New Hamm interlocking controls Altenbeken rail section
- Location
- Altenbeken, Langeland, Himmighausen (Paderborn/Höxter district, Ostwestfalen-Lippe); the interlocking itself is located in Hamm (Westphalia) · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Project
- Electronic interlocking (ESTW) Hamm – Altenbeken/Langeland/Himmighausen line section
- Investment
- approx. EUR 60 million (DB figure for the whole ESTW project)
- Status
- In operation (since 5 April 2019, stage 1)
Since 5 April 2019, Altenbeken station and the neighbouring signal posts Langeland and Himmighausen have been remotely controlled from the new electronic interlocking (ESTW) Hzf located in Hamm (Westphalia); the previous mechanical interlocking dating from 1963 was switched off on 1 April 2019. Deutsche Bahn put the investment for the project, covering the Paderborn–Altenbeken–Langeland–Himmighausen line section, at around EUR 60 million. The originally listed DB construction-projects page is no longer reachable (404); the facts were verified via Wikipedia and a local newspaper article (Neue Westfälische).
Source: de.wikipedia.org ↗ · Archived copy ↗
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