Teutoburg Forest Railway

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Teutoburger Wald Eisenbahn GmbH
(formerly: Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft)
legal form GmbH , 100% owned by Captrain Deutschland , consolidated in the SNCF consolidated financial statements
founding 1899
Seat Gütersloh , HRB 9825
management Henrik Wilkening
Number of employees 0 (2015)
sales 791 kEUR (2015)
Branch Transport / logistics ( railway infrastructure company )
Website http://www.captrain.de/twe_gmbh.html

Captrain Deutschland CargoWest GmbH
(formerly: TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH)
logo
Basic information
Web presence www.captrain.de/twe.html
Reference year 2015
owner Teutoburger Wald Eisenbahn GmbH, 100% owned by Captrain Deutschland , consolidated in the SNCF consolidated financial statements
Seat Gütersloh , HRB 4252
Managing directors Henrik Würdemann
Operations management Rainer Maier
Employee 124
sales EUR 71.236 milliondep1
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
railroad 1 main route:
Ibbenbüren - Tecklenburg - Lengerich - Lienen - Bad Iburg - Bad Laer - Versmold - Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl - Hövelhof

1 branch line:
Brochterbeck - Dörenthe - Saerbeck harbor
( Dortmund-Ems Canal )
2 connecting lines:
- Harsewinkel West ( Claas )
- Gütersloh airport ( "Princess Royal Barracks" of the British Forces Germany )

number of vehicles
Locomotives 8 diesel locomotives :
- 2 MaK V 100 PA
- 2 MaK G 1205 BB
- 1 OnRail DH 1004
- 3 rented locomotives
8 electric locomotives :
Bombardier TRAXX
(rented from Rail4Captrain )
other vehicles 665 freight cars (mostly rented)
statistics
Mileage 6.641 million t
Length of line network
Railway lines 103 km
Operating facilities
Depots 1 (Bw Lengerich -Hohne)
Other operating facilities 1 reloading station for combined transport
( Gütersloh-Spexard )

The Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE) is a 1899 joint-stock company founded and in the legal form of a since 2014 GmbH guided non-federally owned railways (NE-Bahn) with its headquarters in Gütersloh . Also the single- track Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line , which was put into operation between 1900 and 1903 by the private railway company of the same name , Ibbenbüren , Tecklenburg , Lengerich (Westphalia) , Lienen ( Steinfurt district ), Bad Iburg and Bad Laer ( Osnabrück district ) with Versmold , Harsewinkel , Gütersloh, Verl ( Gütersloh district ) and Hövelhof ( Paderborn district ) is known as the Teutoburg Forest Railway . Under the name Teuto-Express , a museum railroad with historic steam locomotives has been running on the route since 1977 .

Companies

The share capital of TWE is now fully held by Captrain Deutschland , a subsidiary of the French state railway SNCF . There is a business separation between the route and operation. As a railway infrastructure company (EIU), Teutoburger Wald Eisenbahn GmbH manages the southern section of the route Versmold - Gütersloh - Hövelhof, its sister company TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH ( operating as Captrain Deutschland CargoWest GmbH since August 19, 2015 ) as a railway transport company (EVU) operating across Germany the operative business and leads all personnel. A service contract regulates the technical support of the infrastructure and the handling of operations. There is a profit and loss transfer agreement with Captrain Germany as well as a management agreement , which also includes judicial and extrajudicial representation as well as the management of a separate operating account.

An important freight customer on the TWE route today is the agricultural machinery manufacturer Claas in Harsewinkel, which is dependent on the Harsewinkel West - Gütersloh Nord rail link for the delivery of preliminary products and for the transport of the heavy harvesting machines for export to the seaports and Eastern Europe. In Gütersloh, the sidings for the two steel service centers of the companies Friedrich Amtenbrink and Wilhelm Stockbrügger and in Versmold the Transgas branch and the crown cork manufacturer Helmut Brüninghaus are regularly served via the TWE route. Since 2011, the Kemena freight forwarder has been providing the Bertelsmann large printing company Mohn Media Mohndruck with paper from Scandinavia via the rail connection to the TWE station in Gütersloh Nord .

history

Establishment, construction and start of operations by Vering & Waechter

Ordinary share B of the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
Opening of the Teutoburg Forest Railway in Gütersloh
(November 1, 1900)
Opening of the Teutoburg Forest Railway in Ibbenbüren
(July 19, 1901)
TWE Opening Train in (Bad) Iburg
(July 19, 1901)

With the opening of the Osnabrück – Dissen – Bad Rothenfelde – Brackwede (1886) and Münster – Warendorf – Rheda (1887) railway lines, the Prussian State Railways ended the development of the areas between the Münster – Osnabrück and Hamm – Bielefeld main lines . The then district towns of Tecklenburg and Iburg were still not connected to the railway network. In 1894, Albert Sprickerhoff from the Berlin company Soenderop & Co. (later Degen, Sprickerhoff & Co. in Hanover) took up the discussions in the Tecklenburger Land and southern Osnabrück Land about the construction of a private railway line from Dortmund-Ems to the south of the Teutoburg Forest . Canal and Rheine via Tecklenburg, Lengerich (Westphalia) and Iburg to Dissen am Teutoburg Forest and received the order for the first planning and surveying work from the Tecklenburg district .

