Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane

Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested
Hundested haven
Frederiksværkbanen
Route length:	39.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	100 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend from Kagerup from Helsingør 0.0 Hillerød to Copenhagen Range until May 13, 1950 2.6 St. Hestehave (until 1989) 4.9 Brødeskov (formerly station) Sjællandske midtbane to Frederikssund (planned) 9.8 Gørløse (formerly train station) 12.0 Borupgård Borup Teglværk 1.3 Hillerød local station 4.5 Freerslev Hegn 6.4 Harløse (since 1927 man.) Eq. Harløse (since Oct. 1, 1924) 9.1 Borupgård (since 1900) Borup Teglværk (since 1898) Range until May 13, 1950 14.2 Skævinge 15.7 Strølille (since 1924) 17.3 Grimstrup 19.3 Ølsted 21.5 Kregme (formerly Bhf.) 22.4 Kregme Kirkesti (1924-1964) 23.0 Lille Kregme (since 1964) 24.9 Bjørnehoved (since 1930) 25.8 Frederiksværk 27.3 Hanehoved (since 1922) 30.0 Melby 31.9 Dyssekilde (formerly Bhf.) 33.9 Østerbjerg (loading track, crossing track since 1965) 36.1 Ullerup 37.1 Vibehus (opened as Hst.) 39.0 Hundested 39.7 Hundested Havn (since 1923) Rørvig

The Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane (HFHJ) - more recently also Frederiksværkbanen for the entire route - is a standard-gauge private railway on the Danish island of Zealand , which was built by two individual companies. These were the Hillerød – Frederiksværk Jernbane (HFJ) and the Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane (FHJ). The route leads from Hillerød to Hundested Harbor .

history

Frederiksværk was founded in the early 1700s when a canal was dug from Arresø to Roskilde Fjord . Watermills were built along the canal. In the mid-1700s, advances were made in the manufacture of military equipment such as pistols and gunpowder . Over the next 100 years, Frederiksværk received other industrial operations in the form of iron foundries and machine shops . Most of the finished goods were transported by ship from Frederiksværk, as the roads at that time were extremely poor and often impassable.

Hillerød – Frederiksværk Jernbane (HFJ)

In 1864 Hillerød was connected to the Danish rail network with the København – Hillerød – Helsingør railway. Shortly afterwards a committee was set up in Frederiksværk to build a railway line to Hillerød. The line was only approved with the Railway Act of May 8, 1894 . The concession for the Hillerød – Frederiksværk Jernbane (HFJ), which was originally named Frederiksværkbanen for this section , was granted on December 3, 1894.

There were two suggestions for the route:

• a southern route from Freerslev Hegn via Bøllemosen south of Hillerød with a local station at Slangerupvejen and a connecting track from here in a sharp curve to the state station or
• a northern stretch of Freerslev Hegn west of Hillerødsholm between Selskov and Indelukket with connection to Gribskovbanen , where it crosses the Fredensborg landevejen .

The worse solution was built: a local train station in Hillerød with a connection to the state train station, which was regretted many years later. The connecting route between the local train station and the state railway station had a gradient of 1:70 and a radius of 150 m. This led to many heavy trains breaking down and partially derailing.

The Hillerød – Frederiksværk railway was opened on May 30, 1897 with celebrations and the participation of Interior Minister Vilhelm Bardenfleth , President Sofus Høgsbro and the chairman of the Landstinget Henning Matzen.

In Hillerød State Railway Station, the company had two tracks that ended at a turntable to enable locomotives to be changed. A track runs along the west side of platform 1 so that it was possible to transfer to the DSB train there. In 1932 a platform was laid on the second track. From the train station the line led in a long, sharp curve at almost 180 degrees to the local train station, where there was a turntable , a workshop and sidings. The station building was almost identical to that of Frederiksværk. From the local train station, the line continued west to Freerslev stop.

The railway company operated excursion trains north from Frederiksværk from the opening in the summer. In freight transport, the industrial companies in Frederiksværk, the potato flour factory in Grimstrup and Borup Teglværk were among the largest freight customers. Later the steelworks in Frederiksværk became the largest freight customer.

Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane (FHJ)

Shortly after the route opened, planning began for a route from Frederiksværk to Hundested. At the general meeting of the newly founded Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane (also known as Hundestedbanen ) in Hundested Harbor in 1904, a committee was set up, but it was not until June 10, 1914, ten years later, that it was granted the concession for this route. Construction of the line began in 1915 and the opening was scheduled for December 21, 1916.

Even before the opening, an agreement had been made with HFJ on the operational management and maintenance of the line. However, the FHJ was an independent company with its own board of directors until the merger in 1943.

The line left Frederiksværk station at the northern end to the terminus in Hundested. There was a locomotive shed , turntable, goods shed and sidings here. In 1923 the extension of the line to the port was put into operation.

Foundation of Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane

HFJ and FHJ had an excellent cooperation for many years. For practical reasons, they decided on January 1, 1943, to bring the two companies and their routes into a new company, Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane , or HFHJ for short.

