Hamm–Minden railway

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Hamm–Minden railway
Overview
Line number1700, 2990
LocaleNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Service
Route number
  • 400 (Hamm–Bielefeld)
  • 370 (Bielefeld–Minden)
Technical
Line length112 km (70 mi)
standard gauge
Electrification15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed
  • 200 km/h (120 mph) (max)
  • 120 km/h (75 mph) (max)
Route map

Legend
Trunk line from Hanover
63.0
 Minden (Westf) freight station
64.4
S-Bahn-Hannover
67.6
 Porta Po junction
68.5
 Porta Westfalica
(freight station)
69.1
 Porta Westfalica crossover
69.9
 Porta Westfalica
73.9
 Vennebeck
Weser
78.2
 Bad Oeynhausen freight station
79.5
 Bad Oeynhausen
82.1
 Gohfeld
Weser line from Hameln
85.3
Löhne (Westf)
86.8
 Löhne (Westf) Gbf
Hanoverian Western Railway to Bünde
Line from Bünde
91.6
Hiddenhausen-Schweicheln
95.6
 Herford
Line to Detmold
98.0
 Diebrock siding
102.6
 Brake (b Bielefeld)
Schildescher Viaduct
108.1
 Bielefeld Hbf Vbf
Line from Lemgo
109.5
 Bielefeld Hbf
112.7
 Brackwede goods station
113.8
 Brackwede
Line to Osnabrück
Senne Railway to Paderborn
118.9
 Ummeln
121.7
 Isselhorst-Avenwedde siding
121.8
 Isselhorst-Avenwedde
(Avenwedde flying junction)
Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE)
former connecting curve to TWE
126.9
 Gütersloh Hbf
former
Rheda Railway from Lippstadt
135.8
 Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Warendorf Railway to Münster
146.2
 Oelde
Line from Ennigerloh
155.1
 Neubeckum
Line to Münster
Line to Beckum
155.9
 Neubeckum goods station
159.4
 Vorhelm
162.5
 Ahlen (Westf) freight yard
165.1
 Ahlen (Westf)
(Ahlen flying junction)
172.3
 Hamm-Heessen
173.9
 Heessen(former station)
Line from Münster
Line from Feldmark junction
Lippe and Datteln-Hamm Canal
176.4
 Hamm (Westf) Hbf
176.8
 Hamm port marshalling yard
(junction)
Line to Warburg
Line to Hagen
Freight line from Hamm Gallberg
 Hamm marshalling yard
Line to Oberhausen-Osterfeld
 Selmig
(junction)
Freight line to Bönen Autobahn junction
Trunk line to Dortmund
Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Hamm–Minden Railway is an important and historically significant

quadruple track. It is a major axis for long distance passenger and freight trains between the Ruhr
and the north and east of Germany. It is the part of the trunk line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) from Köln Deutz to Minden. It was opened in 1847 and has been modernized and developed several times since then.

History

Main article: Cologne-Minden trunk line
Trunk line in Bielefeld
Line in Porta Westfalica in 1967 prior to the electrification

The route was opened on 15 October 1847 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) as the last part of its

Deutz (near Cologne) to Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Dortmund and Hamm. It connected with the Royal Hanoverian State Railways’ Hanover–Minden line, which was opened the same day. The CME's line was originally laid with two tracks, although some sections were put into operation before the second track was finished. Because of its importance for Prussia
’s east–west transport and for international transport at the beginning of the 20th century, the line was made a four-track line. Many crossings were replaced with underpasses, and railway stations were rebuilt in order to provide space for the route.

Operationally, the line is run as two separate two track routes, the one having the

electrified
in the mid-1960s.

High-speed test track

The first Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (1973) identified the Dortmund–Hannover–Brunswick line as one of eight railway development projects.

cant was 120 mm. Experiments were carried out on different types of track (including slab track), catenary and turnouts.[4]

Upgrading for high-speed

In 1980, it became one of the first lines in Germany upgraded for high speeds lines when a 58.0 kilometre long section between Hamm and Brackwede (near Bielefeld) was upgraded for scheduled services at 200 km/h.[5]

In mid-1985, a test train hauled by locomotive

three-phase power.[7][8]

Bridges

Schildesche viaduct

Schildesche Viaduct

A remarkable bridge on the trunk line is the viaduct in the

Grand Slam bomb dropped by an Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron RAF, after 54 attacks using smaller bombs failed to destroy it.[9]
After the war, one line was reopened with a temporary steel strut for freight traffic, while passenger trains used a winding bypass built as a diversionary route prior to the bombing, known as the "rubber railway". In 1965 the viaduct was reopened, the two-track viaduct for the “passenger route” having been repaired with concrete spans replacing the destroyed masonry spans, and the other using a provisional steel-frame construction built from old Wehrmacht pioneer materials. In 1983, the “freight route” viaduct was fully repaired, featuring the same concrete architecture used for the passenger route’s bridge.

Weser bridge

The

Bad Oeynhausen station and the Neesen yard (in Porta Westfalica
). This situation ended only with the construction of a new Weser bridge in December 1984.

Services

There is an hourly

Trier). Other InterCity and ICE trains also run. Regional-Express trains run on line RE6 (Rhein-Weser-Express, Minden–Cologne/Bonn Airport
) every hour and other services operate on sections of the route.

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0
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  2. ^ Block, Rüdiger (1991). "Auf neuen Wegen. Die Neubaustrecken der Deutschen Bundesbahn (The new lines of the German Federal Railways)". Eisenbahn-Kurier (in German) (21): 30–35.
  3. ISBN 3-7771-0200-8
    .
  4. ^ "Versuche mit hohen Geschwindigkeiten bei der Deutschen Bundesbah (Experiments with high speeds by the German Federal Railways)". Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (in German): 215. May 1974.
  5. ^ Block, Rüdiger (1991). "ICE-Rennbahn: Die Neubaustrecken (ICE Racetrack: The new lines)". Eisenbahn-Kurier (in German) (21): 36–45.
  6. ^ "Deutscher Rekord auf der Schienen-Strecke Bielefeld–Hamm (German record on Bielefeld-Hamm line)". Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (in German). 34 (7/8): 511. May 1985.
  7. ^ "ICE erreicht 317 km/h (ICE reaches 317 km/h)". Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (in German). 34 (12): 846. May 1985.
  8. ^ "ICE ZUG DER ZUKUNFT (ICE train of the future)". Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (in German). 34 (12): 908. May 1985.
  9. ^ "Ten Tonner - video of a Grand Slam being dropped on the Bielefeld Viaduct". Movietone News/youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
  10. ^ Kleinebenne, Hermann (1999). Die Weserlinie, Kriegsende 1945 (The Weser line, war's end 1945 (in German). Stolzenau.

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