Between 1895 and 1897, an initiative from local entrepreneurs to build a railway from Versmold to Gütersloh was successfully included in the "Teutoburg Forest Railway Project" after competing plans for a railway line from Warendorf via Sassenberg to Versmold and Dissen had been rejected. Due to the short-term withdrawal of the city of Rheine, Ibbenbüren was instead designated as the northern starting point of the planned railway line to Gütersloh. When the company Degen, Sprickerhoff & Co. got into economic difficulties due to the sudden death of its co-owner Louis Degen , the Berlin-based railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter took over the further project management in November 1897 .

The railway was to be built primarily to deliver Ibbenbürener anthracite coal for house firing to the towns along the route, building materials from the quarries , lime and cement works in Tecklenburger Land, bricks from the clay pits near Bad Laer and Versmold as well as construction and To be able to load pit wood from the forest operations in the catchment area of ​​the Teutoburg Forest onto the rail. In addition to agriculture, the meat and sausage industry in Versmold should also contribute to freight transport.

On April 19, 1899, the Prussian Ministry of Public Works granted the construction and operating license for a standard-gauge secondary railway from Ibbenbüren to Gütersloh with a branch in accordance with the Prussian Small Railroad Act , which facilitated the establishment of private public transport systems under simplified construction and operating conditions to the Dortmund-Ems Canal.

Under the leadership of Vering & Waechter as the main shareholder and with the participation of the districts of Tecklenburg , Halle (Westphalia) , Iburg , Warendorf , Wiedenbrück and the neighboring cities and communities, the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was founded on June 17, 1899 in the Hotel Kaiserhof in Münster (Westphalia). In August 1899 construction work could begin.

Even before the line to Ibbenbüren was completed, the TWE general meeting decided on March 30, 1901 to extend the Teutoburg Forest Railway from Gütersloh via Verl to Hövelhof as a connection to the Sennebahn to Paderborn, which was being built at the same time . Vering & Waechter initially also took over the management of the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line, which was opened in three sections :

With the opening of the Teutoburg Forest Railway, the Deutsche Reichspost began operating the railways, putting an end to most of the mail riders and stagecoaches , including the carriage post from Bielefeld via Lengerich, Tecklenburg and Ibbenbüren to Lingen, which was set up during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) . The four combined baggage and rail mail cars PwPosti 20-23 (later No. 51-54) that were procured from Van der Zypen & Charlier for the TWE in 1900 had a letter slot into which letters and postcards could be thrown in during train stops at the stations were pre-sorted and stamped by rail mail conductors while they were still in motion. Oval-shaped railway postmarks were used. These contained the day's date and train number in the middle as well as the course information “Gütersloh – Laer” (very rare and particularly popular among collectors, as it was only used between November 1900 and July 1901), “Gütersloh – Ibbenbüren” (used from July 1901) in a ring at the top until 1939) or "Gütersloh – Hövelhof" (used from April 1903 to 1939). Trains with outgoing rail mail were marked accordingly in the timetables and timetable books.

Initially, the tracks were initially only provisionally in sand and only the rail joints in gravel, later bedded entirely in blast furnace slag. Because there were no gatekeepers, only the steam whistle and the bell of the small two- and three-axle tank locomotives warned that the numerous level crossings should be cleared. As a result, the maximum permissible speed of only 35 km / h remained relatively modest even for the time. The needs of the local population in the structurally weak areas away from the major traffic flows were initially subordinate to freight traffic. In the early years, for example, mixed freight trains with passenger transport (GmP), typical of small railways, ran .

Nevertheless, passenger traffic soon influenced the development of many places along the 93 km long route. It was only with the opening of the TWE that excursion destinations such as the Dörenther cliffs , the hiking areas around Brochterbeck and Lienen or the romantic old town with the open-air stage in Tecklenburg became accessible to a broader section of the population. Iburg and Laer also developed into summer resorts because of the rail connection and are now a state-recognized Kneipp and saltwater spa .

Before the construction of the TWE, Versmold traditionally had close economic ties with Bielefeld. At that time, Harsewinkel and Marienfeld were still part of the Warendorf district in the Münster administrative district. Verl and Kaunitz were more oriented towards Rietberg and Paderborn. It was not until the TWE started work and school traffic in the up-and-coming Gütersloh that there was closer economic and cultural exchange. This reorientation of traffic relations was one of the pioneers for the later merging in the common Gütersloh district.

In March 1910, the company headquarters moved from Tecklenburg to the city of Gütersloh, which was also the largest municipal shareholder with a 19.4% share in the capital. With the beginning of the First World War , passenger train traffic on the branch line to Saerbeck harbor ended as early as 1914.

