Cyprus Mines Corporation Mineral Railway

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Cyprus Mines Corporation Mineral Railway
Gauge : 762 mm ( narrow gauge )

The Cyprus Mines Corporation Mineral Railway was a mine railway that connected different copper mines and was used to transport the copper . The track width was 762 millimeters (2 '6 ").

history

It was connected to the Cyprus Government Railway in the Evrychou area and was discontinued in 1974 when the border was drawn. The pits were then in the Solea Valley in the Republic of Cyprus , but the ports of loading for the chalcopyrite (copper ore) in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in Xeros and Karavostasi .

Some traces of this factory railway can still be found. There is a park on the road from Morphou to Kyrenia shortly after Morphou, in which the CMC 2-8-2T 3 (Baldwin 57790/24) is set up. The nameplates and the side panels of the driver's cab are missing.

Near the former port of shipment at Xeros is at Gemikonagi next to the UN - buffer zone placed on a terrain without tracks the rest of the former vehicle fleet.

Other remains are in a café in Xeros, which has been converted into a small museum.

Still known material

Steamship

The CMC's Tid steam tug is stranded near an abandoned loading point on the Mediterranean shore near Xeros (2004)

Steam locomotives

  • No. 3 - 2-8-2T (Baldwin 57790/24) - Memorial at Morphou
  • No. 4 - 0-8-2T (Baldwin 60344/27) - parking space

Diesel locomotives

  • Diesel locomotive 1 to 9 - parking space
  • No. 7 "- 0-4-0D (VIW 4712/48) - Monument on the road between Nicosia and Kyrenia
  • Orenstein & Koppel type RL8 - 0-6-0 - (21018/38) - 2004 exhibit in the Laiki cultural center

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