Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn railway line

Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn
Fjerritslev-Frederikshavn Jernbane
Route number :	FFJ
Route length:	136.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	Nørresundby – Fjerritslev: 7.13 ‰ Nørresundby – Sæby – Frederikshavn: 6.67 ‰ Krøllen: 10  ‰
Minimum radius :	Nørresundby – Fjerritslev: 596 m. Nørresundby – Sæby – Frederikshavn: 502 m. Krøllen: 165 m
Operating points and routes
Legend Frederikshavn – Skagen railway from Skagen Frederikshavn – Aalborg railway from Hjørring 80.6 Frederikshavn (from 1979) Frederikshavn (old train station until 1979) Frederikshavn G Frederikshavn Havnebane 77.7 Bangsbo (built as a train station, later Hst.) 74.5 Understed (built as a train station, later Hst.) 71.8 Sulbæk (from 1929) 68.8 Kurhotellet (from 1903, from 1955 only in summer) Humlebroen over the Sæby å 68.0 Sæby Sæby harbor railway 65.9 Lyngsåvej (from 1951) 62.7 Volstrup 61.1 Volstrup Hede (from 1955) from Hjørring 58.8 Hørby 57.0 Haven (from 1949) 53.4 Dybvad 51.1 Idskov (from 1952) 48.7 Præstbro 47.1 Lunderhede (from 1949) Gammel Agersted (since 1960) 44.5 Agersted 41.8 Skelgården Railway Ørsø – Asaa to Asaa planned railway line Brønderslev – Ørsø 40.2 Ørsø 37.1 Dronninglund 33.2 Rørholt (originally Bolle , in the last year of operation Hst.) 30.1 Gettrup (from 1949) 27.9 Ulsted 25.0 Øster Hassing Kær (from 1934) planned Gandrup – Hals railway line 22.8 Gandrup 19.8 Vester Hassing (built as a train station, later Hst.) 16.5 Stae (built as a train station, later Hst.) 15.0 Langholt from Østervrå 11.5 Vodskov 7.9 Engholm Beach (1931-1949) 2.9 Nørresundby Havnestation Norresundby Harbor Railway Randers – Aalborg railway from Randers , Aalborg – Hvalpsund railway from Hvalpsund and Aalborg – Hadsund railway from Hadsund 0.0 Aalborg Aalborg Vestby (since 2003) Limfjorden 2.6 Nørresundby Lindholm (since 2002) Norresundby Harbor Railway Railway line Frederikshavn – Aalborg to Hjørring 4.7 Voerbjerg (from 1957) 8.3 Vadum Kirke (from 1934) 9.9 Vadum Aalborg Lufthavn 11.5 Nørlang (from 1949) 14.0 Biersted 17.5 Knøsgård 19.2 Aabybro 20.2 Ryå (from 1913) Railway line Hjørring – Løkken – Aabybro to Løkken 22.6 Birkelse 25.1 Ulveskoven (from 1949) 26.3 Langeslund Mark (from 1953) 27.1 Arentsminde 29.7 Halvrimmen 31.4 Jægerum 34.0 Brovst 36.5 Skovsgård 38.3 Årupvej (from 1949) 29.3 Årup Hede (from 1961) 44.7 Bonderup 45.7 Myager (from 1965) 46.6 Skræm 47.6 Husby (from 1936) 49.3 Ågård Skov (from 1952) 52.7 Fjerritslev Railway Thisted – Fjerritslev to Thisted

The FFJ CB 1 passenger car has been preserved and belongs to the Nordsjællands Jernbaneklub

The Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn railway was a private standard - gauge, single - track railway between Fjerritslev and Frederikshavn in North Jutland . The route with a total length of almost 133 km was opened in several sections. It was built by the Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane (FFJ) railway company,

The company operated this route with two branches, the route Nørresundby – Fjerritslev and the route Nørresundby – Sæby – Frederikshavn , called Sæbybanen in Danish . Later the branch line Ørsø – Asaa , called Asaabanen in Danish , was added. The western branch was called Fjerritslevbanen in Danish . However, this name is not unique, since it also from the Thisted-Fjerritslev Jernbane (TFJ) was used in Thisted with the railway Thisted-Fjerritslev joined.

history

Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane

In the great railway law of May 8, 1894 , the railway lines Nørresundby – Fjerritslev and Sæby – Frederikshavn were included. The licenses were granted on June 26, 1896. The company Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane (FFJ) applied for both routes.

