Jerxheim–Börßum railway

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.

Jerxheim–Börßum railway
Overview
Line number	1940
Locale	Lower Saxony, Germany
Service
Route number	last: 236
Technical
Line length	23.2 km (14.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map from Oschersleben from Helmstedt from Nienhagen 22.3 Jerxheim to Wolfenbüttel from Brunswick from Heudeber-Danstedt 31.1 Mattierzoll 36.8 Hedeper from Brunswick 45.3 Börßum (former Bf) former connection to Osterwieck to Bad Harzburg to Kreiensen (museum operation) Source: German railway atlas

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.

References

Sources

• 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.