Heide–Büsum railway
| Heide–Büsum railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Locale | Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line number | 1206 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Line length | 24 km (15 mi) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number | 133 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: German railway atlas
The Heide–Büsum railway is a line in the Dithmarschen district in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, connecting the district seat of Heide with the North Sea resort of Büsum.
The line runs from Heide station as a continuation of the Neumünster–Heide railway parallel to the Marsh Railway and then running under it and passing through shallow marsh land to Büsum. The most important stop along the way is in the small town of Wesselburen. Büsum station is on the North Sea and is mainly used by tourists.
The Weddinghusen–Wesselburen section was opened on 1 November 1878 by the Wesselburen–Heider Eisenbahngesellschaft (Wesselburen–Heide Railway Company) as a branch line of the existing Heide–Karolinenkoog railway, opened in 1877. The extension of this branch line to Büsum was opened for freight on 1 November 1883. Passenger services commenced on 15 November 1883. From the outset operations were carried out by the West Holstein Railway Company (Westholsteinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), which bought the Wesselburen–Heide Railway Company on 1 April 1881. The Western Holstein railway company was taken over by the Prussian state railways on 1 July 1890.
An extensive network of 750 mm gauge railways (the Wesselburener Spurbahnen) ran to Wesselburen for the carriage of agricultural produce, which was then transported towards Heide.
In the late 1950s, passenger services included, in addition to stopping trains, a pair of express services on the route from Büsum via Heide and Neumünster to Eutin. In the 1980s, the use of uneconomic train sets (a class V 100 locomotive hauling Silberling carriages with a control car) led to a temporary decline of the line.
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