would be 3,000 marks per km, with the municipalities and companies agreeing to participate in the payment. Parliament approved the construction of the railway in March 1882 and 2.6 million marks were made available for it on 15 May 1882. In the following months the committee struggled to overcome problems as some municipalities and companies did not want to pay their share of the subsidies. Planning and construction The planning of the route was completed at the end of 1882. All plans for the railway stations, bridges and culverts were completed in the summer of 1883. In the following months, the line was divided into seven sections for construction. On 17 December 1883, the proposed route was verified by the National Police. On 5 January 1885, the proposed project was advertised in the Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper and a period of 14 days was specified for objections. On 2 May 1885, the first ground-breaking ceremony was held in Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde and a celebration was held at the Hotel Zur Post. For the first eleven months, the line was built largely by hand. The works were only hindered by two obstacles. Baron Korff demanded that there be a halt on his property near Sutthausen. It was agreed that the train would stop there if a flag was raised. The plot of a widow at Horne had to be expropriated and the purchase price was set at 3,726.60 marks. Eleven months after the groundbreaking, a work train was welcomed with festivities in Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde. On 15 July 1886, the two building crews met in Hankenberge, completing the line. Trial runs were held on the line from mid-July to early August. Station buildings The station buildings of the Haller Willem are interesting. To save costs, the building of Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde and Halle were "recycled". The building of Dissen is the former station building of Hildesheim, which was replaced after the nationalisation of the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company with a new, somewhat more northerly Hauptbahnhof (main station). Since the first railway reached Hildesheim in 1846, the building is one of the oldest surviving station buildings in Germany and is a listed building. The first building at Halle, which was demolished in 1963 and replaced by the current station building, was originally the station building of Hannover-Süd station of the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company, which after its nationalisation and the connection of the Hanover–Altenbeken railway to Hanover Hauptbahnhof