Åmmebergs järnväg

Åmmeberg – Zinkgruvan
Route length:	10.9 km
Gauge :	600 mm / 1435 mm
Minimum radius :	150 m
Top speed:	20 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend Vättern Åmmebergs hamn Åmmeberg Åmmelången Nygruvan Garpaån Knallagruvan Bang Zinc green

Åmmebergs järnväg (ÅJ) was a Swedish railway line between Åmmeberg and Zinkgruvan in Hammars socken in Närke . The 11 km long, standard-gauge line with a track width of 1435 mm had no connection to the rest of the Swedish railway network.

history

The Belgian company Vieille Montagne acquired the mines at the Isåsen settlement with Övre and Nedre Knalla and the current zinc mine in 1857 . The company received permission to build a railway between the Åmmeberg enrichment facility and the Isåsen zinc mine on February 2, 1858, and began construction in the late 1850s. The line was opened to private traffic on June 1, 1863 and cost 413,000 riksdalers. Buildings and vehicles were bought for 130,000 riksdalers.

The railway with the name Åmmeberg – Vetterns jernväg was granted permission for public freight transport on April 23, 1889. For the branch line to Knallagruvan a concession was granted on January 27, 1888. It was opened on April 23, 1889.

The original rails were made of iron with a meter weight of 26.5 kg / m and were completely replaced in 1897 by steel rails with a weight of 31.5 kg / m.

The processed products from the enrichment plant were not transported by rail, but by ship from the port in Åmmeberg via the Göta Canal to the port of Hisingen in Gothenburg .

vehicles

Locomotives

Among others, the following locomotives were purchased:

number	Surname	design type	Wheel alignment	Manufacturer	Fabr.-No./ year of construction	Special
1	CARLSUND	Tank locomotive	C t	Motala Verkstad , Motala	1 1862	The locomotive has been preserved and is in the Motala Industrial Museum
2	ÅMMEBERG	Tank locomotive	C t	Nydqvist och Holm , Trollhättan	348 1892	The locomotive has been preserved and is in the locomotive shed in Åmmeberg
4th		Diesel locomotive	B - dm	Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG	27373 1939	Ordered by Asbrink & Co., Malmö, delivery on February 3, 1940
6th		Petrol locomotive		John Bergman & Son mekanisk Verkstad, Motala	149 1955	Locomotive with cargo space, 1975 at PLM in Kristinehamn for scrapping
Z65 7		Diesel locomotive	B.		278 1965	Type Z65 , bought directly from Kalmar Verkstad in 1965 , sold to Billerud for Gruvöns bruk in Grums after the line was discontinued in 1977 , where the Z65 353 ; 1997 passed on to Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen as Z65 208
1		Diesel locomotive	B.	Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG		600 mm track, acquired around 1930, for transports to the Åmmeberg enrichment plant and the mine
2		Diesel locomotive	B.	Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG	22686 1939	Gauge 600 mm, for transports in the Åmmeberg enrichment plant and in the mine

Ore wagon

In 1889 the company had 30 ore wagons in stock. The cars were unbraked and a brake car was carried on the train. In the mid-1960s, Hilding Carlssons Mekaniska Verkstad built six two-axle ore wagons with an automatic Willison clutch .

Shutdown

The traffic between Knalla and Zinkgruvan ended in 1970, the rails were demolished in 1973.

The zinc enrichment plant, which was put into operation in 1977, required a lot of water. To make room for the construction of a water pipeline, ore transport by rail between Zinkgruvan and Åmmeberg was stopped on July 12, 1975. The line was torn down in the same year and this water pipe was built on the embankment.

Current condition

After the opening of the new enrichment plant, the enriched zinc ore was transported to Otterbäcken by truck . The zinc ore has been loaded onto ships there since the mid-1960s.

In Åmmeberg, a footpath has been laid on part of the route.

literature

• Ivan August Bodstedt: Historik över Sveriges småbanor, bruks-, gruv- m.fl. banor: under tiden 1802–1865 . Stockholm 1945, Åmmeberg – Zinkgruvans järnväg, p. 151-154 ( Libris 1285504).

Web links

• The Vieille Montagne - Zinc Mining Company Of Belgium. Retrieved January 10, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Åmmeberg – Zinkgruvan. Bandel 386. historiskt.nu, accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish).  
2. ^ Sketch of Åmmeberg station. bangardar.se, accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
3. ^ Zincgruvan station sketch. bangardar.se, accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
4. ^ Vieille-Montagne . In: John Rosén (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 17 : V-Väring . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1893, Sp. 891 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
5. ↑ Örebro County 1886–1890. (PDF) In: Kungl. Maj.ts Befallningshafvandes femårsberättelser. SCB, p. 35 , accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ Örebro County 1856-1860. (PDF) In: Kungl. Maj.ts Befallningshafvandes femårsberättelser. SCB, p. 19 , accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
7. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien. In: Sveriges Järnvägars historia - databank Utgåva 1. Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar, March 31, 1996, accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
8. ↑ Örebro County 1861-1865. (PDF) In: Kungl. Maj.ts Befallningshafvandes femårsberättelser. SCB, p. 17 , accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Väg- och Vattenbyggnadsstyrelsens S) Allmänna arbeten 1889. (PDF) In: BiSOS. Statistiska centralbyrån, p. 44 , accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Åmmebergs järnväg (ÅJ). Bra kulturmiljö, accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
11. ↑ Väg- och Vattenbyggnadsstyrelsens S) Allmänna arbeten 1896. (PDF) In: BiSOS. Statistiska centralbyrån, p. 60 , accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
12. ↑ Väg- och Vattenbyggnadsstyrelsens S) Allmänna arbeten 1897. (PDF) In: BiSOS. Statistiska centralbyrån, p. 66 , accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
13. ↑ Örebro County 1866-1870. (PDF) In: Kungl. Maj.ts Befallningshafvandes femårsberättelser. SCB, p. 17 , accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
14. ↑ Ånglok tillverkade av Motala. Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar, accessed on January 10, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Motala Industrial Museum. Motala Industrial Museum, accessed January 11, 2018 (Swedish). 
16. ↑ Ånglok tillverkade av Nydqvist & Holm. Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar, accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
17. ^ "Carlsund". In: jvmv2.se. Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
18. ↑ Deutz / 27373/1940 / A4M 820 R / B-dm / 1435 mm. In: rangierdiesel.de. Retrieved January 12, 2018 . 
19. ↑ JOHN BERGMAN & SON MEKANISK VERKSTAD, Motala (JB). In: Svenska Industrilok. IndustriBaneFöreningen, accessed January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
20. ↑ KALMAR VERKSTADS AB, Kalmar (KVAB). In: Svenska Industrilok. IndustriBaneFöreningen, archived from the original on August 22, 2010 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 . 
21. ^ Vieille Montagne 7. In: svenska-lok.se. Retrieved January 11, 2018 (Swedish). 
22. ^ Jan Lindahl: Photo of the locomotive in Åmmeberg. February 21, 1973. Retrieved January 11, 2018 (Swedish). 
23. ↑ ^{a b} KLÖCKNER-HUMBOLDT-DEUTZ AG, Cologne, Tyskland (KHD). In: Svenska Industrilok. IndustriBaneFöreningen, accessed on January 10, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Tågbroms från 1966. Järnvägshistoriskt Forum, August 13, 2010, accessed on January 10, 2018 . 
25. ↑ Sv: Fler malmvagnar från ovanliga leverantörer? Tydal.nu Gamla Postvagnen, January 20, 2005, accessed January 10, 2018 . 
26. ↑ ^{a b} Järnvägar i historien 1970-talet. In: Sveriges Järnvägars historia - databank Utgåva 1 - 1996-03-31. Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar, accessed on January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
27. ↑ Ämnen och material from riksintresse enligt miljöbalken. (PDF) Länsstyrelsen i Örebro län, December 14, 2005, archived from the original on June 19, 2013 ; Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
28. ↑ Åmmeberg. Photos. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
29. ↑ Sven-Eric Ardhage: Kring Åmmeberg och Zinkgruvan. (PDF) In: Ur STF: s årsskrift 1975 (Närke). Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
30. ↑ Zinkgruvan valde Vänerhamn. (PDF) In: Nyhetsbrev No. 4 2009. Vänerhamn AB, archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 .