AKN railroad
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1883 |
| Seat | Kaltenkirchen , Germany |
| management | Ulrich Bergmann |
| Number of employees | around 290 (2016) |
| sales | € 23.9 million (2016) |
| Branch | Traffic Company |
| Website | akn.de |
The AKN Eisenbahn GmbH ( A ltona- K Altenkirchen- N eumünster Eisenbahn GmbH , until 12 June 2018 AKN Eisenbahn AG ) is a since 1883 existing regional rail transport and infrastructure company based in Kaltenkirchen . The AKN operates routes in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg . These federal states are also the shareholders, they each own half of the company.
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The AKN operates clocked passenger traffic as a railway transport company on a route network between Hamburg, Neumünster , Elmshorn , Henstedt-Ulzburg and Norderstedt . In Hamburg and the immediate vicinity in particular, the AKN operates in a fast train-like traffic, every 10 minutes during rush hour, with direct connections to underground and suburban trains. On routes further away from the big city, however, the operation is more similar to that of a regional train. The AKN transports around 11.8 million passengers a year (2018) and covers 2.6 million train kilometers (2013).
The company owns a 50 percent stake in the nordbahn railway company , which operates local passenger transport on the Hamburg – Itzehoe , Hamburg – Wrist , Bad Oldesloe – Neumünster , Neumünster – Heide and Heide – Büsum routes on behalf of the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein .
The company is a member of the tariff association of the federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE) and affiliated companies in the Hamburg Transport Association (HVV).
AKN continues to build and operate rail infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. The Hamburg – Neumünster and Elmshorn – Henstedt-Ulzburg routes used by AKN's passenger trains are owned and maintained by the company. The Ulzburg Süd – Norderstedt Mitte line is owned by Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt (VGN), which has entrusted AKN with its operation and maintenance. There is also the AKN's railway infrastructure, which is mainly used by other railway transport companies. These include:
- the Fehmarn-Burg station
- Parts of the Kiel – Schönberger Strand railway line
- from 2017 newly built train formation facilities for the Hamburg S-Bahn in Hamburg-Eidelstedt and Hamburg-Stellingen
history
In 1879, the Altona suggested HK Notnagel & Co. as a tenant of at Quickborn located sky Moores where peat was mined as a heating medium, the construction of a railroad to transport the peat to. The communities of Quickborn and Kaltenkirchen as well as the then still independent city of Altona supported this project. After the establishment of the Altona-Kaltenkirchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (AKE) in 1883 and the emperor's promise on April 27, 1883, construction work on this new railway began in the autumn of 1883. On September 8, 1884, passenger traffic was opened on the route from Gählerplatz (south of today's Gählerstrasse) in Altona to Kaltenkirchen, and goods traffic followed on November 24 of the same year. The shares were held by the city of Altona, the communities of Quickborn, Ulzburg and Kaltenkirchen and by the construction company Kintzel & Lauser .
On March 1, 1915, the name was changed to the Altona-Kaltenkirchen-Neumünster Railway Company .
In 1981, AKN took over the Alsternordbahn (ANB) and Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn (EBOE), which were also operated by HVV . For the ANB, the AKN had been in charge of operations since the beginning of 1953, for the EBOE since 1957. In 1992 the Alsternordbahn was sold to the Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt, but the operation is still carried out by the AKN.
Until it was converted into a limited liability company with effect from June 13, 2018, the company operated as a stock corporation .
Line network
The main line of the AKN is the Hamburg-Altona – Kaltenkirchen – Neumünster railway line .
AKN has been a participating transport company in the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) since 1965 . In the Hamburg rapid transit network, the AKN lines are marked with an orange A in addition to the underground lines (U), S-Bahn lines (S) and regional trains (R). However, other colors are used on network maps that only show the AKN lines and for publications independent of the HVV: red for A1, green for A2 and dark blue for A3.
