Dresden Haide Railway
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 Towards the city in front of the railway bridge on the industrial site
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| Route length: | 5.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 550 volts = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 80 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 25 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dresdner Haide-Bahn was a trolleybus operation, then still called trackless railway , between the northern outskirts of Dresden and today's Dresden district of Klotzsche . It was built by the Dresden entrepreneur Carl Stoll and operated as the first line according to the Stoll system he developed . After the Bielatalbahn , the Haide-Bahn was the second trolleybus operation in Saxony . In addition, there was also a modern trolleybus operation in the city between 1947 and 1975, the Dresden trolleybus.
history
The line ran from what was then the city limits of Dresden at the Arsenal tram depot through the Dresdner Heide and through Klotzsche to the Deutsche Eiche inn , which was the outskirts at the time. In the ten-year concession a possible later use of the facilities by the tram was specified. The route of the tram, built in 1911, was laid on the other side of the street.
The overhead lines for the 5.2-kilometer route were built in 1902. Initially, they only led up to about 100 meters from the depot in Dresden. Only after the opening of the railway were these last meters located within the then city limits approved. The runway was removed on March 20, 1903, and the first journey started on March 23 at 3:00 p.m. It served to present the train and so only invited guests and the press took part. To demonstrate the efficiency of the railway, a sidecar with a brass band was attached. The first public trip followed the next day. Initially, three cars drove every 20 minutes. When this was no longer sufficient on the weekends, three more cars were manufactured and the route was driven every ten minutes.
vehicles
The total of five or six existing vehicles were designed as semi- trailers. The four-wheeled towing vehicle with the driver's seat and electrical equipment had a steerable front axle and a rigid rear axle driven by two motors of 15 HP each. The front part of the car body for the passengers was rotatable on the towing car and had a fixed axle with large running wheels at the rear. In winter, so-called ice tires could be fitted to the driving wheels and the axle of the car body could be replaced by runners. To a coupling of the railcar a could sidecar be attached. This was only intended for passenger traffic during rush hour , otherwise it was intended for freight traffic.
The vehicles were electrically supplied with an operating voltage of 550 volts via a two-pole overhead line on which a four-wheeled contact car was pulled along by the vehicles. Since there was only one overhead line route, vehicles meeting each other had to stop and replace the pantographs by repositioning the cables.
In operation, the power consumption with the contact trolley was particularly problematic, as it often fell. The technical supervisory authority temporarily prohibited operation. In spite of constructive improvements, the power consumption with the contact car remained the weak point of the railway. This procedure had already failed on a Siemens test route for electric tram operation between Westend and Spandauer Bock and was soon replaced there by a slotted pipeline .
End of operation
On March 19, 1904, the railway ceased operations after Stoll's main partner, AEG , had terminated its contract on December 29, 1903 . After the Russian government had dropped its plans to build such a railway in Saint Petersburg after the lost war against Japan , the company ran into financial difficulties. A final attempt by Stoll to save the railway from ruin failed in May 1904. The train was auctioned on July 16, 1904, and a horse-drawn bus line started operating there on July 18 .
More tracks
In addition to the Haide Railway, there were three other systems based on the Stoll system, these were the trackless line Poprád – Ótátrafüred , the also Hungarian trackless railway Hermannstadt and the trackless railway Niederschöneweide – Johannisthal near Berlin .
literature
- Electric bus operation near Dresden . In: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, Volume 24, Issue 34 (August 20, 1903), pp. 668–670.
Web links
- The Dresdner Haidebahn on www.dresdner-nahverkehr.de ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- The Dresden Haidebahn on www.dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ^ John Prentice: West Ham's First Trolleybus, Part 5: The Stoll Trolleybus Systems. In: Tramway Information. Retrieved January 8, 2014 .
- ↑ The Dresden heath track. March 1, 2005, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on January 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Haidebahn. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved January 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Letter from Max Schiemann to the Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, published in issue 36 (September 3, 1903), p. 735.