Freight bypass Hanover

Wunstorf – Lehrte Nord
Route number (DB) :	1750
Course book section (DB) :	(freight traffic only)
Route length:	43.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend Line from Minden , line from Bremen 0.0 Wunstorf ( wedge station ) ( Flyover structure ) 4.0 Seelze-Gümmerwald ( Abzw ) 5.1 Dedensen-Gümmer Mittelland Canal Seelze (from here separate S-Bahn line) 10.4 Seelze Rbf West 12.3 Seelze Rbf Route to Hanover-Hainholz / Hbf Linden branch canal Connection curve from Hanover-Hainholz 15.8 Ahlem Tram line 10 Linden harbor railway Tram line 9 19.8 Linden harbor Empelder curve to Hameln Line from Hameln 22.4 Hanover-Linden 23.2 Hanover-Linden / Fischerhof to the local train station / Hanover South until 1909 Me rope Hildesheimer Strasse 26.6 Hanover-Waldhausen (Abzw) SFS Würzburg – Hanover Göttingen – Hanover route 27.7 Hanover-Waldheim (Abzw) Tram line 6 Tram line 5 Lehrte – Hanover route Mittelland Canal from the port (until 2003 also from the main station) 34.6 Misburg A 7 Line from Hanover Lehrte Rbf ( mega hub planned) 40.8 Lehrte West (Abzw) Route to Lehrte Route from Lehrte 43.3 Taught north Route to Celle Swell:

The Hanover freight bypass is intended to relieve the main train station there and the city center from through freight traffic. It separates passenger and freight traffic on the approaching routes and runs the latter as a bypass line through western and southern peripheral areas.

stretch

The Hanover freight bypass runs from Wunstorf via Seelze and the Hanover districts of Ahlem, Limmer, Linden, Waldhausen, Waldheim, Kirchrode and Misburg-Süd to Lehrte. The 44 kilometer long railway line relieves the east-west connections as well as the north-south connections. At the western end of the Wunstorf station it branches off on the Hanover – Minden and the line to Bremen , crosses the Hanover – Altenbeken and Hanover – Kassel lines in the southern part of the city and connects the northern and eastern ends of the Lehrte station with the lines to Celle and Hamburg , to Wolfsburg , to Braunschweig and to Hildesheim .

The Hanover freight bypass is connected to the following routes via connecting curves:

• Seelze – Hannover Hgbf (from Seelze and from Ahlem)
• Hanover-Altenbeken
• Hanover – Göttingen (from Waldhausen and from Waldheim)
• Hanover – Lehrte (the connecting track Tiergarten – Misburg has been tied off since 2003)

history

A freight train on the move in Hanover-Ahlem / Limmer, at 15.8 kilometers. This section went into operation on May 1, 1909. ( Location )

In the 30 years between 1875 and 1905, Hanover's population more than doubled. This also increased the volume of traffic on the railways considerably, both in terms of passenger and freight transport. In 1886, 1.04 million tons of goods were transported by rail in Hanover; in 1905 it was almost 2.5 million tons. The Misburg area had the greatest increase , with tonnage increasing by 1060%. Most of the freight trains in the Hanover area ran on the Wunstorf – Lehrte line, from 1880 to 1906 the number of daily trains grew from 68 to 237. As a result, the double-track line kept getting stuck, especially in the area around the main train station. Cruising freight trains ensured that the entrance for passenger trains had to be closed for a long time, locomotives could often not be transferred to the nearby depot. To defuse this situation, the city planned a goods bypass plan, for which plans were first drawn up in 1872.

The first concept was to route the trains on the north side of the Eilenriede around the city to the Hainholz freight yard . This idea was never realized, instead, in 1890, preparatory work began for a Lehrte - Linden - Letter bypass . Further delays were due to unresolved funding, insufficient compromise solutions and objections from the military. In the summer of 1904, a law finally regulated the granting of a bank loan for the construction of the route and work began immediately. The freight bypass railway was able to start operating on May 1, 1906, initially only in the section from Kirchrode to Lehrte. Exactly three years later, the Wunstorf – Seelze – Linden / Fischerhof section was completed, and two months later the line could be driven continuously to Misburg. Further buildings and elevations continued until 1912, so that the construction time for the original freight bypass was a total of seven years.

With the completion of the Ahlemer curve between the freight bypass and the Seelze – Hainholz freight line, freight trains from the east and south could also reach the Hainholz freight yard from June 2, 1957 without having to pass the main station.

In 1973 a direct connection from the Seelze marshalling yard was created with the construction of the Empelder connecting curve to the line to Hameln – Altenbeken . Before that, some freight trains still used the Süntelbahn , which was then abandoned in sections. The last major expansions were in 2008 the renovations to the east of the Lehrte train station in order to enable the freight trains to and from Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Hildesheim to enter and exit without crossing.

In 2012 the old steel lattice bridge over the Ihme, east of the Linden / Fischerhof station, was replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge. The supporting structure collapsed during the night from December 1 to December 2, 2012 when it was pushed in. The 120 meter long bridge construction was damaged. However, the completion was only slightly delayed and could be completed in the same month.

