Heath Railway

Hanover Hauptbahnhof–Buchholz (Nordheide)
Route number:123 Hannover–Buchholz
363.4 Hannover–Bennemühlen
109d (1941)
Line number:1711, 1712
Line length:133.1
Maximum incline: 10.5  %
Maximum speed:80
Legend
 to Göttingen and to Würzburg
to Altenbeken
to Brunswick and to Berlin
0,0 Hanover Hbf
2,6 Hanover-Nordstadtformerly Hanover-Hainholz
from Minden and from Bremen
4,8 Hanover-Herrenhausen
5,8 Hanover-Ledeburg
Mittellandkanal
7,9 Hanover-Vinnhorst
9,9 Langenhagen Mitte
11,4 Langehagen Pferdemarkt
to Lüneburg
to Hanover Airport
 14,6 Langenhagen-Kaltenweide
 19,6 Bissendorf
 22,6 Mellendorf
 26,3 BennemühlenEnd of the electrified line
 30,6 Lindwedel
 34,6 Hope
 from Celle
 40,1 Schwarmstedt
 to Rethem (Aller)
 Aller
 44,1 Hademstorf
 46,8 Eickeloh
 51,0 Hodenhagenformerly Riethagen
 56,0 Düshorn
 from Altenboitzen (formerly from Verden (Aller))
 62,0 Walsrode
 to Bomlitz (and formerly to Visselhövede)
 from Bomlitz (Werksbahn Eibia)
 65,5 Honerdingen
 70,3 Bad Fallingbostel
 76,8 Dorfmark
 Böhme
 80,7 Jettebruch
 83,1 Mittelstendorf
 Soltau–Neuenkirchen railway
 from Langwedel
 88,0 Soltau (Han)
 to Lüneburg and to Celle
 Böhme
to Uelzen
Uelzen–Langwedel railway
 92,3 Soltau Nord
 95,4 Wolterdingen (Han)
 99,1 Gröps
 101,6 Hemsen (b. Soltau)
 105,4 Schneverdingen
 111,5 Barrl
 115,3 Wintermoor
 121,7 Handelohformerly Handorf-Welle
 125,1 Büsenbachtal
 127,0 Holm-Seppensen
 130,7 Suerhop
 Bremerhaven–Buxtehude railway
 from Bremervörde
 from Rotenburg (Wümme)
 133,1 Buchholz (Nordheide)
 to Hamburg

The Heath Railway (German: Heidebahn) is a regional railway line in North Germany that crosses the Lüneburg Heath from which it derives its name. Most of the line is unelectrified and single-tracked. It links Buchholz in der Nordheide with Hanover, the capital city of Lower Saxony. Together with the east-west Uelzen–Langwedel railway, this north-south line is one of the two most important railways on the heath.

Current services

The Heath Railway is important for commuter traffic to Hanover and Hamburg as well as for day tourists.

On its southern section between Langenhagen and Bennemühlen the Heath Railway is electrified and forms Line S 4 on the Hanover S-Bahn network. The track has been doubled as far as Bissendorf.

The northern end between Buchholz in der Nordheide and Handeloh a Regionalbahn route, R 41, which is part of the Hamburg Transport Association (HVV) network. On the line between Handeloh and Soltau the HVV fare tariff is restricted to season tickets. The line is rated for a top speed of 80 km/h.

Because the Hamburg–Uelzen–Hanover and Hamburg–Rotenburg (Wümme)–Verden (Aller)–Hanover routes are much faster, the Heath Railway is of little importance for through services; the journey from Hamburg to Hanover via Soltau takes at least 2 hours, 51 minutes according to the winter timetable 2009/2010. No through connexions are offered; for example passengers have to change in Buchholz (Nordheide), Soltau and/or Bennemühlen. A through train on the Heath Railway from Soltau to Harburg should, however, be available when the timetable changes in December 2010.[1]

There are regular goods trains only on the southern part of the line to Walsrode.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/10/24/958400.html, Hamburger Abendblatt dated 24 October 2008


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