Hornslet – Torup railway line

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Mols Jernbane

The Hornslet – Torup ( Mols Jernbane ) railway was a planned railway line in East Jutland around Kalø Vig , a Danish bay in the Baltic Sea on the north shore of Århus Bay on the coast of the Mols landscape of the Djursland peninsula .

history

The south-west of Mols was not well covered by traffic after the construction of the Grenaabane in 1876. So an initiative quickly arose in the region that wanted to build a railway. The name of the proposed route was Mols Jernbane or Kalvø Vig banen . The starting point of the planned route was Hornslet on the Grenaabane , a convenient transfer point in the direction of Ryomgaard and Aarhus .

With the Railway Act of May 27, 1908 and the Railway Act of March 20, 1918 , numerous railway lines were passed, the construction of which was a long time coming or which were not implemented at all. Many of these routes had planning times between five and ten years before construction began. During this period there were many shifts in the route, as different locations wanted to be connected.

A first variant was planned with the Hornslet – Torup Pakhus (Kalø Vigs elektriske Bane) electric railway contained in the Railway Act of May 27, 1908 , but it was not implemented.

Between 1900 and 1920 it became increasingly difficult to obtain capital to build railroads. Road traffic became a serious competitor for the existing railways.

Against this background, the state had to review these proposed additions to determine whether subsidies would be necessary for many years. Therefore, on May 12, 1923, a commission was appointed to assess the profitability of the routes.

The Hornslet – Torup line was included in the Railway Act of March 20, 1918 , but no longer as an electric railway . The following stations were to be built on the route with a length of around 25 kilometers that should lead around the bay:

By publishing the line in law, the state would have been obliged to bear half of the construction costs of the privately operated railway line.

In its report published in 1926, the commission found that local interest in the construction of the line had almost been lost, as the area had meanwhile had good traffic coverage by roads and bus routes. Because of the hilly terrain near Mols Bjerge , the estimated construction costs of 3.8 million crowns or 100,000 crowns per kilometer were very high. As a result, the route would have an operating loss of 30,000 kronor per year. Taking into account the asset depreciation, the losses were estimated at 60,000 to 70,000 crowns per year.

That is why a license was never applied for and the line was never built.

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