Cuxhaven America train station
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ' N , 8 ° 43' E
Cuxhaven America Station (also harbor station or Hapag-station called ground-intere abbreviation: ACV M) is a rail station Part of the station Cuxhaven in the port of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . It is primarily used for freight transport , but can also be used for passenger transport for special trains as a feeder for cruise ships .
description
The Amerika-Bahnhof is on the one hand directly connected to the route from Hamburg-Harburg to Cuxhaven ( Unterelbebahn , DB route no. 1720) via a track triangle and on the other hand it is connected to the Cuxhaven city station via a three-kilometer connection. The electrically powered points and the light signals are operated from the signal box Cf, which is otherwise a mechanical signal box , in the Cuxhaven city station.
Freight transport serve four sidings and two each to a head ramp connected loading tracks . There are also two sidings for the company Cuxport (operator of the multi-purpose port) and a loading track on a charging road . Car transport is clearly in the foreground. Occasional passenger traffic runs to the platform of the HAPAG halls . There is a platform and a bypass.
history
After the shipping company HAPAG, under the direction of Albert Ballin, discovered that the port of Hamburg was unsuitable for the increasingly large emigrant ships calling at, and also in order to save the trip on the Elbe , they gradually shifted from 1889 onwards America traffic to Cuxhaven in Hamburg at the time, especially since the completion of the Lower Elbe Railway from Harburg to Cuxhaven in 1881 provided a convenient and convenient means of transport for cabin passengers.
For these emigrants, however, the inner-city Cuxhaven train station in Cuxhaven was too far away from the port. A first port station was built for them. This was opposite the current one further west at the old port. The passengers boarded so-called tender boats there, with which they crossed over to the ocean liners lying in the roadstead . This cumbersome and inconvenient procedure became superfluous in 1902 with the opening of the HAPAG halls at Neuer Hafen / Steubenhöft (from 1904). The HAPAG halls functioned like a station building with service rooms for the railway staff and the waiting rooms for 1st / 2nd class passengers (a sophisticated, 690 square meter domed hall) as well as for 3rd class passengers (only 350 square meters Hanseatensaal). These halls could be entered directly from the platform . A train could be dispatched every 15 minutes. These express trains consisted of HAPAG's own rolling stock and ran the Hamburg – Cuxhaven route without stopping. When “Ballins dicken Pötten” left, seven extra trains often had to be used to transport passengers from Hamburg. In 1913, the Unterelbesche Railway alone carried 364,000 HAPAG passengers.
The freight traffic in the port station, now known as America Railway Station, served primarily to supply the huge ocean liner with huge amounts of coal and to deliver food for several thousand people on board. There were tracks to various fishing companies and a coal dealer. The station had its own signal box. The trains from Hamburg or Bremen were led via the so-called Hapag track without stopping at the Cuxhaven city station to the America station.
As the number of emigrants fell, the importance of the America train station in passenger traffic declined. It did not become superfluous, because even after the tracks were dismantled in the 1960s (due to the construction of the locks for the new fishing port ), transatlantic traffic and the cruise business provided rail travelers.
Todays situation
With increasing handling numbers in the multi-purpose port of Cuxhaven, which was built after 1992, the need for an efficient hinterland connection by rail grew. The freight yard in front of the passenger station of the Amerika-Bahnhof was rebuilt and expanded. In particular, the freight trains transport brand-new vehicles for export and import via the Lower Elbe Railway. The Amerika-Bahnhof is rarely used for special passenger trains, but it is fully functional, as are the handling systems in the historic HAPAG halls.
literature
- Helmut Säuberlich: Cuxhaven - Steubenhöft station. In: Railway courier. Volume 32, Issue 3, 1998, ISSN 0170-5288 , pp. 44-47.
- Benno Wiesmüller: Cuxhaven America station. In: Railway magazine. alba-Verlag, Volume 43, Issue 5, 2005, pp. 74–77.
- Hans-Otto Schlichtmann: The Lower Elbe Railway Harburg-Stade-Cuxhaven. Stade 2007, ISBN 978-3-933996-29-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 720 kB) , DB Netze.
- ↑ Cuxhaven's Amerika-Bahnhof , Steubenhöft & Hapag-Hallen, North Sea Spa Cuxhaven.
- ↑ Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers; Handbook for Travelers , Karl Baedeker. Fifteenth Revised Edition. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1910.
- ↑ Hans-Otto Schlichtmann: The Lower Elbe Railway Harburg-Stade-Cuxhaven. Stade 2007, ISBN 978-3-933996-29-9 , pp. 77-87
- ↑ Hans-Otto Schlichtmann: The Lower Elbe Railway Harburg-Stade-Cuxhaven. Stade 2007, ISBN 978-3-933996-29-9 , pp. 195-196
- ↑ Hans-Otto Schlichtmann: The Lower Elbe Railway Harburg-Stade-Cuxhaven. Stade 2007, ISBN 978-3-933996-29-9 , p. 201
- ↑ Seeschleuse , Stadtwiki Cuxhaven.
- ↑ Cuxport increases handling density for automobile handling with new liner services ( 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. , Port of Hamburg, January 10, 2012.
Remarks
- ↑ In 1889 a platform hall with three tracks was built at the old harbor. The photo shows a special train for cabin passengers on the Hamburg-America Line, led by a T5 tank locomotive of the Unterelbe Railway. After the construction of the Steubenhöft, the old port station was used for the seaside resort service until 1935, after which it was converted into a herring salting factory and finally into a storage room for a barrel factory. The demolition took place in 1971. (based on: H.-O. Schlichtmann: Die Unterelbe'sche Eisenbahn , p. 178)
- ↑ It was not until April 1, 1937, when the Greater Hamburg Act came into effect , that the Ritzebüttel (later Cuxhaven) office, which had been part of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for centuries, ended .