Management of the General German Railway Operating Company

The old Teutoburg forest station in Gütersloh had to give way in 1921 to the four-track expansion of the main Bielefeld - Hamm line.
The new administration and reception building of the TWE in Gütersloh was built at the expense of the Reichsbahn. The “Gütersloh Nord” TWE station that was moved here went into operation in 1925.

In 1916, the Vering & Waechter company sold its TWE shares to the AG for Transport (AGV). With this, the management was also transferred to the AGV subsidiary, Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADEG) in Berlin.

The first superheated steam locomotives were introduced in 1923 and electrical lighting was introduced in 1924. After overcoming the general transport crisis caused by inflation and the occupation of the Ruhr , the TWE finally separated travel and freight train operations at the end of the 1920s in order to accelerate passenger train traffic. Newly purchased ELNA locomotives displaced the three-axle Prussian T3 locomotives from the first years of operation from 1927 and made it necessary to convert the vehicle material to the multi- release Knorr air brake by 1928 .

The four-track expansion of the Hamm – Minden railway line required a fundamental redesign of the Gütersloh railway facilities, where the plans from May 1913 initially provided for a separate platform in a shared station for the TWE , but this was discarded as the project progressed. Instead, an operationally autonomous terminal station was again created as a replacement measure at state railroad costs for the private railroad. After the new administration and reception building at Grubenhof 2 was ready for occupancy at the end of 1921 , the old Teutoburg forest station could be demolished to clear the construction site for the widening of the main line and the construction of the future Gütersloh main station . The TWE station facilities, which had been considerably expanded as a result of their relocation, opened on August 18, 1925. The TWE line in the direction of Hövelhof, which had previously been on a railway bridge over the state railway, was re-routed to tunnel under the main line and put into operation on September 12, 1927 .

Until it was rebuilt, the Lengerich city station retained the appearance typical of a Vering & Waechter reception building. In the background is the Lengerich post office on Bergstrasse, built in 1930 and destroyed in 1941.

In 1926, fire protection reasons made it necessary to relocate the Ibbenbüren Ost station by 300 m in a south-easterly direction at the beginning of the northern route. The Iburger Bahnhof received an extension with a water tower in 1927 and entry signals in 1933. The increased volume of traffic also led to extensions to the Lengerich Stadt and Versmold train stations. Primarily for the southern sector Gütersloh - Hövelhof procured the TWE 1935 a two-axle drive cars with diesel engines, where the increasing importance of commuter traffic 1936 to 1938 for the opening of breakpoints Guetersloh Carl-Miele-Straße , Gütersloh Sunderweg , Spexard , Verl West and Espeln squad led . A new line licensed as a connecting railway established the connection to the Gütersloh air base built by the Luftwaffe between 1935 and 1937 . As a result, the section between Blankenhagen and Gütersloh Nord had to be expanded for the higher axle loads required by the Wehrmacht . In 1939, the handling of rail mail by post officials in the TWE trains ended . Post transport on the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line was then handled by TWE staff as railway conductors' railway mail.

During the Second World War , TWE trains repeatedly came under fire from low-level aircraft. On September 10, 1944, four travelers (including two children) were killed in Marienfeld train station, and another 22 people were injured; In December 1944, a locomotive driver and a stoker were killed in a low-flying attack on a TWE passenger train near Niedick . Towards the end of the war, the Reichsbahn increasingly diverted heavy freight and military trains over the TWE route, which was not designed for such traffic loads. Several times, aerial bombs made the track at the Lengerich and Gütersloh junctions impassable; A heavy air attack destroyed parts of the tracks and the reception building in Gütersloh Nord station on March 23, 1945. Contemporary witnesses report that on the night of March 29th to 30th, 1945, a military train coming from Hellendoorn in the Netherlands and loaded with V2 rockets was parked in a protected valley location at Brochterbeck station. The secret so-called retaliatory weapons are said to have been unloaded by the Waffen SS before the approaching Allies arrived and transported on the road via Hagen am Teutoburg Forest in the direction of Soltau . Between April 1 and May 23, 1945, rail traffic on the Teutoburg Forest Railway was completely idle.

Operations management of the German Railway Company

Edmondson's tickets , pocket timetable, Kraftlinien tickets and rail mail from the Teutoburg Forest Railway

On August 1, 1945, AGV transferred the management to its subsidiary Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEG) in Frankfurt am Main. By converting most of the passenger trains to new large-capacity railcars, passenger train traffic achieved significant improvements in comfort and increased timetables in the 1950s. On the occasion of school and company outings, the TWE transported sometimes more than 1,000 people from the Gütersloh area to the Tecklenburger Land on special train trips. In peak years, up to 350 railway workers handle over two million travelers and up to 780,000 t of goods. While the 1960 summer timetable for route 222g still shows 14 trains with railway conductors (9 in the direction of Hövelhof and 5 in the direction of Ibbenbüren), the TWE will end rail mail transport by 1967.

