Celle–Brunswick railway

The Celle–Plockhorst–Brunswick railway is a partly closed railway in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is now only used for freight between Brunswick and Wendezelle.

Celle–Plockhorst–Brunswick railway
Overview
Locale	Lower Saxony, Germany
Line number	1722
Technical
Line length	57.129 km (35.498 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route number	211a, 211d (until 1970)
Route map from Uelzen 0.0 Celle Aller Valley Railway to Gifhorn to Lehrte 7.7 Nienhagen (Kr. Celle) 11.9 Wathlingen Fuhse 16.9 Bröckel (Kr. Celle) Erse Fuhse Fuhse 22.5 Uetze (Han) Fuhse Fuhse 26.1 Eltze 27.7 Plockhorst Berlin–Lehrte from the Berlin–Lehrte railway to Peine 30.3 Eickenrode Erse 34.2 Wipshausen 36.0 Wipshausen Süd 38.7 Wense 41.3 Harvesse industrial track: VW logistics centre Brunswick A 2 43.6 Wendezelle Aue-Oker canal White Bridge, factory road industrial track: Watenbüttel waste disposal centre Mittelland Canal 48.1 Watenbüttel A 392 Oker flood bridge (w) Oker flood bridge (o) A 391 Oker Port siding Hamburger Straße 52.8 Braunschweig-Rühme Volkswagen factory siding Nordkurve siding Ringgleis rail trail to Braunschweig Nord from Gifhorn from Fallersleben 56.4 Braunschweig-Gliesmarode marshalling yard from Helmstedt 60.3 Brunswick Hbf Source: German railway atlas[1]

It was opened from Celle to Uetze on 1 September 1920 and extended to Plockhorst on 3 May 1921 and to Gliesmarode on 1 March 1923.

Passenger operations between Plockhorst and Brunswick ended on 27 May 1962, between Celle and Plockhorst on 23 May 1971 and between Brunswick and Harvesse on 11 December 1994. Freight operations between Celle and Wendezelle ended in stages from 1976 to 1993. The line is largely closed and dismantled, although there have been proposals to reopen it, including reopening the line to Wipshausen as part of a proposal for a Brunswick Stadtbahn network.

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 32, 43, 135. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.