Havelländische Eisenbahn
| Havelländische Eisenbahn AG (HVLE) | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Wustermark OT Elstal |
| Web presence | www.hvle.de |
| Reference year | 2018 |
| Managing directors | Martin Wischner, Ludolf Kerkeling |
| Employee | 176 |
| sales | EUR 48.1 million |
| number of vehicles | |
| Locomotives | 40 |
| other vehicles | 831 freight cars |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | 1,507 million tkm |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | Berlin- Johannesstift , Blankenburg (Harz) , Celle (formerly OHE ) |
| Other operating facilities | Wustermark marshalling yard |
Havelländische Eisenbahn AG (HVLE) has been the name of a railway transport and railway infrastructure company since 2006 , which was founded in 1892 under the company AG Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen (OHK) in Nauen in the province of Brandenburg . The company's focus is on freight transport (especially lime transport); In addition, the HVLE is active in the fields of construction logistics, workshop service, connecting rail transport and consulting . She gave up rail passenger transport after the Second World War .
history
Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen
Immediately after the Prussian Small Railroad Act came into force in 1893, the Osthavelland district in the province of Brandenburg and the communities of Nauen and Ketzin as well as the Nauen sugar factory decided to open up the district with railway lines across the board. This resulted in the Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen . The Westhavelland district council commissioned the OHK with the construction and operation of the Westhavelland district railways . The Nauen – Ketzin line was opened at the end of 1893. In 1904 the legally independent Nauen – Velten small railway was opened, but OHK was in charge of its operation. In the years 1909 to 1912 a branch Bötzow – Spandau was opened. In 1924 this Nauen – Velten small railway was formally taken over by the OHK. In Spandau Johannesstift and Hennigsdorf industrial companies were served, from Johannesstift there was a siding to Hakenfelde. A siding to Schönwalde airfield opened in 1935, increasing traffic.
Osthavelländische Eisenbahn AG
From July 29, 1941, the company called itself Osthavelländische Eisenbahn AG , or OHE for short. In addition to the Osthavelland district, the Prussian state , the province of Mark Brandenburg as well as the city of Ketzin and the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) were involved. Although the entire capital was owned by the state and local authorities, the company was expropriated by the Soviet occupying power in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 and the railways were first subordinated to the Brandenburg State Railways and then to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Only the Berlin part of the Bötzowbahn remained in the company, on which freight traffic and passenger traffic continued to operate until 1950. The Berlin property was confiscated by the British military government in 1948 and placed under the fiduciary administration of the Berlin Transport Company from April 1, 1950, and under the administration of the Senator for Transport and Operations from June 1, 1956. In 1972 the company was re-established while retaining the old company shares and thus the trusteeship was canceled. Four four-axle diesel locomotives were available for operation in 1982. Between 600,000 t and 700,000 t were transported annually.
After 1990 the company expanded its operations back to its old field of activity.
Havelländische Eisenbahn
OHE stepped out of the “Berlin shadow” through its successful activities. The locomotives with the OHE abbreviation were used on many routes. However, the same name was also used by the East Hanoverian Railways , which often led to errands. A new solution had to be created. The company name and appearance should also be adapted to the new market presence. Finally, the shareholders' meeting decided to change the name of the company to Havelländische Eisenbahn AG (hvle) from January 1, 2006 with regard to the home of the company . The locomotives received a completely new color scheme.
In 2002 OHE took over the follow-up service of the former man-made fiber factory in Premnitz . Trains to and from Wustermark ran three times a week. Operations for Bombardier Transportation in Hennigsdorf had also increased. Test and test drives are carried out regularly with the help of HVLE locomotives. In 2010, the HVLE acquired the connecting line of the freight traffic center Wustermark and founded the subsidiary BLTW. In order to promote industrial development in Brandenburg-Kirchmöser, the HVLE participated in a specially founded company (KNRBB) during 2011 and handed over the steam locomotive 52 8017, which was installed on the site of the former Brandenburg-West railway works, to the city of Brandenburg has been.