The only moderate increase in the line's top speed to 50 km / h also revealed the war-related rehabilitation backlog in the track superstructure. The maintenance of the then still profitable through freight traffic made it necessary several times to postpone the complete conversion to diesel traction, which is also urgently required from an economic point of view, in favor of the superstructure reinforcement for the increased axle loads. After three modern diesel-hydraulic bogie locomotives of the type MaK V 100 PA were put into operation in 1968 , the company's own steam locomotive operation ended on April 11, 1970 with a farewell run of the TWE locomotive 223, which was initially kept as a reserve.

On June 1, 1950, TWE took over a bus line concession for the first time in what was then the Tecklenburg district and, since 1954, has also commissioned private bus companies in the Wiedenbrück district to provide regular service as a supplement to rail passenger transport. In the 1960s, the municipal shareholders repeatedly warned that the meanwhile deficit passenger transport should be switched from rail to road and at the same time showed no willingness to support the underfunded TWE with its modernization. At the same time, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia promoted the procurement of new buses and only granted the superstructure aids to the NE railways with pure freight traffic. After it was able to surrender its passenger transport license north of Versmold to the Tecklenburg district in exchange for the traffic area from Kraftverkehr Emsland on October 1, 1967 , TWE gradually discontinued its passenger train service:

V 132 and V 131 of the TWE in double traction on the Sennebahn in the summer of 1994 - a common sight for years when heavy steel transports between the Benteler plants in Lingen and Paderborn.
V 157 in front of a freight train with scrap metal in the opposite direction from Paderborn to Lingen in January 1997 near Bad Iburg
  • April 15, 1967: Sundays and public holidays
  • May 25, 1968: Ibbenbüren - Versmold
  • May 21, 1977: Versmold - Gütersloh
  • October 31, 1978: Gütersloh - Hövelhof

By exchanging several line concessions with the Stadtwerke Gütersloh , among others, the bus service, which operates independently of the railway, developed as TWE Busverkehrs GmbH at the company headquarters in Rheda-Wiedenbrück into one of the largest local transport companies in the Gütersloh district in the 1970s.

Even before regular passenger train operations were discontinued, special trains with historic vehicles ran occasionally on the Teutoburg Forest Railway for railway enthusiasts. When railway associations started looking for new ways to use their steam locomotives (e.g. 01 150 , 24 009, 24 083 , 38 1772 ) on the private railways not affected by the general steam locomotive ban , the Tecklenburger Land tourism association initiated the particularly scenic sections of the Teutoburg Forest -Railway operates a tourist-oriented museum railroad . At the same time, a new stopping point was created at the Ibbenbüren Aasee, which was designed for local recreation. The Teuto-Express museum train stationed in the TWE depot in Lengerich-Hohne is operated economically and legally independent of the TWE on a voluntary basis by the non-profit development association Eisenbahn-Tradition .

After the former Federal Railroad removed the TWE from its network of scheduled through freight trains and discontinued general and express freight traffic, freight traffic has declined on all sections of the route. Many medium-sized companies gave up their private sidings in favor of trucks because fewer and fewer loading and unloading points are being offered in the DB network. To compensate, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn commissioned TWE with the implementation of long-distance freight transport lines between the Emsland and East Westphalia for the steel manufacturer Benteler . In transit TWE transported - sometimes in double traction - intended for processing steel billets from the electric steel plant Lingen to Paderborn pipe mill and in the opposite direction to the metal scrap needed for steel production. For more than three decades, the heavy steel trains, which run almost daily, were the only freight trains that regularly used the TWE's own Ibbenbüren - Hövelhof railway line along the entire length of the route. With financial support from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, TWE acquired two brand-new MaK G 1205 BB diesel locomotives in 1994, especially for optimizing the operationally demanding heavy Benteler steel trains .

With the end of the loading of Ibbenbüren coal and Lengerich cement products at the Saerbeck port in Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe and the withdrawal of the German armed forces, the connection route from Brochterbeck to the Dortmund-Ems Canal is now only used for rock bulk loading. Overall, the focus of freight customers shifted more and more to the companies in what is now the Gütersloh district, where after decades two long-term investments have been made in the freight train infrastructure:

From AGIV to Captrain

33330 Gütersloh, Am Grubenhof 2: TWE headquarters ...
... in the renovated Gütersloh Nord station building

As with all railways of the AGV corporation for industry and transport (AGIV), its shares were gradually transferred between 1997 and 2000 to the French Compagnie Générale d'entreprises automobiles (CGEA), whose rail and bus division was initially under the brands Connex and Veolia Verkehr appeared and operates today as Transdev GmbH .

  • The five company logos identify the repeated changes in the ownership structure of TWE.

  • TWE logo from 1975

  • TWE logo after 1997

  • TWE logo from Aug. 2000

  • TWE logo from April 2006

  • TWE logo since 2010

  • The different paint variants of their locomotives also reflect the change in ownership at TWE.

