Bremen-Arster Railway
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| Route length: | 3.2 km | ||||||||||||
| Power system : | 550 volts = | ||||||||||||
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The Bremen-Arster Bahn was a German trolleybus company - at that time still called Gleislose Bahn - in what is now the city of Bremen . The plant was opened on August 7, 1910 and had to be closed again on June 19, 1916 due to the war .
history
The 3.2 kilometer long route connected Kattenturm and Arsten, today both districts of the Obervieland district in the southern district. The maximum permitted speed of the train was 25 km / h, which with a travel time of twelve minutes for the entire route led to a travel speed of 16 km / h. A total of two vehicles were used. The two cars were 6.50 meters long, 3.20 meters high and 2.10 meters wide. The wheelbase was four meters and the car weight was 3.2 tons. The cars each offered space for 24 people, 20 seats and four standing places. The operating voltage of the electricity was 550 volts direct current . The electricity was drawn from the Bremen tram . The route was only equipped with one pair of overhead lines, so that the pantographs had to be exchanged when vehicles met .
The Bremen-Arster Bahn was built by the local Köhlers Bahnpatente GmbH , so it was operated according to the rare Lloyd-Köhler system . In this case, the two wires were arranged one above the other (instead of next to each other as in almost all other trolleybus systems), there were only five systems in total using this system. In addition to the line covered here (which was the first of the five operations to be opened), these were the neighboring Parkbahn , the Ludwigsburger Oberleitungs-Bahnen , the Gleislose Lloyd-Bahn Brockau and the operation in Stockport, England .
operator
The concession to operate the railway was initially granted in 1910 - as with the park railway - to the builder Köhlers Bahnpatente GmbH himself. However, it was opened later by the Bremen-Arster-Bahn GmbH transport company, which was founded especially for this purpose . After this went bankrupt in March 1912, Gleislose Lloydbahnen GmbH took over the operation. On June 1, 1914, the license was transferred to the Studiengesellschaft für Vorortbahnen mbH founded on March 17, 1909 ; this subsidiary of Bremer Straßenbahn AG finally traded as Bremer Vorortbahnen GmbH from June 19, 1914 .
See also
literature
- E. Kindler: Electric bus operation with above-ground power supply in Bremen . In: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, Volume 32, Issue 8 (February 23, 1911), pages 177–180.