuance until it was demolished, followed by two more buildings). Immediately afterwards, the line crosses Green Street and continues south past the “Nolte” garden and fuel store, where a short stump track branched off until the end of 2015. At the height of the riverside path, it crosses the Hoyersgraben and shortly afterwards crosses the Klosterdamm street.

Hasporterdamm

This is followed by the Hasporterdamm stop, the first platform is used by DHEF trains coming from Harpstedt. V. to stop. Immediately follows the level crossing secured with half barriers over the street "Hasporter Damm" and the platform for the trains going to Harpstedt. The route continues past the Atlas Stadium on the right and the site of the former building yard of the city of Delmenhorst on the left, which once had a siding and on which there is now (2013) a shopping center. The route then crosses the “Am Stadion” street and continues parallel to Thorner Straße, where it passes under the Autobahn 28 at 2.800 km . After a left bend, the route crosses the Annenriede watercourse in the “monkey cage” and runs towards the Annenheide train station.

Annenheide

Shortly before the level crossing over Annenheider Strasse, the route branches off to Adelheide and the barracks. Behind the level crossing is the Annenheide train station at km 3.800 with the originally preserved train station building, the platform and the loading road which is still used occasionally for loading to this day. The track systems branch out here on a total of three tracks, which are used for shunting and turning, as well as often for parking freight wagons. In addition, a siding to the corrugated cardboard and paper factory "Klingele" branched off here until May 2019, of which there were even two before, but one switch was dismantled much earlier, the track systems on the factory premises were dismantled in autumn 2017. The route continues in the direction of “Steller Heide” past the wood shop Poppe (formerly Algostat) on the left, which also had a siding. Here, too, the switch has long been dismantled. At 4.650 km, the siding, dismantled in 2012, branched off to the right to the waste recycling company Veolia Umweltservice Nord-West GmbH (formerly Hadler or Cleanaway or Sulo), where household waste was loaded into containers and transported by train to Sande several times a week. Shortly afterwards at km 4.675 there was a junction to the left to the company Wollert GmbH, which was also dismantled at the end of 2015. Further along the route, at km 4.915 there is a bridge over the "Wasserzug am Albertushof" and at km 5.015 there is another bridge over the Dünsener Bach , which until 1946 formed the border between Oldenburg and Prussia.

Job

Running over the Steller Heide, you come to the Halt point at 6.550 km, then the Steller See on the left, and at 7.475 km you pass under Federal Motorway 1 .

Gross-Mackenstedt

The route then crosses the Groß Mackenstedt industrial park and reaches Groß-Mackenstedt train station at km 8,600. In front of the station, the route is divided into two tracks, one of which is equipped with loading ramps from FIT (window and industrial floor technology), the tracks unite again at the level of the former station building, which is now privately inhabited. The route continues south and crosses the district road K110 at km 8,900.

Heiligenrode

The line continues on the left side of the premises of the company "Moderne Bauelemente" and ends at km 10.165 in the three-track complex of the railway station in Heiligenrode . These tracks are also often used to park freight wagons. At km 10.470 the Heiligenrode train station is located with the preserved train station building, which now contains a restaurant. The route continues to the southwest and again crosses the K110 district road at km 10,900.

Kirchseelte

At km 13.915 is the Kirchseelte train station, the old-style station building of which is privately inhabited.

Groß-Ippener

After an ascent, the Groß-Ippener stop is reached at km 17.275. Of the once extensive station facilities, only the station building remains, which is privately inhabited. All other track systems have been dismantled, so that only the trapezoidal panels are reminiscent of the former train station.

Jets

The route continues through the Dünsener Forst parallel to the “Langes Tal” road and climbs a little more steeply here to reach the Dünsen stop at km 20.050. This is where the contemporary style building of the station restaurant and hotel "Waldfrieden" stands, which today includes the "Landhotel Rogge Dünsen". All points have been dismantled, so that only the trapezoidal panels are reminiscent of the former train station.

Harpstedt

The route ends on the DHE premises at km 22,500. In addition to the newly constructed administration building - the old historic station building was demolished in 2004 - there are two platforms and a few loading ramps. There is also the old locomotive shed, which is still used today as a locomotive and truck workshop, as well as the new vehicle hall of DHEF e. V. In addition, another track branches off to the Raiffeisen-Warengenossenschaft, which is supplied with fertilizer by DHE. Complete timber trains are also loaded in Harpstedt. The trains usually consist of 20 private double wagons with a train length of approx. 560 m and a train weight of approx. 1600 t. The recipient of the trains is the plant of Zellstoff Stendal Holz GmbH in Arneburg-Niedergörne . When using diesel locomotives (usually Blue Tiger or Class 216 ), external RUs also take over the traction on the DHE route, while DHE takes over the necessary shunting services at Harpstedt station with its own vehicles.

