Borkumer Kleinbahn Borkum II and Dollart
| Borkum and Dollart | |
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 Borkum III
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| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Orenstein & Koppel , Kessel 1997: SLM |
| Year of construction (s): | 1937; 1940 |
| Retirement: | 1968; 1962, in operation again since 1997 |
| Genre : | B n2t |
| Gauge : | 900 mm |
| Length over buffers: | 7000 mm |
| Height: | 2200 mm |
| Width: | 2100 mm |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 1800 mm |
| Empty mass: | 14.0 t |
| Service mass: | 17.5 t |
| Top speed: | 30 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 875 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 290 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 400 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 12 bar |
| Number of heating pipes: | 79 |
The steam locomotives Borkum (understudy) and Dollard the gauge 900 were from the engineering company mm Orenstein & Koppel built with the factory numbers 13051 and 13571 and belonged since 1938 and 1941, the Borkum small train .
history
The Borkum was put into operation on February 9, 1938. It had its last trip at the 80th anniversary of the Borkumer Kleinbahn in June 1968. Since 1976 it has stood as a memorial in Bevern near Bremervörde .
The Dollart began its use on March 1, 1941 on Borkum. In 1962 it was decommissioned because diesel locomotives replaced it, and it was stored as a reserve. After that it was erected as a memorial at the Kurhaus in Borkum from 1978. From 1996 the ailing locomotive was repaired in the Meiningen steam locomotive works . It got a new boiler, manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM). The cost of reconditioning was around DM 620,000. After completion, it was the third locomotive to be named Borkum . It took its first official trip on March 25, 1997. Since then, a steam locomotive has been running again on the Borkumer Kleinbahn, both for special trips and regular train operations.
Web links
- Portrait of the steam locomotive Borkum on inselbahn.de
literature
- Hans Schweers: The Borkumer Kleinbahn and the ships of the AG "Ems" . Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-132-1