Harburg S-Bahn

The Harburg S -Bahn is a railway line in the south of Hamburg. It starts at Hamburg Central Station and via Harburg Neugraben. It runs to a large extent parallel to the Lower Elbe Railway and is now part of the Hamburg S -Bahn lines S3, which leads over Neugraben addition to Stade and Buxtehude, and S31.

Course

The route begins at the main station, where they crossed by a steep ramp, the tracks of the mainline to Berlin and Lübeck. After lying on a concrete viaduct breakpoint Hammerbrookstraße was passed, the route crosses the southern freight bypass track and following the Norderelbe. From here on, its course is directly parallel to the Lower Elbe Railway. Successively follow the breakpoints Veddel and William Castle before it branches off from the Lower Elbe Railway and dives into a tunnel. Here the station Harburg, the three-pronged sweeping train station Harburg- Rathaus and the breakpoint home field to be passed before the line runs above ground and parallel to the lower Elbe railway. After passing the station Neuwiedenthal Neugraben the train station, where a parking area is follows. After this station follows a system change station, where the S-Bahn railcar of busbar switch to overhead lines. The trains then use the Lower Elbe Railway, which was built in the years 2006 and 2007, S -Bahn -compatible.

History

After the incorporation of Harburg -Wilhelmsburg to Hamburg in 1937, the section Harburg- Neugraben was included in the tariff of the Hamburg S -Bahn. After the founding of the Hamburg Transport Association in 1967 this line was referred to as "S3 " on the wrong but continue to locomotive-hauled trains. Between Hamburg Central Station and the railway station Hamburg -Harburg the mainline tracks were used. Although this section of the course is expanded to four tracks, was a pair of tracks to the freight train traffic reserved.

Because of the strong destruction of the Hamburg harbor breakpoints upper harbor and Elbe bridge were not put into operation after 1945.

While the population through the construction of new large settlements grew considerably in the districts of Hamburg Hausbruch and Neugraben- Fischbek in the 1960s and 70s, the connection remained in the city center of Hamburg deficient: to reach the Hamburg Central Station, a change in direction of the trains in Harburg was required Moreover, there was no regular timetable.

On September 24, 1983, the DC-powered S -Bahn opened from Hamburg Central to Harburg Rathaus operation. The new compound was threaded between Hauptbahnhof and Berliner Tor from the light rail. Later, a new breakpoint Hammerbrookstraße arose. Between the Hamburg Harburg Elbe bridges and the route runs parallel to the mainline. The breakpoints Veddel and William Castle were replaced by new plants. 1984, the DC-powered S- Bahn ( "S3 " and " S31 " ) has been extended from the city of Harburg after Neugraben. Your route runs from the district home field about seven miles long south parallel to the Lower Elbe Railway.

Close to the capital settlement Neuwiedenthal created a new S- Bahn stop. The Neugrabener station was expanded to five tracks together with stabling and the founder temporal reception building replaced by a Umsteigeanlage in the concrete style of the 1980s. In an extension of the S -Bahn in the densely populated Fischbek also been omitted so as not to diminish the importance of newly created ( shopping ) center in Neugraben.

With the opening of this new S- Bahn line railway stations Unterelbe, tempo work and home breakage at the old northern route were abandoned.

Since the timetable change in December 2007, the operation of the Hamburg S -Bahn from Neugraben Buxtehude was extended to Stade. This newly - remodeled or two-system S-Bahn railcar series 474.3 are used. This ride in mixed operation with the regional trains and freight trains of the metronome and use it on the new line at the AC catenary. Furthermore, an additional breakpoint in Fischbek was established.