Port railway
A port railway is a railway in the port area that enables cargo to be loaded onto the railway. It is a special form of an industrial connecting line . Via the connection (s) to the railway network, it is an important part of hinterland traffic , mainly for freight traffic . In most cases, a port railway also has a corresponding port station or several.
Often the port railway only provides the infrastructure ( track systems , signaling , signal box , etc.), the actual traffic is usually carried out by various railway companies (EVU).
Europe
Germany
- Baden-Württemberg
- Heilbronn industrial and port railway
- Rhine ports of Karlsruhe
- Stuttgart port railway
- Plochingen port railway see Plochingen station
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Port railway to the east port
- Port railway to the Westhafen, see BEHALA # Hafenbahn
- Brandenburg
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Barth port railway
- Boizenburg city and port railway
- Port railway Demmin
- Port railways in Greifswald, to the port in the city and to Ladebow
- Rostock port railway (city port)
- Port railway to the overseas port, see Rostock – Rostock Seehafen Nord railway line
- Stralsund port railway
- Schwerin port railway
- Lower Saxony
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Port and railway operations of the city of Krefeld
- Mining and harbor railway , Ruhr area
- Hervest (reference to port railway)
- Port railway Bonn see Cologne-Bonn Railways
- Port railway Minden see Mindener Kreisbahnen
- Municipal Rhine port of Wesel
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
Switzerland
- Port Railway Switzerland
- Port railway of the canton of Basel-Landschaft , today Port Railway Switzerland
- Port Railway of the Canton of Basel-Stadt , today Port Railway Switzerland
- Birsfelden harbor railway
- Kleinhüningen port railway
Denmark
- Railway on Ærø
- Hadsund port railway
- Copenhagen Free Port Railway
- Horsens Port Railway on the Fredericia – Aarhus railway line
- Næstved harbor railway
- Lemvig port railway see Lemvigbanen
- Norresundby port railway on the Fjerritslev – Frederikshavn railway line
- Sæby harbor railway
- Sønderborg harbor railway
- Thisted Havnebane
- Vejle port railway on the Fredericia – Aarhus railway line
Great Britain
Iceland
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Outside of Europe
Canada
United States
Eritrea
See also
- Section How the port railways work in the article Port Railways Switzerland