Bockerlbahn Bürmoos
| Bockerlbahn Bürmoos | |
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 Locomotive, 2 gateways and 1 passenger cart
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| Route length: | Max. 24 km |
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Bockerlbahn Bürmoos , locally called Bockerlbahn , was a 24-kilometer field railway operated from 1882 to 2000 in the Salzburg communities of Lamprechtshausen , Bürmoos and Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg in the north of the state of Salzburg . The Bockerlbahn was used to remove the peat that was extracted in the Bürmooser Moor and Weidmoos . Today there are only a few remains of the facility, as well as a route newly built for tourist purposes that is used by original cars.
history
From the 1850s on, peat was mined in the Bürmooser Moor, which at that time still belonged in part to the communities of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and Lamprechtshausen , and from 1896 in Weidmoos (still divided between these communities today). Starting in 1882, a field railway was set up to transport the excavated material, starting from today's Bürmoos district of Zehmemoos , as the construction of a new glassworks meant that more peat had to be brought in as fuel from more distant areas. Later a peat litter factory was built as well as the peat in addition to a commodity with more distant areas. Another advantage of the railway was that the peat could be moved on the soft ground with less axle pressure than with carts. The railroad cars were pulled by horses until 1895, after which locomotives were used. With the opening of the Salzburg – Lamprechtshausen (Salzburger Lokalbahn) railway in 1896, which was initially only intended as a freight railway, the onward transport of the traded peat was made much easier, although reloading from the narrow-gauge Bockerlbahn to the standard-gauge freight railway was necessary.
In the 20th century, the field railway was expanded significantly, mainly around 1910 and after the Second World War and the mid-1960s. The railway lasted until the end of peat extraction in 2000. The last transport was carried out at the end of June of that year, and operations finally ceased in October. After the locomotives were sold, the track systems were essentially dismantled or left to their own devices as part of the renaturation of the Bürmoos Moor by the Torferneuerungsverein Bürmoos , as in Weidmoos, where remains of track can still be seen.
In the 1960s, the peat railway was used several times for excursions. An attempt in the later 2000s to preserve part of the route as an industrial monument on the one hand, and to reactivate it again for tourist purposes in the form of general public trips on the other, was unsuccessful. Another attempt on a more modest scale was started in 2017. On a few days a year, trips in original cars are offered on a newly built, around 400-meter-long circuit in the Bürmooser Moor.
Rail network
Starting from the unloading point in Zehmemoos, where there was also a peat store near the current stop of this name, a first 600 millimeter track was built in a northerly direction. From around 1910, when the increased peat extraction began in Weidmoos, the track was extended to around six kilometers to just before the Upper Austrian border. At the end point, a branched network was then created to the individual dismantling points, resulting in a total route length of 14 kilometers.
In 1947, the then Austrian nitrogen works took over the peat extraction, which was accompanied by mechanical extraction and a renewed expansion of the field railway. About two kilometers from the southern end point, a branch to the west was built into the so-called Rodinger Winkel, where further branches were then also made. The largest extension of the network was at the time of mechanical peat extraction from the late 1960s onwards.
Rolling stock
Over time, the fleet consisted of a total of 14 locomotives, five passenger cars and around 150 freight wagons . There were also some special vehicles such as boiler lorries and a rail lawn mower. The locomotives were as follows:
| Surname | Manufacturer | Product no. | Power in hp |
Max. Speed in km / h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gebus | Gebus | 527/51 | 25th | 16 |
| Emma | Gmeinder | 3351/41 | 24 | 12 |
| Eve | Gmeinder | 3455/41 | 24 | 12 |
| Erna | Gmeinder | 3592/41 | 24 | 12 |
| Ella | Gmeinder | 3754/42 | 24 | 12 |
| Olga | Young | 7993/38 | 12 | 13 |
| Dora | Young | 8178/31 | 12 | 13 |
| pink | Young | 8341/41 | 12 | 8th |
| Inge | Jenbacher | 2045/51 | 20th | 12 |
| Ilse | Jenbacher | 2085/52 | 20th | 12 |
| Ida | Jenbacher | 2199/57 | 20th | 12 |
| Convertible | The MA | 2083/57 | 22nd | 3.3 |
| Diema I | The MA | 2441/61 | 28 | 4.3 |
| Emma II | The MA | 4453/80 | 47 | 6th |
The Olga locomotive was completely scrapped, Emma partially and parts were sent to the Emma II machine . The other locomotives were sold to institutions and private individuals, Eva and Emma II are owned by the Bürmoos community.
Peat florets exhibited in the Lamprechtshausen roundabout
Locomotive Eva in the Salzburg open-air museum
Passenger car on display in the Bürmooser Moor
Trivia
The history association Bürmoos , which runs the local peat-glass-brick museum and also takes care of the tradition of the railway, created two domestic geese as mascots, also depicted in the coat of arms of the municipality, one of which bears the name of the completely scrapped locomotive Olga .
swell
- documentation center-eisenbahnforschung.org
- Information board about the Bockerlbahn in the Bürmooser Moor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBB - Bockerl Bahn Bürmoos opened. August 13, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ The data, as far as known, has been taken from www.dokumentationszentrum-eisenbahnforschung.org. Retrieved August 5, 2019 . The information there also contains data on the purchase and whereabouts of the individual vehicles and was taken from a website that was not archived in the Internet archive.
- ↑ See Moriz Gelinek .