Heudeber-Danstedt–Bad Harzburg/Vienenburg railway

The present-day Heudeber-Danstedt–Vienenburg railway is a 32 kilometre long main line, that serves the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in central Germany. Its main role is the handling of tourist traffic in the Harz and the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways there, but it is also worked by goods trains to and from the rolling mills in Ilsenburg.

Heudeber-Danstedt–Bad Harzburg railway (old route)
Overview
Line number6425
LocaleSaxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany
Service
Route number330
Technical
Line length32.2 km (20.0 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed120 km/h (74.6 mph) (max)
Route map

0.0
Heudeber-Danstedt
188 m
from Langenstein
4.8
Minsleben
9.2
Wernigerode
Harz Railway junction
234 m
10.6
Wernigerode Elmowerk
13.5
Darlingerode
261 m
14.2
Drübeck
17.4
Wahrberg
Rolling mill siding
18.4
Ilsenburg
237 m
start of new section
22.4
Stapelburg
Saxony-Anhalt
Lower Saxony
state border
23.6
Eckertal
32.2
Bad Harzburg
234 m
Source: German railway atlas
Ilsenburg–Vienenburg railway (new section)
Overview
Line number6393
LocaleSaxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany
Technical
Line length13.6 km (8.5 mi)
Route map

from Ilsenburg
to Bad Harzburg
22.3
Stapelburg
B 6n
29.1
Saxony-Anhalt
Lower Saxony
state border
Vienenburg goods station (Gbf)
33.6
Vienenburg
137 m
to Langelsheim
to Goslar
Source: German railway atlas

The line originally ran from Ilsenburg further south towards Bad Harzburg. This section was cut, however, by the division of Germany in 1945. In 1996 a new section of line was built from Ilsenburg towards Vienenburg, that used parts of the previously closed Halberstadt–Vienenburg railway. At the same time the railway was upgraded to handle speeds of up to 120 km/h. The line has since acted as a direct link between Halberstadt and Vienenburg.

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