Jerxheim–Börßum railway

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.

Jerxheim–Börßum railway
Overview
LocaleLower Saxony, Germany
Line number1940
Technical
Line length23.2 km (14.4 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route numberlast: 236
Route map
from Oschersleben
from Helmstedt
from Nienhagen
22.3
 Jerxheim
to Wolfenbüttel
from Brunswick
from Heudeber-Danstedt
31.1
 Mattierzoll
36.8
 Hedeper
from Brunswick
45.3
 Börßum
(former Bf)
former connection
to Osterwieck
to Bad Harzburg
to Kreiensen (museum operation)
Source: German railway atlas[1]

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.

References

Footnotes
  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. pp. 43–4. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.

Sources
  • Kramer, Urs; Brodkorb, Matthias (2008). Abschied von der Schiene. Güterstrecken 1980 bis 1993 (in German). Stuttgart: Transpress. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-613-71346-8.
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