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were closed). Freight traffic was abandoned on 1 November 1995. However, the route has not been closed, but was protected until 2007 under a
Schleswig-Holstein-wide agreement. However, in 1996, a railway bridge near Ascheberg (Holst) station was demolished and the connecting points were altered. The
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Ascheberg (Holst). Thus, to this time (2010), the line was the second last in Schleswig-Holstein to be closed for passengers (in 1988, passenger services on the Wilster-Brunsbüttel branch line of the
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