page_title: Hamm–Minden railway
section_title: Schildesche viaduct
hierarchical_section_title: Hamm–Minden railway / Bridges / Schildesche viaduct
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bielefeld, Deutschland: Obersee mit dem Schlidescher Viadukt. English: Bielefeld, Germany: Obersee with the viaduct of Schildesche.
context_page_description: The Hamm–Minden Railway is an important and historically significant railway in Germany. It is completely quadruple track. It is a major axis for long distance passenger and freight trains between the Ruhr and the north and east of Germany.
  It is the part of the trunk line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company from Köln Deutz to Minden. It was opened in 1847 and has been modernized and developed several times since then.
context_section_description: A remarkable bridge on the trunk line is the viaduct in the Bielefeld suburb of Schildesche. The original viaduct was completed in 1847 was double track with 28 spans and in 1917 a largely identical viaduct was built next to it. During World War II it was badly damaged on 14 March 1945 by a Grand Slam bomb dropped by an Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron RAF, after 54 attacks by smaller bombs failed to destroy it. After the war, one line was reopened with a temporary steel strut for freight traffic, while passenger trains used a winding bypass built as a diversionary route prior to the bombing, known as the "rubber railway". In 1965 the viaduct was reopened, the two-track viaduct for the “passenger route” having been repaired with concrete spans replacing the destroyed masonry spans, and the other using a provisional steel-frame construction built from old Wehrmacht pioneer materials. In 1983, the “freight route” viaduct was fully repaired, featuring the same concrete architecture used for the passenger route’s bridge.
caption: Schildesche Viaduct
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