The HVV tariff applies to almost the entire route network (from Boostedt since 2002), otherwise the Schleswig-Holstein tariff . There is also a kick-off tariff for changing traffic with Deutsche Bahn AG .
| line | length | route | Stops |
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64.506 km |
Hamburg-Eidelstedt - Quickborn - Kaltenkirchen - Neumünster ( AKN main line ) |
Eidelstedt - Eidelstedt center - Hörgensweg - Schnelsen - Burgwedel - Bönningstedt - Hasloh - Quickborn Süd - Quickborn - Ellerau - Tanneneck - Ulzburg Süd - Henstedt-Ulzburg - Kaltenkirchen Süd - Kaltenkirchen - Holstentherme - dodenhof - Nützen - Lentföhrden - Bad Bramstedt Kurhaus - Bad Bramstedt Kurhaus - Wiemersdorf - Großenaspe - Boostedt [- Neumünster Süd - Neumünster , not in the HVV] |
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7.783 km |
Norderstedt - Ulzburg Süd (- Kaltenkirchen ) ( Alsternordbahn , on behalf of VGN ) |
Norderstedt Mitte - Moorbekhalle - Friedrichsgabe - Quickborner Straße - Haslohfurth - Meeschensee - Ulzburg Süd (- Henstedt-Ulzburg - Kaltenkirchen Süd - Kaltenkirchen ) |
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24.489 km |
Elmshorn - Barmstedt - Henstedt-Ulzburg (western part of the former EBOE ) |
Elmshorn - Langenmoor - Sparrieshoop - Bokholt - Vossloch - Barmstedt Brunnenstraße - Barmstedt - Langeln - Alveslohe - Henstedt-Ulzburg - Ulzburg Süd |
In the course of the rail reform from the mid-1990s, AKN also successfully participated in tenders for operation on other routes, some of which were previously operated by Deutsche Bahn.
Since December 15, 2002 the Nordbahn , a subsidiary of AKN Eisenbahn GmbH and Hamburger Hochbahn AG , has been running on the Neumünster – Bad Oldesloe line that was reactivated from Neumünster to Bad Segeberg (regional train line RB 82).
From December 14, 2003 to December 10, 2011, the Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn , a wholly owned subsidiary of AKN, operated passenger traffic on the Neumünster – Heide and Heide – Büsum routes with through trains. Previously, AKN passenger trains had already run to Heide . Since December 11, 2011, this route has also been operated by Nordbahn after a new tender.
Since December 12, 2004 trains travel the line A1 twice a day (Monday to Friday) over Eidelstedt addition to the Hamburg Central Station , taking the tracks and the driving energy for their VTA - Two power railcars from the lateral busbar of the Hamburg S-Bahn from Eidelstedt on your way via Stellingen , Langenfelde, Diebsteich , Holstenstraße , Sternschanze and Dammtor to the main station . On December 13, 2009, the evening service to the main station was discontinued, only the two morning passages on weekdays were retained.
Since December 2005, additional trains on the A2 line have been running in the morning and in the afternoon via Henstedt-Ulzburg to Kaltenkirchen.
Expansion and acceleration
Currently, the AKN's travel times for many routes are not competitive with the car, even when considering the route from station to station. This is conditioned by
- the lack of connection of the AKN railcars in Neumünster and Eidelstedt for travelers to the center of Hamburg or Kiel
- the short distances between the stops along the A1 and A2 lines
- the routes designed only for 100 km / h
- the maximum speed of the railcars, which is only designed for 88 km / h to 105 km / h
For example, the average travel time between Henstedt-Ulzburg and Kiel is 87 minutes, and between Bad Bramstedt and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof it is around 75 minutes. Several concepts have already been developed to improve the situation. The measures considered include the expansion of the AKN routes for higher speeds, the establishment of express lines with a reduced number of intermediate stops or the construction of a connection to the Hamburg Airport S-Bahn .
The construction of a connection to the airport is currently not supported by the Schleswig-Holstein state government due to the considerable cost of at least 150 million euros. Instead, the state is concentrating on expanding the existing AKN route between Eidelstedt , Quickborn and Kaltenkirchen, which could be operated by both AKN and Hamburg's S-Bahn . Both companies are interested in operating the route. In preparation for the planned changeover to S-Bahn operations, the Halstenbeker Straße section was expanded to the state border near the Burgwedel stop by 2013; a new Schnelsen Süd stop is planned after the Bönningstedt - Quickborn section has already been fully expanded to double-track. In the past, the AKN demanded the establishment of a full-day connection free of transfers from Eidelstedt to Hamburg Central Station, but failed because of the operating costs and the limited train path capacities. With an extension of the S-Bahn line, at least the line capacity would no longer be a major obstacle.
