Peine-Salzgitter transport company

Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1st October 1971
Seat	Salzgitter , Germany
management	Johannes Dreier; Peter Vogel;
Number of employees	743
sales	101 million euros
Branch	Transport & logistics
Website	www.vps-bahn.de
	Status: 2014

The traffic Peine-Salzgitter GmbH (VPS) are a public, non-State-owned railway company , based in Salzgitter Hallendorf that as a subsidiary of Salzgitter AG in rail freight operates. In 2005 the railway infrastructure was spun off to VPS Infrastruktur GmbH (VPSI) .

Route network

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The VPS have a track network of 155 km; 84 km of this are mainline tracks and 71 km are station tracks at the Salzgitter (SZ) and Peine locations . The lines are not electrified and only diesel locomotives are used there. There are links to the network of DB Netz AG in Peine, Groß Gleidingen (“ Beddingen station ”), Salzgitter-Bad and Broistedt . In addition, the canal ports of Salzgitter and Peine and the Beddingen KLV facility in the Salzgitter freight center will be connected. The infrastructure is in part as a public routes, partly as sidings operated and partly as mine railway siding.

From the main route SZ-Beddingen – Vosspaß (to SZ-Bad), which runs through the Salzgitter ironworks, branches run to SZ-Hütte Nord, Beddingen Hafen, Konrad shaft (II), Engelnstedt and Haverlahwiese. There is also a connection to Peine.

traffic

Freight transport

Factory site of the Peine steelworks

A Vossloh G 6 in the direction of Ilsede after the Wiesenstrasse level crossing in Peine

The company handles its main traffic in shunting operations on the premises of Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter, Peine and Ilsenburg .

The VPS also transport iron ore from the port of Hamburg to Salzgitter as well as lime from Rübeland and semi-finished products to the other Salzgitter AG plants. From 2005 to the end of 2009, two container train connections were operated from Salzgitter to Hamburg (three times a week) and Bremerhaven (twice a week). Deutsche Bahn routes and its own connecting routes are used for this purpose. Up until the 1990s, liquid pig iron was also transported in ladle cars on the company's own network .

passenger traffic

Until 1975, the VPS also offered public passenger transport aimed at, but not limited to, steelworks workers. The eye-catching vehicle was the six-axle VT 1 diesel multiple unit (“Hüttenflitzer”), a unique piece with a body made of stainless steel .

The timetable of May 31, 1959, under number 206f, contains a timetable for routes totaling 21 km in length, namely from Salzgitter-Walzwerk via Salzgitter-Watenstedt Nord and Salzgitter-Calbecht to Salzgitter-Finkenkuhle with three pairs of trains, four on weekdays and two on weekdays Train pairs from Salzgitter-Haverlahwiese II via Salzgitter-Calbecht to Salzgitter-Finkenkuhle. In the summer timetable 1977 it was announced that the passenger transport would now be taken over by buses. Passenger traffic was discontinued on March 21, 1975, officially when the winter timetable expired on May 31.

Furthermore, there was also passenger traffic on the Peine – Ilseder railway and the Groß Ilsede – Broistedt railway until 1969 (see history ).

The VPS are members of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Peine, which operates local public transport with buses in the Peine district .

Vehicle fleet

185 530 near Vechelde

In 2006 the company owned a total of 63 locomotives . Diesel shunting locomotives of the type 530C from Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) make up the largest share with 43 pieces . These are to be successively replaced by new locomotives. The first delivery of 18 locomotives of the new Vossloh G 6 type took place between April 2011 and August 2012; a further 22 copies have been received since February 2013.

Two TRAXX series 185 electric locomotives from Bombardier were used to transport ore from Hamburg (have now been replaced by series 151 locomotives from Railion); the other transports outside of the plants are mostly handled with Gmeinder D 100 BB diesel locomotives . The four most powerful existing diesel locomotives (type G 1700-2 BB with 1,700 kW output and 259 kN starting tractive effort ) come from Vossloh .

Because of the large trailer loads involved in transporting ore and steel, the VPS also often use these locomotives in multiple traction . Also Schiebeloks are common.

In addition, the VPS own a freight car park of around 1,600 wagons of various types (as of 2008).

