Uetersener Railway

Uetersener Eisenbahn Tornesch – Uetersen
Operation in Tornesch in 1997 - the MaK locomotive from 1954 is in use
Route number (DB) :	9129
Route length:	(formerly 4.46 km) 4.048 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route
Legend from Hamburg-Altona -1.082 -0.988 Gärtnerweg 0.000 Tornesch 0.113 (former bus stop at the station forecourt) to Elmshorn 0.244 Esinger Strasse 0.378 Uetersener Strasse 1,319 Ohrtbrooksgraben 1.550 Baßhorn temporarily Batzhorn 1,577 Tornescher Weg 2.327 Esinger Steinweg 2.750 2,850 Little Twiete 2,869 0.000 Bahnstrasse 3.005 0.000 Uetersen Ost Gbf workshop 3.080 Big Twiete 3.110 0.000 Route out of order from here 3.200 0.000 Uetersen Ost Hp Field mill in Uetersen 3.244 0.000 Bahnstrasse Former route on the road until December 16, 1926 3.330 Pinnauallee 3.700 0.000 Wrage 3.800 Finkenbrook 3,916 Brick factory 3,980 Connection to Uetersen harbor 4.000 0.000 Uetersen Post 4.048 Track freed from here 4.075 Klosterkoppelkehre 1 4.153 Klosterkoppelkehre 2 4.300 0.000 Rondeel 4,389 Kastanienallee 4.460 Uetersen city Taps 4.856 0.000 Uetersen butter market

The Uetersener Railway (UEE) was a railway company and until 1993 also a bus transport companies in the district of Pinneberg in the southwestern Schleswig-Holstein . The latter has been continued as the roundabout company in Pinneberg mbH (KViP) since January 1st, 1994 . As a real estate company, Uetersener Eisenbahn has been a 100% subsidiary of KViP since 2014 . The railway line, which is operated today by the Norddeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft Niebüll GmbH (neg), connects the cities of Tornesch and Uetersen and is around four kilometers long.

Route

The initially single - track, standard - gauge line crosses the Tornescher Bahnhofsvorplatz in the road surface and follows the road to Uetersen. In the meantime, a second track had been laid here with the operational peculiarity that one track was used exclusively for passenger traffic and the other for freight traffic. The second track was removed after 1965.

The management and a locomotive shed are located at Uetersen Ost station . The route originally ran in the subgrade further into the city center, which gave the UeE the character of a tram in this area . Later the route was swiveled into the industrial area on the southern outskirts. There lead sidings to several industrial companies and the port.

history

The two-story horse tram
at the Rondell stop in Uetersen around 1900.
In the background, Röpckes Mühle

Share of the Uetersener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft from 1876

When planning the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn in the 1840s, carters from Uetersen spoke out against a connection to their place, whereupon the route was led through the northeastern but smaller Tornesch and a train station was built there. After Tornesch profited a lot from the railway, the city of Uetersen founded the Uetersener Eisenbahn AG in 1873 together with local commercial enterprises . Wealthy citizens of Uetersen bought the first shares with a nominal value of 100 thalers. In the same year a horse-drawn railway was put into operation, which led from Tornesch to the butter market in Uetersen. In 1908 the Uetersen railway switched to steam operation. Four steam railcars were bought in Berlin , two new and two used. Box-shaped tram steam locomotives provided freight transport. The travel time from Tornesch to the butter market in Uetersen was reduced from 32 to 16 minutes.

Diesel multiple units took over traffic in the 1920s . The tracks were moved from the main street to the outskirts of the city. The route was shortened and now had the newly built city station at Röpckes Mühle as the terminus.

In 1936 the Uetersener Eisenbahn put its first bus line into operation, which connected the city with the newly built air base and the town of Appen .

Brekina model of a MAN rail bus in the color scheme of the Uetersener Eisenbahn with authentic advertising space from the 1960s (VT 4 and VT 5)

Passenger numbers reached their peak after the Second World War . The company invested in two MAN rail buses , which were put into service in 1957 and 1958:

VT 4 (serial number 143403, year of construction 1957)

VT 5 (serial number 143554, year of construction 1958)

Bus transport

The urban development of Uetersen in the 20th century proceeded in a northerly direction, i.e. away from the UeE railway tracks in the south of the city. Since their transport performance decreased, especially in passenger traffic, the operating company set up several bus routes and ended passenger traffic on its railway line on May 29, 1965. The two MAN rail buses were sold to the Württemberg branch lines (WN) in the same year . Freight traffic was retained.

In 1989 the UeE operated six bus routes:

1 0Uetersen, Buttermarkt - Uetersen Ost - Ossenpad - Tornesch station

2 0Uetersen, E-Werk - Wulfstraße - Tornesch Bf (only single trip Mon – Fri, there in the morning, back in the evening)

3 0Uetersen, Buttermarkt - Uetersen Ost - Moorrege -Oberglinde - Marseille-Kaserne - Appen - (Appen-Etz) - Pinneberg  Bf

4 Uetersen city traffic ring line: Wassermühlenstr. - Lohe - Seminarstr. - Butter Market - Wassermühlenstr. - Kleiner Sand - Ossenpad - Am Eichholz - Uetersen Ost - Wassermühlenstr. (only Monday to day)0

5 0Uetersen, Buttermarkt - Uetersen Ost - Moorrege - Heist - Haselau - Hohenhorst / Kamperrege - Haseldorf (only single trips )

6 0(Uetersen, Hafenstraße -) Buttermarkt - Neuendeich (only single trips on school days)

