Gardelegen-Haldensleben-Weferlinger Railway

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The Gardelegen-Haldensleben-Weferlinger Eisenbahn-AG (GHWE), based in Merseburg , was established on August 19, 1922 through the merger of the Kleinbahn AG Gardelegen-Neuhaldensleben with the Kleinbahn AG Neuhaldensleben-Weferlingen . However, it was not until 1939 that the town name Neuhaldensleben was replaced by Haldensleben and in 1942 the name Kleinbahn was replaced by railway. The management was based in Haldensleben , from where both routes started.

history

Share over 1000 marks in Kleinbahn-AG Neuhaldensleben-Weferlingen from May 15, 1907

The Kleinbahn AG Neuhaldensleben-Weferlingen in today Börde district was established on 18 December 1905 the Prussian state and the province of Saxony took over one third of the shares; the remaining third was distributed among the district Gardelegen , county and city Neuhaldensleben, another six municipalities and 75 companies and individuals.

With the incorporation of the company's own rack railway , goods were initially transported from the Weferlingen sugar factory to the state train station there on the Helmstedt – Oebisfelde route from December 1, 1906 . On March 15, 1907, regular passenger and freight traffic began from Weferlingen to Behnsdorf , which was extended on May 16 to Neuhaldensleben to the entire 32-kilometer standard-gauge line that crosses the Flechtinger ridge from the Aller to the Ohre (see also: Railway line Haldensleben – Weferlingen ).

The Kleinbahn-AG Gardelegen-Neuhaldensleben was founded on April 5, 1910, whereby in addition to the Prussian state and the province of Saxony, the Prussian forest treasury also took over shares; the Duchy of Braunschweig , the districts and cities of Gardelegen and Neuhaldensleben and nine other communities also took part.

On May 21, 1911, the 38-kilometer, standard-gauge line was officially opened after freight traffic had already taken place in November 1910. It crossed the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide from north to south and touched on a length of five kilometers also Braunschweig national territory in the exclave of Calvörde (see also: Haldensleben – Gardelegen railway line ).

At Süplingen , just under five kilometers west of Haldensleben, a branch line was built that led six kilometers south to Alvensleben- Dönstedt , later called Bebertal . It was opened on October 8, 1928 and mainly served to develop the quarries near Dönstedt.

As early as 1933, GHWE had tried to counter competition from road buses by purchasing nine double-decker buses from the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft and using them on both routes after the conversion into rail buses until the first year of the war.

In the first decades, the operation of the 76-kilometer-long railway network was the responsibility of the small railroad department of the Provincial Association of Saxony ; The management was handed over to the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH from the turn of the year 1946/1947 . From this, through the Vereinigung Volkseigener Betriebe (VVB) as an intermediate station, all small and private railways managed by it were in turn placed under the administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 .

Lore

The tradition of the Gardelegen-Haldensleben-Weferlinger Eisenbahn-AG is in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Omnibuses on rails in: VT 95–98 Uerdinger Eisenbahnbus (Eisenbahn Journal special issue 1/2012), p. 14.