County Hoya Transportation Company

County Hoya Transportation Company
Basic information
Company headquarters	Hoya
Web presence	County Hoya Transportation Company
owner	District of Diepholz City of Hoya Joint municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen District of Nienburg City of Syke Municipality of Hoyerhagen Municipality of Eystrup Mittelweserbahn GmbH Verden-Walsroder Eisenbahn GmbH
Board	Holger Laurenz
Operations management	Holger Laurenz
Transport network	VBN , VLN
Employee	70
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad	1
bus	17th
number of vehicles
Locomotives	2
Railcar	3
Omnibuses	45 buses, 8 of which are articulated and 2 large-capacity buses
Operating facilities
Depots	1

The transporting enterprises county Hoya GmbH (VGH) is a public transport companies and railway infrastructure company based in Hoya in Nienburg / Weser .

The company is a member of the collective bargaining association of federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE).

Business areas

• Regular bus services (12 lines)
• Rail freight transport (routes Hoya - Eystrup and Hoya - Syke)
• Tourism
• Special trains
• Tourist trains

history

The Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH (VGH) emerged from the merger of the Kleinbahn Hoya-Syke-Asendorf GmbH and the Hoyaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . As a result, there is now a track connection between the main lines Bremen - Osnabrück (opened in 1873) in Syke and Bremen - Hanover (opened in 1847) in Eystrup .

Kleinbahn Hoya-Syke-Asendorf GmbH (HSA)

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The narrow-gauge railway operated by the German Railway Association (DEV) from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Asendorf

While the Hoyaer Eisenbahn operated from the east to the Weser near Hoya as early as 1881 , the communities in the agricultural area around Bruchhausen-Vilsen were without a siding for years.

County Hoya Transportation Company
Route number :	9142
Route length:	28.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	40 km / h
Legend from Hanover 0.0 Eystrup to Bremen Eystrup VGH 3.0 Hassel 4.0 Hassel Ida ( Jübber ) 5.5 Industrial main track Europakarton Hoya, old train station Weser 8.0 0.0 Hoya 3.2 Stooping 2.0 Hoya Hospital 3.2 Tivoli 4.6 Hoyerhagen 5.5 Sellingsloh 7.0 Gehlbergen 9.2 Bruchhausen East 10.1 Bruchhausen market square from Asendorf, museum railway 11.1 Bruchhausen-Vilsen 13.9 Berxen 15.0 Uenzen 17.4 Süstedt 19.4 Guard Village 22.0 Like Sales cooperative Heiligenfelde 22.5 Heiligenfelde 25.0 Syke-Steimke (brickworks) 25.8 Syke-Steimke-Burdorf Bundesstrasse 6 27.2 Syke town (Syke town center) from Bremen 28.8 Syke / Syke East to Osnabrück

So a GmbH was formed in which the Prussian state, the district of Hoya and 22 communities were involved.

On June 6, 1900, the 29-kilometer, meter- gauge small railway line from Syke via Heiligenfelde and Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Hoya was opened. At the same time, an eight-kilometer branch line from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Asendorf was built, and on June 1, 1905, the three-kilometer connection between Hoya and Bücken, so that the meter-gauge network covered 40 kilometers.

Only on October 5th, 1912 was the connection between the two railway companies, when the Hoya Railway was led on a bridge built by the HSA by two kilometers to the left bank of the Weser to the new Hoya shared station. But the continuous traffic was only 50 years will be added later, as the HSA route Syke Hoya on standard gauge remodeled was. However, since 1940 standard-gauge freight wagons with trolleys could continue to be transported on the narrow-gauge.

In the years from 1924 to 1959, operations management was transferred to the Lower Saxony State Railway Authority (formerly the State Small Railway Authority) in Hanover.

In 1956 seven pairs of trains ran on the Hoya – Eystrup route on weekdays and five on Sundays; five pairs of trains between Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Asendorf on weekdays, three on Sundays, and three pairs of trains between Hoya and Bücken on weekdays. All passenger trains were driven by railcars .

Passenger traffic migrated more and more to the road - partly also to the bus service that opened on January 24, 1951 - so that it was on the rail between Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Asendorf on May 31, 1959, between Hoya and Bücken on August 1 1960 was discontinued. Freight traffic on the Bücken branch ended on May 20, 1963, the line was then dismantled.

Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH (VGH)

On June 20, 1963 - under the pressure of economic conditions - the two companies merged to form Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH , which corresponded to the name of the district at that time . During this time, the eastern half of the main line - with the help of the Bundeswehr - was gauged. From May 25, 1963, the first standard-gauge train ran between Hoya and Bruchhausen-Vilsen. The second part further to Syke was not completed until January 17, 1966, so that continuous passenger trains could now be driven from Eystrup to Syke. The traffic lasted only a few years, however, on October 1, 1972, passenger traffic was also discontinued on the main route Eystrup - Hoya - Syke.

After goods traffic on the Asendorfer Bahn was discontinued in August 1971, it was transferred to the Grafschaft Hoya district and neighboring communities in 1973 and was thus retained as the only part of the originally 40-kilometer-long narrow-gauge network. The German Railway Association (DEV) opened the first museum railway in Germany here in 1966 .

The main line is still in operation. In 2005 the Syke – Heiligenfelde section was renewed. Tourist passenger transport can now also be offered here. In October 2008 the Weser bridge in Hoya was completely renewed.

After the state of Lower Saxony left the company, the shares were divided between the districts of Diepholz and Nienburg as well as the cities of Hoya and Syke and 19 municipalities. In 2004, the Weserbahn (WBG) and the Mittelweserbahn as well as the towns and communities of Hoya, Syke, Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Hoyerhagen and Eystrup acted as shareholders in addition to the two districts . After the Weserbahn retired as a partner in 2006, the shares were taken over by the Verden-Walsroder Eisenbahn (VWE).

The VGH initially ran its own business. From 1991 to mid-2001 this task was carried out by the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen (OHE), then by the end of 2003 the WeserBahn, which until 2006 also provided the railway operations manager . Since then, operations management has been carried out by the VWE managing director.

Starting on December 10, 2012, two pairs of trains will be used on weekdays between Hoya and Eystrup as a school and commuter train to replace a bus. Initially, this mission is to run for a year for testing, officially designated as a replacement service.

“Kaffkieker” multiple units in the Bruchhausen-Vilsen station

Kaffkieker

The Kaffkieker is a tourist transport with historical railcars that has been in operation between Syke and Eystrup under this name since 2007. In the years before that, tourist traffic as the Hoya Railway was only possible between Eystrup and Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Heiligenfelde . According to the timetable, it runs on Sundays and public holidays from May to September, every 1st and 4th Sunday in 2007, and every 1st and 3rd Sunday from 2008 onwards. The kaffkieker needs around 1.5 hours for the 36.7 kilometer route. If necessary, he stops at all stations.

Since 2010, the Kaffkieker Grafschaft Hoya has been a station on the Route of Industrial Culture in the northwest .

When a vehicle is diesel railcars the type MAK GDT used.

organization

Hoya station - headquarters of the VGH

Shareholder

• District of Nienburg / Weser
• District of Diepholz
• City of Hoya
• City of Syke
• Integrated community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen
• Eystrup municipality
• Hoyerhagen municipality
• Mittelweserbahn
• Verden-Walsroder Railway

Holdings

• Transport association Bremen / Lower Saxony
• Transport company for the district of Nienburg

Vehicle fleet

• 45 buses
• 8 articulated buses
• 2 large buses
• 3 coaches
• Diesel locomotive V 22 ( MaK , year of construction 1989, type: MaK G 763 C)
• Diesel locomotive V 36 005 ( Deutz AG , built in 1944, type: V 36 ) (owner: German Railway Association )
• Diesel locomotive V 241 ( Gmeinder , year of construction 1959, type: Köf III ) (owner: Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein)
• Railcar T 1 ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik , built in 1936) (owner: German Railway Association)
• Railcar T 2 ( Maschinenfabrik Esslingen , year of construction 1956, type: Esslinger railcar ) (owner: German Railway Association)
• Railcar T3 ( MaK , year of construction 1959, type: MaK GDT ) (owner: Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein)

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. 230-264 .

Web links

Commons : County Hoya Public Transport Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Company website
• hoyaer-eisenbahn.de Private website about the railways in Hoyaer Land

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2006. In: bundesanzeiger.de. Verden Walsroder Eisenbahn GmbH (VWE), November 6, 2007, accessed on March 16, 2014 . 
2. ↑ By train to school. In: Kreiszeitung.de. December 7, 2012, accessed July 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Metropolitan Region Bremen-Oldenburg eV: Route of industrial culture in the northwest. Station 16: Kaffkieker Grafschaft Hoya  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )

Coordinates: 52 ° 48 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 28 ″  E