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Time-lapse display of daily operation ( location )

Freight train volume in the main corridors around Hanover
Freight trains	per day (2007)	calculated from this
		per hour	Distance in minutes
Hamburg - Hanover	200	8.3	7.2
Bremen - Hanover	150	6.3	9.6
Hanover - Fulda / Giessen	250	10.4	5.8
Minden - Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg	160	6.7	9.0
Source: Rail network 2025/2030: Expansion concept for efficient rail freight transport in Germany Daily volume there. Converted to 24 hours per day and intervals in minutes. In addition, trains for passenger transport, which means that train sequences are even closer

The Hanover freight bypass is one of the most important double-track rail routes in Germany. Due to the superimposition of seaport-hinterland traffic in the north-south direction with the west-east traffic, the trains run practically continuously except for a relative calm on Monday morning. The fact that parallel lines have been dismantled or not electrified (such as the Löhne – Elze railway line ) has resulted in such a strong concentration that even minimal disruptions slow down rail freight traffic . This is why it is also called “Güterschleichweg” by train drivers.

The connection between the feeder routes from Hamburg via Verden or Celle and the discharge via Hameln – Altenbeken or the north-south route enables trains from the north to both west and east to use the connection.

ICE Sprinter on the freight bypass near the cement works in Hanover-Misburg

It has an additional function in the case of special traffic or construction work. When working on the Ostkopf Hannover Hbf z. B. drove the S-Bahn Weetzen – Hannover over the Empelder curve and Ahlem. The western branch from Wunstorf to the separation of the freight bypass line from the Wunstorf – Hanover line also has passenger traffic in exceptional cases. At times, however, passenger trains such as the Locomore were also routed over it as planned . In Seelze there is a disused platform (track 5) in the direction of Wunstorf, in Dedensen-Gümmer there is also a platform on the line (track 3 on the Wunstorf direction track, signposted "in the direction of Hanover").

Passenger trains that do not stop at Hanover Central Station sometimes use the route, such as the ICE Sprinter Berlin – Frankfurt – southern Germany or the FlixTrain Berlin-Stuttgart. Connections to the exhibition center on the occasion of the Hanover Fair are also included several times a year.

Bridge structures and superstructure

Listed but dilapidated bridge over Lange-Feld-Straße in the Hanover district of Kirchrode. The national press ( Lage ) even reported on the condition of this bridge .

Between Ahlem and Misburg, the route is almost continuously on a dam that often cuts watercourses and traffic routes. The bridges were built with the construction of the bypass and were later placed almost all under monument protection. Many of them are characterized by artistic sandstone pylons , have railings with Art Nouveau shapes or have steel frameworks. After more than 100 years, most bridges are in a poor to very poor state of preservation and require thorough renovation or have to be replaced by new buildings. The listed steel truss bridge in Ricklinger Masch in 2012/13 gave way to a new reinforced concrete structure. In 2016/2017, a first series of bridges in the eastern area was replaced by new buildings ("Bridge Series 1"). Currently (autumn 2018) a second series of bridges (Ziegelstraße, Wunstorfer Landstraße, Davenstedter Straße, Fosse-Grünzug) is in progress or has already been completed.

Many of the bridges have been enlarged several times in their clear width by widening the traffic routes. The bridge, which initially spanned two tracks, was extended to four tracks with the construction of the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg . Before the EXPO 2000 , the passage was expanded again to include an S-Bahn track. In the years since 2000, tracks and points have been renewed with B70 concrete sleepers and UIC 60 rail profile .

Table of the bridge structures along the freight bypass in Hanover, sorted from west to east. The information on monument protection is based on the list of architectural monuments from 1985:

