Bramming – Tønder railway line

Bramming – Tønder
LINT railcars at Gredstedbro
Bramming – Tønder railway line with a connection to Niebüll
Route number :	Banedanmark 30
Route length:	14.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Esbjerg 0.0 Bramming to Lunderskov 4.2 Sejstrup 8.5 Gredstedbro Kongeå 13.0 Farup until 1971 15.3 Ribe Nørremark since 1985 16.7 Ribe Ribe Å 23.0 Vedsted (formerly Vedsted / Hvidding) Denmark / Germany border 1864–1920 23.2 Hviding 28.2 Rejsby 32.2 Brons Hadersleben circular path 36.7 Skærbæk 42.1 Døstrup Sdj. All around 49.0 Bredebro Railway line Rødekro – Løgumkloster – Bredebro to Rødekro 54.5 Visby 61.7 Industrial connection 63.3 Tønder North from Højer Sluse from Tinglev 64.0 Tønder Vidå 67.9 Denmark / Germany border since 1920 to Niebüll

The Bramming – Tønder railway line (German: Bramming – Tondern) is a line between Bramming and Tønder north of today's German-Danish border in North Schleswig and Sønderjylland . From a historical point of view, it is part of the Marschbahn .

Today all trains go beyond the former terminus and start or end in Esbjerg . Arriva has operated the traffic since 2003 .

history

Bramming – Ribe section

Seal of the Schleswig-Holstein Marschbahn-Gesellschaft

In addition to the law of April 24, 1868, which provided for the construction of a railway line between Lunderskov and Esbjerg, Denmark decided that after the loss of its hinterland in the Second Schleswig War in 1864 , the city of Ribe should receive better transport links. The law of April 16, 1873 stipulated the construction of a railway line between Bramming and Ribe, which was opened on May 1, 1875.

Builder of this track section were the 1867 by the Danish state as successor company of Det Danske Jernbanedriftselskab founded Jysk-Fyenske Jernbaner (JFJ) that in 1874 De DSB i Jylland-Fyn Renamed 1880 Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab took over and in 1885 created the new Danske Statsbaner (DSB) passed over.

Ribe – Tondern section

The construction of the railway south of Ribe turned out to be more difficult. Since 1864, the border between Denmark and Germany was about seven kilometers south of Ribe. In consultation between Germany and Denmark, it was decided to build the railway between Ribe and Heide via Tondern. The Glückstadt-Elmshorner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GEE), from September 1, 1879 Holsteinische Marschbahn-Gesellschaft and from January 1, 1888 Schleswig-Holsteinische Marschbahn-Gesellschaft , had the Prussian concession to build the German part of the line from July 25, 1884 Bredstedt to Hviding and this opened in 1887.

With the nationalization of the company on July 1, 1890, the German part of the line was transferred to the Prussian State Railways .

The section between the border and Ribe had to be built by the Danes. Since the Danish government made no progress, the industrialist Carl Frederik Tietgen decided to build the connection between Ribe and the border near Vedsted in his own name. This could be opened on November 15, 1887, while the German part up to the border was already put into operation on October 17 of the same year.

In 1888 the management of the Danish stretch between Vedsted and Ribe was transferred to the DSB. They paid Tietgen 40,000 kroner a year in rent until they bought the section from him on July 1, 1896 for 833,465 kroner.

Border station Vedsted / Hviding

By 1920 the line crossed the Danish-German border at Vedsted / Hviding . The German station Hvidding and the Danish station Vedsted had a common station building, with 153 meters one of the longest in Europe at the time. On the German and Danish sides there was a locomotive shed for the respective railway administration. The German engine shed was dismantled in 1922 and the Danish one in 1923/1924, the building material was used elsewhere. From 1921 to 1933, a state hospital was gradually established in the station building, which still exists today. The railway service tasks were continued in the former German part of the station. From 1931 the station was only called Hviding. The long platform remained until 1952. In 1971 the station was devalued to a stop with ticket sales, in 1972 it was rededicated as a stop. This in turn was abandoned in 1987 when a new Hviding stop was built further south closer to the center of Egebæk-Hviding .

traffic

MO 1849 of the DSB in Skærbæk (1978)

Arriva Danmark has been operating the route with continuous trains to and from Esbjerg since January 2003 .

In 2010 this line was extended to Niebüll and has been called " RB  66" from the German point of view since December 14, 2014 .

During construction work on the Fredericia – Flensburg railway line , long-distance freight trains between Central Europe and Scandinavia are occasionally diverted via the route. For example, for several weeks in summer 2014 and summer 2015, when the section between Vamdrup and Vojens was expanded to double-track and the single-track line between Taulov and Padborg was renewed in this context . Since the line is not electrified, the trains are transported by diesel locomotives, which brought the 232 series from DB Schenker Rail Deutschland onto the line. The regional traffic between Ribe and Niebüll was mostly carried out in the above-mentioned periods as rail replacement traffic because the single-track route did not offer enough capacity for freight and regional trains.

According to a tender by Transport-, Bygnings- og Boligministeriet ( German  Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing ) for the implementation of regional transport in Denmark by private providers, half-hour train services between Esbjerg and Ribe are to be carried out from December 2020. The award of the train services is to be stipulated in a contract for eight years.

Web links

• Jernbanens historie, Egebæk – Hviding. Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Danish). 
• Route network. Archived from the original on October 8, 2010 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 (Danish). 
• Bramming-Ribe. Archived from the original on November 11, 2007 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 (Danish). 
• Ribe – Vester Vedsted. Archived from the original on November 8 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 (Danish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bock: The march from Altona to Westerland . Boyens, Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0458-9 , p. 61ff
2. ^ Glückstadt - Elmshorn Railway Company (GEE)
3. ↑ Jernbanens historie, Egebæk – Hviding. Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Danish).  
4. ↑ Banedanmark anlægger et ekstra spor mellem Vamdrup and Vojens. bane.dk, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Danish). 
5. ↑ Sporarbejdet. From April 2014 to September 2015 fornyer Banedanmark jernbanestrækningen mellem Taulov og Padborg. bane.dk, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Danish). 
6. ↑ Flere togstrækninger kommer i udbud. Transport-, Bygnings- og Boligministeriet, June 9, 2017, accessed November 4, 2018 .