Deister Railway
| Haste–Weetzen railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Locale | Lower Saxony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line number | 1761 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Line length | 25.4 km (15.8 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of tracks | Weetzen–Barsinghausen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrification | 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating speed | 120 km/h (74.6 mph) (maximum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number | 360.1; 360.2; 212a (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Deister Railway (German: Deisterbahn or Deisterstrecke) is a railway line in the German state of Lower Saxony between Weetzen and Haste. It is now a section of the Hanover S-Bahn network.
The line was built by the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company (Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), mainly to transport bulk freight (coal, stone) from the Deister hills. The Weetzen–Barsinghausen section was opened on 1 May 1872; the remainder of the line opened as far as Haste on 15 August 1872. Some halts were only added later: Winninghausen (in 1901), Lemmie (15 December 1904), Kirchdorf (in 1955), and Bantorf (in 1975).
On 22 March 1969, the last steam locomotive hauled a regular passenger train on the line and the line was converted to diesel traction. After Deutsche Bundesbahn planned to close the line in the late 1960s, the line was electrified with financial support from the Municipal Association of Greater Hanover, a predecessor of the Hanover Region, and was operated electrically from 31 May 1970. At first, locomotive-hauled trains of Silberling coaches operated on the line. From 1989 City-Bahn services operated on the line, primarily using class 141 locomotives in push–pull mode. The locomotive generally faced towards Haste. In preparation for Expo 2000 in Hanover, the line from Weetzen to Egestorf (Deister) was duplicated and its stations were renovated or rebuilt. Only a small section west of Weetzen station is still single track, since a double-track line there would have significantly increased costs while producing little benefit. Prior to the duplication, the only passing places on the section between Weetzen and Barsinghausen were in the stations of Wennigsen and Egestorf.
The stations of Wennigsen, Egestorf, and Barsinghausen had additional sidings for freight operations. These operations ceased in Egestorf in the 1970s, in Wennigsen in the 1980s. The sidings have been removed when the line was converted to a S-Bahn line, as well as the local operated mechanical signal boxes in these stations. Bad Nenndorf has been a station where the line to Bad Münder started. After that line was closed all sidings, signals and the signal box were removed, degrading the station to a halt.
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