Lower Elbe Railway

Lower Elbe Railway
The Lower Elbe Railway in Northern Germany
Line number	1720
Technical
Line length	103 km
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
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 Wulmstorfpreviously: "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 Dollernopened 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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  Lower Elbe Railway in Cadenberge

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  Lower Elbe and Lower Elbe Railway on a 1910 map

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  Trail between Belum and Kedingbruch

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  The line in Neuhaus (Oste)

References

External links

• www.niederelbebahn.de
• www.niederelbe-s-bahn.de
• former Kehdinger Kreisbahn