page_title: Holzminden–Scherfede railway
section_title: Current situation
hierarchical_section_title: Holzminden–Scherfede railway / Current situation
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Abgerissener Bahnhaltepunkt Dalhausen-Biesberg. Die Gleise sind entfernt und nach rechts führt eine prov. Auffahrt für schweres Räumgerät auf die ca. 10 m entfernte Kreisstraße 44.
context_page_description: The Holzminden–Scherfede railway was a 49 km long main line from Holzminden to Scherfede in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that connected the Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway with the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway. It ran continuously from 1876 to 1984. The most important town on the former line was Beverungen.
context_section_description: The railway line is now largely in place, but except in Scherfede it is no longer connected to the other lines and is impassable. The Bahnflächenentwicklungsgesellschaft (“railway land development company”) NRW (BEG), a joint venture of North Rhine-Westphalia and Deutsche Bahn plans, however, the partial removal of the disused line and its conversion into a cycle path.
  Planned sections cover a total of 22.3 km of the former line:
  Project Höxter: a new municipal cycle path between Lüchtringen and Godelheim: 3.1 km for €611,000. The municipality of Höxter has been hesitant to support the state project because the municipality would be obliged to co-finance it and the Weser cycle path already runs nearby. It would primarily benefit the Höxter district of Lüchtringen and the town of Boffzen in Lower Saxony. The route would also have its own bridge over the Weser to allow cyclists to cross between Fürstenberg and Godelheim.
  Project Beverungen: the section between Blankenau and Dalhausen covers 11.2 km and would be developed for approximately €1.89 million.
  Project Borgentreich: in the town of Borgentreich at Natzungen and Borgholz, 9.1 kilometers of tracks are to be lifted and the route would be paved for cyclists. The estimated cost amounts to €1.4 million.
  The towns of Warburg (the Rimbeck–Nörde section) and Willebadessen (the Eissen section) have applied for a share of the state program only once for financial reasons.
caption: Demolished Dalhausen-Biesberg station. The tracks have been removed and to the right is a temporary track to district road 44, which is about 10 metres away, for heavy demolition equipment. The platform is still recognisable.
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