Altona–Blankenese railway

The Altona- Blankeneser Railway is a railway line in the west of Hamburg. It starts at the Altona train station, via Othmarschen to Blankenese station. 16 years after commissioning of this line was expanded to the Holstein Wedel. Today it is part of the Hamburg S -Bahn lines S1 and S11, and was part of the first electrified suburban railway in Germany.

• 2.1 1867-1882
• 2.2 from 1883 to 1908, extension to Wedel and first electrification
• 2.3 1910 to today, S -Bahn and further track electrification
• 2.4 freight Transport

Route

Section Altona - Blankenese

Today's route starts at the Altona train station, where the train station is a four-track tunnel with subsequent inverse plant. The here two tracks designed route runs on a steep ramp ( maximum gradient 40 ‰) to the surface and branches from the station tracks northward in the direction of the west with the successive stations Bahr field Othmarschen, Small Flottbeck and Hochkamp and the three-pronged head station Blankenese.

Section Blankenese - Wedel

The leaves added later, mostly single-track line extension to its final frond with the stations Iserbrook, Sülldorf and cracks and reaches in both directions on the same side of the head station Blankenese. Thus, the total distance traveled in the center has something of a hairpin. In the time of steam locomotive operation each reacting to the opposite end of the locomotive was here in any direction required after the introduction of electric multiple unit trains each change of tractive vehicle driver to control position at the opposite end of the train.

In contrast to the other two-pronged scale stations the station Iserbrook only has one side platform on the longest of the three single-track sections.

Height profile

The altitude of the route is highly differentiated. Immediately after the above-mentioned steep ramp at the northern tunnel entrance to the station Altona the route is at an altitude of 24 m above sea level. NHN, the following nine kilometers, it rises to the highest point in Geländeinschnitt the station Blankenese to 55 m above sea level. NHN to, the surrounding terrain parts there are currently up to 12 m higher. In the six miles of Blankenese cracks the track drops back to 36 meters from 19 meters above sea level. NHN and ends in Wedel at 7 m above sea level. NHN.

History

1867 - 1882

The railway line from Altona to Blankenese was built by the Altona- Kiel Railway Company (LFS ) and put into operation on 19 May 1867. The reason for the construction of the railway, " linking the western Elbvororte to Altona for everyday and leisure services " is specified, according to another source, the distance from the LFS was built to keep out unwanted competition precaution of this area ..

This first single-track branch railway line in the LFS ushered on the western side and on the same plane as the mainline tracks in the hall of the train station Altona, the stations Klein Flottbek and Bahr field were at this time already at the track. A further expansion took place with the installation of the villa colony in Othmarschen, for another station was established on 1 August 1882.

1883 - 1908, extension to Wedel and first electrification

On 1 December 1883, extension of Blankenese was opened to Wedel and expanded through two tracks in 1900 the section between Altona and Blankenese. 1887 was the Altona- Blankeneser Railway as well as the other railway lines in the Altona- Kiel railway in the existence of the Prussian state railways over.

From 1906 was electrified in 1903 completed Hamburg- Altona railway connection with 6.3 kV 25 Hz AC power from the catenary and 1907 the start-up by the Hamburg- Altona City and Suburban Railway. The route from Altona to Blankenese was also equipped with the Director of the reorganized Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Altona with the new overhead line, and on January 29 In 1908, the first electric train to Blankenese.

1910 to today, S -Bahn and further track electrification

From 1911 to 1914 there was a railway station on Blankenese Following the Trackless train Blankenese -Marie height, an early trolleybus operation.

The suburban rail system on the connecting track was called off in 1934 as S -Bahn, from 1940 to 1955 was finally the gradual conversion to DC power with side rail and a voltage of 1.2 kV. Simultaneously with this change, which lasted longer due to the Second World War, took place in two steps, the extension of the electrical equipment on the track to Wedel. It could be approached from May 1950 Sülldorf with the electric multiple units, while up fronds initially still drove steam trains. Here came the ES 99 series are used, which have been used previously for use with catenary and now coupled together with the steam locomotives on the train for a push-pull operation control car. A few months later, on October 31, 1950, also the breakpoint Iserbrook was opened. On May 20, 1954, was with the steam traffic entirely over when the last kilometers were also equipped to Wedel with the current rail system.

The track is now traveled over entire length of the line S1 of the Hamburg S -Bahn, from Altona to Blankenese drives in addition to the rush hour nor the S11. On the line S1 interact primarily units of class 474 on the S11 units of class 472

Freight traffic

Last only sparse - - freight carried on the route until 1997 was a. The information presented at stations Klein Flottbek and Blankenese freight tracks are now also removed completely.

Sidings existed on Bahr field station to the gas station, the dolly system of Ottensener industrial railway and at the margarine factory.

At the west of the oil soft hamburger border connection existed at the power plant fronds. The name comes from the factory also connected Mobil Oil AG.