Halle–Vienenburg railway

The Halle–Vienenburg railway is a 123 kilometre long non-electrified main line north of the Harz Mountains in central Germany. It is an important connection between the metropolitan area of Halle (Saale) and the northern Harz mountains. It was opened in several sections between 1862 and 1872 by the Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company (Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft, MHE) and is now maintained by DB Netz except for the disused section between Heudeber-Danstedt and Vienenburg. Since 1996, traffic between Heudeber-Danstedt and Vienenburg has used the railway via Wernigerode running further to the south.

Halle–Vienenburg railway
Overview
Line number
  • 6344
  • 6346, 6050 (S-Bahn track)
LocaleSaxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany
Service
Route number330
Technical
Line length123.2 km (76.6 mi)
Number of tracks
  • 2: (Aschersleben–Frose and Wegeleben–Halberstadt)
  • 1: (elsewhere)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed
  • Halle–Halberstadt: 160 km/h (99.4 mph) (max)
  • Halberstadt–Vienenburg: 120 km/h (74.6 mph) (max)
Route map
from Leipzig and from Großkorbetha
from Hann. Münden
0.0
 Halle (Saale) Hbf
to Delitzsch, to Bitterfeld and to Köthen
 Halle Steintorbrücke
line 6346
 Halle Dessauer Brücke
 Halle Zoo
 Halle Wohnstadt Nord
6.2
 Halle-Trotha
Halle-Trotha Port Railway
from Hafen Halle
9.6
 Teicha
A 14
from Wettin
13.8
 Wallwitz (Saalkreis)
17.8
 Nauendorf (Saalkreis)
to Löbejün
A 14
22.7
 Domnitz (Saalkreis)
28.5
 Könnern
to Baalberge
B 71
to Rothenburg
B 6
Saale
32.3
 Gnölbzig
38.9
 Belleben
from Sangerhausen
45.4
 Sandersleben (Anh)
to Güsten
48.4
 Freckleben
51.3
 Drohndorf-Mehringen
B 6
from Köthen
56.4
 Aschersleben
B 185
B 180
to Schneidlingen
B 6n
from Quedlinburg
64.3
 Frose
67.5
 Nachterstedt-Hoym
71.3
 Gatersleben
74.8
 Hedersleben-Wedderstedt
from Thale
81.7
 Wegeleben
86.6
Halberstadt Ost junction
to Blankenburg
from Blankenburg
87.7
 Halberstadt marshalling yard (Rbf)
88.9
 Halberstadt
110 m
to Magdeburg
 Halberstadt Friedhof
96.2
 Ströbeck
142 m
103.4
 Heudeber-Danstedt
188 m
to Wernigerode
105.1
 Mulmke junction
to Mattierzoll
108.2
 Langeln
111.5
 Wasserleben
to Osterwieck
115.2
 Schauen
from Wernigerode
120.1
 Saxony-Anhalt–Lower Saxony state border
from Brunswick
A 395 motorway
123.2
 Vienenburg goods station (Gbf)
Vienenburg
137 m
to Langelsheim
to Bad Harzburg
to Goslar
Source: German railway atlas

Between Halle Hauptbahnhof and Halle-Trotha, a single-track electrified line of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland runs parallel to the Halle–Halberstadt railway, but there is no connection between the lines in Halle-Trotha.

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