No	image	Crossing	District (s)	location	Construction year	Remarks
1		Klöcknerstrasse (L 395)	Letter	location
2		Linden branch canal	Ahlem	location		listed
3		Linden branch canal (connecting curve)	Ahlem	location		listed
4th		Ziegelstrasse	Ahlem	location	2018	listed
5		Wunstorfer Strasse ( B 441 )	Ahlem, Limmer	location	2018
6th		Davenstedter Strasse	Davenstedt, Limmer, Linden	location	2018
7th		Byway of Schörlingstrasse	Linden trees	location
8th		Foot , footpath	Linden trees	location	2018
9		Badenstedter Strasse	Badenstedt, Linden	location
10		On the church pieces	Badenstedt	location
11		At the Papenstücke (bike path)	Badenstedt	location
12		Hanover – Weetzen railway line	Badenstedt	location
13		Körtingsdorfer Weg	Badenstedt	location
14th		Ritter-Brüning-Strasse, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse ( B 6 )	Linden / Ricklingen	location
15th		Ricklinger Stadtweg	Linden / Ricklingen	location	2006	at the S-Bahn stop at Fischerhof
16		Tribal Street	Ricklingen / Linden-South	location		listed
17th		Ihme / Ricklinger Masch	Ricklingen / Linden-South	location	2013	listed
18th		Wasserfehdeweg	Ricklingen	location
19th		Leine and Karl-Thiele-Weg	Südstadt / Döhren / Ricklingen	location		listed
20th		Bike path	Döhren	location
21st		Schützenallee	Döhren	location
22nd		Heuerstraße (West) footpath and bike path	Waldhausen / Döhren	location
23		Heuerstrasse	Waldhausen / Döhren	location		listed
24		Hildesheimer Strasse	Waldhausen / Döhren	location		Listed bridge replaced by a new building, decorative pylons preserved (see also: here ).
25th		Wiener Straße	Waldhausen / Döhren	location		listed
26th		Borriesstrasse	Waldhausen / Döhren	location
27		At the Schafbrinke	Waldheim / Seelhorst	location		listed
28		Bemeroder Street	Kirchrode	location	1998	Listed bridge replaced by a new building in 1998, decorative pylons preserved
29		Lange-Feld-Straße	Kirchrode	location	2017	listed
30th		Lothringer Strasse	Kirchrode	location	2003	Listed bridge replaced by a new building in 2003, sandstone cladding retained
31		Metz Street	Kirchrode	location		listed
32		Tiergartenstrasse	Kirchrode	location		listed
33		Kühnstrasse	Kirchrode	location		listed
34		Hermann-Löns-Park / Tiergarten , first bridge	Kirchrode / Kleefeld	location	2017	listed
35		Hermann-Löns-Park / Tiergarten, second bridge	Kirchrode / Kleefeld	location		listed
36		Hanover – Lehrte railway line	Changed	location
37		Mittelland Canal	Misburg-South	location	2008

Noise and noise protection

Train traffic in Hermann-Löns-Park , in the east of Hanover. Since the route leads through unpopulated area there, no noise barriers were erected ( location ).

When it was built, the route still ran through rural areas. Especially in the city of Hanover, the populated areas have grown closer and closer to the route. When the noisy Reichsbahn diesel locomotives of the class 132 were increasingly used from 1990 , a citizens' initiative for more noise protection on the line was formed. The member of the Bundestag and later Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn , through whose constituency the route runs to a large extent, supported the demand. The line was one of the first to receive appropriate protection after budget funds for noise protection on existing railway lines (= noise remediation) were made available by the German Bundestag .

The noise propagation and pollution caused by rail traffic along the freight bypass can be seen from the nationwide rail noise mapping, which was created and published by the Federal Railway Authority on the basis of the EU Environmental Noise Directive of 2002.

The corresponding maps show the noise pollution during the night (10 p.m. to 6 a.m., L _Night ) with its high volume of freight trains. The daily mean value of the noise exposure (L _DEN ), weighted from the evening and nighttime values ​​and the daily values, can be read from this source with additional settings under legend (for further explanations of the method, see rail noise mapping ).

literature

• Alfred Gottwaldt: Hanover and its railways . Alba Buchverlag, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-87094-345-9 .
• Eisenbahnfreunde Hannover (Hrsg.): The railway in Hannover . Zimmer, Augsburg 1969.

Web links

Commons : Güterumgehungsbahn Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Güterbahn Hannover in the seventies , picture gallery of the freight bypass train on bundesbahnzeit.de
• Location, course as well as some signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
• Driver's cab ride on a class 140 on the Hanover freight bypass: Wunstorf-Lehrte .

References and comments

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Note: The freight bypass runs over a certain section exactly on the border of the Hanoverian districts of Ahlem and Limmer.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} The railway in Hanover . Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969, p. 26-29 .
5. ^ The railway in Hanover . Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969, p. Overview map in the appendix to the book .
6. ↑ Michael Holzhey: Rail network 2025/2030. (PDF; 38 MiB) Development concept for efficient rail freight transport in Germany. Umweltbundesamt, August 2010, p. 50 , accessed on July 23, 2017 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} The most important 30 meters in Germany. In: Zeit.de. September 2, 2014, accessed March 22, 2015 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Wolfgang Neß, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann, Gerd Weiß (ed.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 10.2. City of Hanover, part 2 . Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. Supplement to the book (List of Architectural Monuments according to Section 4 (NDSchG), as of July 1, 1985.).
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Wolfgang Neß, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann, Gerd Weiß (ed.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 10.2. City of Hanover, part 2 . Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 .
10. ↑ New railway bridge apparently has fine cracks. In: HAZ.de. September 15, 2013, accessed March 22, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Construction on the Beekebrücke continues despite the flood. In: HAZ.de. February 6, 2013, accessed March 22, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Bridge series 2 at bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com , accessed on November 3, 2018
13. ↑ Karsten Röhrbein: Here, the railway is investing millions in Hanover from March 13, 2017 on haz.de
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wolfgang Neß, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann, Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfenning (eds.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 10.1. City of Hanover, part 1 . Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 .
15. ↑ Description of the new building 2017 on marxkrontal.com
16. ↑ Eisenbahnbundesamt: Map to environmental noise mapping from the Federal Railway Authority