Freight transport
In southern Schleswig-Holstein and eastern Hamburg, the AKN operated freight traffic on the remaining routes of the former Südstormarnschen Kreisbahn , Billwerder Industriebahn and Bergedorf-Geesthachter Railway (BGE).
In the north, the route from Hamburg-Langenfelde Gbf to Neumünster Süd was used regularly, and the route from Henstedt-Ulzburg to Barmstedt when required. In the south, the industrial area Hamburg-Billbrook and the lines Tiefstack-Glinde and Bergedorf-Geesthacht were served. Six diesel locomotives were in use.
On December 31, 2010 the freight traffic was stopped and the locomotives were sold except for one (V 2.017).
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AKN uses two-part LHB VTA multiple units with diesel-electric drive and LINT 54 for passenger transport . In 1993, 18 vehicles of the type VTA with asynchronous motors were purchased. Four of them belong to the Norderstedt transport company (VGN). Eight type VTA railcars have been retrofitted with pantographs on the bogies ; they have been running purely electrically on the Eidelstedt - Hamburg Hauptbahnhof section of the Hamburg S-Bahn since 2004 with power consumption via the side rails . In 2015, the company renewed its vehicle fleet by purchasing 14 new LINT multiple units, each 54 meters long, which replaced 15 VT 2E vehicles from the 1970s. Each new railcar bears the name and coat of arms of one of the 14 neighboring communities along the A1 line.
The AKN owned several diesel locomotives for freight traffic . One last MaK G 1100 BB with the number V 2.017 is still in stock for construction train services in 2012.
Former vehicles
Steam locomotives
The traffic was started with five two-axle fully clad tram locomotives from Henschel , which had a central buffer coupling . With the extension of the route, normal three-axle steam locomotives were also procured, which had the usual pulling and pushing devices used by the state railways; As traffic increased, more and more powerful locomotives were purchased, four-coupled for the first time in the early 1920s. In 1947 three used Prussian T 13.1s were procured. The steam locomotives were all retired and sold by the mid-1950s.
Diesel locomotives
The first diesel locomotive was a two-axle DWK diesel locomotive (V 11, later V 2.011), acquired in 1947 by Kleinbahn des Kreis Ostprignitz , built in 1935, and in the following year another locomotive similar to the V 36 was procured from Deutz (V 1, later V 2.001), which was shut down in 1967.
Several MaK rod locomotives followed in the mid-1950s , first three MaK 600 D in the years 1953/1954 (V 2–4, later V 2.002–004). In 1956, the vehicle fleet received further growth in the form of a Deutz A4M 220 R (V 5, later V 2.005), a real V 36 and another Deutz replica type (V 6-7 and V 2.006-007), two MaK 240 B (V 8–9, later V 2.008–009), and a MaK 400 C (V 10, later V 2.010), which had found their way to AKN via the VHH . In 1969, the AKN also received another MaK 600 D from the EBO , which was given the number V 2.001 with a second line-up and was shut down in 1973 after an accident.
The first large diesel locomotive was obtained in 1964 in the form of a Deutz DG 1200 BBM (V 2.012), two more of the somewhat weaker motorized type DG 1000 BBM (V 2.014-015) followed in 1968, another DG 1000 BBM was sold in 1974 by the EBO under the number V over 2,013 that have since been a rented Deutz MG 530 C had worn. All four Deutz large diesel locomotives were sold to the Karsdorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft in 1995/1996 .
Of the four MaK G 1100 BB originally procured in 1970/1971 , three (V 2.016, V 2.018 and V 2.019) were sold to Italy in 2004 and 2006, the fourth (V 2.017) is still in use at AKN. An outsider in the vehicle fleet otherwise dominated by the two manufacturers Deutz and MaK was the V 2.020, a Henschel DHG 700 C , acquired in 1974 and sold in 1983. The locomotives purchased later were all sold to the northrail company in 2010 . There are four MaK DE 1002 , of which one (V 2.021) was brand new in 1985, another (V 2.022) was taken over by the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn in 1995 and the other two (V 2.023 and V 2.024) in 2002 were bought by the Dortmund Railway .