  • V 156 ( MaK G 1205 BB ) in DEG orange with blue decorative stripes

  • V 157 ( MaK G 1205 BB ) as a one-off in the final blue-red DEG design

  • V 132 ( MaK V 100 PA ) in the blue and yellow design of the Connex group

  • V 132 ( MaK V 100 PA ) in a light gray-red design by Veolia Cargo

  • V 144 ( MaK DH 1004/6 ) in the current light gray-green Captrain design

In 2003, within the framework of European legislation, there was a corporate separation of infrastructure and operations. So only the route network remained directly with the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-AG, which has served as a railway infrastructure company (EIU) since then , while the wholly-owned subsidiary TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH operates as a nationwide railway company (EVU) with a focus on logistics services for the steel processing industry. However, since the municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia severely restricted the entrepreneurial activities of local authorities outside their territory, the Gütersloh district and the cities of Versmold, Harsewinkel and Gütersloh parted with their minor stakes in the stock corporation in spring 2004.

With the sale of Veolia Cargo to the French SNCF Geodis Group, TWE has been part of Captrain Germany since January 11, 2010 . At the Annual General Meeting on August 31, 2010, several small shareholders again prevented the dissolution of TWE as a stock corporation and transfer of assets to the Farge-Vegesacker Railway, which the company had been aiming for since spring 2009 . The word mark "TWE" has been registered for Captrain Germany at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) since September 15, 2010 .

As a result of the transfer of TWE to the SNCF group, DB Schenker Rail (now DB Cargo ) terminated the cooperation agreements in autumn 2010 and thus also ended the steel train traffic between the Benteler locations Lingen (Ems) and Paderborn that had been running for decades on the Ibbenbüren - Hövelhof railway line. Almost at the same time, after a storm in August 2010, there was a dam slide between Brochterbeck and Tecklenburg and the first of a total of three route interruptions . Since there has been no through freight traffic on the TWE route since then and wagonload traffic is largely carried out directly by DB Cargo, from now on TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH was almost exclusively in use outside of its original route. By taking over the Hamburg location and its employees from CC-Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH has been performing shunting and operating services in the Port of Hamburg for the Captrain Group since November 2012 via the newly founded TWE Hamburg branch.

After a public offer to buy back the last shares in free float on July 11, 2011, Captrain Germany initiated the squeeze-out of the last small shareholders on August 18, 2011 with a stake of 97% in the share capital . With the transfer of all TWE shares to Captrain Deutschland, the listing of the preferred and common shares in Hamburg and Hanover ended at the end of the trading day on December 5, 2011. All actions brought by shareholders to rescind this are subject to a court-recorded settlement on December 12, 2013 been terminated. In accordance with a resolution of the Annual General Meeting on July 7, 2014, the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft was converted into the legal form of a limited liability company on September 12, 2014.

On August 19, 2015, TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH was merged with Bayerische CargoBahn GmbH and the name of the new company was retrospectively changed to Captrain Deutschland CargoWest GmbH as of January 1, 2015 . The locations of the two former EVUs with their vehicles, employees and managers are to be retained.

Infrastructure

The 93 km long TWE trunk line, licensed as a branch line for public transport , is linked to the Deutsche Bahn network in Ibbenbüren, Lengerich (Westphalia), Gütersloh and Hövelhof . Branch lines connect the Saerbeck port on the Dortmund-Ems canal in Ibbenbüren- Dörenthe , the Claas agricultural machinery factory in Harsewinkel West and Gütersloh Airport in the direction of Gütersloh. In Gütersloh-Spexard , TWE operates a reloading station (intermodal terminal) for combined transport directly at the motorway connection to the A2 , in Lengerich-Hohne a depot , which also functions as a central workshop for other NE railways, and a branch in Hamburg for the shunting business in the port of Hamburg . The northern section of the Ibbenbüren - Lengerich (Westphalia) - Versmold route was sold to LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH on December 1, 2015, following a route tender . The 25.1 kilometer long section Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl is to be included in the requirements planning of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the reactivation of local rail passenger transport .

  • Track connection of the Teutoburg Forest Railway to the Hamm - Bielefeld railway line in Gütersloh

  • TWE mainline track from Gütersloh Nord

  • to Verl - Hövelhof or Gütersloh Hbf

  • the same curve in the opposite direction

  • from Hövelhof - Verl to Gütersloh Nord

Railway line Ibbenbüren - Lengerich-Hohne - Versmold (excl.)

The TWE line at Brochterbeck was interrupted from 2010 to 2015.

Shortly after the takeover by Captrain Germany , the management informed in May 2010 at a mayors' conference in the Gütersloh district about a possible suspension of freight traffic on the TWE's own Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line. She justified this with the fact that there will be considerable investments in tracks and bridges in the near future, which they no longer want to take over because the volume of goods traffic has fallen sharply. At the beginning of September 2010 there was the first of three line closures in the Steinfurt district and in the Osnabrück district . In January 2012, the action alliance pro TWE was founded in Bad Laer , which “aims to maintain and regularly use the Teutoburg Forest Railway in the areas of leisure, tourism and freight transport”.

