Weserbergland steam railway
The steam railway Weser Mountains (DEW) is a railway museum - club based in Rinteln .
history
In 1972 some friends of the railroad got together to found an association. With regard to the approach of using the end of steam locomotives at the DB is planned for retirement pending steam engines and other historical vehicles from private companies to acquire and carry out special trips. As early as the following year, the company was able to offer various journeys on private railway lines in Lower Saxony with the first own vehicles, and from 1974 regular museum trains ran on the Rinteln – Stadthagen railway line . A stand-up boiler steam locomotive of the Kittel type , which was borrowed from the German Railway Association , was used together with a number of two-axle passenger cars. The vehicle collection quickly grew to include other vehicles from private and works railways , as well as other steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and railcars. In the following years there was also a museum railway operation on the routes of the Mindener Kreisbahnen and Wittlager Kreisbahn .
The local association members founded their own association in 1977, which since then has continued operations around Minden and Preußisch Oldendorf under the name Museums-Eisenbahn Minden . For this purpose, some vehicles were taken over by DEW, but others were also procured later. In the period that followed, DEW only used the Rinteln-Stadthagener Eisenbahn with its trains, although the existing locomotives were quickly overwhelmed by the trains due to the increasing demand and had to be replaced by more powerful locomotives.
When the steam locomotive ban came to an end in 1985, DB routes could be used again, but the DB's own steam trips were accompanied by a sharp drop in passengers on the established museum railways. In 1987 a complete train consisting of a steam locomotive and five wagons was sold to the Hasetal Railway Friends, who have been offering museum transport on the Meppen-Haselünner Railway since then .
The museum train has undergone major changes since the early 1990s: While private railway vehicles and old express train wagons previously dominated the scene, vehicles from the former GDR have predominantly been used since then. Since the use of a more powerful locomotive became necessary, a sponsor of the association was able to purchase a locomotive from the DR class 52.80 and make it available to DEW. The club itself bought several cars and a diesel locomotive. Since 2002, the regular trips between Rinteln and Stadthagen (or Wunstorf) have been supplemented by a " Weserbergland tour" via Vlotho .
The steam train operating group from Loburg acts as the railway transport company for the association , and there is also close cooperation with the Aschersleben railway club.
The planned closure of the line by the East Hanoverian Railways as the parent company of Rinteln-Stadthagener Verkehrs GmbH in 2009 would also have hit DEW, which until then had their domicile in Rinteln-Nord station. Regardless of the closure debate, this station had to be evacuated because a hypermarket was to be built on its premises. The DEW therefore moved with the entire vehicle fleet to the other end of the line to Stadthagen-West, in Rinteln only the locomotive shed as a workshop for the association and two tracks remain. The closure of the line could finally be prevented in 2010 after the support group “Bückebergbahn Rinteln – Stadthagen” leased the line and the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn could be won as EIU .
Vehicle fleet
Today's museum train
Today's museum train consists of a locomotive of the DR class 52.80 with the number 52 8038, and a total of six Reko cars . Below is a dining car and a half baggage car . There is also a saloon car (a converted express train car) and a 1st/2 modernization car . Class. A baggage car is available for transporting bicycles and luggage; there is also a Skl 24 and 25 . In addition to the steam locomotive, the association also owns various diesel locomotives of various performance classes , such as a Köf II , a Gmeinder -Werklok, a Wehrmacht locomotive WR 360 C 14 (which was used by the RStE from 1956 to 1978) and a V 60 (DR) (V 60 1200) .
Delivered vehicles
In addition to the vehicles still in existence today, DEW has given numerous vehicles to other clubs over the years. The first locomotive used, a Kittel type standing boiler steam locomotive from 1908, was only borrowed and was returned to the owner ( German Railway Association ) after purchasing a more powerful machine . It is exhibited today in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin.
Locomotives 2 and 3 were three-axle steam locomotives. Locomotive 2 was of the " Crefeld " type from the Hohenzollern company and came from the railway and port operations of Ruhrkohle AG , which they last used until 1975 at the Radbod colliery as the "D-712". It was sold to the Hamm museum railway in 1985 . Locomotive 3 was purchased on loan from the Hattingen joint venture in 1997 and bought in 1976. It was built by Henschel in 1922 and, as the "Bismarck" type, was one of the pr. T 3 . The locomotive was exhibited at the Hanover Fair in April 1980 and sold to Eisenbahnfreunde Hasetal in 1987 .
Again the locomotive with the number 4 was stronger, it was the " MEVISSEN IV " locomotive from the mine of the same name , which was taken over on loan from the Auto and Motorcycle Museum Bad Oeynhausen (today Motor Technica Museum) in 1976 and was the first to arrive in 1977 the Minden Museum Railway, founded by DEW, was given up.
The museum train with the quadruple coupled locomotives 5 and 6 experienced a further increase in performance. Locomotive 5 again comes from Ruhrkohle AG, corresponds to the Henschel type "Essen", was built in 1938 and last until 1977 at the Königsborn colliery as "D-776" used. The locomotive was parked after the deadline and is now dismantled at MaLoWa . Locomotive 6, on the other hand, was taken over in 1979 by the power station of the former Graf Bismarck colliery , which was now operated by Texaco . It was built by Henschel in 1949 and was last named "GRAF BISMARCK XVI". The locomotive was used until 1991, after a few years of storage it was then sold to France via MaLoWa.
Two railcars were temporarily owned by the association: On the one hand, this is the former "T 7" of the Mindener Kreisbahnen, which was bought from there in 1975. It had previously been used under the numbers 718 and 133 001 for the DR and later as VT 78 901 for the DB . At DEW he was given the designation "VT 10". With a matching sidecar, which had been taken over by the Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn in 1979, the railcar was sold to the Franconian Switzerland Steam Railway at the end of the 1990s .
The second railcar DEW was one of the "community of interest Esslinger motor coaches" (IET) available asked Esslinger motor coaches provided by the SWEG was bought by the IET and deployed starting in 1985 as VT 110th Since the vehicle's engine power and gearbox were not sufficient for the route, it was sold to the Mansfelder Land circuit in 2000 with the approval of the IET .
A locomotive of the Henschel type DH 360 of the 2nd generation of Henschel post-war diesel locomotives, which the association was able to acquire in 1988, was designated as the "V 8" . It was used on the Rinteln-Stadthagener railway from 1991 until the expiry of the deadlines and sold to Aschersleben in the early 2000s. The first occupation of the number "V 9" was a Köf II taken over by the WLE , which was used by DEW from 1978 to 1988 and was then sold to the Minden Museum Railway. A locomotive from the pre -series of the DR class V 60 received the same number with a second occupation . It was acquired in 1994 and given to a private person in 2006. A locomotive of under the number "V 11" Deutz -type KHD A6M 220 R performed in 1981 by the Steinhude railway taken over 1988 to 1990 on loan to the Museum railway coastal railway Ostfriesland used and to the 1990 Verden Eisenbahnfreunde was sold.
Numerous passenger and freight cars were also sold to various other museum railways.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minden Museum Railway - May we introduce ourselves further? Minden Museum Railway, accessed on February 3, 2016 .
- ^ "Lower Saxony" steam locomotive. Eisenbahnfreunde Hasetal, accessed on February 3, 2016 .