For the maintenance of their vehicles, the VPS have a workshop at their headquarters in Salzgitter-Hallendorf.

From 1957, a two-part light metal railcar built by Linke-Hofmann-Busch, known as the “Hüttenflitzer” , was used for passenger traffic on the Salzgitter Railway . Sold to Italy in 1979, it was bought back in 2011; it should at least be worked up externally.

From 1957, five MAN rail buses and one sidecar were used at the PIE , which were sold on in 1969.

history

Peine – Ilsede – Broistedt

Ilseder train station in Peine, around 1919

Route number :

9198

Course book section (DB) :

earlier 207c (1963) , 207d (1944)

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Top speed:

40 km / h

Legend

		from Braunschweig
		Freight station Peine
		to Hannover
	0.0	Peine PIE Ilseder Bf
		to the sugar factory
		from Peine harbor
	4.1	Klein Ilsede
		from the Emilie shaft
		to / from Vöhrum , Gerhard-Schacht , Ilseder slag recycling
		Elevated railway to the ore bunker
	7.1	Groß Ilsede PIE End of passenger traffic
		Ilseder Hut
		Groß Ilsede Süd KIB
	12.5	Groß Lafferde (- Steinbrück )
	18.9	Lengede
		from Hildesheim
	20.9	Broistedt
		to Braunschweig and Salzgitter

Broistedt – Calbecht ore railway

Route number :

9190

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Top speed:

40 km / h

Legend

		from Peine
		from Hildesheim
	0.0	Broistedt
		to Braunschweig and Salzgitter
		Hildesheim – Braunschweig railway line

	7.2	Transfer station Engelnstedt
		Hut Süd – Calbecht
		Braunschweig – Derneburg railway line
		former route Braunschweig – Derneburg
	11.3	Transfer station Salder
		Salzgitter Railway Calbecht – Engelnstedt
		Engelnstedt hut south
	16.0	Calbecht
	20.9	Vosspaß
		from Braunschweig
		Salzgitter-Bad (DB)
		to Kreiensen

The VPS emerged on January 1, 1972 from the merger of the railway companies

Railway operations department of the Ilseder Hütte, which included the Peine – Ilseder Railway and the Groß Ilsede – Broistedt Railway,
Salzgitter Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH.

Ladle wagon train for transporting pig iron on the way between Peine and Salzgitter

The elevated railway built in 1911 to transport pig iron from the iron and steel works in Ilsede to Peine at the level crossing at Braunschweiger Straße

Peine – Ilseder Railway

The Peine – Ilseder Railway (PIE) was put into operation on May 2, 1865 as a horse-drawn railway for goods traffic through the Ilseder Hütte (founded in 1858) and from September 13, 1865 also for public goods traffic and on September 22, 1866 for passenger traffic Approved. One of the driving forces was Georg Lucas Meyer . The locomotive operation replaced the horse-drawn tram from 1873.

Ladle wagon No. 28 of the Peine-Salzgitter transport company with filled pig iron at the Groß Ilseder level crossing at Eichstrasse

Public transport was carried out on a seven-kilometer route from Peine PIE station, which was located southeast of the state station on Jägerstrasse, to Groß Ilsede PIE. There were extensive sidings to the mines and smelting works. There was also a station building and later a railcar shed here. Both were demolished. In the horse tram era, there was one passenger train per day. The timetable showed six pairs of trains in 1897, ten in 1914, twenty in 1927 and nineteen on weekdays in 1950 and eleven on Sundays. In the summer of 1969, twenty-six pairs of railcars were offered; nevertheless, omnibuses took their place on September 27, 1969. In 1880 21,324 passengers were carried, in 1898 149,960, in 1948 the number of passengers reached its highest level of 2.2 million.

Steel high bridge for the transport of pig iron

Parallel to the PIE, a route to the east to transport liquid pig iron from Ilsede to the rolling mill in Peine (today Peiner Träger GmbH ) was built, as this was not possible on the existing route for safety reasons. It was opened on January 2, 1911. In contrast to the PIE, this railway was licensed as a private connecting railway. In order to be able to fill the pig iron directly into the Thomaskonverter in Peine, a 511 m long steel bridge was built in Peine, which had to be approached fully loaded with a lot of momentum; however, only 20 km / h were permitted. After the Thomas steel mill was shut down, the "elevated railway" was brought into the mixer hall of the blow steel mill built in the early 1960s . The bridge has not been used since November 1970 and was demolished in 1971.