On August 1, 2013, the TWE management announced that the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn wanted to sell the northern part of its railway infrastructure on the 43.6 km long Ibbenbüren - Versmold section and the 7.1 km long branch line Brochterbeck - Saerbeck port. Should a transfer of the route to a third party fail, TWE reserves the right to submit an application for release from the operating obligation. On November 21, 2014, the TWE announces the official initiation of the legally prescribed procedure for surrender or line closure in accordance with Section 11 of the General Railway Act (AEG) for the 50.6-kilometer northern section of the TWE infrastructure between Ibbenbüren and Versmold.

In February 2015, the railway infrastructure company Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH (LWS) from Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in Saxony-Anhalt announced that it had officially applied for the northern parts of the TWE route between Ibbenbüren and Versmold that were tendered for takeover. After discussions with the TWE parent company Captrain, the affected districts of Steinfurt, Osnabrück and Gütersloh and with large shippers, the LWS acquired these sections on December 1, 2015. The sister company of the railway company Lappwaldbahn GmbH (LWB) intends to renovate the currently blocked tracks in two construction phases in the period from 2016 to 2021. By the end of 2017, tourism traffic between Ibbenbüren and Versmold and freight traffic to the port of Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe are planned. On December 21, 2015, under the responsibility of the new line owner, a freight train ran for the first time on the tracks between Versmold and Ibbenbüren, which had been temporarily reopened.

On May 25, 2020, the special purpose association for local rail passenger transport in Münsterland (ZVM) decided to commission a feasibility study for reactivating local rail passenger transport in the Ibbenbüren - Lengerich section.

Versmold - Gütersloh Nord - Hövelhof railway line

With regard to the southern section of the Versmold - Hövelhof route, however, the TWE management repeatedly reaffirmed its interest through measures to increase freight traffic in the Gütersloh area and the reactivation of local rail transport (SPNV) in the Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl section planned by the Verkehrsverbund Ostwestfalen-Lippe (VVOWL) to want to use and maintain the southern part of their railway infrastructure in the long term. The company appealed to decision-makers in the Gütersloh district and in the municipalities to support the resumption of passenger train traffic in the Gütersloh district . Despite a controversial debate in the city of Gütersloh, both the district and, in October 2010, the three cities involved, Harsewinkel, Gütersloh and Verl, decided to allocate the operating costs to the VVOWL with a total of one million euros a year in the event of a successful reactivation of the local rail transport subsidize.

If the final decision is made in 2019 on state funding of the investment volume estimated at 34.5 million euros for the expansion of the Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl section to make it suitable for local rail transport, the plans provide for the start of operations in 2023. An expert opinion ( standardized assessment ) published by the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) in December 2018 shows that the local transport project has a cost-benefit factor of 1.6. The measure is to be registered by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia via the regional council in Detmold for inclusion in the public transport requirement plan.

For the southernmost section from Verl to Hövelhof, an “Urban Rail” test operation with self-propelled rail vehicles is being tested to link it to the adjoining Sennebahn to Paderborn.

Vehicle fleet

Locomotives from the former TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH

In 2015, the TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH fleet included five diesel-hydraulic mainline locomotives, all of which had an NVR number in accordance with international UIC rules. are registered in the national vehicle registration register at the Federal Railway Authority (EBA).

These are exclusively four-axle bogie constructions from Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK):

Road no. Construction year Manufacturer
serial no. 		model series UIC marking (NVR no.) Location Remarks operationally
capable
V 131 1968 MaK
1000255 		MaK V 100 PA
(G 1300 BB) 		98 80 0212 907-6 D-TWE Lengerich (Westphalia) November 10, 2011 Accident in Hamburg Yes
V 132 1968 MaK
1000256 		MaK V 100 PA
(G 1300 BB) 		98 80 0212 908-4 D-TWE Hamburg Yes
V 133 1968 MaK
1000257 		MaK V 100 PA
(G 1300 BB) 		98 80 0212 909-2 D-RBB Bitterfeld Yes
V 144 (1962)
2001 		( Krauss-Maffei
18889)
Vossloh
DH1004 / 6 		( DB series
V 100.10 )
OnRail DH 1004 		92 80 1209 006-6 D-TWE Gutersloh Frame / chassis formerly DB 211 293-6 Yes
V 156 1994 MaK
1000895 		MaK G 1205 BB 98 80 0274 107-8 D-TWE Gutersloh Yes
V 157 1994 MaK
1000896 		MaK G 1205 BB 98 80 0274 108-6 D-TWE Hamburg Yes

These five locomotives are used at various locations throughout Germany, which is why diesel locomotives (predominantly of the MaK G 1206 type ) from the Captrain Germany pool , but also rental locomotives from non-Group NE railways such as B. the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn the fleet. TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH had rented 8 Bombardier TRAXX series 145-CL and 185-CL electric locomotives from Rail4Captrain for long-distance freight transport. The freight train services carried out by DB Cargo in the TWE network are mainly provided with DB series 294 and 295 diesel locomotives .

