Hamburg Süd port station
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 Hamburg Süd port station
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| abbreviation | AHBS |
| opening | 1893 |
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| City / municipality | Hamburg |
| country | Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 31 '30 " N , 9 ° 59' 30" E |
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| Railway stations in the Hamburg area | |
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The Hamburg Süd port station was opened in 1893 as the Hamburg Niedernfelde port station . Located in the Kleiner Grasbrook district, it is one of the most important shunting yards for the Hamburg port railway .
history
The year 1893 is considered to be the birth of the Niedernfelde port station. This year a direct connection curve to the Wilhelmsburg marshalling yard was opened on the Hamburg – Harburg line. Sidings for the development of harbor basins in this part of the Hamburg harbor had been laid since 1880; In 1886, collecting tracks were laid on what would later be the station area south of Veddeler Damm , which were used to sort freight wagons .
From 1893, the Niedernfelde port station was gradually expanded. For example, the laying of transfer tracks from Veddel to Niedernfelde in Veddel freed up space for the four-track expansion of the Hamburg – Harburg line. Between 1902 and 1909 the port facilities between Köhlbrand and Reiherstieg were expanded. The increasing volume of traffic was taken into account by building additional station tracks before the port station reached its capacity limits before the First World War : At its location between the street Veddeler Damm and the waterways Reiherstieg, Veddelkanal, Spreehafen and Saalehafen there were no more areas for expansion.
Between 1914 and 1920 the station, which had meanwhile been renamed Hamburg Süd , was completely rebuilt. The construction work was made more difficult on the one hand by the restrictions of the war years, on the other hand it was made easier by the war-related lower turnover in the port. A two-sided marshalling yard with five signal boxes and an entrance system was created, in which an entry group with six tracks and a direction group with 17 tracks were available for the dismantling of freight trains from the inland. In the opposite direction, the exit system was used to form trains from the port to the inland; there were 20 entry tracks, 14 direction tracks and special tracks for customs clearance of freight cars that had been loaded in the free port . Until December 31, 2012, when the free zone Hamburg (free port) was dissolved, the port station was within the free port area.
In 1929 up to 2,400 freight cars were handled per day; With sea freight throughput of 29.6 million tons in the entire port of Hamburg, the volume of traffic in Hamburg Süd station was 4 million tons. Plans for further expansion were only partially implemented; so in the 1920s was Hamburg Süd subordinate district station originated horse; today located on the eastern ramp of the Köhlbrand Bridge.
During the Second World War , the marshalling yard was almost completely destroyed by air raids. During the reconstruction after the end of the war, the tracks were adapted to the changed traffic needs. From 1953, further district stations were built for the fine distribution of freight cars on the quays ; the marshalling yard was now called the Hamburg Süd main port station. In 1956 the 1929 level was reached again with a traffic volume of 4 million tons. At the end of the 1960s, Hamburg Süd was the most important port station in Hamburg; 40% of all rail freight in the port ran through it.
During the storm surge of 1962 , Hamburg Süd, together with the Hamburg Hohe Schaar station, served to bypass the flooded Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg for a good week . Up to 75 passenger and freight trains per day ran on the tracks of the port railway, which was the only passable connection between Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Harburg. During the storm surge of 1976 the station area was flooded; a poldering carried out between 1984 and 1986 is intended to protect against further flooding.
At the end of the 1950s, pre-war plans to convert the station into a one-sided marshalling yard were taken up again. The conversion was carried out with ongoing operations in numerous construction phases between 1960 and 1970. At a total cost of DM 30 million , the signal boxes were also modernized and parts of the station were electrified. After the renovation, the station had 41 kilometers of track and 201 switches , and the average capacity increased from 1,800 to 2,400 wagons per day. In the first half of the 1970s, 97 sidings and eight subordinate district stations were connected to the station, and between 13 and 14 shunting locomotives were in use on working days . From the end of the 1960s, the station was also used for container traffic , in the present in particular to the Tollerort container terminal .
In the 1990s, several district stations subordinate to Hamburg Süd were closed. This happened as a result of the restructuring in the port and the filling in of some port basins. After the Alte Süderelbe station went into operation , some of the port railway's offices were relocated from Hamburg Süd to the new station. June 10, 2001, Hamburg Süd organizationally with the station Hohe Schaar to the port of Hamburg station east merged. The formation of block trains is concentrated in Hohe Schaar , while Hamburg Süd is responsible for handling individual wagons and groups of wagons.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiesmüller, Lawrenz: Hamburger Rangier- und Güterbahnhöfe , p. 74. See also: Anniversary event 100 years of Hamburg Süd port station on September 11, 1993
- ↑ a b Figures from: Wiesmüller, Lawrenz: Hamburger Rangier- und Güterbahnhöfe , p. 77
- ↑ a b Manfred Unbehagen: The large systems of long-distance travel and goods traffic in Hamburg . In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 1970 (19), ISSN 0013-2845 , pp. 349-368, here p. 364
- ↑ Figures from: Wiesmüller, Lawrenz: Hamburger Rangier- und Güterbahnhöfe , p. 80f.
literature
- Benno Wiesmüller, Dierk Lawrenz: The Hamburg marshalling yards and freight yards . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-303-1
- Reinhard Höfer: 100 years of the Hamburg Süd port station . In: Deutsche Bahn . ISSN 0942-5691 , Vol. 69, No. 9/10, 1993, pp. 697-709