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  Platform Delmenhorst Süd on Grünen Strasse

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  Hasporterdamm stop with "Jan Harpstedt" station restaurant

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  Station building in Annenheide

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  Stop in Groß-Ippener with the former inn in the background

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  Landhotel Rogge at the Dünsen stop

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  Harpstedt station from the air

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  New administration building in Harpstedt

Historical route

Since the establishment of the "Kleinbahn Delmenhorst-Harpstedt" and the relocation and opening of the line in 1912, numerous changes have occurred in the individual route sections and stations.

Delmenhorster city center:

Before the Bremen-Oldenburg route was raised, the Delmenhorst-Harpstedt route branched off directly at Delmenhorst main station until November 30, 1970. A separate platform on what was then track 11 was used for this purpose. The line passed Orthstrasse, which at that time was still a thoroughfare, the Delme River, Fischstrasse. and Bremer Straße, to flow into the Delmenhorst-Süd train station directly on the premises of the former margarine factory Meistermarken-Werke (formerly Blauband, today BakeMark). On the way there was a siding to the gasworks at the time. From 1971 the route Bremen-Oldenburg in the Delmenhorst area was raised, so that the connection of the line to Harpstedt in the main station was abandoned on December 1, 1970. This was also no longer necessary, as passenger traffic was finally given up on September 23, 1967 and freight trains had to move to Delmenhorst Hbf until then. Therefore, the route now ran from Delmenhorst-Süd in a right curve over Bremer Strasse and Fischstrasse. about a former cemetery that had previously been moved. The former route to the main station was replaced by the newly created extension of Wittekindstrasse. The line then continued to run as usual to the east, parallel to the Bremen-Oldenburg route and ended at the Delmenhorst freight station at the time. This extended over the current property of the company "Neue Arbeit" and the two discount stores on Bremer Strasse between Nordenhamer Strasse and Asternstrasse, where a scrap yard and the Delmenhorst marshalling yard with its depot followed. Nothing is left of these systems, only a few old loading ramps and a buffer stop in the garden of a private property near the Neue Arbeit company, as well as the multi-lane level crossing, which is secured with full barriers, but no longer used at the level of Asternstrasse and the The loading ramps behind it bear witness to this time. In the Delmenhorst freight yard, the line to Lemwerder and some siding of the north wool (North German worsted yarn spinning mill) also branched off. However, since this junction took place south of the Bremen-Oldenburg route, there were inevitably some underpasses that still exist today.
The fact that the route to Harpstedt branched off directly at the old Delmenhorst main station before the Bremen-Oldenburg route was raised and was only relocated from 1970 onwards resulted in the change in the kilometrage.

Delmenhorst-South:

Until 1991, there were extensive track systems on the station premises with up to four parallel tracks, a dedicated loading line, sidings for the master brand factories including their own track scales, as well as another track for goods handling of the DHE and the coal shed of the Nolte company. This track also crossed Green Street, but was not particularly secured and protruded a short distance into the Nolte company premises. Although no longer in use, some of it remained in the roadway until the mid-1990s and was only removed when a new road surface was laid. At that time, the actual level crossing over Green Street was still double-tracked and already secured with full barriers that were operated by the gatekeeper. This house later served the DHEF e. V. as a ticket office, has long since been demolished. The tracks and the site have since been significantly dismantled and rebuilt, so that the only relic is a short stump track that branches off at km 1.060 and ends just before the level crossing.

Hasporterdamm:

The building yard of the city of Delmenhorst used to be located on Hasporterdamm, which had a two-sided rail connection to the line. However, these tracks have long since been dismantled and the building of the building yard were also demolished in 2006. A shopping center was built on the site. The manual weight of one of the dismantled points adorns the front garden of the station restaurant "Jan Harpstedt" on Hasporter Damm.

Annenheide:

The track systems in Annenheide have always been preserved. From 1934 there was a connection at km 3.740 to Adelheide to the airfield at that time and the current Bundeswehr barracks. This track is used regularly to bring food production from Delmenhorst-Süd to the DACHSER warehouse (formerly DHL, or Danzas or Federal Express) several times a day. Furthermore, there are regular deliveries of chemical products to the company Additiv Chemie Luers (formerly Chemie KG, formerly Annen-Chemie) as well as occasional Bundeswehr transports of vehicles and equipment. The sidings to the Delmenhorster cork factory and the agricultural machinery dealer Rowedder, which existed until the 1980s, have since been dismantled. The warehouse of a former furniture shipping company (Movex) was rented by DHL as an external warehouse and has been served by DHE via a siding since 2012. The station building and platform have been preserved in Annenheide. Several pubs and restaurants were housed in the former station building, as well as a cosmetic studio recently. The loading road is also still there, even if it is slowly decaying. The Klingele corrugated cardboard factory still has a siding here, but it is no longer served. Another connection was dismantled in the mid-1990s; however, the ballast bed, the factory gate and the track systems on the factory premises are still there. Further south, the Poppe wood shop also had a siding. However, this has long been dismantled, and remains of the gravel bed can still be detected. The dismantled switch and the tracks are right next to the line and are now covered by stately blackberry vegetation. A buffer stop on the company site was dismantled in early 2007. The siding of the waste recycling company ADG (waste management company Delmenhorst GmbH. Formerly Hadler) branches off to the right, which is served several times a week and is transported to Sande via the household waste loaded in containers. Shortly afterwards, the track to the Wollert company branches off to the left, but it is also no longer served.

