Frederikshavn – Aalborg railway line

Frederikshavn – Aalborg
Aalborg
Route
Route number :	Banedanmark 25
Course book range :	DSB 70
Route length:	84 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	Aalborg – Aalborg Vestby
Operating points and routes
Legend Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn railway from Nørresundby Færgehavnen 333.3 Frederikshavn (old train station until 1979) 333.3 Frederikshavn (from 1979) Frederikshavn Havn Frederikshavn – Skagen to Skagen railway line 327.9 Elling (1929–1955) 323.8 Kvissel (bus stop 1871–1877) 317.4 Tolne (stop 1873–1879, station until 1972) 310.2 Sindal 306.0 Sønderskov (ticket sales point until 1964, published until 1971) Railway line Hjørring – Hirtshals from Hirtshals until 1942 Hjørring – Løkken – Aabybro Jernbane from Løkken until 1942 Hjørring Vestbanegård 296.6 Hjørring Railway line Hjørring – Hirtshals to Hirtshals and Hjørring – Løkken – Aabybro Jernbane to Løkken from 1942 Hjørring – Hørby Jernbane to Hørby 291.4 Hæstrup (train follower until 1963, man. Until 1971) 288.6 Gunderup (1929–1955) 284.7 Vrå 282.0 Em (until 1972) 274.8 Brønderslev (until 1966 station) 267.4 Tylstrup (until 1972), peat track 263.4 Sulsted (personal stop until 1972) 258.0 Hvorupgaard (1880-1965) Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn railway from Fjerritslev Aalborg Airport Railway 251.0 Lindholm (since December 14, 2002) 250.9 Nørresundby (until May 27, 1979) Railway line Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn to Frederikshavn Nørresundby harbor railway 250.2 Limfjord 249.6 Aalborg Vestby (since 2003) 248.4 Aalborg Randers – Aalborg railway to Aarhus

The Frederikshavn – Aalborg railway is a railway line in Denmark that connects Aalborg with Frederikshavn on Vendsyssel-Thy (or North Jutian Island , Danish Nørrejyske Ø ). The route is part of the Østjyske længdebane ( German  East Jutland longitudinal railway ), which is only called Længdebane in parlance . Only the short section between Aalborg and the Limfjord has two tracks. The section north of the Limfjord is single-track throughout.

history

In the spring of 1856, the Danish state commissioned Danish engineers to examine the area between Limfjord and Frederikshavn in order to build a railway. The investigations ended with three possible routes from Nørresundby . This was the way to the northeast along the coast via Sæby or inland on the one hand via Hammer Bakker, Allerup Bakker and through the hilly terrain south-west of Frederikshavn, on the other hand through the plains of western Vendsyssel via Hjørring . The choice fell on the 84 km long route over Hjørring.

The first established Jutland rail network from March 1861 did not contain a route north of the Limfjord for economic reasons, which the population in Vendsyssel was dissatisfied with.

Street locomotive

This was followed by experiments with a steam-powered road locomotive bought in England , with which the merchant Christiansen from Frederikshavn wanted to drive on the newly renovated road between Frederikshavn and Nørresundby. The three-axle twelve-ton locomotive came to Frederikshavn by ship in October 1862. The owner was given permission to operate the Frederikshavn – Hjørring – Nørresundby route three times a week with the vehicle for five years. The journey should take five to six hours each way.

The businessman had invested well over 9,000 Rigsdaler in this company. According to the provider, the road locomotive could pull 15 tons of freight. On straight stretches they would reach a speed of 15 km / h. This sounded promising, the reality was different, as the vehicle, which weighed many tons, got stuck on the road and bridges had to be braced with great effort.

The operator only had problems and only managed once to get all the way to Nørresundby in several days. This was followed by a week of repairs in Nørresundby before the return trip began. After three months, Christiansen gave up his street locomotive and sent it back to England.

New hope for railway construction

Jysk-fynske jernbaner were taken over by the state in 1867 and employed engineer Niels Henrik Holst as operations manager. He immediately started planning the expansion of the rail network in Jutland. He suggested extending the existing route across the Limfjord near Nørresundby to Frederikshavn. The terrain surveys were available for this route. Holst had been involved in the 1856 studies.

With the law of April 24, 1868, the construction of the railway line from Nørresundby to Frederikshavn was decided, the law also contained several other lines in Jutland. A budget of four million crowns was earmarked for the construction of the line . This included compensation payments for the land and the procurement of the necessary vehicles. An English consortium asked for this sum for the construction. After the tender, however, the contract was handed over to a Danish consortium, consisting of the 36-year-old timber merchant Johan FV Steenberg from Randers, Baron GA Gedalia, the owner of Gedalia & Co, Chamber Councilor EC Møller and Christian Fugl Svendsen, who submitted an offer for 1, Had given in 8 million crowns. The chief engineer for the construction was engineer captain NA Brummer.

Johan FV Steenberg managed the wood supply for the construction of the Jysk-fynske jernbaner in the 1860s . With his brother, Gedalia & Co, EC Møller and Christian Fugl Svendsen, he formed the interest group for Anlægget af Vendsysselbanen . The contract was signed at the end of February 1869. The joint venture was supposed to deposit 68,000 Rigsdaler, and the money was paid on time. Politically, there was sympathy for Steenberg and his partners. Since the Danes had no prior knowledge of track construction, the British monopoly in the construction of the Danish railways was broken.

