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Jerxheim–Börßum railway

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Jerxheim–Börßum railway
Overview
Line number1940
LocaleLower Saxony, Germany
Service
Route numberlast: 236
Technical
Line length23.2 km (14.4 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Route map

22.3
Jerxheim
31.1
Mattierzoll
36.8
Hedeper
45.3
Börßum
(former Bf)
former connection
to Kreiensen (museum operation)
Source: German railway atlas[1]

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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Footnotes

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

Sources

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  • 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.