  • Cross-section from the current TWE fleet

  • The two TWE diesel locomotives V 157 ( MaK G 1205 BB , left) and V 144 ( MaK DH 1004/6 , right) are in the current light gray-green design from Captrain in the Gütersloh Nord station.

  • The Captrain electric locomotive 185-CL 007 was christened "Sir Reiner" in 2010 at Gütersloh Nord station in honor of TWE board member Reiner Woermann.

  • With the pantographs lowered, electric locomotives 146 519 (RBB) and 185 551 (MRCE) are parked in the overhead line at Gütersloh Nord station.

  • For track construction work on its own Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line, TWE maintains a heavy-duty compact car (Skl) of the Klv 53 series .

  • A road-rail excavator with a saw head from Atlas is used for embankment work .

  • Time and again, temporarily rented locomotives from other EVUs, such as the WLE diesel locomotive No. 51 ( MaK G 1206 ), add to the TWE vehicle fleet.

On November 10, 2011, the TWE diesel locomotive V 131 derailed in Hamburg-Billwerder and fell from a bridgehead onto a street.

The TWE diesel locomotive V 131 received media attention when it derailed on November 10, 2011 in Hamburg-Billwerder after it had rammed a buffer stop and fell down a seven meter high bridgehead onto the Mittleren Landweg. Personal injuries were not to be complained about; the engine driver and a trainee were able to escape in time by jumping out of the cab. In addition to the locomotive, the road was also badly damaged. The laborious recovery of the 62-ton locomotive could only be completed after two days. After a 30-month work-up period, the locomotive, internally referred to as “the fallen girl”, was put back into operation in Lengerich in July 2015.

Preserved historical vehicles of the former Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft

With the V 320 ( Henschel DH 4000 ) locomotive , the TWE owned the largest diesel locomotive in Germany from 1989 to 1992.

Especially under the DEG management, numerous used locomotives , railcars and wagons from other private railways , but also decommissioned splinter classes from state railroad stocks, such as B. several Prussian T 13 steam locomotives with Lentz valve control and tank locomotives of the 75.6 series are used by the TWE. Vehicles from other DEG railways could also be found on the TWE during visits to the workshop. The former state rail car VT 03 for the Teuto Express museum railroad traffic on the TWE route is still available.

Thirteen different railcars were used on the TWE, one of them brand new and five used by Esslingen railcars . The gradual cessation of passenger transport and the purchase of new diesel locomotives for freight transport went hand in hand with the scrapping of many vehicles .

In 1989 the takeover of the two former Bundesbahn locomotives V 320 001 (largest German diesel locomotive) and V 160 004 (one of the nine “Lollo” pre-production locomotives) from the Hersfelder Kreisbahn attracted attention .

Of the former, now historic TWE locomotives, the two ELNA steam locomotives No. 152 and 154 (1'C h2t ELNA 5 ) remained at the Dutch Museum Buurtspoorweg or at the Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées in Belgium and the MaK 600 D -Diesel locomotive V 65 kept operational on the Brohltalbahn . Three more MaK rod locomotives came to Italy. The Esslingen railcars VT 61 and VT 62 are stationed for museum and tourist rail traffic at the Sauschwänzlebahn and Rübelandbahn , the former VT 65, which was dismantled to a sidecar, is now with the Butzbach-Licher-Eisenbahnfreunde .

The last TWE steam locomotive No. 223 (1'C1 'h2t) can be viewed as an exhibit in the locomotive shed of the Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways (VVM) in Aumühle near Hamburg .

