AKN Eisenbahn

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AKN Eisenbahn

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

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 member of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), the HVV organises public transport in Hamburg and around.

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

1 History
2 Organsiation
- 2.1 List of subsidiaries
3 Line overview
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] History

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

[edit] Organsiation

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]

[edit] List of subsidiaries

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

[edit] 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 −) Ulzburg – Norderstedt	(Kaltenkirchen – Kaltenkirchen Süd – Henstedt-Ulzburg −) Ulzburg Süd – Meeschensee – Haslohfurth – Quickborner Straße – Friedrichsgabe – Moorbekhalle – Norderstedt Mitte
	Elmshorn – Barmstedt – Ulzburg	Bokholt – Voßloch – Barmstedt Brunnenstraße – Barmstedt – Langeln – Alveslohe – Henstedt-Ulzburg – Ulzburg Süd