Lower Elbe Railway

Lower Elbe Railway

The Lower Elbe Railway in Northern Germany
Line number 1720
Technical
Line length 103 km
Track gauge 1435 mm
Electrification 15 kV, 16.7 Hz
Operating speed 160 km/h
Maximum incline 20
Route number 121
Route map
Legend
from Hanover and from Bremen
A 253
169.37 Hamburg-Harburg (S-Bahn: km 12.3)
169.40 To Elbe bridge–Hauptbahnhof
Seeve Canal and Göhlbach
13.2 Hamburg-Harburg Rathaus
170.78 Hamburg-Unterelbe
170.80 to Harburg port
174.?? Hamburg Tempo factory
14.5 Heimfeld
15.4 end of tunnel
15.5 B 73
172.70 merge with S-Bahn
A 7
Port Railway from the Kattwyk-Hub bridge
175.11 Hamburg-Hausbruch freight yard
to Waltershof
and Altenwerder (CTA) container terminals
176.57 Hamburg-Hausbruch (1899–1984)
20.4 Hamburg-Neuwiedenthal
179.19 Hamburg-Neugraben (S-Bahn: km 22,1)
(end of four track section)
Current change DC to AC (beginning of two tracks)
181.60 Hamburg-Fischbek
Röttig barracks siding
182.90 Hamburg/Lower Saxony state border
183.50 Neu Wulmstorf previously: "Daerstorf"
184.77 Ketzendorf gravel pit siding
Este
189.00 factory siding (Bacardi tank waggon terminal )
190.25 Buxtehude
to Bremerhaven via the EVB
193.81 Neukloster (Kr. Stade)
Lühe
198.96 Horneburg
203.29 Dollern opened in the mid 1920s
206.05 Agathenburg
208.60 A 26 (opened late 2008)
Moor Express from Bremervörde
209.70 Industrial line to Stadersand
and to Bützfleth (including Dow Chemical)
former Kehdinger District Railway from Itzwörden
211.18 Stade (S-Bahn terminus)
212.00 Schwinge
218.68 Hammah
222.62 Himmelpforten
226.10 B 73
226.29 Oste (single track temporary bridge, built in 1945)
228.41 Hechthausen
234.97 Hemmoor
235.50 B 495
235.70 B 73
238.18 Warstade-Hemmoor (closed 1991)
243.18 Wingst (previously: "Höftgrube")
246.30 B 73
247.05 Cadenberge
Neuhaus-Bülkau Canal
250.90 Neuhaus (Oste) (closed 1991)
Aue
254.60 Hadeln Canal
257.00 Otterndorf bypass B 73 (open since 12.2009)
258.60 Medem
258.89 Otterndorf
alteB 73
267.08 Altenbruch (closed 1991)
Altenbrucher Canal
to (and from)
30,4 Steubenhöft and CuxPort
from Bremerhaven
271.70 Cuxhaven CF
273.05 Cuxhaven

The Lower Elbe Railway (German: Niederelbebahn or Unterelbebahn), is a railway line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven in northwestern Germany, which was opened in 1881 by the Lower Elbe Railway Company (Unterelbesche Eisenbahngesellschaft). At 103.6 kilometres of length, the line runs close to the southern bank of the river Elbe.

Line features

The Lower Elbe Railway is a main line since 1964 and is currently listed as Kursbuchstrecke 121. The line is part of the Strecke 1720, with the kilometrage starting at Lehrte near Hanover.

The line features two tracks on most sections, except between the stations Himmelpforten and Hechthausen. The line has been electrified between Hamburg and Stade since 1968.

The Hamburg S-Bahn line to Neugraben runs parallel to the line since 1984; and since 2008, toward Stade,[1] using dual-voltage vehicles.

The trains between Cuxhaven and Hamburg will be operated by metronom from late 2007.

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