Frederikshavn – Skagen railway line
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Skagen station with NJ 505 railcar
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Skagensbanen
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Course book range : | 78 (DSB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 39.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | up to 1924: 1000 mm then 1435 mm |
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Top speed: | 120 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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).
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.
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
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
- Historien bag Nordjyske Jernbaner. Nordjyske Jernbaner, accessed October 18, 2019 (Danish).
- Skagensbanen. nordjyllands-jernbaner.dk, accessed October 18, 2019 (Danish).
- Skagensbanen. Historical pictures of the Skagen Railway. skagensiden.dk, accessed October 18, 2019 (Danish).
- Skagensbanen. (PDF) Kulturmiljøer. (No longer available online.) Frederikshavn Kommune, p. 381 ff. , Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2019 (Danish). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A / S SKAGENSBANEN (OPLØST). Virk.dk, September 11, 2001, archived from the original on February 14, 2014 ; accessed on November 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Nordjyske Jernbaner A / S. Virk.dk, September 11, 2001, archived from the original on November 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Danish).
- ↑ Fysiske signaler Lindholm-Frederikshavn. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Banedanmark (ed.): TIB-S, Strækningsoversierter . October 7, 2019, p. 1384 .
- ↑ a b Jernbaneleksikon. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Banedanmark (ed.): Strækningsoversigt ETCS . 25. (Lindholm) - Frederikshavn. March 25, 2019, p. 42-4-59-3 .
- ↑ Havnebaner i Nordjylland. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner, Alt om jernbanerne i Nordjylland. Retrieved October 18, 2019 (Danish).