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Egge Railway

Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway
Overview
Locale Lower Saxony, Germany
Line number
  • 1760 (Altenbeken–Langeland)
  • 2974 (Langeland–Holzminden)
  • 1940 (Holzminden–Kreiensen)
Technical
Line length 93.5 km (58.1 mi)
Number of tracks 2: Altenbeken–Ottbergen
Stadtoldendorf–Vorwohle
Operating speed 80 km/h (50 mph) (maximum)
Route number
  • 403 (Altenbeken–Holzminden)
  • 354 (Holzminden–Kreiensen)
Route map
Line from Paderborn
0.0 Altenbeken
Line from/to Warburg
Altenbeken (Tunnel) (junction)
Rehberg Tunnel (1632 m)
Tunnel Station (junction)
3.5 Langeland
Line to Hanover
5.9 Reelsen
Reelsener Tunnel (246 m)
9.9 Bad Driburg (Westf)
15.2 Herste (Awanst)
21.9 Brakel (Kr Höxter)
26.1 Hembsen
31.6 Ottbergen
31.7 Solling Railway to Northeim
34.3 Amelunxen West
36.3 Godelheim
40.9 Höxter Rathaus
Höxter Light Railway
41.9 Höxter
43.0 Höxter-Corvey
Weser
45.1 Lüchtringen
North Rhine-Westphalia
Lower Saxony
state border
former line from Scherfede
48.9
150.5
Holzminden
139.2 Deensen-Arholzen
135.6 Stadtoldendorf
former line from Emmerthal
128.6 Vorwohle
121.1 Wenzen
115.3 Naensen
Naensen Tunnel (884 m)
Greene Viaduct
Greene
Ippensen Tunnel (205 m)
Leine
Hanoverian Southern Railway from Northeim
105.8 Kreiensen
Hanoverian Southern Railway to Hanover
Line to Brunswick
Source: German railway atlas

The Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway is part of a former long-distance route in Germany from the Ruhr area via Altenbeken, Ottbergen, Holzminden, Kreiensen and Seesen towards Berlin. The once continuous double track main line railway is now operated as a single track east of Ottbergen. It runs through the Egge ridge and along the northern edge of the Solling hills.

The section in North Rhine-Westphalia up to and including Holzminden is also known as the Egge Railway (German: Eggebahn).

The line from Altenbeken to Godelheim was opened on 1 October 1864 by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company and extended on 10 October 1865 to Holzminden. It connected with the Brunswick Southern Railway, which was opened by the Duchy of Brunswick State Railway between Holzminden and Kreiensen on 10 October 1865, creating a link with Brunswick (Braunschweig). To connect with the Brunswick area the line bypassed the town of Einbeck with two tunnels and a long climb. Originally the route was considered a long distance line from the Ruhr to Brunswick and Berlin. The section east of Ottbergen remained a secondary line because after Prussia’s annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866 a bypass of Hanover was no longer necessary. The section from Altenbeken to Ottbergen connected with the Solling Railway (Sollingbahn), opened in 1873, and the South Harz Railway (Südharzstrecke), opened 1868–69, creating an important west-east connection to Göttingen, Halle and Leipzig. The line lost importance because more traffic shifted to the north-south direction over the decades after 1945 as a result of the division of Germany. The most striking construction on the Egge Railway is the 1,631 m long Rehberg Tunnel at Altenbeken.


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