Göttingen–Bodenfelde railway

Göttingen–Bodenfelde railway
Overview
Locale	Hesse and Lower Saxony, Germany
Line number	1801
Technical
Line length	36.780 km (22.854 mi)
Minimum radius	500 m (1,640 ft)
Operating speed	80 km/h (49.7 mph) (maximum)
Maximum incline	0.092%
Route number	356 Süd until 1992: 245 until ?: 246 until 1970: 202d, ex 200c
Route map From Bebra 0.0 Göttingen Until ca. 1986 Lutter Federal highway 27 / formerly A388 3.3 Hannover–Göttingen, junction since ca. 1990 3.3 Weende, until 1976 High-speed railway and Federal highway 3 Leine Autobahn 7 Hannover–Kassel 8.0 Lenglern closed 1988–2005 Harste 11.2 Emmenhausen until 1988 14.2 Lödingsen 17.8 Adelebsen (Kr.Göttingen) 20.7 Eberhausen 1929–1973 Auschnippe Hessenbach 24.7 Offensen (Kr. Northeim) 28.2 Verliehausen until 1988 Schwülme Ahle Lower Saxony / Hesse state border 32.1 Vernawahlshausen Schwülme (2 parallel) Hesse / Lower Saxony state border (3x) Runs parallel to Solling Railway from Northeim 36.5 Bodenfelde Kr.Northeim to Ottbergen Source: German railway atlas

The Göttingen–Bodenfelde railway, also called the Oberweserbahn (Upper Weser Railway) and in Göttingen the Bodenfelder Bahn (Bodenfeld Railway), is a standard gauge railway in South Lower Saxony. The single-track, non-electrified branch line runs from Göttingen to Bodenfelde through the Weser Uplands. It is used mainly by local traffic, but it is also used by through traffic. The route was once used, for example, by Düsseldorf–Göttingen traffic.

The only freight is from a basalt quarry in Adelebsen.

The route runs approximately from the southeast to the northwest, with important intermediate stations at Lenglern and Adelebsen.

It now branches about 3 kilometres north of Göttingen station at the former Weende station from the Hanoverian Southern Railway (part of the old North–South railway). Until the construction of the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway, it had its own track to Göttingen station. It successively crosses the high-speed railway, federal highway 3 and the Leine. On the western edge of the Leine valley it passes under Autobahn 7 and rises briefly to Lödingsen. Between Emmenhausen and Offensen it runs through the Münden Nature Park. From Adelebsen to Bodenfelde the line follows the Schwülme river to the Weser river. This section is sometimes referred to as the Schwülmetalbahn (Schwülme Valley Railway). Vernawahlshausen station is located in the state of Hesse. From there it runs parallel to the Solling Railway, which it joins at Bodenfelde station.

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