Railcar
In 1930 the AKN received the first three T1 – T3 multiple units . They were four-axle vehicles with 81 kW petrol engines that were built by Triebwagenbau Kiel (TAG) . Based on the positive experience, a fourth railcar was procured in 1934 , this time from the Linke Hofmann works and with a diesel-electric drive. Another railcar from the same company followed in 1940, but regular railcar operation was no longer possible due to fuel restrictions.
After the war, two Esslingen railcars were procured in 1951 , another and two control cars in 1955, and two Esslingen railcars of the Bergedorf-Geesthacht Railway (BGE) were taken over in 1953 .
For years, the AKN was a stronghold of MAN rail buses in northern Germany, two of which were purchased in 1956 (VT 11 and 12) and eight more copies (VT 2.13 to 2.20) in 1963, two more operated on the connected Alsternordbahn . In 1969 two more railcars (VT 2.09 and 2.10) were procured used. There were also seven associated MAN control cars in operation. The last MAN rail buses were in operation at AKN and ANB at the end of May 1993, and the new VTA diesel-electric double multiple units have been in use at ANB / A2 since then.
In 1969 four used Uerdingen rail buses were also purchased, in 1981 seven of these vehicles were added through the takeover of the neighboring Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn (EBOE, also: EBO), two of which are still operational today and are used for special services. With the procurement of the new VTA railcars in 1993, the remaining rail buses became superfluous.
In 1976 16 double multiple units with the designation VT 2E were put into service, which were decommissioned in 2015/2016 and scrapped with the exception of five.
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The AKN owned up to 34 passenger cars , seven baggage cars , including three with a mail compartment , and 120 freight cars , including seven milk cars .
See also
literature
- Jörg Minga, Reinhardt Hassenstein: 125 years of AKN Eisenbahn AG 1883–2008 . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-8319-0318-2 .
- Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen, Volume 13: Schleswig-Holstein 2 (western part). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-672-8 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Part 1. Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg . Zeunert, Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9
- Hans-Jürgen Kielmann: A Century of RAILWAYS. Altona - Kaltenkirchen - Neumünster. From the steam tramway to the modern suburban train . Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways eV, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-923999-10-0
- Wolfgang Burmester: Our Schnelsen · a special kind of traffic center · 1884-1995 . Meincke publishing house, Norderstedt 1996
Web links
- AKN website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the AKN railroad in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint on www.akn.de
- ↑ AKN company report 2016
- ↑ Wolfgang Burmester: Our Schnelsen. Verlagshaus Meincke, Norderstedt, 1996, p. 9.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 13, 1915, No. 15. Announcement No. 173, p. 97.
- ^ AKN Eisenbahn AG: Change to a GmbH. akn.de, accessed on June 23, 2018
- ↑ Harald Haase: S-Bahn extension Hamburg Airport (airport) - Kaltenkirchen not feasible in the medium term - Land wants to concentrate on the AKN corridor via Quickborn. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Science, Economy and Transport of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, December 19, 2008, archived from the original on July 19, 2014 ; accessed on October 6, 2012 ( study; PDF; 157 KiB ).
- ↑ S-Bahn should go to Kaltenkirchen. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 13, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2009 .
- ↑ Starting shot - from 2011 onwards, AKN will operate on two tracks. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. November 26, 2009. Retrieved November 26, 2009 .
- ↑ In April, work will begin on the double-track expansion of the AKN line in Hamburg-Schnelsen. (No longer available online.) AKN, March 23, 2011, archived from the original on August 3, 2011 ; Retrieved August 8, 2011 .
- ↑ eisenbahn-magazin 11/2010, p. 19
- ↑ AKN will get new diesel trains from 2015. In: nahverkehrhamburg.de. May 6, 2013, accessed May 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Hamburg's State Councilor Andreas Riekhof names the fourteenth AKN train. AKN, May 9, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Dressel: Rollout in Kaltenkirchen: First VTA presented · Chronology of a commissioning . In: Hamburger Nahverkehrs-Nachrichten 2/1993, pp. 3–5, as well as under short messages and reports, AKN, p. 11, Verein Verkehrsamateure eV, Hamburg June 1993