Trackless railway Monheim – Langenfeld
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 Turning process and mail loading in Monheim
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The Gleislose Bahn Monheim – Langenfeld was a trolleybus operation - at that time still called Gleislose Bahn - in the Rhineland . The overland route connected the city of Monheim am Rhein with Langenfeld (Rhineland) station to the east , where there was a connection to the trains on the Cologne – Duisburg line .
history
The trackless railway Monheim – Langenfeld existed from May 31, 1904 to November 5, 1908 and covered a distance of 4.5 kilometers. It was operated according to the so-called Schiemann system , developed by the Saxon company Society for Trackless Railways Max Schiemann & Co. from Wurzen . The speed was twelve to sixteen kilometers per hour, in addition to people, up to 5,000 tons of goods were transported annually, as well as mail . The freight carried as needed, mainly the former was brick factory on the eastern outskirts of Monheim served.
The route was consistently single-lane, there were no air switches or turning loops . If two vehicles met, one of them had to pull off the pantograph poles. At the two end points, these had to be turned around with the help of horses , sometimes with great effort.
The trackless railway Monheim – Langenfeld had to be closed again after four years because the ten-ton wagons ruined the road surface . At that time it was replaced by a standard-gauge electric small train operated by the small railway Langenfeld – Monheim – Hitdorf .
vehicles
Initially, a motor vehicle and an identically constructed sidecar were available for passenger transport , later the trailer was also converted into a motor vehicle. The passenger vehicles of the railway also carried mail . The two passenger cars were identical to the vehicles used on the Veischedetalbahn .
Freight traffic was carried out with a trolley tractor, to which several two-axle trailers were coupled.
Picture gallery
The freight train at Langenfeld station
The freight train on the open line in the Knipprath forest
Contemporary caricature of the trackless railway on a historical postcard
See also
literature
- About trackless railways . In: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering , No. 39/1908 (XXVIth year), p. 836.
- Stefan Kunig, Gunter Mackinger: The railways of the city of Monheim . Kenning, Nordhorn 2001, ISBN 3-933613-00-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Uwe Ziegler: Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH (BSM). Archived from the original on June 16, 2000 ; Retrieved December 10, 2008 .
- ^ History of local transport. Bahn der Stadt Monheim GmbH, archived from the original on February 2, 2007 ; Retrieved December 10, 2008 .
- ^ Monheim Lexicon: Railways and buses. (No longer available online.) City of Monheim am Rhein, archived from the original on April 30, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ From the postal history of the city of Monheim. (PDF; 37 KiB) Briefmarkenfreunde Monheim am Rhein eV, accessed on October 26, 2008 .
