Alster Northern Railway

The Alster Northern Railway (ANB ) is a branch line. She joined the Stations originally ox customs in Hamburg- Long Horn and South Ulzburg in Segeberg in Schleswig -Holstein.

The northern part of the route to Norderstedt Mitte is today served by the AKN Eisenbahn AG ( line A2 ), is largely double track and not electrified. The southern section is now part of network of the Hamburg U -Bahn (line U1) is electrified double track throughout and with 750 V DC via a busbar.

The term Alster north runway is partly still in use for this route.

History

The Alster Northern Railway comes from an idea of the civil engineer Heinrich Lonnies ( " The Lion of Norderstedt " ) to implement the axis concept, which introduced the Hamburg engineer Fritz Schumacher in the 1920s. This provided for the room Long Horn - cold churches before a development axis in the form of a railway line that ran through the Hamburg elevated railway but only until the ox inches. From here to Ulzburg and Henstedt (now Henstedt -Ulzburg ) lacked a connection path.

The Alster Northern Railway was opened on 17 May 1953. Though she was initially planned as a simple tram- like compound, it has been built as a standard gauge light railway according to EEO and thus the first newly-built railway line in the Federal Republic of Germany. The tracks were and are only in the north ( today Ulzburg South) connected to the railway Altona- cold church Neumünster ( AKN). In ox- inch was neither a connection with the now -defunct freight railroad of the German Federal Railroad Ohlsdorf yet to subway route.

The management had from the beginning the AKN; it was also the staff.

Were used initially ( until 1967 ) new batteries railcar MaK, from 1956 MAN rail buses. From the outset, the railcars were fitted with VHF systems. This was the train radio - the first in Germany - performed with the Zugmeldestelle. The few passing places of the then single-track line were equipped with off course, so could a low-cost train control will be carried out with little manpower.

In 1981, the ANB was taken over by the railway company AKN after it had already provided the vehicles from 1977, as the ANB sold its fleet in the same year. Meanwhile, the designated as A2 in Hamburg Transport Association distance is shortened by the progressive extension of the subway line U1 1967 to Garstedt and 1996 to Norderstedt Mitte. The line was expanded to double track between 1992 and 1996, which also since 1973 Ulzburg between South and Friedrichsgabe lying parallel to the main track of Norderstedt industrial railway (NIB ) was included, and ends now single track in 1996 opened station Norderstedt Mitte, where on the same platform which provides direct links to subway is possible.

In 1992, the infrastructure of the transport company Norderstedt ( VGN ), a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Norderstedt, passed. AKN continues to operate the traffic on the A2 route with diesel-electric two-car train ( LHB VTA), with four railcars are the property of VGN. The now also located in VGN- hand southern section of the Alster Northern Railway of Norderstedt Mitte Garstedt is operated by lowering and dual-track expansion since 1996 as a U -Bahn line U1 of the Hamburg elevated railway ( HHA ), here are some DT4 railcar VGN.

Freight there was only since October 20, 1971 and only in the northern part of the track, as the connection of the HEW has been put into operation. Since 1 January 2004 it is conducted by DB Railion.

Stops

From south to north, abandoned stations in italics:

  • Ochs inches, opened in 1953 west of Long Chaussee ( single track, platform on the south side ) in the amount of lying on the eastern side of the road then the final destination of the subway and the freight station, abandoned in 1967 due to construction of the subway to Garstedt
  • Garstedt, 1953 north of Ochsenzoller road opened ( single track, platform on the west side ), 1967 abandoned, opened in 1969 further north on the same subway station next to a short time later opened here shopping center " Herold- Center" as a new endpoint ( single track with rear parking track, platform on the west side ), abandoned in 1996 (replaced by extended subway)
  • Garstedt Birkenweg, opened in 1953 north of Birch path ( single track, platform on the west side ), provisional endpoint 1967-1969, then abandoned and broken down, about at this point was then the rear parking track of the new endpoint Garstedt
  • Richtweg (until 1979: Garstedt Richtweg ), opened in 1953 south of the directional path ( double track with the middle platform ) closed down in 1996 and replaced by U -Bahn stop
  • Norderstedt Mitte (until 1979: Harkseichen - Falkenberg ), 1953 south of the Heidberg road opened ( single track, the platform on the east side ), the early / mid 1990s, several times further north moved ( last single track north of City Hall Avenue, platform on the west side ), since 1996 endpoint in an open incision ( single track between the U- Bahn tracks ), with direct transition at the same platform for extended metro line U1 direction Garstedt - ox inch - Hamburg
  • Forest road (until 1979: Friedrichsgabe forest road ), 1953 opened, each platform before the road crossing the forest road ( two tracks ), abandoned and dismantled in 1992 ( replacement by new stop Moorbekhalle further north )
  • Moorbekhalle (school Nord), opened in 1992 ( double track with side platforms )
  • Harckesheyde, (until 1979: Friedrichsgabe Heidberg ), 1953 opened ( single track, platform on the west side ), abandoned and dismantled in 1992 ( replacement by new stop Moorbekhalle further south )
  • Friedrichsgabe (until 1979: Friedrichsgabe center), opened in May 1957 ( one track, the platform on the east side, now double-tracked with side platforms )
  • Quickbornerheide Street (until 1979: Friedrichsgabe village) opened in 1953 north of the Quickbornerheide road ( double track with the middle platform )
  • Haslohfurth (until 1979: Haslohfurt Kamp - Moor ) opened in 1953 as Haslohfurth ( single track, the platform on the east side, now double-tracked with side platforms )
  • Meeschensee (until 1979: Meeschensee -Alster source) opened in 1953 ( two tracks with respective side platform on the west side and rear parking track on the south side, now double-tracked with side platforms )
  • Ulzburg South, opened in 1953 at the track Eidelstedt - Cold Churches - Neumünster AKN (now line A1 )

Except for South Ulzburg all of today's stops are in the city of Norderstedt. After expansion in the 1990s, the route up to the end pieces in the stations Norderstedt Mitte and South Ulzburg is continuous double track and is operated at peak times at 10- minute intervals.

In the 1950s and 1960s a number of trips over South Ulzburg addition, on the AKN trail over Ulzburg to cold churches - this is where the company workshop - continued. Since 2000, this is the case again, the station is now called Ulzburg Henstedt -Ulzburg.

The zero point of the line kilometering has not changed and is still in ox inches.

Current operation

Today, the passenger traffic on the ( northern ) Alster Northern Railway is carried out as a line A2 by the AKN. Trains run daily generally 5-1 clock in a base clock of 20 minutes, which is thinned Sundays on 40 minutes and after 23 clock. In the rush hour Monday through Friday between 6 and 9 clock and between 16 and 18 clock is a 10 -minute intervals.

Pictures

Breakpoint Haslohfurth (A2 )

Station Quickbornerheide road (A2 )

Norderstedt Mitte railway station, in the middle of the A2, outside U1

Battery railcars by MaK, in operation from 1953 to 1967

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