Wittenberge–Buchholz railway

Wittenberge–Buchholz
Route
Route number:112
Line number:1151 (Wittenberge–Buchholz)
1280 (Jesteburg–Buchholz)
Line length:142
Track gauge:1,435
Voltage:Jesteburg–Buchholz: 15 kV 16,7 Hz AC
Maximum speed:60
States: Brandenburg,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Lower Saxony
Legend
Main line from Bremen
Old line from Bremervörde
Heath Railway from Soltau
268,3 Buchholz (Nordheide)(Keilbahnhof)
Main line to Hamburg
265,1 Reindorf
262,0 Jesteburg
7,7 Jesteburg crossover
New goods line to Maschen Rbf
259,3 Marxen
255,3 Brackel (b Lüneburg)
252,6 Tangendorf
249,5 Wulfsen
to the Line to Winsen
Hützel–Winsen line
246,0 Bahlburg
237,6 Mechtersen
235,1 Vögelsen
233,1 Ochtmissen
231,6 Sternkamp
(siding)
Main line from Hamburg
Line from Büchen
Line from Bleckede
229,0 Lüneburg (West/Ost)
Line to Soltau
Main line to Celle
223,7 Wendisch Evern
Elbe Lateral Canal
216,9 Vastorf
211,8 Bavendorf
206,0 Dahlenburg
202,4 Neetzendorf
196,3 Göhrde (former station)
192,1 Leitstade
182,5 Hitzacker
Line from Lüchow
175,6 Dannenberg Ost
(line ends east of the station yard)
Elbe Bridge Dömitz, L. SaxonyM.-Vorpommern state border
164,7 Dömitz
Old line to Ludwigslust
140,3 Polz
M.-VorpommernBrandenburg state border
149,5 Lenzen (Elbe)
140,3 Lanz
134,1 Cumlosen
Main line from Ludwigslust
128,5 Wittenberge Nord
Line from Wittstock
126,6 Wittenberge
Line to Stendal
Main line to Berlin

The Wittenberge–Buchholz railway or Wittenberge–Buchholz branch (German: Bahnstrecke Wittenberge-Buchholz or Wittenberge-Buchholzer Zweigbahn) was licensed to, planned and built by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company (BHE) and opened in 1874 as an additional link between the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen in Germany. It ran through Wittenberge, Dömitz, Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Buchholz and was originally to have been extended to Bremerhaven.

The single-tracked main line ran through the present-day states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony. With the destruction of the bridge over the Elbe at Dömitz at the end of the Second World War and the subsequent division of Germany it suddenly lost its importance and, as a result, was partially closed.

Today two sections of the line are still open: the longer one of the two between Dannenberg and Lüneburg in the Wendland is known today as the Wendland Railway (Wendlandbahn); whilst western end of the shorter section from Buchholz to Jesteburg merges into the line to the Maschen Marshalling Yard.

The freight carried on the line includes the transport of nuclear waste containers with radioactive waste to a terminal at the end of the track one kilometre east of the Dannenberg Ost station, where it is off loaded for further transport by road to a nuclear waste storage facility. This was subject to blockading by anti-nuclear activists in November 2010.

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