Gross-Mackenstedt:

Originally there were three tracks in the Groß-Mackenstedt station, a passing track was dismantled.

Platform on Gerdshüttenweg in Bürstel (2020)

Brush:

In the village of Bürstel on Gerdshüttenweg there is a (now derelict) platform between km 12.4 and 12.5. In earlier times this was mainly used for the arrival and departure of guests from the nearby “Gerdshütte” school camp. This platform is no longer used even by the DHEF museum trains.

Kirchseelte:

Kirchseelte originally had a parallel track on both sides. In 1957/58 there was still a connection to the Kirchseelte sand pit. The extracted sand was transported to the construction site in Düsternort and used there to build the route of the B75 (now A28). A serious accident also occurred here on the night of March 25th to 26th, 1957, when an empty train of sand returning from Delmenhorst ran over a switch in the fog and collided with a full train of sand standing by. The driver's cab of the steam locomotive was crushed by the force of the impact; the engine driver died immediately, the stoker, train driver and train conductor died while being transported to the hospital or during the rescue work. The track to the sand pit and the parallel track have meanwhile been dismantled. Traces of sand mining can still be seen in the landscape.

Groß-Ippener:

In Groß-Ippener there was once a very extensive train station. In addition to a loading line for cattle and agricultural products, the siding to the munitions plant (MUNA) in Dünsen was added in 1935. The MUNA was built in the Dünsen forest. There were military installations on the site even after the Second World War. The location is easy to recognize from a distance through its reinforced concrete tower. The Wehrmacht's own diesel locomotives were used on the grounds of the Muna because, in contrast to steam locomotives, they were difficult to make out from the air with their steam and smoke. One of the locomotives was taken over by the DHE after the war and most recently by the DHEF e. V. operated as locomotive 222 . Refurbished by "New Work", it is operational. The siding to the MUNA was dismantled in the 1950s. Overall, in addition to the main track and a passing track, there was also a loading track in Groß-Ippener that was later (mid-1960s) even used for loading bones and slaughterhouse waste. This circumstance caused such a sensation due to its pathetic odor that the piece where the so-called "bone cart" was parked was roofed over in order to contain the sun's rays and thus the development of smells. All systems are dismantled today; only the old agency building and the platform are available.

Jets

In Dünsen there was also a passing track connected on both sides, but it has also been dismantled. Only a widened ballast bed at the end of the platform suggests the location of the switch. The 140 m long platform at that time due to the heavy excursion traffic was also dismantled. Even if the stately building of the country hotel Rogge Dünsen gave the appearance and the travelers were safely there at the time, it was never the official station building in Dünsen. For this purpose there was a small station house, which was destroyed in the war.

DHE vehicle fleet (2020)

Locomotive 9 at the shunting operation in Annenheide (2005)

Locomotive 10 in Harpstedt (2007)

Refrigerated car no.8 in Harpstedt (2005)

Locomotives

DHE currently operates two diesel locomotives, which are painted in the representative company colors "green-white-orange (Ivory Coast)" and with which all freight traffic on the route is handled.

• "Lok 9" (V9), a 1991 built and newly acquired Schöma CFL-250 DV-R 5173 with 40 tons and 400 HP. This is equipped with a radio remote control as well as a maneuvering coupling and for overland journeys with an additional headlight.
• "Lok 10" (V10), a 1963 Gmeinder 5266 with 240 HP and 23 tons. This was previously in service with DB as Köf 11028 (332 028) until December 20, 1998. From 1999 she was in service with the Mittelweserbahn as MWB V245 and was taken over by DHE in November 2003.

