Kolding Sydbaner

Kolding – Vamdrup / Hejlsminde
Former railway bridge over Kolding Å between Kolding Statsbane and Kolding Syd
Routing in Kolding around 1910
Route length:	57.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	14  ‰
Minimum radius :	300 m
Top speed:	45 km / h
Legend Fredericia – Flensburg railway from Fredericia Troldhede – Kolding – Vejen Jernbane from Troldhede Kolding – Egtved Jernbane from Egtved 0.0 Kolding Railway line Fredericia – Flensburg to Lunderskov Kolding Sydbanegård (1911-1932) Route 1911–1922 Kolding Sydbanegård (1932–1948) Port railway Tved Byvej (unofficially around 1930 to 1940) 3.5 Tved 4.9 Strårup 6.1 Skartved 7.8 Bjert 9.6 Aalry 10.6 Varmark Varmark Skov (unofficially about 1930 to 1940) 14.0 Bjert beach 16.0 Dalager 17.7 Scamling banks 19.0 Grønninghoved 20.5 Sjølund 21.8 Vejstruprød (from 1914) 23.3 Kærmølle 25.1 Hejls 27.8 Hejlsminde 6.4 Vonsild 9.9 Hoppeshuse 12.1 Fovslet 15.4 Taps 17.1 Tapsore 19.3 Brænore 22.2 Ødis 24.7 Ødis Bramdrup 26.4 Gåskær 29.4 Øster Vamdrup according to Vamdrup DSB 30.4 Vamdrup Øst

Kolding Sydbaner (KS) was a private Danish railway company . From 1911 to 1948 it served the southern area around Kolding with two railway lines to Hejlsminde and Vamdrup . Hence these railway lines were called Hejlsmindebanen and Vamdrupbanen .

history

In 1880 the first plans to build local railways were discussed in the region south of Kolding . After the Second Schleswig-Holstein War in 1864, the area became a fringe area of ​​the Kingdom of Denmark. The first proposal was made in 1892. It took another seven years before the plans became concrete. A committee was formed in which the state railways developed a project by September 1901 that provided for the construction of narrow-gauge railways that could be connected to the narrow-gauge railways in what was then Germany's southern Jutland . To this end, the committee suggested three routes:

• Kolding– Hejls
• Kolding - Taps - Ødis
• Taps – national border

The latter route was an approximately four-kilometer connection to the border at Frederikshøj Kro . A connection with the Hadersleben – Christiansfeld railway line of the Hadersleben circular path was to be established there.

The commission, which examined the proposals received, did not believe in a profitable connection to Ødis, but did believe in the Kolding – Hadersleben route via Taps. However, the city of Kolding was not pleased that it should face economic competition from the city of Hadersleben and its surrounding area.

The route to the border was thus obsolete. Vamdrup wanted to be connected to the route and the citizens of Hejlsminde wanted to have the route extended to the port. With the Railway Act of May 27, 1908 , the following three narrow-gauge railways were established:

• Kolding – Hejlsminde
• Kolding taps
• Vamdrup taps

Based on the experiences with the Kolding-Egtved Jernbane , its operations manager, PVP Berg, advised the Kolding Sydbaner to be built in narrow gauge. A new law of March 26, 1909 stipulated the execution in standard gauge .

The company's license was granted on June 15, 1909, and operations began on November 29, 1911. Most of the construction work was carried out within the agreed time. The route to Hejlsminde led past Skamlingsbanken through mostly hilly terrain. The route to Vamdrup was flat after Vonsild.

In Kolding there was a route across the port, where goods wagons with the state company DSB could be handed over. The board of directors of DSB-Bahnhof at the time believed that there would be too much inconvenience if passenger trains were to run on this section of the route. It was not until 1922 that a connecting line was built that allowed the passenger trains of the southern line to travel to the state train station.

Route data

Both branches of the route, Kolding Syd – Hejlsminde with a length of 27.2 km and Kolding Syd – Vamdrup Øst with a length of 29.8 km, were opened on November 29, 1911. The connection between Kolding DSB and Kolding Syd with a length of 600 meters was put into operation on April 1, 1922 for freight traffic and on June 8, 1922 for passenger traffic.

Rails with a meter weight of 22.45 kg were used, which allowed an axle pressure of eleven tons.

In Kolding Syd there was a workshop, a locomotive shed and a turntable in addition to the head office .

In Kolding DSB there were transition possibilities to Fredericia – Vamdrup banen , until 1930 to Kolding – Egtved Jernbane and from 1917 to Troldhede – Kolding – Vejen Jernbane .

The routes were closed on September 30, 1948, and special freight traffic continued until the end of the sugar beet season on December 15, 1948.

Kolding Syd – Hejlsminde route

Route picture Kolding Syd – Hejlsminde

The stops at Tved, Strårup, Skartved, Aalry, Bjert Strand, Grønninghoved, Vejstruprød and Kær Mølle had an additional loading track.