The Railway Act stipulated that the two railways should be able to use the DSB route between Nørresundby and Aalborg. Aalborg station was to be enlarged before it would become the terminus for the two lines. The Fjerritslevbane began in Nørresundby and the Sæbybane from a temporary station established in 1874 called Nørresundby Havnebane .

Sæby Havnebane was founded in 1910 and the Ørsø – Asaa railway was added in 1914. Here trains usually ran the Dronninglund – Ørsø – Asaa route, later trains went through to Aalborg. An original idea was thus realized: the first plans for the Sæbybane consisted of the sections Nørresundby – Asaa and Frederikshavn – Sæby with a connection to a point on the Asaabane.

The total length was 136.9 km. In addition, there was the 2.6 km traveled by the company between Aalborg and Nørresundby, which belonged to the Danske Statsbaner . From 1942 the gravel bed was replaced by a bed of gravel.

Most of the station buildings were designed by Paul Severin Arved Paulsen from Randers .

Nørresundby – Fjerritslev railway line

The 50.1 km long route was inaugurated on March 19, 1897. During construction, rails weighing 17.5 kg per meter were laid.

This section of the route was closed on April 1, 1969.

Train stations

• Ryå: the operating point was set up as a separation station with the opening of Hjørring – Løkken – Aabybro Jernbane (HLA) in 1913, served only by HLA trains between 1913 and 1952, ticket sales only for traffic on the private railway, no freight wagons.
• Ulveskov: the breakpoint, built in 1949, was a popular destination. There was Kobberøds Tivoli with bumper cars and pedal boats. The owner of the amusement park Filip Kobberød was able to convince the railway company to build a stop. Many children from all over North Jutland went on their school trip on special trains. This ended after the railway line was closed as the amusement park was away from the public roads.
• Arentsminde: originally a manned ticket sales point ( Danish: Billetsalgssted ), later a train station with facilities for loading cattle.
• Halvrimmen: originally a manned ticket sales point, later a train station with 146 m crossing track and loading track with gantry crane.
• Jægerum: Stop with siding to the Jægerum gravel pit.
• Brovst: station with 450 m crossing track as well as loading track and end ramp for loading cattle.
• Skovsgård: train station with 450 m crossing track as well as loading track and end ramp.
• Bonderup: Station with 450 m crossing track and facilities for loading cattle.
• Skræm: the station, which has been classified as a stop over the past few decades, originally had a manned ticket sales point.
• Fjerritslev: the station belonged to the two railway companies FFJ and Thisted – Fjerritslev Jernbane together. The large station had 19 points, a warehouse, a water crane, a turntable, a locomotive shed and an overnight building, which were also used jointly.

Preserved station building

The station buildings in Vadum, Brovst and Fjerritslev were demolished. The buildings in Biersted, Aabybro, Birkelse, Arentsminde, Halvrimmen, Skovsgård, Bonderup and Skræm have been preserved.

Preserved embankment

Around 30 kilometers of the former railway embankment have been preserved. The Vadum Banesti hiking trail was inaugurated on September 3, 2014. It follows the dam for six kilometers on three sections between Aalborg Vandskistadion and Biersted. The Banestien runs around 4.5 kilometers from Biersted towards Aabybro. Between Årup and Fjerritslev, 13 kilometers of gravel road has been preserved, which can also be used by vehicles.

Nørresundby Havn – Sæby – Frederikshavn railway line

The 77.7 kilometer route Nørresundby Havn - Sæby - Frederikshavn was opened on July 18, 1899. During construction, rails weighing 17.5 kg per meter were laid. 1909 began to equip the line east of Nørresundby with rails with 22.5 kg / m.

The line was shut down in two sections: between Sæby and Frederikshavn, operations ceased on May 27, 1962. For this, the FFJ received a transfer fee of 100,000 crowns. With the closure, 16 level crossings in the urban area of ​​Frederikshavn could be closed. The plans to relocate the station in Frederikshavn, which were already in existence at that time, only contained proposals for the Frederikshavn – Skagen railway line .

The Nørresundby – Sæby section and the subsequent branch line Ørsø – Asaa were closed on March 31, 1968. The background to the closure was the construction of a new motorway section. The suspension of the route made it possible to dispense with various bridges.

Train stations

• Nørresundby Havnestation: The station had a locomotive shed , a turntable as well as a water tower and a workshop for vehicle handling , in which work continued after the line was closed in 1968 until the buildings were demolished in 1969.
• Langholt: train station with crossing possibility and loading platform. The station was four kilometers east of Vodskov in Horsens and was called Langholt Hovedgård to avoid confusion with Horsens in Østjylland . The place is now called Langholt.
• Rørholt: Station with an enclosure for cattle to be sent, combined overtaking and loading track. Original name Bolle after the nearby place, the last years of operation only stop.
• Dronninglund: Railway station with overtaking and loading platform, water tower, water crane , portal crane as well as turntable and separate locomotive shed for the triangle railcar on the route to Asaa.
• Dybvad: Railway station with sidings and sidings to the potato flour factory and the brick factory.
• Volstrup: Railway station with overtaking and loading track, the last few years of operation only a stop.
• Sæby: train station with restaurant, branch of the port railway, from 1962 terminus.
• Frederikshavn: south of the DSB station FFJ had its own premises Frederikshavn G . There was a semicircular, three-tier engine shed as well as a separate engine shed and other buildings for goods handling and accommodation.

Preserved station building

The stations Nørresundby H (1969), Langholt, Stae (early 1970s), Gandrup, Dronninglund, Sæby (goods shed partially available), Bangsbo and Frederikshavn G were demolished. The buildings in Vodskov, Vester Hassing, Ulsted, Rørhol, Ørsø, Asaa, Agersted, Præstbro, Dybvad, Hørby, Volstrup and Understed have been preserved.

Preserved embankment

The embankment has been preserved for around 13 kilometers. The best known is the Sæbybanestien with twelve kilometers. In Sæby, the former route runs in the middle of European route 45 , so that there is only four kilometers of a separate cycle path on the former embankment. In 2004, Aalborg Municipality laid the Syrestia in Nørresundby by simply filling the space between the two rails with asphalt .

business

After the routes opened, three pairs of passenger trains and, if necessary, two to three pairs of freight trains drove daily. In 1914, four pairs of passenger trains and one pair of freight trains ran on the Fjerritslevbane on weekdays, and five pairs of passenger trains on Sundays. There were four pairs of passenger trains on the Sæbybane, the freight train traveled on individual sections as required. During the 1920s, some locomotive-hauled passenger trains were replaced by railcars for the first time.

In the summer of 1947, seven pairs of passenger trains ran on the Fjerritslevbane on weekdays and six on Sundays. On the Sæbybane there were six or five pairs of passenger trains.

Both parts of the route were operated independently, there were no through trains between Fjerritslev and Frederikshavn. It would have been Denmark's longest private railway at 129 km, but the Sæby – Frederikshavn line alone was the longest private railway until 1917 until the Troldhedebane was built.

Nørresundby Havnestation or Nørresundby H (exceptionally the H did not stand for Hovedbanegård ) was to become the central office of the FFJ. However, it came to a cooperation with the two existing south of the fjord private railways Aalborg – Hadsund Jernbane with the Aalborg – Hadsund line and the Aars – Nibe – Svenstrup Jernbane with the Aalborg – Hvalpsund line . In 1901 a joint workshop and depot was built and inaugurated on December 8, 1902.

The three companies thus had a common train line and a common freight yard in Aalborg G station . In the same year, the expanded Aalborg station went into operation, where the vast majority of private rail trains ended. On 16 October 1902, the three companies created the joint operating company Nordjyllands Forenede Privatbaner that in 1915 Aalborg Privatbaner was renamed after Hjørring Privatbaner with Hirtshalsbanen had joined the Operating Company.

On the Nørresundby – Fjerritslev section, attempts have been made in the last few years of operation to increase the cruising speed. Together with TFJ, the Aalborg – Thisted line was operated by express trains ( Lyntog ) that only stopped at the major stations.

