page_title: Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway
section_title: Upgrades
hierarchical_section_title: Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway / Upgrades
caption_attribution_description: Bildbeschreibung: Kaltenkirchen, Bf. Kaltenkirchen Süd mit in Richtung Kaltenkirchen ausfahrendem VTA. Fotograf: selbst Datum: 9.6.2006
context_page_description: The Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway is the original line of the AKN Eisenbahn in the German states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Today, passenger services on the 64.5 km-long Hamburg Eidelstedt–Neumünster section are operated by AKN.
  The stations on the current line of A1 between Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Eidelstedt in the Hamburg urban area were not part of the original route and are served only occasionally
  by the AKN.
context_section_description: The southern section of the line between Hamburg–Kaltenkirchen has been upgraded in many places since 1995. In the medium term it is planned to complete the duplication and to integrate it into the Hamburg S-Bahn network. The following projects, among others, had been completed by October 2012:
  a grade separated connection with the S-Bahn network in Eidelstedt,
  the new Eidelstedt Zentrum station in a sub-surface location,
  duplication between Eidelstedt Zentrum and Quickborn,
  duplication between Ulzburg Süd and Kaltenkirchen Süd with the elimination of all grade crossings and construction of a new Henstedt-Ulzburg station and a nearly 600 m long tunnel at this location,
  a new Kaltenkirchen station in a sub-surface location.
  There continues to be single track between Eidelstedt and Kaltenkirchen, on individual sections between Eidelstedt and Eidelstedt Zentrum, between Quickborn and Ulzburg Süd and between Kaltenkirchen Süd and Kaltenkirchen.
  The entire line is controlled from the AKN operations centre in Kaltenkirchen via local electronic interlockings.
  All stations on the southern sector from Kaltenkirchen to Eidelstedt are equipped with electronic passenger information displays with the exception of Schnelsen; on the northern section individual stations such as Bad Bramstedt and Neumünster Süd are so equipped.
caption: Kaltenkirchen Süd station
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