Kiel-Oppendorf – Kiel Ostuferhafen railway line
| Kiel-Oppendorf-Kiel Ostuferhafen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Kiel-Oppendorf - was
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| Route length: | 4.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 30 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 190 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kiel-Oppendorf – Kiel Ostuferhafen railway line is a 4.2-kilometer standard-gauge connecting line to the east bank of the Kiel Fjord .
history
In order to ensure a connection between the Howaldtswerke and the Kiel Fjord, the Howaldtswerke and the Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf community founded the Kleinbahn Kieler Hafenbahn in 1909 . The railway line went into provisional operation on July 22, 1910; the final commissioning took place on January 13, 1912. The line branches off at km 7.149 at the Oppendorf stop from the Kiel – Schönberger Strand railway line and served to supply the Howaldtswerke, the naval arsenal and the marine oil depot in Mönkeberg . The trains were picked up from the Oppendorfer switch by the railway's own steam locomotive and handed over there again. In 1914 37,440 tons of goods were transported. The shares were acquired by the German Reich in 1938/39 and the Kriegsmarinewerft Kiel became the sole shareholder. After 1945 the management was transferred to the Kiel-Schönberger Eisenbahn (KSE).
After the closure of the Dietrichsdorf shipyard, the connecting railway supplied the Dietrichsdorf coal-fired power station from 1970 and the newly built east bank container port since the 1980s. The coal trains coming from Hamburg were split up at the Kiel-Meimersdorf marshalling yard and brought to the power plant by KSE or the legal successor Verkehrsbetriebe des Kreis Plön GmbH (VKP) .
This route is now served by Seehafen Kiel GmbH & Co. , which took over the track systems and operational management between Kiel-Gaarden and Ostuferhafen in autumn 2007 from VKP. The traffic takes place in the train control operation , the train conductor is based in Oppendorf. Since then, the Plön district transport company has only been operating as a railway infrastructure company on the 16-kilometer stretch between Oppendorf and Schönberg.
The route is part of the so-called Schwentine Railway from Kiel branch Ss to the Ostuferhafen.
literature
- Harald Elsner: 100 years of the Kiel-Schönberg Railway . Volume 14 series of the VVM, 1997, ISBN 3-923999-14-3