AKN Eisenbahn

AKN Eisenbahn

Type	Public
Founded	1883
Headquarters	Kaltenkirchen, Germany
Area served	Northern Germany
Services	Transportation Public transport
Owner(s)	Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Quickborn Sülfeld private owned
Employees	323
Subsidiaries	SHB Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn nordbahn Güterkraftverkehr Hamburg-Holstein
Website	www.akn.de (German)

AKN train at Ulzburg Süd station

AKN Eisenbahn AG is a railway company operating commuter and freight trains in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The company headquarters is located in Kaltenkirchen. The company is a member of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), the HVV organises public transport in and around Hamburg.

AKN is an abbreviation for Altona - Kaltenkirchen - Neumünster, the first railway line of this company.

History

In 1883 the Altona-Kaltenkirchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was founded.

Organisation

Owners of the AKN Eisenbahn are the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg (50%), the state of Schleswig-Holstein (49.89%), the town Quickborn (0.021%), the municipality Sülfeld (0.016%) and 0.073% are private owned. ^[1]

List of subsidiaries

• SHB Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn website (German), railway line Büsum – Heide – Neumünster
• nordbahn railway line Neumünster – Bad Segeberg – Bad Oldesloe (joint venture with Hamburger Hochbahn) ^[2]
• Güterkraftverkehr Hamburg-Holstein, company for freight transport

Line overview

Line		Stations and stops
	Neumünster – Kaltenkirchen – Quickborn – Eidelstedt (– Hamburg Hauptbahnhof)	Neumünster – Neumünster Süd – Boostedt – Großenaspe – Wiemersdorf – Bad Bramstedt – Bad Bramstedt Kurhaus – Lentföhrden – Nützen – Dodenhof – Holstentherme – Kaltenkirchen – Kaltenkirchen Süd – Henstedt-Ulzburg – Ulzburg Süd – Tanneneck – Ellerau – Quickborn – Quickborn Süd – Hasloh – Bönningstedt – Burgwedel – Schnelsen – Hörgensweg – Eidelstedt Zentrum – Eidelstedt (– Stellingen – Langenfelde – Diebsteich – Holstenstraße – Sternschanze – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hauptbahnhof)
	(Kaltenkirchen −) Henstedt-Ulzburg – Norderstedt	(Kaltenkirchen – Kaltenkirchen Süd – Henstedt-Ulzburg −) Ulzburg Süd – Meeschensee – Haslohfurth – Quickborner Straße – Friedrichsgabe – Moorbekhalle – Norderstedt Mitte on behalf of Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt (VGN)
	Elmshorn – Barmstedt – Henstedt-Ulzburg	Elmshorn – Langenmoor – Sparrieshoop – Bokholt – Voßloch – Barmstedt Brunnenstraße – Barmstedt – Langeln – Alveslohe – Henstedt-Ulzburg – Ulzburg Süd

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: AKN Eisenbahn

• Website AKN (German)
• nordbahn website (German)
• Güterkraftverkehr Hamburg-Holstein website (German)

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