Jerxheim–Börßum railway

Jerxheim–Börßum
Route number:last: 236
Line number:1940
Line length:23.2
Track gauge:1435
Legend
 from Helmstedt
 from Magdeburg
 22.3 Jerxheim
 to Wolfenbüttel
 from Brunswick
 from Heudeber-Danstedt
 31.1 Mattierzoll
 36.8 Hedeper
 from Brunswick
 45.3 Börßum
 to Bad Harzburg
 to Kreiensen

The Jerxheim–Börßum railway was a 23 kilometre-long mainline railway in the southeast of the German state of Lower Saxony. It connected the Brunswick Southern Railway (German: Braunschweigische Südbahn) from Börßum to Kreiensen with railways from Magdeburg via Schöningen (Wolfenbüttel–Helmstedt railway) and Oschersleben (Oschersleben–Jerxheim railway) and was until 1945 a route for freight from Berlin and Magdeburg, both to Kassel and Frankfurt and to the Ruhr area.

The line was opened on 1 May 1868. It was used not only by freight trains, but also by fast passenger trains from Berlin to the southwest. After the Inner German border interrupted the connecting lines east of Jerxheim, it was used for three decades for regional traffic. On 1 January 1976 passenger services were closed along with freight traffic between Mattierzoll and Jerxheim. On 28 May 1988 freight traffic between Börßum and Mattierzoll was closed. The track is completely dismantled.

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