Solling Railway

Solling Railway
Overview
Native name	Sollingbahn
Line number	2975
Locale	Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany
Termini	Höxter-Ottbergen Northeim
Service
Route number	356 north
Technical
Line length	63.95 km (39.74 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	15 kV/16.7 Hz AC Overhead catenary
Route map Legend Egge Railway from Altenbeken 0.0 Höxter-Ottbergen Line to Kreiensen B 64 Nethe ca. 10 metres high embankment, length ca. 750 m 3.2 Amelunxen (district of Beverungen) from Holzminden Engländer curve B 83 branch to Scherfede 5.8 Wehrden (Weser) (district of Beverungen) (joint station building ) to Scherfede Weser bridge NRW / LS state border 8.6 Meinbrexen (district of Lauenförde) B 241 12.2 Lauenförde-Beverungen LS / NRW state border 13.9 Würgassen nuclear power station 14.8 Würgassen (district of Beverungen) NRW / Hesse state border 17.1 Bad Karlshafen → Carl Railway to Hümme Hesse / LS state border 23 Wahmbeck Tunnel (630 m) 21.1 Wahmbeck (district of Bodenfelde) 26.9 Bodenfelde Upper Weser Railway running parallel to Göttingen LS / Hesse / LS / Hesse state border Schwülme (both 2×) 31.3 Vernawahlshausen since 1910 (station served both lines until 1976) 31.9 Vernawahlshausen until 1910 Hesse / LS state border Steimke viaduct over the Ahle Uslar–Schönhagen (Han) railway ca. 10 metres high embankment, ca. 500 m long line to Schönhagen (Han) running parallel 35.5 Uslar ca. 10 metres high embankment, ca. 750 m long 42.1 Volpriehausen (district of Uslar) B 241 3.2 Schlarpe 1880–1886 46 Ertinghausen Tunnel (960 m) 45.8 Ertinghausen (district of Hardegsen) 48.6 Hardegsen Bundesstraße 241 B 241 55.1 Moringen 57.9 Berwartshausen (district of Northeim) A 7 / E45 Leine 61.9 Hanover–Würzburg high-speed line Hanoverian Southern Railway / North–South railway 64,0 Northeim (Han) Hanoverian Southern Railway to Hannover South Harz Railway to Nordhausen Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Solling Railway (German: Sollingbahn is a non-electrified, single track standard gauge railway connecting Höxter-Ottbergen in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Northeim in southern Lower Saxony. It takes its name from the fact that it runs through the southern Solling in Lower Saxony, an area of large forests and low mountains (Mittelgebirge).

It is listed as timetable (KBS) route 356 north (until 1992 it was KBS 245, and until 1970 it was KBS 200).