The purchase of the freight yard in Wustermark in 2008 was spectacular . DB AG wanted to shut down the station just outside Berlin. As there were hardly any free tracks of this size within a 150-kilometer radius on which new traffic projects could be generated, the HVLE wanted to keep this once highly frequented station open for train operations. The HVLE subsidiary Rail & Logistic Center Wustermark GmbH (RLC) was founded with the participation of BUG Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH and the 22 hectare marshalling yard including the signal boxes was bought seven days later. Except for one low-rise building, all other buildings and a few through tracks of the DB AG were excluded from the purchase .
In previous years, the HVLE had also put out feelers in the direction of Eastern Europe in order to open up new business areas in Russia, Belarus and Poland. Together with its Polish partner, the HVLE worked out transport solutions with TRAXX multi-system locomotives , which only required staff and system changes at the border. Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria are now also served. The HVLE achieved a great success with the development of its own bulk goods wagon with a length over buffers of 12.68 meters and a loading weight of 70 tons. With a six-axle Voith Maxima , 3,200 net tons can be transported with a one-man crew. More and more modern vehicles were used. In order to optimize the motor vehicle fleet energetically and environmentally, ten new six-axle EURO Dual hybrid locomotives with 7,000 kW electrical continuous output and 3800 HP diesel-electric output have been purchased from Stadler Rail in Valencia (Spain) .
In May 2019, the subsidiary GER Ghana Eastern Railway Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH was founded, with which HVLE intends to participate in the planning, construction and operation of the standard-gauge, Ghanaian Eastern Railway Line from the deep-water port Tema via the capital Accra to Kumasi .
Awards
Havelländische Eisenbahnen AG and Stadler Rail (Valencia) were awarded the Privatbahn Magazin innovation prize for the development of the Eurodual 2159 in 2018/2019 .
Infrastructure
Railway lines
- Nauen – Ketzin (15.6 km)
- Nauen – Velten (25.6 km)
- Bötzow – Spandau West (17.2 km)
In the neighboring district of Westhavelland , the railway company built two small railways with a total length of 46 kilometers, the Westhavelländische Kreisbahnen .
The HVLE still owns the remainder of the Bötzow Railway from the Berlin-Spandau transfer station to the Johannesstift freight station. The Schöneicher Plan station on the former Neukölln-Mittenwald railway was also operated until 2011 and then transferred to the Draisinenbahn Berlin / Brandenburg GmbH.
After the fall of the Wall, the HVLE also took over the management of several connecting railways : in 1999 in the Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ) Berlin West in Wustermark including the intermodal terminal , in 2002 for the Premnitz industrial railway and in 2004 for the Bombardier industrial railway in Hennigsdorf. Other connecting railways are operated in Berlin, Vorketzin and Kirchmöser.
From April 1, 2005, the transport of lime on the Rübelandbahn between Blankenburg and Elbingerode in the Harz Mountains was gradually taken over by the HVLE. The rock Werke GmbH operate several limestone quarries in the Upper Harz and transport the limestone in various stages of processing mainly by rail via the so-called Rübelandbahn to Blankenburg and from there to the end users. The Rübelandbahn has a steep section with a gradient of over 63 per thousand. Fels Werke was looking for a reliable partner and a reliable partner for their vitally important transports. OHE won the bid and a long-term contract. In order to cope with the traffic, the OHE purchased three AC33C (Blue Tiger) locomotives from Adtranz . A branch was set up in Blankenburg. The OHE still shared the traffic with the Deutsche Bahn AG on the Rübelandbahn. However, the Fels Werke handed over all traffic to the OHE. For this, the Blue Tigers were equipped with noise-reducing components. We worked together with the TU Berlin on the development of these components . Further transports to Peitz , Schwarze Pump , Chemnitz and Salzgitter were also taken over. After the state monument authority placed the electrical equipment of the Rübelandbahn under monument protection, it was taken over by Fels Werke and extensively modernized. On January 17, 2009, the first train with two TRAXX E locomotives from OHE rolled on the 25 kV 50 Hz line.
