State rail freight company Deuben
| Freight railway Deuben (as of 1967) |
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| Route length: | 0.946 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 600 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 15 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 10 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The state freight railway Deuben (also Deuben freight supply system ) was a tram only serving goods traffic in the area of today's city of Freital . Originally built by the Royal Saxon State Railways , it was later part of the Dresden tram . It was intended as a meter-gauge connecting railway for the numerous factories between Potschappel and Hainsberg. In fact, only the branch line leading to the Sohre AG leather factory and the Egermühle in Poisental was operated.
history
The Plauensche Grundbahn had existed between the then still independent communities of Löbtau (1903 to Dresden) and Deuben (1921 to Freital), which was later continued to Coßmannsdorf , since 1902 . In contrast to the inner-city Dresden lines, this - like other overland lines - was owned by the Royal Saxon State Railways in order to rule out any competition with the railway lines from the outset. This was built in the track width of 1450 millimeters customary in Dresden. The operation was leased by the German Tram Company in Dresden , and from 1906 by the Dresden City Tram . When it was built, a third rail for the freight railway was laid between Potschappel and Deuben over a distance of 2.75 kilometers . With the extension of the tram to Hainsberg, the third rail was extended to the level of the melting pot factory (today Kirchstraße). This means that companies between Potschappel and Hainsberg now have the option of a rail connection via the freight railway. The choice of the gauge was justified with the intention of only transporting standard-gauge freight wagons on trolleys to the factories. Contrary to expectations, only Egermühle and Sohre leather factory in Deuben expressed their interest in a connection. Since both companies were a bit off the tram route, a continuous meter-gauge track was built from the Deuben tram station to these companies.
The line was opened on January 18, 1906. The Dresden City Tram took over the management. In the first year of operation, 28,610 tons of goods were transported.
When the Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, the state trams remained the property of what was now the Free State of Saxony . In 1926 they became part of the Dresdner Überland-Verkehr GmbH (DRÜVEG), which only became part of the Dresden tram in 1941. Since no further customers were found after the First World War, the third rail was removed from the tram track by 1930. Only the track to the leather factory and the Egermühle remained.
The Deubener Güterbahn was in operation until 1972. Operation of the Egermühle ended in 1967, and on November 19, 1972, trains ran to the leather factory for the last time. The tram route to Coßmannsdorf was also given up a little later - on May 26, 1974.
Locomotives and wagons
On behalf of the Royal Saxon State Railways, Henschel & Sohn in Kassel built two electric tram locomotives with a central driver's cab under the serial numbers 7443 and 7444 for the Deubener Güterbahn in 1905 . They were given company numbers 1 and 2 (later 3091 and 3092). They were the first electric locomotives procured by K.Sächs.Sts.EB and were part of their inventory until 1920. Both locomotives were preserved as museums after they were decommissioned - after they were temporarily stored on the Albertstadt industrial railway . The former number 1 now belongs to the Dresden Tram Museum, the number 2 was sold to the manufacturer in Kassel in 1979 as a museum locomotive. Today it is in its original state in the Technik-Museum Kassel . It incorrectly bears the nameplate and number of sister locomotive number 1.
In 1905 and 1906, the Deubener Güterbahn received twelve trolleys of types 899 and 900, which were supplied by Kelle & Hildebrandt in Großluga , to transport standard-gauge wagons . Two more trolleys of type 900 were subsequently procured in 1917. The cars were unsprung and only had a throw lever brake as braking equipment . Vehicles with similar dimensions were later procured for the Klingenthal – Sachsenberg-Georgenthal narrow-gauge railway . Another trolley for transporting three-axle wagons came in 1917 from the meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway Reichenbach – Oberheinsdorf , but was soon parked and scrapped in 1928. The trolleys were scrapped in 1966 (one), 1967 (five), 1972 (three) and 1973 (one), three were handed over to the Lockwitztalbahn . Rollwagen 3507 was preserved as a museum exhibit and is now owned by Traditionsbahn Radebeul e. V.
A snow plow , a salt wagon and a broken axle wagon were used as work wagons by the Lößnitzbahn in 1930 after they had been re- tracked , whereby the snow plow was scrapped in 1933 without ever being used. Two years later the salt truck was scrapped. The axle breaker wagon remained in use until it was decommissioned and was scrapped in 1973.
literature
- Mario Schatz: Meter-gauge trams in Dresden ; Kenning-Verlag, Nordhorn, 2007, ISBN 978-3-933613-76-9 , pp. 55-64.
- Wolfgang Messerschmidt, Siegfried Kademann : Henschel locomotives from 1848 to today , Steiger Verlag, Moers 1985, p. 177
Web links
- Description on www.bimmelbahn.de ( Memento from February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ The wagons of the Saxon secondary railways ; EK-Verlag 1998, pp. 129, 219