Rauma – Kokemäki railway line

Rauma – Kokemäki
Route length:	49 km
Gauge :	1524 mm ( Russian gauge )
Power system :	25 kV / 50 Hz  ~
Top speed:	100 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend 49 Rauma port 47 Rauma (new) 47 Rauma (old) Valtatie 12 Valtatie 8 34 Vuojoki Eurajoki Panelia Cantatie 43 Eurajoki 13 0 Kiukainen Valtatien 12 14th Kauttua Kauttua harbor 21st Säkylä Valtatie 2 Tampere – Pori railway from Pori 0 Kokemäki (formerly Peipohja) Railway line Tampere – Pori to Tampere

The Rauma – Kokemäki railway is a railway line in Finland . The single-track route is 49 kilometers long and runs from Rauma to Kokemäki .

Society Rauman rata

The single-track line operated by Rauma's city-owned railway company , Rauman rata , was completed on August 16, 1897. It was the only city-owned railway line in Finland.

Operation began with three locomotives. More steam locomotives were procured over the years .

Steam locomotives

number	Surname	Art	design type	Manufacturer	Fabr.-No./ year of construction	history	image
1	RAUMA 1	Tender locomotive	1'C	Swiss locomotive and machine factory , Winterthur	992/ 1896	Delivered on September 19, 1896. Test run on September 19, the only locomotive for construction trains in the winter of 1896/1897. No longer used by VR, retired on November 1st, 1950
2	RAUMA 2	Tank locomotive	2'B n2t	Swiss locomotive and machine factory, Winterthur	1023/ 1897	Arrived in spring 1897, taken over by VR as Vk 6 70 , retired on December 9, 1953
3	RAUMA 3	Tank locomotive	2'B n2t	Swiss locomotive and machine factory, Winterthur	1024/ 1897	Arrived in spring 1897, taken over by VR as Vk 6 71 , retired on December 9, 1953
4th	NELONS	Tender locomotive	1'C n2	Tampella	1904	Explosion accident in 1918 at the Pahakoski Bridge, 1919 sold to Zellstoffwerk Ab JW Engwistin in Tampere, VR series G9, retired in 1969
4 "		Tender locomotive	1'C n2v	Swiss locomotive and machine factory, Winterthur	1892	Delivered to VR in 1892 together with three other locomotives (SLM factory numbers 735–738). Acquired by VR in 1925 to replace the NELONEN , after being taken over by VR Sk 3 174 , retired in 1957
5		Tender locomotive	1'C n2v	Tampella	1912	after takeover by VR Sk 5 66 , retired in 1955
6th		Tender locomotive	1'C n2v	Tampella	1908	Built in 1908 for Raahe-Bahn, taken over by VR in 1926 as the VR series G12 , bought by Rauma in 1948, after takeover in 1950 by VR Sk 5 67 , retired in 1953
7th	RAUMA 7	Tank locomotive	1 D 1 h2t	Tampella	1913	Retired after takeover by VR Vk 5 72 , 1962
8th		Tank locomotive	1 D 1 h2t	Tampella	1913	Retired after takeover by VR Vk 5 73 , 1962
9		Tender locomotive	1'D	Tampella	1935	after takeover by VR Tk 3 1117 , retired in 1969
10		Tender locomotive	1'D	Tampella	1927	after takeover by VR Tk 3 1118 , retired in 1969

As early as 1926, the company was offered for sale to the state. However, the bid of 25 million marks was rejected.

The company was sold to the State Railways Valtionrautatiet (VR) on July 1, 1950 . Rauma received 175 million marks for this and used it to finance a new kindergarten.

Takeover by the VR

VR received the track systems and station buildings, ten locomotives and an excess tender, 13 passenger, mail and baggage cars as well as 157 freight cars and a Packard car equipped with railway wheels, which was used to travel the route.

At the time of the change of ownership, the company had 140 permanent employees and 87 with fixed-term contracts. They were taken over by the city service in the civil service.

From September 1951 until the end of the 1950s, there was a direct sleeper connection to Helsinki .

Travel on the route ended on May 31, 1988. Freight traffic continues on the route, which was electrified in October 1997, one hundred years after its opening.

Kiukainen – Säkylä railway line

The branch line Kiukainen – Kauttua was built to connect the paper mill in Kauttua, built in 1907/08 , so that the mill could be served by freight trains. The A. Ahlström Oy participated in the construction cost of the route. The route was established in 1907 and the decision to build the route was made in 1910.

The cost of the route was estimated at 449,000 marks , of which the entrepreneur Walter Ahlström, director of A. Ahlström Oy founded by his father Antti Ahlström, took over 200,000 marks. The city of Rauma was responsible for the procurement of vehicles amounting to 99,000 marks. The Finnish government granted the concession in 1911 , and construction was expected to take two years.

In Kauttua a port connection was built on Pyhäjärvi .

Traffic on the 14 km long route began on February 1, 1913. Passenger trains ran until 1953.

Section Kauttala – Säkylä

Between 1952 and 1953, a seven-kilometer stretch to Säkylä was built from Kauttala to the new Lännen Sokeri sugar factory, which is now owned by the Apetit Group (Lännen Sukeri until 1973, Lännen Tehtaat until May 2013).

Operations on this section of the route began on October 6, 1953. In the first autumn, 1,000 truckloads were transported.

Within the plant, the shunting was initially carried out with a shunting tractor built by Brevek in 1953. The bright red vehicle is preserved in the Toijala Railway Museum.

In 1956 the plant received a three-axle Move 21 diesel locomotive. The manufacturer was Valmet in Tampere in 1948 and delivered it to the SOTEVA Coordination Office for Military Compensation, from where it came to Säkylä. This locomotive is also preserved in Toijala.

On August 1, 1978, Saalasti acquired a small, heavy car for shunting services. From a series of 30 pieces, 29 with a crane superstructure were delivered to VR as the Tka 6 series , the last wagon went to the sugar factory without a crane.

The last sugar beet on this route was transported in autumn 2009. In December of the same year, the maintenance of the line ceased, and dismantling began in September 2011.

Web links

Commons : Kokemäki – Rauma railway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rauman rautatien historiaa. Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rauman rautatien historiaa. Vehicles. Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 
2. ↑ Kari Siimes: G12 / Sk5. In: Suomen Höyryveturit. Retrieved September 13, 2017 (Finnish). 
3. ^ VR 2-8-2 Locomotives in Finland. In: steamlocomotive.com. Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Rauman rautatien historiaa. Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 
5. ↑ Neljäs osa: Kaivo-Kulttuurikieli. In: Project Runeberg . Tietosanakirja (1909–1922), 1912, pp. 1049/1050 , accessed on September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 
6. ↑ RAIDETRAKTORI BREUER-LOCOMOTOR VL "KISKO-KALLE". veturimuseo.fi, accessed August 28, 2018 (Finnish). 
7. ↑ MOOTTORIVETURI VALMET MOVE 21 / DV-100. veturimuseo.fi, accessed August 28, 2018 (Finnish). 
8. ↑ Yle.fi: Ratalinjasta erimielisyyttä Pyhäjärviseudulla. Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Finnish). 
9. ↑ Luettelo rautatieliikennepaikoista 1.1.2016. (PDF) Liikennevirasto, 2016, accessed September 12, 2017 (Finnish).