Nyborg – Slipshavn railway line

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Nyborg H-Slipshavn
Line of the Nyborg – Slipshavn railway line
Location of the route
Route length: 5.8 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 7.5  ‰
Minimum radius : 190 m
Top speed: 45 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Odense
   
 of rings
   
 to Fredericia (since 1998)
   
 0.0 Nyborg H.
   
 Railway line Svendborg – Nyborg to Svendborg and
   
 to Nyborg Færge (until 1998)
   
 3.0 Skærven
   
 3.9 Knudshoved
   
 5.8 Slipshavn

The Nyborg – Slipshavn railway line was a railway line on the east coast of the Danish island of Funen . The line, known in Danish as "Knudshoved banen", was built in connection with the important national project of the ferry connection between Nyborg and Korsør across the Great Belt . The line was in operation from the beginning of 1893 to 1956. The stretch between Knudshoved and Slipshavn was closed as early as 1905.

history

Original thought was in winter at zugefrorener Baltic Sea , especially the located in a bay port of Nyborg, passengers as close to the lying on the Belt Eisseglerstation in Knudshoved or the icebreaker station to bring Slipshavn of which the crossing either an ice yachts or the ferry through the fairway kept free by the icebreakers. In contrast to today's ferries, the ferries used at that time required the use of an icebreaker due to their design when the ice cover was thick. After the railway was built, both options could be used.

The contractors for the route construction were the companies AP Gunnarsson and Heinrich Hoffmann. According to the contract, the line should be completed by December 31, 1882. The track length of the entire route was 6.026 km. The route itself was 5.8 km long. Construction was finished at the end of November 1882. Various test drives were carried out on February 23, 1883. The superstructure consisted of used rails on new sleepers . Since the rails were too bad, they were replaced as early as 1900. The maximum permissible axle load was 13.5 tons and the maximum speed was set at 45 km / h. The greatest gradient was 7.5 per thousand, the minimum curve radius 190 meters. The Knudshoved station and the Slipshavn stop, where the line ended, were built along the route. Knudshoved received main signals so that train traffic could be carried out according to normal regulations. However, these were dismantled again in 1910 because the actual traffic was so low that the train traffic could be carried out according to the Danish rules for port rail traffic. These regulations, which include a maximum speed of 15 km / h, were in effect until the railway was closed.

All facilities in connection with the ferry connection across the Great Belt - and thus also the Nyborg – Slipshavn railway line - were subordinate to the Zealand State Railroad Company. However, since the line was on Funen, the Jysk-Fyenske Jernbaner took care of the operation and maintenance on the account of Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab .

The train traffic between Knudshoved and Slipshavn was extremely low, Slipshavn was not used at all as a transition point in the ice periods in the years after the beginning of the ferry crossings. Only inspection trains and service goods trains drove to and from Slipshavn to transport inventory, which was occasionally loaned to other stations.

The first port in Knudshoved was built around 1900, but the decision to build it was taken in 1890. With the construction of the pier in Knudshoved, which also got a siding, the traffic increased because some of the building material was delivered via Slipshavn. Now the ferries were able to use the port of Knudshoved during the ice period and made the section to Slipshavn completely superfluous. In 1904 it was decided to stop it. The clearing train with equipment and furniture from Slipshavn station started on March 13, 1905. The railway site was sold to Juelsberg, a former state domain near Nyborg, and the station building was taken over by the pilotage .

From this point on, the route was 3.91 km. There was little traffic on this remnant too, the trains were usually moved by a shunting locomotive from Nyborg.

In the winter of 1922, a few passenger trains ran on the route at short notice, as various ships could not call Nyborg due to heavy ice on the Baltic Sea and had to dock in Knudshoved. In February 1929 Nyborg station had to keep a passenger train ready again, which had to be used for several days due to heavy ice when the M / F Korsør could not reach the pier and had to drop and pick up the passengers on the ice.

In the mid-1920s, the new “secret” business center Skærven was set up. A gravel factory loaded stones to Nyborg here. In 1927, plans were made to allow bathing trains to run on Sundays on the Odense – Knudshoved section from 1928 onwards . To this end, the new Skærven passenger stop was created and a platform made of wooden sleepers was built. The breakpoint should even be cultivated, but various hosts did not expect any economic success. The first bathing train ran to Knudshoved on June 17, 1928. As there were 15 level crossings in the four-kilometer section, the train needed 27 minutes, as each crossing had to be secured. The plan was to let the trains run until July 29th. In August there were more trains, but only to Skærven.

In the summer of 1929, bath trains ran again. July 21, 1929 was the day with the greatest number of passengers, 4,339 passengers using the trains carried by the Litra F locomotives . The bath train service continued through the 1930s. After an interruption due to the war, the trains ran with five to six CM cars. In the last few years of operation, the passenger train set was pushed from Nyborg with a shunting locomotive to Skærven and pulled on the return journey.

The end of the line came in 1956. First, considerable amounts of building material for the new Knudshoved ferry port were delivered by rail. Afterwards, with the construction of the motorway, the route was dismantled, as the road was laid out on the route planum.

The route today

Today only a few remains of the track are left and parts of the subgrade can be seen. In aerial photos from 2009 one can see that in the south of the peninsula parts of the former railway line have disappeared due to land erosion in the sea: In two places, remains of insulation are clearly visible, which now seem to lead directly into the water. The station buildings at Slipshavn and Knudshoved and the engine shed at Knudshoved still exist and are used for other purposes.

Web links

Commons : Knudshovedbanen  - collection of images, videos and audio files