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Berlin-Lehrte railway

Berlin–Lehrte railway
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Overview
Native name Lehrter Bahn
Locale Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Berlin
Line number
  • 6107 Berlin Hbf–Lehrte
  • 6185 HSL from Berlin-Spandau to Oebisfelde
  • 6399 Oebisfelde–Fallersleben (3 tracks)
Technical
Line length 239.3 km (148.7 mi)
Number of tracks
  • 1–3
  • 2, combined with HSL (Bamme junction–Ribbeck junction)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC
Overhead catenary (partly)
Operating speed 200 km/h (120 mph) (maximum)
Route number
  • 204 Berlin–Stendal
  • 301 Stendal–Wolfsburg
  • 300 Wolfsburg–Lehrte
  • 349
Route map
 Operating points and lines 
from Hanover
from and to Celle
239.3 Lehrte
old route to Hildesheim
to Hildesheim, to Brunswick
231.1 Immensen-Arpke
223.9 Dollbergen
Fuhse
219.7 Dedenhausen
Plockhorst junction, to Plockhorst (high level)
216.3 Plockhorst (low level), Brunswick–Celle
213.7 Meinersen
211.8 Oker
206.3 Leiferde (b Gifhorn)
205.7 Leiferde (b Gifhorn)
from Uelzen
from Brunswick, until 1913
198.4 Gifhorn
to Brunswick, since 1913
Elbe Lateral Canal tunnel (970 m)
192.1 Calberlah
Mittelland Canal
186.3 from Brunswick, since 1942
185.6 Fallersleben
to Brunswick, until 1942
180.9 Wolfsburg
176.5 Vorsfelde
Danndorf
to Schandelah, 1955–75
Aller
Lower Saxony–Saxony-Anhalt state border
from Schandelah, to 1945
from Helmstedt
from Wittingen
267.9   167.3 Oebisfelde
To Haldensleben
(flying junction)

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