Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn
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| Route length: | 1.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 84 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 25 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn , formerly called Moorbahn , is a narrow-gauge railway with 600 mm gauge in Bad Schwalbach .
history
Since 1903 there have been artificial moor pits in the Gerstruthtal, which adjoins the Schwalbacher Kurpark. Here the moor is stored for about ten years between the individual applications and can regenerate. It was initially transported to the mud bathing house, about 1.5 km away, by horse-drawn carts, which perhaps were already running on a track system, until the moor railway was set up as a field railway in 1926 . A train consisted of five or six tipping lorries. The route was changed again and again, following the requirements of the peatland removal; a renovation in 1963 later proved to be flawed. The moor has been transported by truck since 1991. From 1979 to 1986 the steam railway Rhein-Main (today Feldbahnmuseum Frankfurt / Main) carried out passenger traffic. Over time, four different diesel locomotives were used. In the absence of voluntary helpers, the Rhein-Main steam railway withdrew from operation. In 1987 a private citizen tried to continue passenger transport with his own diesel locomotive. After a derailment occurred on one of the first days of the journey, in which a passenger was slightly injured, the city of Bad Schwalbach prohibited passenger traffic. In 1991, the transport of bog by rail was finally stopped. At the end of 1992 there were first talks between a private citizen and the spa administration to put the railway back into operation with tourist passenger transport. A lease was signed and the private man repaired the route with his own resources and a lot of his own work. In 1994 an attempt was made to resume passenger transport. A passenger car and a stronger locomotive (Schöma serial number 4064 / built in 1975) were also rented. However, the private citizen's requests were not approved. Due to the existing requirements for rail operations, the private citizen could not start operations with his own means. In 1998 the private citizen initiated the establishment of the Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn-Verein. After the establishment of the association became effective, the lease contract was handed over to the association by the private individual. The railway has been operated by the Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn association as a museum railway between the Moorbadehaus and Moorgruben stations since the year 2000 after the track systems were refurbished and two hand-braked passenger cars were built . It overcomes 35 meters in altitude and sections with considerable gradients.
vehicles
Little is known about the first vehicles. A Schöma CHL 20 diesel locomotive was used from 1963 to 1985 (Schöma serial number 2699, built in 1963). The locomotive was traded in after a gearbox damage in 1985 when the new diesel locomotive of the type CHL 20G (Schöma factory number 4833, built in 1985) was purchased from Schöma and sold from there to Klasmann-Werke GmbH in Bockhorst. Since the Kurbahn began operating in 2000, three diesel locomotives have been used, of which the oldest, Locomotive 3, dates from 1938 and is only demonstrated on special occasions. It is a diesel locomotive from the Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik GmbH. The current operation took place up to and including 2008 with the diesel locomotives 1 (CHL-20G) and 2 (CHL-45G), which were built by Schöma in the 1980s . Since 2010, only locomotive 1 (CHL-20G) has been used for passenger trains, locomotive 2 (CHL-45G) is no longer in Bad Schwalbach and was sold to the newly built Museumfeldbahn Großgmain in Salzburg . In addition to the two diesel locomotives, the railway has three passenger cars, two of which are covered, two freight cars and various lorries and flat cars.
Driving operation
The Kurbahn has been running regularly between Easter and October since 2011. Driving days are Easter Sunday and Monday and every first Sunday of the month from Easter up to and including October. There are nine trips a day. The first starts at 10.30 a.m. at the Moorbadehaus station, the last at 5.30 p.m. There is a lunch break between 12 and 13. In addition, a few special travel days are planned, and the traditional mulled wine trip “With the Kurbahn into Advent” is to take place again.
From 2000 to 2008 the Kurbahn operated on Sundays and public holidays between April and October. However, between 2008 and 2010, the service was stopped because the association was in a dispute with the city about the release of funds that were needed for the rehabilitation of a section of the route.
As of August 21, 2010, the railway was back in operation. After the renovation of the approximately 200 meter long section from the barefoot path to the Schwalbenbrunnen, the first trains ran on August 21, 2010 on the section between the Moorbadehaus and the Schwalbenbrunnen. On February 13, 2011, the renovated stretch was put into operation as part of the event "With the Kurbahn into the new year".
literature
- Book: Feldbahnen in Hessen , publication date: July 1992, publisher: Winfried Barth (†), Wiesbaden. No ISBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big train station for the historic little train ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The locomotive puffs through the park ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier from April 14, 2009: The Kurbahn does not start the season ( Memento from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) visitors on the holidays disappointed / questions and attempts to explain in the finance committee
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier of February 12, 2010: Kurbahn should roll again ( Memento of February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier of August 20, 2010: Kurbahn is running again ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Aar-Bote from February 10th, 2011: Kurbahn is running ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
See also
Web links
kurbahn-badschwalbach.de Website with timetable and prices
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '57.8 " N , 8 ° 3' 38.5" E