From 1918 to 1930 the PIE operated a relief line that branched off north of Groß Ilsede in a triangular track from the main line towards the west and led via Bülten to Vöhrum , where there was a transition to the state railway. The route was only used for freight traffic. It was then initially dismantled, but put back into operation around 1940 and only finally shut down in 1964. The first part of the line to the Bülten junction, designed as a triangular track, was built in the spring of 1914 as part of a connecting railway to the Kaiser Wilhelm shaft. Another railway branching off this shaft was built at the end of 1916 to the former Groß Bülten-Ost opencast mine (approx. 1 km) and extended by 3.3 kilometers through the town of Groß Bülten to the former Groß Bülten-Adenstedt opencast mine on January 25, 1923. The railway was used to transport the backfill material to the pits. In 1949 the line was dismantled after the filling was completed. The siding to the Peiner Hafen, which was opened in 1930, was opened on December 15, 1931. In 1965 the mine railway to the Kaiser Wilhelm shaft was also shut down.

Groß Ilsede – Broistedt railway

The Groß Ilsede – Broistedt railway was opened as the Ilsede – Lengeder railway on November 13, 1884, also from the Ilseder Hütte to Lengede. In 1914 it operated as a connecting railway and from 1919 - until the sixties - as Kleinbahn Groß Ilsede – Broistedt.

The 11.8 km long route was originally laid out in the narrow gauge of 780 mm and was also used for public transport. In 1918 it was on standard gauge umgespurt and extended by 1.2 km to Broistedt Nord. The rebuilt line was opened on November 24, 1918. The route was operated in passenger traffic from April 1, 1885. The trains initially drove from the Peiner Bahnhof in Groß Ilsede through the smelter area, where the freight wagons were attached, to Lengede . However, on February 1, 1893, the railway ceased operations and the passenger journeys have since ended at the Lengeder train station in Groß Ilsede (later Groß Ilsede Süd) at the southern end of the hut area. From there to the Peine train station, the passengers had to walk around two kilometers around the hut. There were never continuous passenger trains from Peine to Broistedt even after the gauge change, although a track was built around the hut area.

In 1897 two pairs of passenger trains drove the entire route to Lengede, and three more to Steinbrück . In 1914 there were five pairs of trains to Lengede; operations were closed on Sundays. In 1927 we find nine pairs of trains between Groß Ilsede Lengeder Bahnhof and Broistedt. Passenger traffic was suspended from January 5, 1933 to 1945. The timetable for the summer of 1950 contains four connections on weekdays and two connections on Sundays between Groß Ilsede Süd and Broistedt Kleinbahnhof; on October 8, 1950, passenger traffic was finally stopped.

On May 22, 1924, the line was extended as a mine connection line by 15.6 km from Broistedt to Calbecht to develop ore mines . There the ore was washed from the pits and then transported to Ilsede. On August 1, 1940, the route to the Vosspass ore loading was extended, where the connecting line was given its own terminus south of the main route. There was a track connection to the Salzgitter-Bad train station. The Salzgitter Railway ran partially parallel to this route. In 1963, all traffic was shifted to this section of the Salzgitter Railway and the ore railway between Engelnstedt and Calbecht was shut down.

Peine – Ilseder Railway and Kleinbahn Groß Ilsede – Broistedt were last jointly administered and under the name Peiner Eisenbahn in 1972 they were subordinated to the VPS. The BDE-Handbuch 1975/76 names the route Peine – Ilsede – Broistedt – Salzgitter-Engelnstedt with a length of 30 km.

In addition to these two routes, there were also various routes for transporting ore and slag, which were initially carried out in 780 mm gauge, but from 1911 also in standard gauge, since the liberal use of the resources was seen as more advantageous than the smaller space requirement of the narrow gauge. After the completion of the Mittelland Canal , the Peiner Hafen , which was built on it, also received a siding in 1931.

