Hamburg Airport S-Bahn

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Hamburg Airport S-Bahn
Route of the Hamburg Airport S-Bahn
Route number (DB) : 1239
Course book section (DB) : 101.1
Route length: 2,637 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : Power rail , 1200 V  =
Top speed: 80 km / h
Legend
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planned extension to the Alsternordbahn
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14.339 End of the route
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14.210 Hamburg Airport (Airport)
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Alster
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11,811 End of the airport tunnel
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former route from Ochsenzoll
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11,573 Alstertalbahn from Poppenbüttel
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Transfer track of the elevated railway
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11,201 Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (S-Bahn)
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S-Bahn to main station
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The Hamburg Airport S-Bahn is a 2.637-kilometer stretch of the Hamburg S-Bahn network . It opened on December 11, 2008.

Traffic situation

The airport S-Bahn connects Fuhlsbüttel Airport with downtown Hamburg via Ohlsdorf train station . With the exception of a short section north of Ohlsdorf, the route is completely underground. The tunnel ramp located directly in front of the station Klein Borstel the subway line U1 . Due to geological conditions, the tunnel lies at a depth of up to 30 meters below the surface of the earth. It crosses under the Alster and a larger residential area in Fuhlsbüttel .

Only platform tracks 3 and 4 exist for public transport in the tunnel station.

business

The route is served by the S1 line. The trains coming from the city center are winged in Ohlsdorf station . The front part of the train continues to the airport, the rear part of the train on the previous route of the S1 to Poppenbüttel . In the direction of the city, the trains are coupled together accordingly. The journey time from the main train station to the airport is 24 minutes, in the opposite direction 25 minutes. The airport is connected to the city center every 10 minutes; in the marginal hours of the early morning and late evening, a thinned 20-minute cycle is offered.

The route is operated and monitored from an electronic signal box in Ohlsdorf . The signal box (designation: Ofs ) was put into operation in September 2008 just a few months before the airport route opened. The line was also equipped with new Ks signals and digital train radio systems.

history

The platform of the airport train station one month before the start of passenger service
Platform at the opening on December 11, 2008

The connection of the airport to a rapid transit railway has been discussed since the 1960s. Until the end of May 1974, the airport was connected to the city center by line 9 of the Hamburg tram . The plans already took into account the possibility of an extension to the airport for the originally planned underground line U4 , which could have been available at the end of the 1970s. After the construction of the U4 was suspended, the airport continued to have no rapid transit connection. Further planning progress was slow because the construction of a new major airport near Kaltenkirchen was planned until the 1980s, which could have replaced the previous Hamburg airport. With the prospect of Fuhlsbuettel giving up soon, there was no urgent need for a connection.

Only after the plans for the new airport were no longer pursued, a rapid transit connection was examined again at the end of the 1980s, but due to financing problems the concepts did not go beyond project studies. Nevertheless, part of the station at the airport was built in the shell as early as 1991. The decisive impetus for the connection came from the decision of the Senate to expand the airport in 1998.

Due to local residents' complaints against the project, construction work could only begin on April 11, 2001 after a delay of around two years. According to optimistic estimates and taking into account the delays caused by the lawsuit, completion was planned for 2005, after water ingress during construction work in 2004 for 2007 and actually took place on December 12, 2008. However, free introductory trips to the station were already available on the day before regular operations began offered.

Extensions

According to the “flight train” concept, the S-Bahn route to the airport was to be extended in a northerly direction to the AKN or Alsternordbahn route . In connection with an expansion of the AKN main line between Henstedt-Ulzburg and Kaltenkirchen , a railway line Kiel - Hamburg Airport - Hamburg Central Station was to be set up, among other things, in order to offer large parts of Schleswig-Holstein better public transport connections to Hamburg Airport.

The idea of ​​extending the airport route to the AKN main line was taken up by the AKN in 2007 and examined in a feasibility study. It is also part of the so-called three-axis concept that the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Economics presented in February 2008.

Route data

The line is designed for a maximum speed of 80 km / h and electrified with a conductor rail for operation with the direct current S-Bahn trains. The tunnel ramp has a slope of 40 per thousand. The Hamburg Airport (airport) train station received a 140-meter-long central platform and is therefore suitable for trains in full length . The total costs of the project are (as of 2008) around 280 million euros, which the federal government assumed with 60% and the city of Hamburg with 40%. However, the Hanseatic City of Hamburg has not yet paid its share in full because a final invoice from Deutsche Bahn has not yet been issued.

In the beginning, around 13,500 passengers per day were expected. According to its own information, the Hamburg S-Bahn carried around 4.1 million passengers on the route section in 2009, compared with 6.3 million in 2014. In 2016, 7.2 million people were transported. With a share of 34.5 percent of people traveling to the airport by train, a peak value was reached in Germany at the beginning of November 2014. The proportion of passengers is just under 30 percent.

Discussion about the station name

Until September 2008 it was planned that the new station should only be called Hamburg Airport . With the short-term addition of the German name, the Senate responded to a joint application by members of the CDU and GAL, who asked for the name to be changed to Flughafen (Hamburg Airport) . The proposal was directed against the negative perception of the applicants' use of Anglicisms . However, just a few days after submitting the application, the lead MPs distanced themselves from the proposal, as the complete change would result in high additional costs, which would result, for example, from reprinting timetables, course books and travel plans that were already available at the time the application was submitted. Critics of the proposal also objected that an internationally oriented place like the airport should have an English name. Nevertheless, the German-language name is used at the S-Bahn stations of the largest German airports in Frankfurt and Munich, as well as at all other German airport train stations . Today the lettering on the station signs reads "Hamburg Airport (Flughafen)".

Web links

Commons : S-Bahnhof Hamburg Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
  2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  3. ↑ a b Hamburger Morgenpost: It starts on December 11th!
  4. ↑ Picture Hamburg: colleague computer sets the course ( memento of the original from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bild.de
  5. ^ Ralf Heinsohn: Schnellbahnen in Hamburg - The history of the S-Bahn and U-Bahn 1907–2007 . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Pischek, Jan Borchers, Martin Heimann: The Hamburg S-Bahn - With direct current through the Hanseatic city . GeraMond publishing house. Munich 2002
  7. ^ "With the AKN to the airport", Hamburger Abendblatt / Norderstedter Zeitung of December 19, 2007 , accessed on November 22, 2008
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Transport Minister Austermann presents" three-axis concept ": New rail lines to Hamburg should be ready by 2015", website of the Ministry of Science, Economy and Transport of Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on November 22, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schleswig-holstein.de
  9. ↑ a b S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH: Press presentation with timetable excerpt ( memento of the original from December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.s-bahn-hamburg.de
  10. ↑ The invoices for the construction are still open. Local transport HAMBURG, November 16, 2011, accessed on April 2, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Printed matter 21/10999 of the Hamburg citizenship
  12. ^ DB Mobility Logistics AG (Ed.): Six millionth passenger of the airport S-Bahn welcomed at the airport . Press release from December 3, 2014.
  13. ^ Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Printed matter 19/1026
  14. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt (ed.): Politicians prefer “airport” instead of “airport”. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of September 10, 2008. URL: http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/09/10/934597.html , accessed on September 10, 2008
  15. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt (ed.): Roll backwards to the "Airport". In: Hamburger Abendblatt from September 12, 2008. URL: http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/09/12/935897.html , accessed on September 12, 2008