Bad Salzuflen tram

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The Bad Salzuflen tram was the tram system of the city of Bad Salzuflen and its neighboring town of Schötmar, which was incorporated in 1968 .

The meter-gauge tram service existed from 1909 to 1924; The transport companies responsible were Bad Salzufler Straßenbahn GmbH and Schötmarsche Straßenbahn GmbH .

history

The Bad Salzufler Straßenbahn GmbH was founded at the suggestion of the medical profession and the bathing administration of the city of Bad Salzuflen. The tram opened by this connected from July 1, 1909 on a 3.2 km long single-track line, which had switches , the Bad Salzuflen station on the Herford – Himmighausen railway line with the Kurhaus and the Herford small railway station . The railway was operated as a horse-drawn tram and in 1912 already carried 57,000 passengers. Since the traffic was stopped in the winter months, this corresponds to a daily transport number of 200 to 300 people. The route ran from the train station via what is now Bahnhofstrasse , through Osterstrasse and Am Markt street , between Salzhof and the post office building into Lange Strasse to the provisional final stop on Parkstrasse .

The success of the tram prompted the city of Schötmar to also set up a train between its train station and Bad Salzuflen. This used the infrastructure of Bad Salzufler Straßenbahn GmbH up to the Kurhaus. Since this 1.7 kilometer long route was not profitable in contrast to the existing railway in Bad Salzuflen, the track systems were dismantled again in 1915. Before the First World War it was planned to electrify the remaining tram in Bad Salzuflen. This project was abandoned due to the war. Due to the inflation in the 1920s, the company got into increasing difficulties and the railway was shut down on May 23, 1926 . After the tracks were removed shortly afterwards, a bus line was set up as a replacement here, as on the Schötmarscher route .

literature

  • "The Salzufler Straßenbahn GmbH" in: Rainer Kotte: The Herford small railways . Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986. ISBN 3-922657-54-0
  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 3: Westphalia (excluding the Ruhr area) EK-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1990, ISBN 3-8825-5332-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmalspur Ostwestfalen , accessed on March 10, 2014.