AKN Eisenbahn

The municipalities of Quickborn and Kaltenkirchen and the then independent town of Altona supported this project.

[1] The shares were subscribed by the town of Altona, the communities of Quickborn, Ulzburg and Kaltenkirchen and the construction company Kintzel & Lauser.

However, other colours are used to route plans that show only the AKN lines: red for the A1, green for the A2 and dark blue for the A3.

Since 15 December 2002, the Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft, a subsidiary of AKN Eisenbahn and the Hamburger Hochbahn has operated services from Neumünster to Bad Segeberg on the reactivated Neumünster–Bad Oldesloe railway (HVV line R 82).

Since 12 December 2004, services are extended on line A1 twice a day (Monday to Friday) between Eidelstedt and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, using its VTA railcars over the S-Bahn tracks and power supply collected from a side-contact third rail.

Since December 2005, additional services of the A2 in the morning and afternoon are extended from Henstedt-Ulzburg to Kaltenkirchen.

The construction of a connecting line to the airport is not supported by the Schleswig-Holstein state government because of the considerable cost burden of at least €150 million.

[6] In preparation for a possible extension of the S-Bahn network, the section from Halstenbeker Straße to the border near Burgwedel station was duplicated up to 2013 and a new Schnelsen Süd station is planned after the Bönningstedt–Quickborn section has been fully duplicated.

AKN has called in the past for the establishment of an all-day grade-separated connection from Eidelstedt to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, but this failed because it would lead to increased operating costs and because of the limited capacity of the line.

AKN train at Ulzburg Süd station
Entrance hall of Eidelstedt Zentrum station, interior
Kaltenkirchener Bahnhof at Gählerplatz in Altona from 1884 until 1893, map extract from about 1890
The oldest operable AKN vehicle next to a new one
Share of the Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Altona-Kaltenkirchen-Neumünster, issued November 1928
AKN network in Holstein and Hamburg
AKN diesel locomotive near Track construction work on the Hamburg freight rail bypass
Construction work at Burgwedel station (March 2012)