Oldenburg–Osnabrück railway

Oldenburg–Osnabrück railway
Overview
Type Heavy rail
Status in use
Locale Germany
Termini Oldenburg
Osnabrück
Line number 392
Operation
Opened 1875 (1875)
Operator(s) NordWestBahn
Technical
Line length 113 km (70 mi)
Number of tracks 1
2 between Oldenburg Hbf – Oldenburg-Osternburg and Bramsche – Achmer
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Operating speed 120 km/h (75 mph)
Route map
Legend
 line from Leer
from Wilhelmshaven
 Oldbenburg Hbf
to Bremen
from Bremen
 Oldenburg-Krusenbusch
 Sandkrug
 Huntlosen
 Großenkneten
 Ahlhorn
from Friesoythe
former railway from Vechta
former narrow gauge line from Landesgrenze
 Cloppenburg
 Nutteln (Oldb)
 Hemmelte
 Essen (Oldb)
 Brokstreek (Oldb)
 Quakenbrück
former railway to Rheine
 Badbergen
 Langen (Kr Bersenbrück)
 Bersenbrück
from Delmenhorst
 Hesepe
 Bramsche
 Achmer
 Halen
former railway from Altenrheine
from Rheine
 Osnabrück Altstadt
 Osnabrück Hbf
 to Löhne

The Oldenburg–Osnabrück railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line from Oldenburg to Osnabrück, both in the German state of Lower Saxony.

The line was opened in two stages between 1875 and 1876. The first section from Oldenburg to Quakenbrück was built between 1870 and 1875 by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways (GOE). The opening of the first section took place on 15 October 1875. The section from Quakenbrück to Osnabrück-Eversburg, then passing through Prussian territory, opened only a year later, on 30 June 1876. The official opening took place on 15 November 1876.

Until the mid-1990s there was a modest long distance train connection over the line. There was a daily express train from Koblenz and Cologne to Wilhelmshaven and a train from Mönchengladbach to Wilhelmshaven.

Since 2000, the infrastructure was expanded to introduce a train service with shorter journey times and better connections. Part of the development was to increase the maximum line speed to 120 km/h and the closure of little used stations. The travel time decreased as a result between Oldenburg and Osnabrück by 22 minutes to 87 minutes. In Oldenburg good connections were created with the regional/Intercity trains on the line between Bremen and Emden. The travel time between Wilhelmshaven and Osnabrück also fell by 45 minutes.

The services on the line have been operated by NordWestBahn since November 2000. The current contract continues until December 2026.

Usage

The line is used by the following service(s):

References

    This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at December 2015.

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