Depot
The central premises of the HVLE is still the Güterbahnhof (Gbf) Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift today . This used to be of great importance because this is where the Spandau industrial railways branched out. While all of these have now been shut down, freight wagons and locomotives are still parked in the Johannesstift station and serviced in the modern, adjacent depot . Until 2018, the company headquarters and administration were located here.
A branch in Blankenburg (Harz) has also been set up for traffic on the Rübelandbahn.
Wustermark marshalling yard
After more than three years of negotiations, the HVLE bought the almost 100-year-old Wustermark marshalling yard from Deutsche Bahn AG . The official restart took place on July 1, 2008. The Rail & Logistics Center Wustermark GmbH & Co KG (RLC) , in which the HVLE has a majority stake, is responsible for operation. The 70-track marshalling yard acts as a service center for other railway companies (mainly train formation and disbandment, storage facilities, workshop services, handling of building materials). Since then, the infrastructure and the rail-related logistics activities have been gradually expanded in cooperation with the GVZ Wustermark. At the end of September 2011, a direct connection to the west of the marshalling yard was established, which allows access without shunting even for freight trains up to 800 meters long. The RLC Wustermark is now used by 120 customers.
In 2011, via BahnLogistik Terminal Wustermark GmbH, HVLE participated in the purchase of the container terminal in the GVZ Wustermark, where it already operates the connecting railway and which is located in the vicinity of the Wustermark marshalling yard on the Berlin outer ring.
BahnTechnologie Campus Havelland
In 2015, the HVLE also bought the former depot at the site from DB and incorporated it into BahnTechnologie Campus Havelland GmbH (BTC).
In January 2017, the go-ahead for an infrastructure project worth millions was given on the approximately 34 hectare area of the former Wustermark marshalling yard. With the support of the HVLE, the Havelland district is developing a center for the rail industry and modern rail technologies, funded by the federal government and the state of Brandenburg as part of the joint task: "Improving regional economic infrastructure" - GRW infrastructure.
The development of a rail technology campus in Havelland is based on the following storylines:
- logistics
- Business
- Research and practice
- science and education
The BTC commissioned with the development is to revitalize the traditional location of the former marshalling yard and bring commercial enterprises from the rail sector together with research and scientific institutions.
Regardless of the planned relocation of the entire administration and workshop location of the HVLE from Spandau to Wustermark, the sales department, the technical director and the control center, which is staffed around the clock, have already moved into the BTC administration building.
literature
- Jörg Schulze, Bernd Neddermeyer: Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen. Havelländische Eisenbahn . Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941712-23-2 .
- Gerd Wolff: The private railways in the Federal Republic of Germany . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-88255-650-1 , p. 15-17 .
- Bodo Schulz, Michael Krolop: The private and industrial railways in Berlin (West) . 1st edition. C. Kersting, Niederkassel-Mondorf 1989, ISBN 3-925250-06-9 , p. 81-94 .
- Christian Bedeschinski, Bernd Neddermeyer, Jörg Schulze: From the Wustermark marshalling yard to the hub for rail traffic and rail technology . 1st edition. VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 3-941712-68-3 , p. 15-142 .
Web links
- Company website (Adobe Flash required)
- Vehicle list on privat-bahn.de
- History of the working group Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts. Havelländische Eisenbahn AG, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Bahn Extra 3/2019 Berlin , S. 47th
- ↑ Stadler EuroDual. Havelländische Eisenbahn AG, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Commercial register announcement of 07/27/2019 (new entry). North Data GmbH, July 27, 2019, accessed October 26, 2019 .
- ^ Infrastructure of the HVLE. Retrieved July 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Connecting railways of the HVLE. Retrieved July 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Entry in the register portal on December 17, 2018
- ^ Website of the RLC with technical information on the service facilities . Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ Press release Allianz pro Schiene from July 1, 2008 . Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ Anke Fiebranz: The marshalling yard in Elstal is now better connected / RLC Wustermark has expanded. (No longer available online.) In: Märkische Allgemeine. September 22, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 4, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ See interview with Winfried Bauer, Managing Director of RLC Wustermark. (PDF) In: Privatbahn Magazin, issue 6/2011, p. 38f. November 2011, accessed December 30, 2011 .