Camber Railway

One of the two steam locomotives on the Camber Railway. The initially open driver's cab was not suitable for the cold winters. The photo was probably taken in 1915 shortly after it was unloaded from the SS Ismailia visible in the background .

Steam locomotive with hand-applied joking lettering Falkland Island Express and wooden-clad lorries of the first, second and third class as well as the lettering Smoker ( smoker ).

The Camber Railway was a narrow-gauge railway (gauge 610 mm / 2 ft ) on the Falkland Islands . It was one of the southernmost railways in the world and was built to supply a radio station of the British Admiralty with coal for the generators. It ran over a length of 5.6 km along Stanley Harbor .

The line went into operation in September 1915. There were two two-axle steam locomotives of the "Wren" class supplied by Kerr, Stuart & Company .

The railway was shut down in the second half of the 1920s after the radio station was modernized; because the development of the amplifier tube made the originally used pop-spark transmitter superfluous, and much less energy was required than before. Some rails were installed in Argentine bunkers during the Falklands War in 1982 .

vehicles

two steam locomotives of the "Wren" class: KS 2388/15 and 2392/15
three wooden lorries
a steam crane (on a flat wagon)
Tilting lorries
flat carts

Lorries with masts and sails in the early 1920s

In the early 1920s, several carts were each fitted with a mast and a sail so that wind power could move in at least one direction. Some of these sailing lorries are featured on postage stamps from the Falkland Islands.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The Falkland Island Express . Railways of the Far South. May 6, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
^ The Camber Railway at Stanley . Railways of the Far South. May 28, 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Camber Railway - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The Falkland Island Express (extensive representation of the Camber Railway with numerous photos, English)
Gustavo Adolfo Tamaño: Historias poco conocidas: Un ferrocarril en las Malvinas. (PDF (2.3 MB)) Soldados Digital, 2009, accessed on January 3, 2015 (Spanish).

-51.682777777778 -57.884166666667Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 58 ″ S , 57 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ W

[rotfs-1] The Falkland Island Express . Railways of the Far South. May 6, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2015.

[2] The Camber Railway at Stanley . Railways of the Far South. May 28, 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2015.