Bremen harbor railway

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The Bremische Hafeneisenbahn owns the railway infrastructure in the ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven and belongs to the city of Bremen, represented by the Senator for Economy, Labor and Ports. Planning, maintenance and new construction are carried out by the municipal management company bremenports GmbH & Co. KG .

origin

Weserbahnhof, 1892

In order to secure the Bremen trading location, the Hanseatic city needed a connection between the port and the steadily growing railway network in the middle of the 19th century. The "Hannoversche Bahnhof", which was located roughly at the location of today's Bremen main station , was around two kilometers from the landing stages on the Schlachte . The idea of ​​a canal to the main train station was discarded for reasons of cost. Despite the ongoing criticism from residents and warehouse owners, who feared noise and reduced sales, the Senate decided to build its own railway line to the port area. The Weserbahnhof was officially opened on February 1, 1860 .

The next boost in the expansion of the Bremen port railway came in 1888 with the opening of the downstream free port area . Its planning was characterized by a significantly better link between ship and rail transport. In the years that followed, an elongated track network with spacious marshalling yards grew, which the Bremen port railway operated itself with its own locomotives . In 1930, however, the management was transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , whereby Bremen only remained the owner of the infrastructure and is still responsible for its maintenance and expansion.

Railway infrastructure

The track systems are located

The track length is 229 kilometers, 86 kilometers of which are used by the Bremerhaven port railway. In the area of ​​the Europahafen, street "Auf der Muggenburg", there has been a joint route between the port railway and the tram in the form of a four-rail track since 2006 .

Traffic figures

In 2015, the track systems of the Bremer Hafeneisenbahn were used by a total of 38,230 trains, 77% of which drove in Bremerhaven . In 2012 there were 45,000 trains, 64% of them in Bremerhaven. That means a significant decrease of 44% in just three years for the city of Bremen with unchanged values ​​for Bremerhaven.

In 2015, the peak load in Bremerhaven was 641 trains per week, the average was 569 trains per week. Tuesdays to Fridays the tracks of the port railway are more busy than on other days, the busiest day is Thursday (as of 2013).

The tracks in Bremerhaven are used almost exclusively by trains that transport containers (55%) and automobiles (42%) (as of 2015). The railway was able to increase its share of all modes of transport in seaport hinterland transport with containers in the eight years from 2004 to 2012 from 35.9% to 46.4%. In 2012, 2.1 million standard containers (TEU) were transported to their destination or source in the Bremerhaven overseas port area.

In 2015, the various locations in the city of Bremen included:

  • Bremen Grolland train station 61%,
  • Bremen Inlandshafen train station 31%,
  • Industrial mainline Hemelingen 8%.

Shutdowns

The Weserbahnhof was closed in July 1989, and in 2005 the tracks there were largely dismantled as part of the conversion of the Europahafen to a marina . The formerly very busy "Zollausschluss" station was also closed in 1996 and the tracks were dismantled shortly afterwards. When the Überseehafen was filled in in 1998, the tracks of the port railway there were largely demolished.

Web links

literature

  • Stefan Färber: Port railway masterplan for Bremerhaven . In: Hansa , Issue 10/2013, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2013, ISSN  0017-7504 , pp. 102-105 (in English)
  • Mausolf, Andreas: Im Wandel - Hafenbahn Stadt Bremen, Lok-Magazin, issue 4/2015, p. 108ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremen secured trade with the Weserbahnhof , Weser Kurier , February 1, 2010
  2. ↑ A powerful connection. bremenports, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Andreas Ahlswede, Jan Janssen, Iven Krämer: Growth as a Challenge. Bremen's ports are dependent on efficient hinterland connections - time for decisions has come . In: Güterbahnen, Issue 1/2013, pp. 8-14, Alba Fachverlag, Düsseldorf, ISSN  1610-5273
  4. ↑ a b c d Bremische Hafeneisenbahn - 2015 traffic figures on the bremenports.de homepage ( Memento from November 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bremische Hafeneisenbahn - traffic figures 2012. (No longer available online.) Bremenports, February 13, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 16, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bremenports.de  
  6. ^ Frank Binder: Bremer Hafenbahn: More goods · However, four percent fewer containers - up to 670 trains per week in Bremerhaven . In: Daily port report from April 25, 2014, p 3