Elmshorn – Bad Oldesloe railway line
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| Route number : | 9120 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 139 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: |
(formerly 52.66 km) 24.361 km |
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 80 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Elmshorn – Bad Oldesloe railway line (called Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn, EBOE for short , also: EBO ) is a regional west-east railway line in southern Schleswig-Holstein that has existed since 1896 and has been operated by AKN Eisenbahn since 1981 .
history
On July 15, 1896, the ten kilometer long small railway from Elmshorn to Barmstedt was opened by the Elmshorn-Barmstedter Eisenbahn-AG . This was taken over on June 9, 1907 by the Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn-AG (EBOE) founded on December 3, 1904 in Elmshorn . On the same day, it opened the continuing line Barmstedt - Ulzburg ( today Henstedt-Ulzburg ) - Oldesloe ( today Bad Oldesloe ) as a secondary railway and licensed the previous small railway into a secondary railway to enable continuous traffic to the state railway. The construction of the 42.7 kilometer long route cost around 2.9 million marks. Eight steam locomotives were available for operation.
The now 52.7 kilometers long, standard-gauge route led through a sparsely populated rural landscape. It was built on a single track throughout. Due to their strategic importance as an east-west connection and northern bypass of Hamburg , their stations were given long sidings .
Passenger traffic was only worthwhile between Elmshorn and Barmstedt. From 1931, traffic between Barmstedt and Bad Oldesloe was switched to railcars . Freight traffic was sufficient. After the demarcation between the British-occupied zone (Schleswig-Holstein) and the Soviet-occupied zone (Mecklenburg) after the lost Second World War in 1945, there were no longer any through freight trains from the east. That improved after the opening of the Herrnburg transition near Lübeck. As a result of production stops and the relocation of traffic, these transports were discontinued in the 1970s. There was no money for a necessary route renovation, the tracks were still in gravel.
On September 29, 1973, rail passenger traffic between Barmstedt and Bad Oldesloe was shut down after replacement rail traffic between Barmstedt and Alveslohe had already existed at the beginning of the year . The rail replacement service was carried out by Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) until 1983 , then the omnibus operator Otto Strunck took over for several years.
At the end of 1973, the EBOE stopped freight traffic from Barmstedt. The freight trains had very long travel times. There was a variety of shunting work, train crossings and train overhauls. Ng 2001 left Elmshorn on weekdays except Saturdays at 8:11 a.m. and reached Bad Oldesloe at 12:38 p.m. The return service from Ng 2002 had a departure time in Bad Oldesloe at 2:03 p.m. with a planned arrival in Elmshorn at 6:39 p.m.
Until 1978 the AKN still carried out freight traffic from Alveslohe via Ulzburg to Henstedt-Kisdorf. Between Ulzburg and Blumendorf this was possible until December 31, 1981. The four-kilometer-long remnant from Blumendorf train station to Bad Oldesloe was operated as an industrial trunk line for the city of Bad Oldesloe until the end of December 2016 and then shut down due to high maintenance costs (170,000 euros annually) and too low income. Since then the city has negotiated u. a. with AKN about resuming rail operations, with the renovation costs amounting to 950,000 euros.
The tracks between Ulzburg and Blumendorf were dismantled, the route became a cycle path . In the area from Wakendorf II to Nahe, this cycle path has information boards and is Europe's longest fruit tree path.
Since 1965, the Elmshorn – Barmstedt line has belonged to the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), first under the name EBO , and later under "A3" .
The EBO as an AKN railway line
The EBOE has been operated since 1981 by AKN Eisenbahn AG , with which joint operations had existed since 1957.
The section from Barmstedt to Ulzburg was still used for operational trips after its closure. Since the workshop in Barmstedt was not sufficient for the maintenance of the modern VT 2E multiple units, the alternative was to expand the workshop there or to renew the line between Barmstedt and Henstedt-Ulzburg. The latter was done until 1991 and the workshop in Barmstedt was closed.
In 1992, passenger traffic was initially resumed with just a few daily trains and the route was incorporated into the HVV tariff. Since 1999, the line has been regularly used by the A3 line , which has been extended to Ulzburg Süd (on the main AKN line).
vehicles
Initially only light locomotives (two used two-axle and five three-axle locomotives of the Prussian T 3 type ) were used, but the heavy freight traffic made stronger locomotives necessary: from 1925 to 1940 four- and five-axle steam locomotives were procured.
In 1933 the first three two-axle railcars EBOE T1 – T3 were used; they were manufactured by the Gotha wagon factory . Instead of seven train pairs in 1930, 22 train pairs could be driven.
In 1951, the four-axle T4 railcar built in the Credé brothers' wagon factory was put into service, which was in service until 1971 and was then parked in Wakendorf-Götzberg. In 1955 the Bergedorf-Geesthachter Eisenbahn (BGE) bought a four-axle MAN railcar built in 1935, which was used as the EBOE T5 until 1965 . In 1958 a MAN rail bus was purchased. After the pre-war railcars were parked, Uerdingen rail buses were procured new and used from 1961 . They were single-engine like the VT 95, but had normal pulling and pushing devices. In 1968, the MAN rail bus was given to the Alsternordbahn to streamline its types.
With the takeover by the AKN, the vehicles came there, two of the Uerdingen rail buses were kept operational for special trips until 2019. When the VTA were delivered, some VT 2E were able to go onto the A3, where they replaced the rail buses. In 2015, the new LINT 54 railcars came on the AKN main line, the VTA went again to the A3, where they replaced the VTE.
literature
- Jörg Minga, Reinhardt Hassenstein: 125 years of AKN Eisenbahn AG 1883–2008 . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8319-0318-4 .
- Herbert Reher: That was it - the EBOE. Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways, Hamburg 1974.
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, part 1: Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg . Zeunert, Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 13: Schleswig-Holstein (western part) . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-672-8 , p. 106-129 .
Web links
- Route description of the EBO
- BahnRadWeg on the EBOE route
- History of the EBOE (private website)
- Pictures from the EBOE (private photo gallery)
- Images and information about the EBOE (private website)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Elmshorn – Bad Oldesloe railway line in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .