page_title: AKN Eisenbahn
section_title: Network
hierarchical_section_title: AKN Eisenbahn / Network
caption_attribution_description: Brücke der U-Bahn (Linie U1) und der Güterumgehungsbahn über den Braamkamp im Verlauf des Ring 2 (Mittlerer Straßenring) in Winterhude. Auf der Brücke befindet sich die Lokomotive V2.021 der AKN.
context_page_description: AKN Eisenbahn GmbH operates commuter and freight trains in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Its headquarters is in Kaltenkirchen. It is a member of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund, which organises public transport in and around Hamburg.
  AKN is an abbreviation for Altona - Kaltenkirchen - Neumünster, its first railway line.
context_section_description: The original route of the AKN was the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway.  Since 1965 AKN has been part of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Hamburg Transport Association, HVV). In the Hamburg rapid transit network, AKN lines are marked with an orange A, sharing the map with the U-Bahn lines (U), S-Bahn lines (S) and Regionalbahn services (R). 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.
  The fares of the HVV apply on almost the entire AKN route network (as far as Boostedt since 2002) otherwise, Schleswig-Holstein fares apply. 
  As part of the railway reform in the mid-1990s, the AKN successfully tendered to operate on some other routes, some of which were previously operated by Deutsche Bahn.
  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 11).
  From 14 December 2003 to 10 December 2011, the Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn, which was 100 percent owned by the AKN, operated through trains passenger traffic on the Neumünster–Heide and the Heide–Büsum lines. Previously AKN passenger trains ran to Heide. This line has also been operated by Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft since 11 December 2011 as a result of re-tendering.
  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 13 December 2009, the evening services from the Hauptbahnhof have been abandoned, only the two mornings through services on weekdays have been retained.
  Since December 2005, additional services of the A2 in the morning and afternoon are extended from Henstedt-Ulzburg to Kaltenkirchen.
caption: AKN diesel locomotive near Track construction work on the Hamburg freight rail bypass
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