Railcar

The T 121 railcar , built by WUMAG in 1940 , is kept as a reserve and for special trips.

dare

The DHE maintains seven refrigerator cars that were taken over by Interfrigo . Another two four-axle refrigerated trucks were procured in 2011, which were put into operation in 2012 after extensive refurbishment. These wagons are used to transport food products from the Corbion company on Grünen Straße to the high-bay warehouse of the Dachser Delmenhorst GmbH company on Brendelweg. The wagons no longer have their own refrigeration units; the insulation of the wagons and the "self-cooling" of the products are sufficient for short transports. If necessary, dry ice can be added. The wagons are put together in trains of three or four wagons each, so that one wagon can always be used for overhaul or other maintenance work. In 2010 a wagon of the type Hbbkks was procured for the transport of loading equipment that is used for the transport of food.

Buses and other motor vehicles

18 buses are used in regular services and two buses in tourist traffic.

DHE bus service

MAN Lion's City Omnibus from DHE

Bus routes have been in operation for more than 90 years. The cities of Wildeshausen, Delmenhorst and Bremen are reached.

Low-floor buses have been in use on route 226/227 (Wildeshausen - Bremen) since November 2003. A low entry height means that customers with restricted mobility can get on and off the bus much more easily. Since September 2005, the line has been operated entirely with barrier-free buses.

In cooperation with Weser-Ems Busverkehr GmbH, Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahn GmbH also offers disco bus services on lines 23 and 24 under the name 'Nachteule'.

Current DHE bus routes

• Line 226/227 : Wildeshausen - Harpstedt - Brinkum - Bremen
• Line 228 : Syke - Bassum - Hollwedel - Harpstedt
• Line 229 : Harpstedt - Adelheide - Delmenhorst
• Line 230 : Kirchseelte - Harpstedt - Wildeshausen
• Line 231 : Hackfeld - Colnrade - Hölingen - Wildeshausen
• Line 232 : Spradau - Holtorf - Beckstedt - Harpstedt
• Line 233 : Holzhausen - Beckeln - Harpstedt - Wildeshausen
• Line 234 : Ortholz - Annen - Harpstedt - Wildeshausen
• Line 235 : Schulenberg - Harpstedt - Wildeshausen
• Line N23 - Nachteule : Wildeshausen - Ganderkesee - Delmenhorst - Bremen
• Line N24 - Nachteule : Wildeshausen - Harpstedt - Groß Ippener

Historic vehicle fleet of the DHE

Locomotives:

• Locomotive 1 built in 1911 Borsig Cn2t
• Locomotive 2 built in 1911 Borsig Cn2t
• Locomotive 4 built in 1925 Hanomag Cn2t (sold in 1968 to the Museum Buurtspoorweg , Haaksbergen , Netherlands, operational until 1996, guest on the old line in the summer of 1987)
• Locomotive 6 (until the 1970s referred to as locomotive 273), built in 1956, Henschel DH 360 ; 1958–1995 with DHE, since then owned by DHEF
• Locomotive 7, year of construction 1955, KHD V6M 436 R ; 1980–1990 at DHE
• Locomotive 8, built in 1956, O&K MV 6b ; 1989–2004 at DHE
• Locomotive 222 (Kö) , owned by DHEF since 1994

Railcar:

• Wismar rail bus built in 1936, Wismar wagon factory (was sold to the Museum Buurtspoorweg in 1968, has been operational again since 2015)
• Railcar T 172 , built in 1927, WUMAG , sold to SWEG T 101 in 1967, retired there around 1979

swell

• Company website
• Background information on MUNA Dünsen: http://www.religte.com/duensen/index.htm
• private locomotive list

Web links

Commons : Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• DHE website
• DHEF website

literature

• Rüdiger Schilling: Jan Harpstedt - A Chronicle of 75 Years of the Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Railway . Verlag Siegfried Rieck, Delmenhorst 1987, ISBN 3-920794-27-3
• Evert Heusinkveld, Axel Meyer, Andreas Wagner: The Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Railway . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2001, ISBN 3-927587-93-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DHEF: Since 1976: Historic narrow-gauge railway "January Harpstedt". The history of the Delmenhorst - Harpstedter Eisenbahnfreunde e. V.
2. ↑ Metropolitan Region Bremen-Oldenburg in the Northwest e. V .: Route of industrial culture in the northwest. Station 2: Historic small train “Jan Harpstedt”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ DHEF: Vehicles
4. ↑ DHEF: 100 years of DHE. Supplement to the Delmenhorster Kreisblatt . June 6, 2012
5. ↑ For the term "Bauart Hbbkks" see overview of UIC categories on www.modellbau-wiki.de, there is a photo on www.fotolog.com (accessed on February 23, 2020)
6. ^ ^{A b} Jan-Harpstedt Vehicles: Diesel locomotives. Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahnfreunde eV, March 12, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Vehicle portrait Henschel 28638. In: rangierdiesel.de. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Vehicle portrait Deutz 56105. In: rangierdiesel.de. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Vehicle portrait O&K 25624. In: rangierdiesel.de. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .