Frederikshavn – Skagen railway line

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Skagen – Frederikshavn
Skagen station with NJ 505 railcar
Skagen station with NJ 505 railcar
Line of the Frederikshavn – Skagen railway line
Skagensbanen
Course book range : 78 (DSB)
Route length: 39.7 km
Gauge : up to 1924: 1000 mm
then 1435 mm
Top speed: 120 km / h
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39.7 Skagen
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Depot
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Port railway
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Stop, stop
Frederikshavnsvej (from 1992)
   
Højen (Gl Skagen) (station until 1962, main station until 2005)
   
Sandmilen (1916–1967)
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Hulsig (until 1993 station)
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Bunken
Station, station
Ålbæk
   
planned railway line Hjørring – Aalbæk
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Napstjært
Station, station
Jerup
Stop, stop
Rimmen (1890–1936, from 1944)
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(1890–1924, narrow gauge)
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Elling
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Strandby
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(1890–1924, narrow gauge)
   
Apholmen (1996-2005)
   
Frederikshavn – Aalborg railway from Hjørring ( DSB )
   
0.0 Frederikshavn
   
Railway line Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn to Sæby

The Frederikshavn – Skagen railway is a standard-gauge railway on the Danish island of Vendsyssel-Thy between Skagen and Frederikshavn . The route with a total length of 39.7 km is named after the second operating company, Skagensbanen .

history

Frederikshavn – Skagen Jernbane (FSJ)

The line was built in the period from July 26, 1889 to July 24, 1890 as a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 1000 mm and a maximum speed of 30 km / h by the private Danish railway company Frederikshavn – Skagen Jernbane (FSJ).

Railcar of the SB in Skagen

Skagensbanen

In 1924, the line was converted to standard gauge and put back into operation on June 6 of the same year. On March 29, 1924, the company was renamed Skagensbanen A / S (SB).

The company Skagensbanen A / S was dissolved by the merger on September 11, 2001.

Nordjyske Jernbaner

On September 11, 2001, A / S Hjørring Privatbaner , which at that time only operated the Hjørring – Hirtshals railway line , and Skagensbanen A / S , which operated the Skagensbane, merged to form Nordjyske Jernbaner A / S.

Since the merger in 2001, the Siemens Desiro Classic route has been used by Nordjyske Jernbaner, which means that a maximum speed of 120 km / h is achieved between Skagen and Hulsig.

Skagen train station, street side (2019)

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.

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.

Skagen port railway

Freight traffic is stopped

As part of the conversion to standard gauge, the harbor track was renewed from Skagen station. This begins at the southeast end of the station and led to a timber trade (now closed and dismantled) and to the gas works, which had its own freight wagons (closed). As early as 1916, a fishing packing house was built at the port in the same architectural style as the station building designed by the architect Ulrik Plesner . In the south, the port railway ends at the fishing monument. In the north, the port railway has ended at the fish auction hall since 1938, and a siding, which has now been closed, led to the quay.

To the west of the station building in Skagen, the port railway had a loading area and 3 holding tracks for freight traffic. Freight traffic stagnated in the 1980s, but saw a big boom in the early 1990s when the fish factory began to transport container trains with fishmeal, fish oil and frozen fish over the port railway. 400 m of port tracks were built, including two circulation tracks.

In 2004 the tracks were repaired and the points replaced. In the annual overview of Banedanmark "Åbne strækninger for godstrafik" (open routes for goods traffic) for 2015, the port railway is listed as operational, in 2016 it is missing. The last freight train on the route ran on June 26, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Skagen station  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Skagensbanen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b A / S SKAGENSBANEN (OPLØST). Virk.dk, September 11, 2001, archived from the original on February 14, 2014 ; accessed on November 16, 2014 .
  2. Nordjyske Jernbaner A / S. Virk.dk, September 11, 2001, archived from the original on November 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Danish).
  3. Fysiske signaler Lindholm-Frederikshavn. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (Danish).
  4. Banedanmark (ed.): TIB-S, Strækningsoversierter . October 7, 2019, p. 1384 .
  5. a b Jernbaneleksikon. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (Danish).
  6. Banedanmark (ed.): Strækningsoversigt ETCS . 25. (Lindholm) - Frederikshavn. March 25, 2019, p. 42-4-59-3 .
  7. Havnebaner i Nordjylland. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner, Alt om jernbanerne i Nordjylland. Retrieved October 18, 2019 (Danish).