Trackless railway in Eberswalde
The Trackless train Eberswalde was a trolley bus operation In the north of Berlin nearby Brandenburg City Eberswalde . The company opened on March 22, 1901 and had to be closed again in June 1901 due to technical difficulties and the poor road surface - as a result of which the wheels were worn too quickly. The Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde was the first regularly operated trolleybus in Germany, while the electric vehicle from 1882 was only used for experimental purposes.
The first Eberswalder trolleybus route was about one kilometer long and connected the peripheral central station with Alsen-Platz in the city center, today's Karl-Marx-Platz. It ran on its entire route through Eisenbahnstraße, today's federal highway 167 . The depot was located near the end of the city on Zimmerstrasse. Today's Grabowstraße intermediate stop did not exist at the time, a single trip cost ten pfennigs at the time .
The Eberswalde trackless railway was built and operated according to the French Lombard-Gérin catenary system . There was only a motor vehicle without a trailer , this was a former horse-drawn bus . The vehicle reached a top speed of twelve kilometers per hour and belonged to the Paris company Compagnie de Traction par Trolley Automoteur .
Today's Eberswalde trolleybus has existed since November 3, 1940 ; it is operated by the Barnimer Busgesellschaft and, among other things, also serves the former route of the trackless railway from 1901.
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The trackless railway on a contemporary postcard
Eisenbahnstrasse, at the Wilhelmstrasse intersection: the trackless railway on its way into town
The trackless railway with the Alsen-Platz destination sign
The overhead line attached to seven-meter-high wooden masts in Eisenbahnstrasse at the corner of Zimmerstrasse
See also
literature
- Ludger Kenning, Mattis Schindler (Hrsg.): Trolleybuses in Germany . Volume 1: Berlin - Brandenburg - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein - Hamburg - Bremen - Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia - Saxony, former German eastern territories. Kenning, Nordhorn 2009, ISBN 978-3-933613-34-9 .