Jerxheim–Börßum railway

Jerxheim–Börßum
Route number:	last: 236
Line number:	1940
Line length:	23.2
Gauge:	1435
Legend from Helmstedt from Magdeburg 22.3 Jerxheim to Wolfenbüttel from Brunswick from Heudeber-Danstedt 31.1 Mattierzoll 36.8 Hedeper from Brunswick 45.3 Börßum to Bad Harzburg to Kreiensen

The Jerxheim–Börßum railway was a 23 kilometre-long mainline runway 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.

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

• Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb (2008) (in German). Abschied von der Schiene. Güterstrecken 1980 bis 1993. Stuttgart: Transpress. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-613-71346-8.