Construction work

Work on the 84 km long line began in May 1869. The interest company bought some tools and materials from the companies involved in the construction of the Randers – Aalborg railway line . Eight stations, 45 guards' houses, 29 bridges and 109 culverts were built along the route, and 30,000 pieces of rail weighing 29 kg per meter were laid.

Nørresundby train station

There were several conflicting considerations for the location of the train station in Nørresundby. The station should be near the city and the first pontoon bridge. It had to be taken into account that in the future a railway bridge would be built across the fjord, the location of which had not yet been determined.

It was planned that the Nørresundby station building would be relocated when the railway bridge was ready. To reduce the cost of transport, a temporary station building made of wood was built. It was built west of the main track at the Thistedvej junction. The building had served as a temporary station building in Fredericia since 1866. The station in Lindholm in the west of the city with its 1,600 inhabitants was built.

Nørresundby harbor railway

A track was laid from the train station in Nørresundby along the whole of the fjord to a point near the ship bridge. The route was only intended for the carriage of goods, with the wagons being pulled by horses.

inauguration

The line between Nørresundby and the first train station in Frederikshavn was inaugurated on August 15, 1871, and King Christian IX came to celebrate . There were two ways to cross the fjord and get to the train station in Aalborg. One of them was the ship bridge. The other was new: on the opening day, the State Railways started ferrying passengers and freight, but not rail vehicles, with the 20-meter-long screw steamship, the Lille Belt , built in England .

The distance across the Limfjord was about 350 meters. The steamship had its mooring where the railway bridge is now. There were tracks leading from the piers in both Aalborg and Nørresundby to the stations. In Nørresundby, the trains ran to the pier, while the line in Aalborg may not have been completed when the line opened. It took 35 minutes from the train's arrival in Nørresundby to its departure for Aalborg.

In the first few years, 65 to 80 passengers used the crossing every day. the passage by steamship was expensive and could not compete with the five Øre it cost to cross the pontoon bridge. The steamer drove for more than seven years until the railway bridge was completed. The direct connection with the trains to Aalborg was only established with the commissioning of the railway bridge over the Limfjord, which was opened to traffic on January 8, 1879. After that, the route immediately became an important shipping route for goods via Frederikshavn to Sweden .

Aalborg Nærbane

Aalborg Nærbane was opened on December 14, 2003 . For this local transport project, around 100 meters north of the former train station in Nørresundby, a new stop called Lindholm has been expanded and put into operation.

→ Main article : Aalborg Nærbane

traffic

Passenger traffic on the route was carried out exclusively by Danske Statsbaner until 2008 . After that, a few trains per day ran from Nordjyske Jernbaner between Hjørring and Frederikshavn. Nordjyske Jernbaner are responsible for freight traffic on the route.

On August 6, 2017, the state transferred responsibility for local transport to the Nordjylland region . As a result, Nordjyske Jernbaner took over regional train operations on the entire Frederikshavn – Aalborg route and on via the Aalborg Nærbane to Skørping from the Danske Statsbaner (DSB). To this end, a further 13 new Alstom LINT 41 trains were procured, which serve the Skagen – Skørping and Hirtshals – Hjørring route with the Desiro trains.

On Friday, October 5th, 2018, the last passenger train ran on the section between Frederikshavn and Lindholm (station exit north) with route signals . Then test drives took place until operations with ETCS started on October 21 . Since then, DSB vehicles have only been able to travel to Lindholm. DSB's IC trains end in Aalborg. Up to this point, freight trains can run with the MZ series at 90 km / h.

From Frederikshavn, the ETCS facilities in the direction of Strandby and Kvissel, which had been prepared in 2014, were finally put into operation. The route is now remote controlled from the West signal box in Fredericia. The local operating facilities (Kmp = command post) in Hjørring and Frederikshavn were closed. The remote control of Lindholm station is carried out from the remote control center Aalborg (FC = Fjernstyringscentral). Hirtshalsbane and Skagensbane are remotely controlled by FC Hjørring.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Central European Railway Administrations (ed.): Station directory of the European railways . Barthol & Co., Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1939 (formerly Dr. Koch's station directory).
2. ↑ Tørvebanen omkring Tylstrup. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner. Retrieved December 10, 2014 (Danish). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Niels Jensen: Nordjyske Jernbaner . Ed .: J. Fr. Clausens Forlag. Copenhagen 1976, ISBN 87-11-03756-3 .
4. ↑ Aalborg nærbane. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner. Retrieved December 7, 2014 (Danish). 
5. ↑ Fysiske signaler Lindholm-Frederikshavn. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Danish). 
6. ↑ Banedanmark (ed.): TIB-S, Strækningsoversierter . October 7, 2019, p. 1384 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Jernbaneleksikon. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Danish). 
8. ↑ Banedanmark (ed.): Strækningsoversigt ETCS . 25. (Lindholm) - Frederikshavn. March 25, 2019, p. 42-4-59-3 .

Web links

Commons : Randers – Aalborg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vensysselbanen. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner. Retrieved December 10, 2014 (Danish).