Vojens – Haderslev railway line
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 Vojens station (2012)
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| Route number : | 67 (DSB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 45 km / h, for museum trains 40 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Vojens – Haderslev (dt. Woyens – Hadersleben ) is a railway line between Vojens and Haderslev in Sydjylland ( North Schleswig ) in Denmark . The single-track line is 11.9 kilometers long and, since May 2, 1866, has connected Hadersleben to the Sønderjyske Længdebane built by the Nordschleswigschen Eisenbahngesellschaft from the Nordschleswigsche Weiche (today: Flensburg Weiche) near Flensburg to Rothenkrug and Woyens .
history
Because of the hilly and fjord-rich terrain on the East Jutland coast, the Flensburg – Fredericia railway was not led directly to Hadersleben and Aabenraa . The two cities were opened up with the Rothenkrug – Aabenraa branch line and the Hadersleben Railway. The construction of the route was carried out by the consortium Peto, Brassey and Betts , the station building was designed by the architect NPC Holsoe .
After Schleswig's loss in the Prussian-Danish War , ownership of the line was transferred to the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on January 1, 1870 , which in turn was taken over by the Prussian State Railways on January 1, 1887 .
On July 17, 1920, the DSB took over the route.
Details about the route and stations
- Hammelev was put into operation in 1922 and was a train station until 1953, then a stop. The siding, which was closed in 1953, could be used until 1963 after customer protests.
- Today's station, located in the western part of the city, was again called Haderslev H from March 3, 1866 to 1920, was called Alt Hadersleben in connection with the opening of the Hadersleben circular railway , from 1920 to 1928 Haderslev , from 1928 to 1934 Haderslev Statsbanestation , from 1934 to 1943 Haderslev Vestbanegård and 1943-1967 Haderslev H . The name was again changed to Haderslev Vestbanegård in 1967 , but the station lost its ticket office in the same year. In 1985 the station building was demolished and the area was sold to the Fuglsang brewery in 1992. In 1935, the previously existing locomotive depot was demolished and the platform track was extended to the north with an overtaking track and a narrow central platform so that the trains to Vojens could depart from here. In 1951 the new locomotive shed was built for the mainline locomotive . This locomotive shed still exists today without a siding.
- By Haderslev was March 3, 1866 to 1920 Hadersleben Kreisbahnhof in conjunction with the opening of Haderslebener orbit from 1920 Haderslev Amtsbanegård and from 1943 Haderslev Bystation . It was originally the train station of the Hadersleben circular railway. With the closure of the narrow-gauge line to Skodborg on January 31, 1933, passenger traffic between the stations within Haderslev temporarily ended. In 1934 the DSB extended their passenger trains to this station.
- After the provisional closure of the circular route in 1934, the DSB took over the section between Haderslev Vestbanegård and Haderslev Amtsbanegård , which was previously served by the circular route, in order to ensure the connection of the port to the railway line. When the circular path was finally closed in 1939, the DSB also took over the railway station building. In 1950, most of the railway operations were relocated to a new single-track stop called Haderslev Bystation west of the busy Nørregade ; only the track to the port remained. The old station building was converted into a bus station. After the construction of a new bus station in 1961, both the station building and the one in Vojens were demolished.
- The track between Alt Hadersleben and the port connections was designed with four rails with gauges of 1000 mm and 1435 mm in order to be able to bring standard gauge wagons to the port. The management of this section was incumbent on the circular path until the end of its existence.
- In 2016/2017, the remaining tracks to the harbor were removed from the former line in Haderslev between Vinkelvej and Nørregade and a two-lane cycle and footpath were created.
- In 2019, the train service to Haderslev By stop ended. From November 4, 2019, the rails and sleepers between Haderslev By and Haderslev H were added and the planting cleared the route. Between November 25, 2019 and May 29, 2020, a new district heating pipe will be laid on the Nørregade – Simmerstedvej section of Haderslev Fjernvarme, over which the cycle path will be extended.
Train operation
In 1951 the last train journeys with steam locomotives of the O series took place. After that, passenger transport was taken over by diesel railcars of the MO series . In 1957 the last freight train ran with class O steam locomotives. The line was not converted to remote control in 1968 after the main line between Flensburg and Frederica was converted. In 1968 the DSB made the decision to stop passenger services on many branch lines across Denmark. Nevertheless, the rails on the line were renewed in 1969. The suspension of passenger traffic was planned for the 1971 timetable change. In the DSB timetable from 1973, 18 pairs of trains are listed on the route on weekdays.
From the beginning until May 26, 1974, passenger and freight traffic took place on the route. On this day, the passenger traffic was temporarily suspended due to the oil crisis and then never resumed by the DSB. On the basis of a law of December 21, 1977, passenger traffic was finally stopped. With the timetable change in May 1978, the route disappeared from the train timetable, previously the departure times of the buses were listed there.
In 1988 the DSB presented the Plan 2000 , in which the passenger traffic should be revived. The plan never came to fruition. In connection with the naming of the IC-3 train Hans Gram , it ran between his hometown Vojens and Haderslev. After freight traffic continued to decline and transport with a small locomotive was no longer profitable, it was decided in 1998 to shut down the line. This shutdown took place on January 1, 2001. After the cessation of freight traffic in 1999, only museum trains ran. This ended in 2004. In the following years a cycle path was to be built on the subgrade. With a decision by the Ministry of Transport in December 2005, the dismantling of the line was decided, but not implemented. Museum operations were resumed in 2011.
From Vojens the first stop is Styding,
then comes Hammelev.
Haderslev H has the only possibility of moving
the locomotive shed has no siding.
In Haderslev By the drivable route ended until 2019,
which used to lead to the harbor via Nørregade (bike path since 2017)
Museum operation
The Kolding Lokomotivklub (KLK) was able to transport its first museum train in 1972 with the F 694 locomotive, later the VNJ 11 and HHJ Dl 11 diesel locomotives were also used. After the official shutdown in 2001, the museum train could continue to run, but it was no longer allowed to use the port lines. This traffic was carried out until 2004. In this year a makeshift platform for the trains was built in cooperation with Slesvigske Vognsamling . After the St. Nicholas procession, the entire route was closed.
However, there was an interest group from the Haderslev and Vojens area who were working on reopening the line. They founded the Haderslev Vojens Banen association on September 22, 2010 , which succeeded in resuming museum operations on July 13, 2011 on the route that had not yet been dismantled. The first train of DSB Museumstog Syd was the F 441 , which departed from Haderslev By .
Since then, the museum train has been running every summer.
literature
- Niels Jensen: Sønderjyske jernbaner , pp. 12-14
Web links
- History of the Haderslevbanen (Danish)
- Veteran Haderslev Vojens. In: veteranbanen-haderslev-vojens.dk. Retrieved February 14, 2020 (Danish).
- Photos and historical data (Danish)
- Color photos from the last years of operation
- Haderslevbanen on the Ribe Wiki. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Haderslev - Vojens. In: toptop.dk. August 13, 2012, archived from the original on August 13, 2012 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Kilometers according to the DSB course book from 1973 for both stations
- ↑ a b Maiken Henningsen: Cykelsti mellem Nørregade og Simmerstedvej. In: haderslev.dk. Retrieved February 13, 2020 (Danish).
- ^ Newspaper report from July 19, 2011
- ↑ Veterantoget. Timetable 2014. Accessed on March 26, 2015 (Danish).