Varmark station in Sønder Stenderup was named after the nearby Varmarkgård to avoid confusion with Stenderup on Horsens-Juelsminde Jernbane . The Post continues to use the name Varmark long after the line was closed. Dalager in the rural community of Binderup was also named after the nearby Dalagergård, as there was also a risk of confusion with Binderup on the Aalborg-Hvalpsund Jernbane . Sjølund in Vejstrup got its name from Sjølund Mølle, because there was a Vejstrup on the Svendborg – Nyborg Banen . Here the station name for the place remained in contrast to Varmark and Dalager.

Skamlingsbanken had a siding and a pavilion. In Hejlsminde there was a roundhouse as well as a turntable and a room for customs. Delivery trains drove to the port. During a renovation, the tracks were lengthened over a combined road and rail bridge in preparation for the planned extension of the line to Haderslev. The expansion did not materialize.

Kolding Syd – Vamdrup Øst route

Route picture Kolding Syd –– Vamdrup Øst

Taps station had a room for customs, while the Tapsore and Brænore stops had loading tracks.

Ødis-Bramdrup was mainly used for customs clearance, as the border crossing in Højrup was only three to four kilometers away. Vamdrup Østbanegård had a locomotive shed, a turntable and customs offices. A connecting track led to the state train station.

The station buildings were designed by architect Robert Valdemar Schmidt. The railway stations Kolding Sydbanegård, which was only demolished in 1968 and Vamdrup Østbanegård, which was demolished in 1978, still existed for a long time.

business

From the opening of the lines until 1928, engineer PH Tarp was operations manager.

Kolding Sydbaner had many stops. The top speed was later 50 km / h. There were many local interests that were often met. The result was that the railway was never a success. Kolding Sydbaner certainly made a profit in its first year. After the First World War there was only a profit in 1944/45. It was 640 crowns .

Sugar beet transports to the sugar center in Kolding were an important factor in freight transport. The highest freight rates were during the First World War. The volume to be transported fell to around a third in the year before the Second World War . Even during the war, the quantities of goods no longer rose to the level of the early years and after the war they halved.

In the first year Kolding Sydbaner carried around 250,000 passengers, at the end of the 1930s it was only around 110,000.

vehicles

To start operations in 1911, Henschel & Sohn procured five steam locomotives from Germany. One of these was sold in the mid-1920s, while the others were used until the factory closed.

In addition, there were seven passenger cars at the beginning, and another four cars were purchased in the following years. Most had 56 places in 3rd class. Some of them had 2nd class compartments that only offered 40 seats. One of the passenger cars was converted into a railcar in 1930.

In the first years of operation, 74 open and closed freight wagons were procured for freight transport . These procurements were completed in 1917.

Railcar trains were much cheaper than trains run by steam locomotives. As early as 1924, AEG acquired a gasoline-powered motor vehicle , which was followed by another from Triangel in 1930 . There was space for around 65 passengers in each vehicle. In 1934 a new Scania locomotive was bought with an engine output of around 300 hp. In the 1930s, the vast majority of trains were driven by railcars. Only during the Second World War, when there was a shortage of oil, did the steam locomotives have to be used again.

Shutdown

On March 29, 1940, despite the opposition from the sugar beet industry, it was decided to shut down the railway. A few weeks after Denmark was occupied by Germany, this decision was repealed. Since road traffic was drastically restricted due to a shortage of petrol, the transport of goods and people increased sharply. Nevertheless, no economical operation was achieved.

At the end of the war, vehicles and facilities were badly worn. When road traffic normalized again after the occupation, there was no longer any economic basis for the continued operation of Kolding Sydbaner . Passenger traffic ended in September 1948 and after the beet campaign, freight traffic was stopped on December 15 of the same year.

Some of the existing material was sold to other private railways, the rest was scrapped. The C3 passenger car is kept at the KLK Lokomotivklubben (DSB Museumstog) in Lunderskov.

literature

• Svend Erik Brodersen: Kolding Sydbane 1911-1948. Histories om banerne . Ed .: Lokomotivklubben KLK. Lunderskov 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kolding Sydbaner steam locomotives. In: pospichal.net. Retrieved February 9, 2014 . 
2. ↑ KS C3. In: museumstog.dk. Retrieved February 9, 2014 (Danish). 

Web links

• Kolding Sydbaner - KS, Historien og det rullende materiel. jernbanen.dk, accessed on February 3, 2020 (Danish). 
• Signal post 1988/1. Map of the KS and subsequent railways. P. 25 , accessed on February 3, 2020 (Danish). 
• Signal post 1990/2. KS vehicles, part 1. (PDF) p. 43 , accessed on February 3, 2020 (Danish). 
• Signal post 1990/3. KS vehicles, part 2. (PDF) p. 96 , accessed on February 3, 2020 (Danish). 
• Kolding Sydbaner. In: KoldingWiki. Retrieved February 3, 2020 (Danish).