In 1991, the traffic of the five bus transport companies of the public transport in the Pinneberg district ( Uetersener Eisenbahn AG , Johannes Meißner in Elmshorn , Otto Strunk in Bokholt-Hanredder , Pinneberger Verkehrsgesellschaft (PVG) in Schenefeld as well as Autokraft with its lines in the district) ceased planning a study group. From September 29, 1991, bus transport was offered by the Verkehrsgemeinschaft in Pinneberg (ViP) with a joint tariff and joint public relations work. The UeE lines 1–6 were given the line numbers 61–66 for better differentiation, and there were now three other lines of the UeE:

67 0Uetersen Ost - Buttermarkt - Heidgraben - Tornesch Bf (- Tornesch, Realschule) (only on weekdays, no late hours)

68 0Uetersen, Buttermarkt - Uetersen Ost - Tornesch Bf - (Realschule) - Ellerhoop (only on weekdays, no evening traffic)

69 Tornesch ring line: Tornesch train station - Moorreger Weg - Pastorendamm - Tornesch train station (4 journeys Mon – Fri)0

The ViP office was initially located at the PVG site in Schenefeld. The ViP traffic area covered the part of the district that was not covered by the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV). In the meantime, this has been absorbed by expanding the HVV network area.

On January 1, 1994, the newly formed traffic circle in Pinneberg mbH (KViP) took over the bus operation of the UeE with the depot, the vehicles and the staff. The previous UeE bus routes continued to operate, initially within the ViP, which has now relocated its office to Uetersen to the (former) UeE depot building at Bahnstrasse 15, and since December 14, 2002 within the HVV.

Further railway operations

Follow-up operation in Uetersen in 2008:
The locomotive MaK G 1100 BB of CFL cargo Deutschland GmbH pulls a tank car

On January 1st, 1998 the history of the Uetersener Eisenbahn ended as a transport company. The movable inventory as well as the 4.4 km long rail line was transferred to the North German Railway Company Niebüll ( neg ) - partly through sale, partly through leasing.

In 2001 neg became a subsidiary of the Luxembourg CFL . From the freight division of the neg went CFL cargo Germany GmbH produces.

The Uetersener Eisenbahn continues to exist as a real estate company that owns the premises. The contract with the neg had become necessary because of the deficit operation of the railway. The neg continues the freight traffic on the route until today.

In October 2014, the managing director of Hamburg S-Bahn, Kay-Uwe Arnecke, offered the prospect of using the route for a branch of the planned S4 .

The neg railcar during trial operation in February 2020

current (2019) end of the track system of the Uetersener Eisenbahn

In June 2016, the neg announced plans to reactivate the line for passenger traffic. The operating costs are estimated at one to two and a half million euros per year.

Currently (April 2019) the route from the workshop in the direction of the port / butter market is interrupted and the following level crossings have been freed of rails. The tracks are parallel to the An der Klosterkoppel street up to the Finkenbrook bus stop . The switch to the port and a few meters of track in its direction are still there.

In October 2019, the CEO of neg confirmed that there should be a trial run of several days in the first quarter of 2020. This took place from February 20, 2020. Initially scheduled to run until February 25, operations were extended to February 28, 2020 due to strong demand. The trips took place every hour, which was coordinated with the local trains from Hamburg. The ride was free for the first week, then possible for a low fare. After a potential analysis for the route, the reactivation was rated with a cost-benefit ratio of 0.72. Only the traffic between Uetersen and Tornesch was considered; a continuation of traffic to Pinneberg was not investigated.

literature

• Ernst-Günter Lichte: The Uetersener Railway , 2nd edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-440-1
• Lothar Mosler : By rail through Uetersen , CDC Heydorns Verlag, 1996
• Uwe Barghaan: Uetersen and Moorrege (CD-ROM, 1998)
• Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen, Volume 13: Schleswig-Holstein 2 (western part) . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-672-8

Web links

Commons : Uetersener Eisenbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• private side for freight traffic on the UeE

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Jürgen Credé: Comments on the socio-economic importance of small railways , in: Die Museumseisenbahn 4/1989, pp. 35… 43, p. 37, (Web) (PDF; 3.2 MB)
2. ^ Uetersener Eisenbahn pocket timetable, valid May 28, 1989 to Sept. 23, 1989
3. ↑ ViP winter timetable 1991/92
4. ↑ Kay Uwe Arnecke: Mobility Advisory Board 2014 - Future Perspective of S-Bahn Transport in Hamburg. (PDF; 0.5 MB) S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH, October 29, 2014, p. 10 , accessed on August 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Will there soon be passenger trains from Uetersen to Pinneberg? In: www.nahverkehrhamburg.de. Retrieved on June 14, 2016 (only for registered users). 
6. ↑ Trial operation on the railway line to Uetersen in early 2020? In: www.nahverkehrhamburg.de. Retrieved on October 28, 2019 (only for registered users). 
7. ↑ Test operation: Uetersen will get a rail connection again from February 20th. In: www.nahverkehrhamburg.de. Retrieved on February 5, 2020 (only for registered users). 
8. ↑ Test operation extended: Railway from Uetersen to Tornesch , ndr.de, February 25, 2020
9. ↑ Uetersen - Tornesch - Uetersen timetable. In: www.nahverkehrhamburg.de. Retrieved on February 5, 2020 (only for registered users). 
10. ^ Uetersen – Tornesch: No rail reactivation. In: Bus & Train. March 26, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .