Hoyaer Railway Company

last: 215b

Route length:

8.0 km

		from Hanover
	0.0	Eystrup

		to Bremen transfer station
	3.0	Hassel
	4.0	Jübber

		Hoya, old train station
		Weser
	8.0	Hoya
		Connection HSA

Seal of the Hoyaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft

The Hoyaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HEG) was founded on June 21, 1879 by the community and the office of Hoya in today's Nienburg district and private individuals. It opened on 23 November 1881 by the construction company C. Vering, Hannover built seven kilometers long, standard gauge railway from the city on the Weser after the station Eystrup on the already in 1847 by the Hanoverian State Railways built mainline Bremen and Hannover .

Two steam railcars were available for operation. The first Hoya station was on the right bank of the Weser. It was not until October 6, 1912, that the railway went to the left bank, where the connection to the narrow- gauge Hoya-Syke-Asendorf (HSA) small railway , which had operated there since June 6, 1900, was established. The new stretch of almost two kilometers in length was relocated to a bridge that was owned by HSA. Because of the user fee, there were repeated disputes between the two railway companies. These only came to an end when HEG and HSA merged after years of discussions under the pressure of economic conditions.

After the Hoyaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , whose shares were now 72 percent owned by the city of Hoya, had converted into a GmbH , it joined forces on June 20, 1963 with the Kleinbahn Hoya-Syke-Asendorf GmbH , which had been one since the beginning of the year joint management existed, to the Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH (VGH) . Passenger traffic on the Hoya – Eystrup line ended on October 1, 1972.

literature

Josef Högemann: private railways in the county of Hoya . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1992 (secondary line documentation 4), ISBN 3-927587-09-5
Ingo Westermann: The history of the Hoyaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the Kleinbahn Hoya-Syke-Asendorf . German Railway Association, Bruchhausen-Vilsen 1988
Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4 , p. 265-272 .

Web links

hoyaer-eisenbahn.de Private website about the railways in Hoyaer Land
Early documents and newspaper articles on the Hoya Railway Company in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .