Stade – Osterholz-Scharmbeck railway line

Stade-Osterholz-Scharmbeck
Moorexpress at Worpsweder train station
Route number (DB) :	1260 (Hesedorf – Stade) 1300 (Bremervörde – Hesedorf) 9132 (Bremervörde – Osterholz-Sch.)
Course book section (DB) :	12125 formerly 217b (Bremervörde – Stade) formerly 217f (Bremervörde – Osterholz-Sch.)
Route length:	77.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Cuxhaven 25.6 Stade formerly Kehdinger Kreisbahn from Bützfleth / Stadersand to Hamburg 24.6 DB Netz / EVB to the Stade Süd industrial park B 73 20.4 Hagen (Kr Stade) (demand stop) German field and small railway museum 18.1 Yours 14.4 Fredenbeck 8.1 Mulsum- donkey (demand stop) 5.5 Essel (Kr Stade) (demand stop) from Buxtehude from Elbe-Weser barracks 0.0 40.0 Hesedorf B 71 from Rotenburg (Wümme) Oste formerly from the port of Bremervörde 36.1 0.0 Bremervörde / Bremervörde Süd (originally end point) to Bremerhaven to the commercial area Bremervörde Süd Oerel South ( Anst ) 5.7 Oerel Süd (reactivation planned) 7.9 Barchel (formerly Bf / required stop) 10.8 Basdahl Kluste (demand stop) Basdahl 14.7 Brillit (formerly Bf / demand stop) 17.4 Gnarrenburg Nord (demand stop) 18.7 Gnarrenburg to the Gnarrenburg peat and humus plant Oste-Hamme Canal 20.5 Karlshöfen (Bz Bremen) 24.9 Nordsode (since 1922) 26.9 Ostersode (demand stop) Rummeldeisbeek 28.8 Heudorf - Hüttendorf (no service) Hüttenbusch ( Anst ) 31.8 Hüttenbusch (formerly Bf) 33.6 New Sankt Jürgen 36.4 Weyerdeelen- Umbeck (no service) Weyerdeelen- Umbeck ( Anst ) 38.5 Worpswede 40.5 Weyermoor (no service) Hamme 43.3 New Cameroon (from 1932) 45.7 Ahrensfelde (Bz Bremen) (demand stop) formerly the industrial area Osterholz-Scharmbeck 47.5 Osterholz-Scharmbeck East EVB / DB network from Bremerhaven 47.8 Osterholz-Scharmbeck East Osterholz-Scharmbeck to Bremen Swell:

The Stade – Osterholz-Scharmbeck railway is a railway line in the Elbe-Weser triangle in northern Lower Saxony between the cities of Stade and Osterholz-Scharmbeck via Bremervörde , Gnarrenburg and Worpswede .

In 1978, regular passenger traffic on the route was discontinued. Today, from May to the beginning of October, tourist trains run under the name Moorexpress on weekends and public holidays according to a fixed timetable; special trips take place in the winter months.

history

On October 15, 1907, the small railway Bremervörde-Osterholz (KBO) was founded to connect the still largely unpaved Teufelsmoor to rail traffic. In 1942 the company name was changed to Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn (BOE). From October 5, 1952, the BOE operated together with the German Federal Railroad a “city express service” between Stade, Bremervörde, Osterholz-Scharmbeck and Bremen, which had to be discontinued on May 28, 1971 because the Federal Railroad terminated the contract. On the remaining part of Bremervörde – Osterholz, passenger traffic was stopped on March 18, 1978 and shifted to buses.

The sparse freight traffic, however, has survived to this day, as has a summer schedule and special trips with historic vehicles from the Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn and the DB , which is operated by the Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH (evb), which merged in 1981 with the BOE with the Wilstedt-Zeven-Tostedter Railway .

On May 1, 2000, passenger traffic was resumed as part of a daily timetable for EXPO 2000 . After that, the weekend operation took place according to the timetable from May to October. The Moorexpress has been running from Stade via Bremervörde and Osterholz-Scharmbeck to Bremen since May 2006 . It got its name because the route leads through the Teufelsmoor .

The operators and initiators of the Moorexpress want to use the established tourist traffic to bring public transport in the Elbe-Weser region back on the rails. The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) has included the route as a reactivation project for public transport in its regional spatial planning program.

Bremervörde – Osterholz-Scharmbeck route

The railway line was opened in two parts: on June 23, 1909 the line from Bremervörde to Gnarrenburg and on February 9, 1911 from Gnarrenburg to Osterholz-Scharmbeck. The train left Osterholz-Scharmbeck five times a day in the direction of Bremervörde. The management was taken over. At the beginning there were four two-axle steam locomotives, nine passenger cars, two mail / baggage cars and 15 freight cars.

The goods traffic consisted for the most part (up to two thirds of the traffic volume) from peat removal . In addition, brickworks and glass factories were served and agricultural products were transported.

Transportation services

• 1914: 190,533 people
• 1928: 207,121 people
• 1935: 115,600 people
• 1938: 215,263 people
• 1960: 605,415 people
• 1965: 514,200 people
• 1970: 491,900 people

Bremervörde – Stade route

On October 1, 1898, the line between Bremervörde and Stade was opened as the first line to Bremervörde. This line was owned by the state and operated by the respective state railways. The Deutsche Bundesbahn trains ran on the Bremerhaven Hbf – Stade route and some of them ran through coaches in the direction of Hamburg Hbf, which were transferred to trains on the Cuxhaven – Hamburg Hbf route in Stade .

On September 27, 1992 the route was taken over by the evb. Since the neighboring communities did not want to provide subsidies for the financing of passenger transport, it was discontinued on September 25, 1993, the passenger trains from Bremerhaven have been traveling via Harsefeld to Buxtehude since then and some continued to Hamburg-Neugraben until December 2007.

The remaining freight traffic was stopped on December 14, 2003.

On this section, trains of the Start Unterelbe railway company run in the morning and in the evening for maintenance at the evb depot in Bremervörde, which are not released for public transport.

Steam-hauled special train on the ramp of the Hammerbrücke near Worpswede (2006)

Rails near the village of Barchel

Attractions

The route became known not only through the cities of Stade, Bremervörde and Osterholz-Scharmbeck, which it connects, but also the town of Gnarrenburg, which is located at the center of operations, where Marienhütte manufactured glass for many years and sent it all over the world, as well as the Worpswede artists' colony at the foot of the Weyerberg . Worpswede artists, especially Heinrich Vogeler , participated in the planning of the structural design and furnishing of the train stations, for example the Worpswede train station .

In Deinste there is the German Field and Small Railway Museum , in Gnarrenburger Bahnhof the Gnarrenburger Glasmuseum . Also based in Gnarrenburg were the non-profit Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahnfreunde (BOEF eV), who looked after the former BOE locomotive shed there between 2001 and 2015 and kept it as a museum.

Museum operation

Logo Moorexpress

From May to October, four pairs of trains with historic diesel multiple units run regularly on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The Moorexpress has been running to Bremen Hauptbahnhof since the 2006 season . There are actually five train journeys in each direction: early in the morning there are trains from Bremervörde to Bremen and to Stade, then three pairs of trains go from one terminus to the other, and in the evening one train leaves each terminus to Bremervörde. The journey time between Bremervörde and Stade is 50 minutes, and between Bremervörde and Bremen around two hours.

Since it is a museum, tickets from the transport associations through which the route runs are not valid. However, there is free travel for the severely disabled. Special tickets are sold by the conductors on the train or can be purchased from tourist agencies in the region. It is also possible to take bicycles with you. It takes place either in the multiple unit or in a boxcar integrated into the multiple unit, as required. Apart from two stops, it is possible to load bicycles between Bremervörde and Worpswede. Information about the history of the railway can also be conveyed to the passengers during the journey by means of an audio guide via MP3 player .

literature

Bridge over the Hamme

• Lutz Schadeck: The Moorexpress - On the way between Stade and Bremen. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2009, ISBN 978-3-88132-095-5 .
• Peter Elze, Karl-Robert Schütze: The Moorexpress. Worpsweder Verlag, 2nd edition 1984, ISBN 3-922516-21-1 .
• Dieter-Theodor Bohlmann: The railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser. Zeunert, Gifhorn 1984, ISBN 3-924335-51-6 .
• Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen Volume 10: Lower Saxony 2. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 .
• 100 years of the Bremervörde-Osterholz Railway. Eleven historical postcards (facsimiles). Verlag Karl-Robert Schütze, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-928589-28-4 .

Web links

• Timetable of the Moorexpress
• Working group Moorexpress and Förderverein Moorexpress eV
• Friends of Worpswede: The Worpswede train station
• The operators: railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser
• Audio sample of the Moorexpress audio tour

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
3. ↑ Roland Ahrendt (2003) at http://moorexpress.niederelbebahn.de/
4. ↑ How does local rail transport work? - Start of the Lower Elbe. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ https://www.oepnv-info.de/freifahrt/informationen/niedersachsen/verkehrsmittel-niedersachsen/moorexpress-stade-bremen#more-379