Connection railways Ilsede

The Ilsede Hütte operated various connecting railways

Pit connection railway Groß Ilsede - Groß Bülten (3.1 km, 1914-1969)
Pit connection railway slag transport railway Groß Ilsede - Groß Bülten (3.3 km, 1916 – approx. 1983)
Pit connection railway sand conveyor railway Groß Bülten – Klein Bülten (1923–1961)
Mine connection line Broistedt - Calbecht (15.6 km, 1924–1962), extended to Vosspass (5.1 km, 1938–1962)
Mine connection railway Schacht Emilie (1.7 km, 1940–1983)
Pit connection railway sand extraction Handorf (1.7 km, 1957– approx. 1983)
Private connection railway Hafen Peine (2.0 km, since 1929)

Salzgitter Railway

The second part of VPS operations is the former Salzgitter Railway .

The first later VPS railway in this area was the 15.6 km long route from Broistedt to Calbecht; it was used to transport ore to the Ilseder Hütte and was opened in 1924.

With the establishment of the " Reichswerke Hermann Göring AG" in the Salzgitter area, an extensive works railway network was initially created under the management of the BLE, after its transition to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1938 under the direction of its own transport department, which reached its first climax in the last War years reached. The existing Ilseder ore railway Broistedt – Calbecht was included in the network and extended to Vosspaß or Salzgitter-Bad; the works railway ran parallel to this line for a long time. After the liquidation of the Reichswerke , the stock corporation for mining and smelting operations was responsible for rail traffic. There was public transport on different routes, such as Salzgitter-Bad-Watenstedt (hut), Salzgitter-Bad (Finkenkuhle) -Haverlahwiese and Lebenstedt-Hallendorf.

After the partly closed, partly dismantled blast furnaces, steelworks and rolling mills had been rebuilt, the Salzgitter Transport Company (VBS) was founded by Hüttenwerke Salzgitter on September 19, 1953 . The public transport routes were combined on April 1, 1955 in the Salzgitter Railway as a public transport railway with a route length of 34 km. This was followed by extensive factory tracks for internal traffic. Passenger traffic was gradually shut down; A railcar called Hüttenflitzer, acquired from Linke-Hofmann-Busch in 1957, could not change that. In 1963 there were five pairs of trains on weekdays and three on Sundays between Salzgitter-Walzwerk and Salzgitter-Finkenkuhle (at the DB station in Salzgitter-Bad).

In 1961 the Ilseder Hütte gave the ore railway Engelnstedt – Calbecht – Vosspaß to the VBS. The company name was changed in 1965: from then on the transport company was called Salzgitter Verkehrsbetriebe .

literature

Karl Arne Richter, Georg Ringler: Lexicon of German private railways . GeraMond, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7174-7 , pp. 44 .
Hans Wolfgang Rogl: Archive of German Small and Private Railways - Lower Saxony . 1st edition. Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71022-2 .
Eberhard Schüler: The railways of the Ilseder hut . Rösler + Zimmer Verlag, Augsburg 1973, ISBN 3-87987-131-0 .
Gerd Wolff: The private railways in the Federal Republic of Germany . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-88255-650-1 .
Carsten Watsack: Peine-Salzgitter Transport Company . Verlag Carsten Watsack, Ilsede 2003, ISBN 3-935944-01-2 . ( books.google.de )
Carsten Watsack: The railways of the Ilseder Hütte . Verlag Carsten Watsack, Ilsede 2005, ISBN 3-935944-02-0 .
Carsten Watsack: "I drove the last pig iron train" - as a locomotive driver at the Ilseder Hütte . Verlag Carsten Watsack, Ilsede 2008, ISBN 3-935944-03-9 .
Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 11: Lower Saxony 3 - South of the Mittelland Canal . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 .

Web links

Commons : Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Key figures 2014. (No longer available online.) VPS, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ See track network with overview map (PDF) . Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2011. @1@ 2

↑ Vossloh delivers 18 diesel locomotives to Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter. Vossloh AG, accessed on September 8, 2010 (German).

↑ www.loks-aus-kiel.de - Vossloh G 6. Retrieved on January 26, 2014 (German).

^ Eisenbahn-magazin 1/2012, p. 27

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