Einbeck-Salzderhelden station

Einbeck-Salzderhelden station is the most important station in Einbeck in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station and is located in the district of Einbeck of Salzderhelden.

Einbeck-Salzderhelden
Through station
Entrance building and tracks
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 8, Einbeck, Lower Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°47′54″N 9°55′22″E
Line(s)	Hanoverian Southern Railway (km 76.8) (KBS 350) Ilme Railway (km 0.0) (currently only freight and special trains)
Platforms	3
Construction
Architect	Conrad Wilhelm Hase
Other information
Station code	1520[1]
DS100 code	HEB[2]
IBNR	8005264
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VSN: 450[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 August 1854
Previous names	Salzderhelden (until 1974) Einbeck (1974–1994)
Services
Preceding station Metronom Following station Northeim (Han) towards Göttingen RE 2 Kreiensen towards Uelzen Preceding station DB Regio Nord Following station Northeim (Han) towards Göttingen RB 82 Kreiensen towards Bad Harzburg RB 86 Einbeck Mitte Terminus
Location Einbeck-Salzderhelden Location within Lower Saxony

History

The section from Alfeld via Kreiensen and Northeim to Göttingen on the old North–South railway was connected to the railway network on 31 July 1854. The station of the then independent municipality of Salzderhelden was opened only one day later, on 1 August 1854. The station building was built according to the plans of Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

The line from Salzderhelden to Einbeck (now Einbeck Mitte) was opened on 10 September 1879, turning it into a junction station.

All transport operations on the Salzderhelden–Einbeck line were taken over by the Ilmebahn (Ilme Railway) from Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1954. Passenger services on the line were discontinued by 1975 and replaced by bus route 230.^[4]

Salzderhelden was incorporated into the municipality of Einbeck on 1 March 1974.^[5] The station was renamed Einbeck in 1978 and the former Einbeck station was renamed Einbeck Mitte. Until 2002, the track of the Ilme Railway still existed as far as Dassel and it was then gradually dismantled back to Juliusmühle. In the same year, the Einbeck-Salzderhelden – Einbeck Mitte line was transferred from DB to Ilmebahn GmbH. The station has been called Einbeck-Salzderhelden since 1994.

Transport services

Rail services

Salzderhelden is located on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and it has been served approximately hourly since December 2005 by a Regional-Express service, RE 2, operated by Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft and connecting with Göttingen, Kreiensen and Hanover.

The line to Einbeck has not been regularly used by passenger services since 1984, but it is occasionally used by special passenger trains and by freight traffic.

Line	Route	Interval	Operator
RE 2	Uelzen – Celle – Hannover Hbf – Kreiensen – Einbeck-Salzderhelden – Northeim(Han) – Göttingen	60	Metronom
RB 82	Bad Harzburg – Goslar – Langelsheim – Seesen – Kreiensen – Einbeck-Salzderhelden – Northeim (Han) – Göttingen	120	DB Regio Nord
RB	Einbeck-Salzderhelden – Einbeck Mitte	Individual services	Ilmebahn GmbH

Bus services

Einbeck is now connected to Einbeck-Salzderhelden station by bus route 230, which operates on the Einbeck–Salzderhelden–Northeim route.

All bus and rail services in the Einbeck area are managed by the Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen (Southern Lower Saxony transport association, VSN).

Prospects

There are efforts to restore regular passenger services on the Einbeck-Salzderhelden – Einbeck Mitte section of the Ilmebahn. The reactivation of this section was found to generate significant economic benefits.^[6]

The operation was due to be resumed at the timetable change in December 2017,^[7] but it has been delayed until December 2018.

References

Footnotes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
3. "VSN Tarifpunktinfo". Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
4. "Timetable of bus route 230" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
5. Statistisches Bundesamt, ed. (1983). Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Namens-, Grenz- und Schlüsselnummernänderungen bei Gemeinden, Kreisen und Regierungsbezirken vom 27. 5. 1970 bis 31. 12. 1982 (in German). Stuttgart/Mainz: W. Kohlhammer. ISBN 3-17-003263-1.
6. "Das Gutachterergebnis zur Reaktivierung von Bahnstrecken liegt vor" (Press release) (in German). Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr. 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
7. "Streckenreaktivierung der Ilmebahn zwischen Einbeck-Salzderhelden und Einbeck-Mitte" (Press release) (in German). Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Verkehr und Digitalisierung. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018.