Feldbahn Grauerort

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Feldbahn Grauerort
Museum railway operation
Museum railway operation
Route of the field railway Grauerort
Route
Route length: 1.2 km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The light railway Grauerort is a 1.2 km long narrow gauge - heritage railway with a track width of 600 mm around the fortress Grauerort in Bützfleth .

history

The park railway- like field railway has been operated since 2003 on Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of October with historic locomotives for passenger transport.

Route

The ring-shaped route runs from the engine shed around the Grauerort fortress to the Elbe dike and then back to the engine shed. The rails with the profile customary for the Federal Railroad are laid on wooden sleepers. Only the tracks in the locomotive shed themselves consist of the 80 rail profiles customary on narrow-gauge railways.

Rail vehicles

There are four diesel locomotives, five tipping lorries and other freight wagons and ammunition wagons from the Krupp-Dollberg company that have been converted into passenger cars .

Surname Manufacturer Serial number Construction year Type power Weight
Fortress lightning Deutz 22-792 1939 OMZ 117F 45 hp
Brick lightning Schöttler-Diepholz 2501 1962 DS28 12 hp 4.7 t
Groveblitz The MA 2175 1958 Diema DS 60 75 hp 10 t
S flash LKM Babelsberg 248474 1954 NS2f 46 hp

Web links

Commons : Feldbahn Grauerort  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Circuit of the field railway.
  2. ↑ Locomotives on Grauerort.


Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 16 ″  E