Hannöversche Südbahn
His son George V was more supportive of railways. In 1853 the first section of the Hanoverian Southern Railway opened from Hanover to Alfeld. A connecting line was opened on 15 September 1853 from Hildesheim to Nordstemmen station adjacent to the Southern Railway. This originally single-track line was duplicated in 1875 by the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company (German: "Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft") as part of a project to continue its Elze–Löhne railway to the east through Hildesheim to Vienenburg.