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town. The two towns finally realised that their interests were best served by naming the station Bad (“spa”) St. Peter-Ording; although the municipalities were only merged as Bad St. Peter-Ording in 1967. The next station down the line was in the locality of St. Peter Dorf ("St. Peter village"), which was considered to sound provincial, so the station was named Bad St. Peter Süd (south).
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Eventually a proposal for the total closure of the line was discussed, because the then cash-strapped
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The line is particularly important for tourism and is an important access to the North Sea resort of Bad St. Peter-Ording, but is also important for student and commuter traffic. Consequently, in the summer months 3,000 people use the line each day and about 1600 people per day use it in the winter.
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to the popular coastal resort with its wide sandy beach. After overnight stays in St. Peter-Ording greatly increased in the 1920s and 1930s, it was decided to extend the line. The residents of both St. Peter and Ording, which were then independent towns, jockeyed to have the station named after each
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Like many other local railways the
Eiderstedt line ran downhill from the mid-1950s: gradually, passenger traffic declined, freight traffic was abandoned, rail tracks were dismantled and connection times in Husum deteriorated. Difficulties with baggage handling and the use of uneconomic train sets
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to Horn junction. The line passes through the flat and largely agricultural marsh land of
Eiderstedt. The section of the line to Bad St. Peter-Ording branches off to the south just before Tönning station, which is a terminus where trains have to reverse to in order to continue their journey. The
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Tönning is now built as a terminal station, which is rare in such a rural location. Originally, the line continued through the station to a port for loading cattle to the United
Kingdom. The line and port were built for this purpose by the British firm of
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diesel multiple units. This company initiated consistent services from early morning to late evening and introduced
Gleisradio (track radio), a special passenger information system using GPS. Some of the rail services operate via Husum,
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to Husum, which ran a little to the east of the Tönning line. In 1902, the old line between Husum and
Platenhörn was dismantled. Today only a few property lines mark the old route.
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The only engineering works on the line after Tönning station are some bridges that are built above sluice gates for drainage and a floodgate in a dike that can be closed during
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Schleswig-Holstein, the Deutsche Bundesbahn has invested in the line since the early 1990s. The introduction of regional fast trains (
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The extension of the line from
Garding to St. Peter-Ording was opened 78 years after the opening of the line to Tönning due to lack of finances. Previously, guests of the
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965:. On 1 June 1886 a ferry opened and the combination of rail and ferry briefly became the fastest way to reach Hamburg from Husum, since at that time, the
949:. Not long afterwards freight loaded at Tönning port to the UK was already limited. In 1878 the possibility was raised of opening a ferry from Tönning to
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district, which saw the line as vital for tourism. As a result of large protests, the federal government turned down the application to close the line.
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In 1886 a connection was built between
Platenhörn on the Husum–Tönning line and a junction at Hörn on a new extension of the Marsh Railway from
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1030:(classes VT 95 and VT 98, "piglet taxis"), with up to six carriages. Passenger services were later provided by battery-powered railcars.
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class V 36 diesel locomotives and red
Donnerbüchse carriages. In the winter timetable of 1960 the line was converted to operate with
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diesel multiple units transformed the line. The operation was thus more efficient, faster and more attractive. In 2000 the
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near St. Peter-Ort. The only station between St. Peter-Ort and Tönning with a significant entrance building is at
937:). The westerly branch from Tönning was opened to Garding in 1892 and was extended to St. Peter-Ording in 1932.
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1156:Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas)
1049:anger and criticism in the municipalities in the
925:Former Tönning goods yard on the exit to the port
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1424:1854 establishments in the German Confederation
935:Flensburg-Husum-Tönninger Eisenbahngesellschaft
1019:. It returned to regular operations in 1947.
865:. The line opened in 1854 and was one of the
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1324:(in German). Hamburg: Ernst Kabel Verlag.
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1414:Buildings and structures in Nordfriesland
1382:"Official Website der Nord-Ostsee-Bahn"
1247:"RSBs (Br 628) in Bad St. Peter-Ording"
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945:, along with a similar railway port in
931:Flensburg–Husum–Tönning Railway Company
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872:Passenger trains are operated by the
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849:with all the important parts of the
831:Husum-Bad Sankt Peter-Ording railway
1409:Railway lines in Schleswig-Holstein
1089:(NOB) service (now a subsidiary of
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1366:"Husum - Bad St.Peter-Ording line"
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1343:(in German). Heide: Boyens.
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1291:"Seite zum Bahnhof Tönning"
1116:DB Regio Schleswig-Holstein
1065:Bad St Peter-Ording station
1011:Line near the km 18.2 point
1003:Post-war period and decline
875:DB Regio Schleswig-Holstein
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867:oldest railways in Germany
22:Husum–Bad St. Peter-Ording
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1073:LINT DMU near St. Peter
81:44 km (27 mi)
1136:Automatic Block Signal
1093:) won the tender with
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853:peninsula, including
1339:Bock, Hans (1989).
1322:Der Zug nach Norden
1122:), a subsidiary of
1095:Alstom Coradia LINT
1028:Uerdingen railbuses
1024:Deutsche Bundesbahn
833:(also known as the
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863:Sankt Peter-Ording
839:Schleswig-Holstein
53:Schleswig-Holstein
1269:"trainstories.de"
1215:"Streckenzeitung"
1183:"Streckenzeitung"
1165:978-3-89494-139-0
1118:(formerly called
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65:Route number
1388:21 November
1384:(in German)
1372:21 November
1368:(in German)
1301:21 November
1275:21 November
1271:(in German)
1253:21 November
1249:(in German)
1231:21 November
1199:21 November
974:B 5 highway
690:Heisternest
87:Track gauge
78:Line length
41:Line number
1403:Categories
1314:References
1040:Silberling
851:Eiderstedt
763:embankment
373:Platenhörn
1108:Rendsburg
1104:Schleswig
996:postbuses
953:over the
947:Flensburg
910:station.
662:Sandwehle
127:Route map
73:Technical
55:, Germany
44:1204/1205
1124:DB Regio
845:town of
423:Witzwort
274:to Erfde
110: in
36:Overview
963:Hamburg
917:History
859:Garding
855:Tönning
637:Garding
549:Tönning
451:Harblek
243:to Kiel
105:⁄
60:Service
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398:Büttel
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142:Legend
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49:Locale
1225:(PDF)
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