After the closure, part of the former railway line between Sæby and Frederikshavn was used for the construction of a new motorway. To the east of Nørresundby, the new motorway with the Limfjord tunnel was partly built on the former railway line. Sæbybanen was closed for this project a year before the other private railways in Aalborg.

Further rail projects

The great railway law of March 20, 1918 included a branch line from Gandrup to Hals , possibly with an extension to Hou. This project was not carried out.

Norresundby Harbor Railway

On August 1, 1900, FFJ took over the 1.2 kilometer long port railway Nørresundby. The rails with a meter weight of 17.5 kg were replaced between 1910 and 1911 by those with a meter weight of 31.5 kg.

In 2002 the port railway was shut down.

Connecting curve Krøllen

In 1900 FFJ laid the one kilometer long connecting curve Krøllen , which led from the railway bridge over the Limfjord in a sharp right curve to Nørresundby Havnestation , so that the trains from Sæby could bypass the Nørresundby terminus . This connecting curve was put into operation on September 5, 1900. The rails with a meter weight of 17.5 kg were replaced between 1916 and 1917 by those with a meter weight of 45 kg.

Sæby harbor railway

The 1.5 kilometer long port railway in Sæby was put into operation in 1910.

The port was important to Sæby. Just a few years after the railroad had reached the place, industrial tracks were laid that led into the port. The port railway went into operation in 1910 and led into the port area on a south-eastern curve. Part of this curve was laid on a dam in the Baltic Sea , the area in between was filled in and used as a tar and drying area for ropes in the period from around 1935 to 1955. From 1955, this area was expanded for industrial settlements south of the railway embankment. The dam was also gradually expanded to the north, while the drying area was moved south at the same time.

This enabled the fish delivered to be transported quickly into the hinterland. The local fishermen were good customers of the FFJ and formed an essential part of the traffic on Sæbybane. Coal was brought in by cargo ships for the local gas works , the foundry, the machine works and the slaughterhouse . If necessary, the coal was brought by train to the interior of the country and thus, alongside fish and fertilizers, for which a separate warehouse was built in the port, was another mainstay of the FFJ's freight traffic.

The port hardly changed between 1910 and 1980. The fishing industry expanded on the reclaimed land along the ring road. The fishing boats in the harbor have been replaced by yachts over the years. It was only in the 1980s that a large marina replaced the port area where the fishing boats used to be. To make room for the many yachts that call at Sæby, the harbor has been widened and sanitary facilities have been added for the sailors.

Much of the railway area was required for the expansion of the Sæby fish factory. So in 1967 the traffic on the port railway ended.

bus company

The Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane (FFJ) railway company also operated a number of bus routes:

• Gandrup - Hals , an original post bus route
• Aalborg - Pandrup - Blokhus . This line was opened privately around 1929, FFJ took over the concession in 1939 and operations in 1942
• Aalborg– Flavenskjold –Sæby – Frederikshavn, opened in 1953, sold in 1956
• Dronninglund - Aasa - Frederikshavn

From 1946 buses were also used to replace trains in their timetables.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erik V. Pedersen: FFJ. Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane. Fjerritslev – Aalborg. EVP Danmark, accessed on 25 March 2015 (Danish).  
2. ↑ Livet på stationen he deskrevet i Bjarne Nielsen Brovst: Min fars station ISBN 9788778511706
3. ^ ^{A b} A. Gregersen: signal post. (PDF) Edition 1969/6. In: Signal post . Pp. 223–225 , accessed on March 24, 2015 (Danish). 
4. ↑ T. Larsen: Sæby havnebane. In: tlarsen.dk. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Danish). 
5. ^ T. Larsen: Sæbybanen. Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Danish). 

Web links

Commons : Fjerritslev-Frederikshavn Jernbane  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vehicles operated by Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn Jernbane. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Danish). 
• Fjerritslevbanen. In: Nordjyllands Jernbaner. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Danish). 
• Sæbybanen. In: Nordjyllands Jernbaner. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Danish). 
• Havnebanen. In: Nordjyllands Jernbaner. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Danish).