Skoppum – Horten railway line

Skoppum hoarding

Skoppum

Route length:

7 km

Gauge :

1067 mm, from 1949: 1435 mm

Power system :

15 kV, 16.7 Hz ~

Maximum slope :

18.8 ‰

Operating points and routes

Legend

	Vestfoldbanen by Drammen

99.54	Skoppum	39 moh.
	Vestfoldbanen to Tønsberg
100.37	Sande elv (20 m)
101.22	Vestre Sande (July 1, 1929-1967)
103.07	Borre (December 7, 1881, published from November 1, 1964)	25.9 moh.
104.05	Langgrunn (June 23, 1941– Aug. 28, 1945, from June 9, 1947)
	Rørestrand (July 1, 1929 to June 17, 1930)
105.15	Steinsnes (June 25, 1930)
106.51	Horten (December 7, 1881 1881–2007, until 1967 pers. Stop)	2.2 moh.
106.60	Horten havn (deep water quay)

The Skoppum – Horten ( Norwegian Hortenlinjen ) railway was a seven kilometer long railway line in Vestfold og Telemark in Norway . It ran from Skoppum to Horten .

history

In the 1870s, economic growth in Norway was followed by a demand for rail connections. Since the coastal cities were connected by good shipping lines, the route was planned further inland.

For the Vestvoldbane , also called Jarlsbergbanen , it was decided on June 9, 1875 in Storting that it should lead from Drammen to Skien . It was also decided that a branch line from Skoppum to Horten should be built. It was built in the same gauge of 1067 mm and officially put into operation on October 13, 1881. One day later, on October 14th, King Oscar II came to visit. The official start of operations took place on December 7, 1881.

Rails weighing 19.84 kg per meter were used. The conversion to standard gauge took place on October 3, 1949, and the line was electrified on December 11, 1957.

vehicles

From the opening of the line until 1927, the same vehicles were used as on the main line. The trains were hauled by steam locomotives .

From 1927 gasoline railcars of the type Cm Type 1 were used for passenger transport . The railcars were two-axle and had 30 seats.

After the Flekkefjordbane was converted to standard gauge, the four Cmbo Type 1 railcars came to Vestfoldbane in 1944 . These were bogie railcars that were built at Strømmens Værksted in 1932 .

business

In 1946, 13 pairs of trains drove on the route. These trains all had a connection to the ferry to Moss . The last trains with steam locomotives were driven by locomotives of the NSB series XXIII .

After the start of operation after the change of gauge to standard gauge on October 3, 1949, there were only eight pairs, only with the electrification from December 11, 1957, eleven pairs of trains were driven again. Used were electric locomotives of the type EL 1 , El 2 and El 10 . Individual BM 65 railcars also ran on the route.

Freight traffic began to decline in the 1950s. Support ropes, steel plates for shipbuilding and scrap were transported, and feed was also loaded.

Passenger traffic on the route was discontinued with train no. 883 on May 28, 1967, after only three pairs of trains were last running. The setting of freight carried on 7 January of 2002.

It was then decided to use the former route as a footpath and bike path. The dismantling of the line began in January 2008, parts of the no longer needed overhead line were taken over by the Thamshavnbane .

Web links

Hortenlinjen - en seiglivet blindtarm. Retrieved May 26, 2017 (Norwegian).

literature

På glemte spor , Nils Carl Caspenberg, 1994, Baneforlaget Oslo, ISBN 82-91448-00-0

Individual evidence

↑ Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 , p. 225 (Norwegian).
↑ Construction plan of the Skoppum train station. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b Den gamle stasjonen i Horten. borreminne.hive.no, archived from the original on August 7, 2007 ; Retrieved August 28, 2018 (Norwegian).
^ History of the Railway (norw.) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 , p. 21 (Norwegian).

[BS-header1-1] Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 , p. 225 (Norwegian).

[2] Construction plan of the Skoppum train station. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .

[horten-3] Den gamle stasjonen i Horten. borreminne.hive.no, archived from the original on August 7, 2007 ; Retrieved August 28, 2018 (Norwegian).

[4] History of the Railway (norw.) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[5] Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 , p. 21 (Norwegian).