Road no. Construction year Manufacturer
factory no. 		model series UIC marking (NVR no.) Location current owner
current road no. 		operationally
capable
152 1927 Henschel
20818 		ELNA 5 Haaksbergen (Netherlands) since 1972: Museum Buurtspoorweg (MBS)
5 		Yes
154 1940 Henschel
24917 		ELNA 5 Mariembourg (Belgium) since 1983: Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées (CFV3V)
158 KKB 		Yes
223 1928 Henschel
21341 		ELE No. 11 to 14 Aumühle since 1973: Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways (VVM)
75 634 		No
V 65 1957 MaK
600139 		MaK 600 D 98 80 3265 202-2 D-BEG Brohl-Lützing since 2008: Brohltal-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BEG)
V 65 "Inge" 		Yes
V 81 1958 MaK
800092 		MaK 800 D Macomer (Italy) after 1985: Vecchia Cooperativa Braccianti Srl (VCB), Fano
T 5110 		?
V 121 1959 MaK
1000018 		MaK 1200 D Bologna (Italy) since 1998: Cooperativa Lavori Ferroviari (CLF)
9 		?
V 123 1962 MaK
1000152 		MaK 1200 D Lecce (Italy) since 1981: Fersalento Srl
T 6533 		?
V 216 1960 Krupp
4047 		former DB
V 160 004 		Ravenna (Italy) since 1999: Servizi Ferroviari Genova (SerFer)
K 054 		Yes
V 320 1962 Henschel
30400 		former DB
V 320 001 		92 80 1320 001-1 D-BLP Nienburg / Weser since 1999: BLP Wiebe Logistik
320 001-1 		No
VT 03 1926 Wegmann
35252 		DR 801 to 804 Lengerich (Westphalia) since 2009: Friends of the Railway Tradition
VT 03 		Yes
VT 61 1952 Esslingen
23494 		Esslinger railcar 95 80 0301 030-2 D-WTBB Blumberg since 1994: Wutachtalbahn
(owner city of Blumberg)
VT 3 		No
VT 62 1952 Esslingen
23504 		Esslinger railcar Blankenburg (Harz) since 2002: Die Brücke eV
T 62 " Halberstadt – Blankenburg – Elbingerode " 		Yes
VT 65 1953 Esslingen
23606 		Esslinger railcar 95 80 0303 021-9 D-EBN Butzbach since 2012: Butzbach-Licher-Eisenbahnfreunde
(owner: Eisenbahnbedarf Bad Nauheim)
VB 65 		No

The oldest surviving TWE vehicle is likely to be the Ci 15 passenger wagon built by Beuchelt & Co. in 1901 , which came to the Kiel-Schönberger Eisenbahn (KSchE) in 1960, where it is still available to Baltic Sea holidaymakers on special train trips on Schönberger Strand.

The former TWE baggage car Pwi 55, which was built in 1902 by the Uerdingen wagon factory , came to the Minden Museum Railway (MEM) in 1982 . It is currently not operational and is parked as car 355 in Preußisch Oldendorf on the former Wittlager Kreisbahn route.

After the VB 127 (formerly Ci 21) fell victim to arson in the Lengerich-Hohne depot, the last three remaining TWE passenger cars VB 126 (formerly BCi 2), BCi 3 built by the L. Steinfurt wagon factory in 1925 were found and Ci 22 in 1993 a new home at the Jan Harpstedt museum railway . After extensive restoration, they are back in regular use on the Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Railway , now in their original bottle-green paintwork .

  • Preserved historic TWE vehicles

  • The former TWE locomotive 152 is one of the new ELNA locomotives purchased from 1927 . In dark blue livery, it runs on a Dutch museum train.

  • With the former TWE locomotive 154, another ELNA 5 locomotive remained operational. It was built in 1940 and runs on a museum railway in Belgium.

  • VT 61 came from RStE to TWE and was one of six Esslingen railcars that shaped passenger traffic in the post-war period.

  • historic passenger train with the last beige-red TWE platform wagons (Waggonfabrik L. Steinfurt, built in 1925) in Bad Iburg station

  • The VT 03, built by Wegmann in 1926, came to TWE in 1981 and is the oldest operational diesel multiple unit in Germany.

Trivia

Run by TWE locomotive V 81, the special train made available for the overnight stay for Queen Elizabeth II at the RAF in Gütersloh leaves the TWE route on the morning of May 27, 1965.

Royal passengers

The English Queen Elizabeth II is the most prominent passenger who has ever used the Teutoburg Forest Railway: After visiting the British garrison locations in Soest , Gütersloh, Sennelager and Bad Lippspringe during her ten-day state visit , Queen Elizabeth II met on May 27, 1965 at around 12.25 a.m. again on the federal government's special train at Gütersloh Hbf. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh watched from the open window of a saloon car how the two heavy V 200.0 diesel locomotives of the Deutsche Bundesbahn were exchanged for two TWE diesel locomotives (V 123 and V 81) at the two ends of the train within 8 minutes . The Prince Consort translated into easily understandable German questions from the queen standing behind him about the maneuvering process . The 380-meter-long special train, consisting of 15 cars, then switched to the Teutoburg Forest Railway and carried the royal passengers to the British military airfield on Marienfelder Strasse, where the monarch slept in the saloon sleeping car in a quiet place at the level of the officers' mess on the grounds of the Royal Air Force .

Popular affinity

Which is still common among locals terms "speak for the roots in the region T exas- W ackel- E xpress" and " t daily intervals w ess E REVENUE" with which the vernacular, the operational and financial conditions in more than 110 years TWE history knew how to characterize it pointedly. The unofficial name “Zum Katholischen Bahnhof” for the TWE train station restaurant, which was closed on December 23, 2008, also reflects the former importance of the TWE for the predominantly Roman Catholic rural population from Harsewinkel, Marienfeld, Spexard, Verl and Kaunitz as workers in the factories of the emerging and Protestant town of Gütersloh.

Web links

Commons : Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

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