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Lehrte–Nordstemmen railway

Lehrte–Nordstemmen line
Overview
Locale Lower Saxony
Line number 1770
Technical
Line length 27 km (17 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC
Overhead catenary
Operating speed 140 km/h (87 mph) (maximum)
Route number 323, 363.3
Route map
Line to Hanover S 4S 7
Line to Celle S 7
16.1 Lehrte,reversal of S 7
(former route until 1990)
HSL to Berlin
Line to Brunswick
(former route until 1990)
Potash mine
22.7 Sehnde
Mittelland Canal
Hohenfels potash mine, HSM tram museum
30.1 Algermissen
Siegfried, Giesen potash mine
35.1 Harsum
A 7
B 6
Hildesheim-Peine District Railway
Line to Brunswick
Line to Goslar, Lamme Valley Railway
40.7 Hildesheim Hbf,termini of S 3S 4
45.4 Himmelsthür junctionHildesheim loop
46.8 Emmerke
Hanover–Würzburg high-speed line
49.7 Rössing junctionSouthern Railway S 3
Southern Railway from Hanover
52.2 Nordstemmen
Southern Railway to Göttingen

Source: German railway atlas


Source: German railway atlas

The Lehrte–Nordstemmen railway is a continuous double track, electrified main line railway in the German state of Lower Saxony. It connects the railway junction of Lehrte with Hildesheim and Nordstemmen, where it connects with the Hanoverian Southern Railway. The section from Lehrte to Hildesheim opened in 1842 and is one of the oldest lines in Germany.

The Lehrte–Hildesheim line was the southern branch of the cross railway built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways (German: Königlich Hannöverschen Staatseisenbahnen), along with the east-west arms (the Hanover–Brunswick line) and the northern arm (the Lehrte–Celle line). It was opened on 12 July 1846. The previously insignificant town of Lehrte became a railway junction, as a result of the scepticism of King Ernst August I concerning railways and his opposition to substantial railway facilities in the city of Hanover.

His son George V was more supportive of railways. In 1853 the first section of the Hanoverian Southern Railway opened from Hanover to Alfeld. A connecting line was opened on 15 September 1853 from Hildesheim to Nordstemmen station adjacent to the Southern Railway. This originally single-track line was duplicated in 1875 by the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company (German: Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) as part of a project to continue its Elze–Löhne railway to the east through Hildesheim to Vienenburg.


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