Relocation of the route

The route conditions in Hillerød became increasingly difficult due to the crossing of several busy roads. The solution was: The Sjællandske midtbane planned by DSB from Hvalsø via Frederikssund to Hillerød was abandoned, but most of the earthworks and viaducts had already been completed. From Nørre Herlev, southwest of Hillerød, the route plan was completed. Therefore, in 1942, the Folketing decided to move the HFHJ here. Due to the lack of building materials after the war, the line could not be inaugurated until May 14, 1950. From Hillerød this route now leads via the St. Hestehave stop (closed in 1989) via Brødeskov, Gørløse and Borupgård to the station in Skævinge. The new route was only three kilometers longer. Nevertheless, the travel time was shorter due to the better cornering and incline conditions.

business

At HFJ there were initially four trains a day in each direction, while at FHJ there were three trains a day in each direction. In 1925 the company was expanded, and all six pairs of trains ran the entire route from Hillerød to Hundested. Initially, the goods carried were herrings , groceries, bricks , stones and gravel, as well as coal and coke .

Operations manager Kuhlmann soon realized that the expensive steam operation had to be replaced by railcars. In 1923 the first triangle railcar and the accompanying sidecar were bought in Odense . The car was a success, but suffered a total loss in an accident in 1926. Three larger railcars were purchased in the 1920s and 1930s, and two street buses were converted into rail buses during World War II . The oldest three steam locomotives from Jung , which opened in 1897, were retired in 1934. However, it was necessary to buy new steam locomotives for the increasing amount of goods and the large bathing train in summer. In 1926/27 HFJ rented three gondolas for the transport of coal in Poland and had them registered with the DSB as ZØ 501281–501283.

After the Second World War, a comprehensive modernization of the HFHJ was necessary. In 1947, operations manager Kuhlmann succeeded in acquiring two of the first rail buses built from Scandia A / S. These were designated as SM 1 and SM 2 and supplemented by sidecars. Ten years later, the HJJ SM 310 , built in 1952, was acquired second-hand from Horsens-Juelsminde Jernbane and designated as the SM 3 . These remained in operation until 1970, SM 1 and SM 3 were retired in 1970, SM 2 followed without further use until 1974.

In 1950, eleven pairs of trains ran on weekdays, 14 on Saturdays and 12 on Sundays. In addition, there was a fixed circulation of freight trains on weekdays. The best freight customer on the route was the steel mill, which opened in Frederiksværk in 1940. The vehicle fleet was further modernized and new diesel locomotives were purchased from both Frichs and MAK . HFHJ made profits until 1956. Then the annual accounts turned negative and since then it has not been possible to make profits.

In 1958, operations manager Kuhlmann stopped working after 43 years due to health problems. From 1961, HFHJ and Gribskovbanen (GDS) were run from a joint headquarters in Hillerød under Director H. Krusenstjerna-Hafstrøm. In 1963, remote control devices were installed as the first private railway in Denmark. This system has been used for over 30 years. In the mid-1960s, the rail buses had reached the end of their life. Several Danish private railway companies came together for a larger order for new railcars from the Uerdingen wagon factory . HFHJ received the first vehicles called Y-tog in 1965 . They received the owner designation GDS-HFHJ. The trains were very well received by travelers and from 1965 to 1978 passenger traffic on the route doubled. The fact that S-tog , the S-Bahn from Copenhagen, was extended to Hillerød in 1968 also contributed to this doubling . The operation was expanded to 24 daily train pairs.

Hovedstadsområdets Trafikselskab (HT) was founded in 1974 with the aim of merging all bus and train operations in the capital region into one company. The HFHJ bus routes were handed over to the HT in 1974 and the following year HFHJ and GDS were also accepted into the HT. The big advantage for the travelers was that a uniform ticket and tariff system was introduced that included all bus and train lines in the greater Copenhagen area. Both passenger and freight traffic continued to grow. In 1989 three used MX (II) locomotives were bought by DSB, and another followed in 1990. These locomotives were used for both passenger and freight trains.

On July 1, 2001, Hovedstadens Lokalbaner A / S was founded with the transport company Movia as the main shareholder. The company comprised the DSB railway line Hillerød – Helsingør (Lille Nord) and the five private railways Hornbækbanen , Gribskovbanen, Hillerød – Frederiksværk – Hundested Jernbane, Nærumbanen and Østbanen . The following year the company Lokalbanen A / S was founded to take over the operation and maintenance of the tracks.

The freight train traffic was stopped in 2006.

With the establishment of the new company Regionstog A / S on January 1, 2009, the Østbanen line was spun off from the Lokalbanen company and transferred to Regionstog's ownership. On July 1, 2015, Regionstog and Lokalbanen merged to form the new company Lokaltog , which comprises all former private railways on Zealand and Lolland.

Today (2018) the traffic is handled with diesel multiple units of the type Lint 41 .

Web links

Commons : Hillerød - Frederiksværk - Hundested Jernbane (Frederiksværkbanen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hillerød - Frederiksværk - Hundested Jernbane (Frederiksværkbanen). In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved January 1, 2019 (Danish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erik V. Pedersen: Hillerød - Frederiksværk - Hundested Jernbane. HFHJ - stationary. In: evp.dk. Retrieved December 31, 2018 (Danish).  
2. ^ Hillerød - Frederiksværk Jernbane - HFJ. Steam locomotive. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved January 2, 2019 (Danish). 
3. ^ Hillerød - Frederiksværk Jernbane - HFJ. Motor locomotives. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (Danish). 
4. ↑ Horsens - Juelsminde Jernbane. Horsens-Juelsminde Jernbane. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (Danish).