Altona harbor towage
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The Altona Hafenschleppbahn , also known as the Altonaer Schleppbahn , was a so-called trackless railway with catenary and electric road tractors or catenary trucks based on the Schiemann system .
history
Opened on January 2, 1911, it served to make it easier for horse-drawn vehicles to negotiate the steep roads of the Geesthang at the port of Altona / Elbe , or to enable them at all.
The operator was initially the Gleislose Bahnbetriebe GmbH , from 1922 the city of Altona and from 1938 the city of Hamburg. The railway was not discontinued until 1949, which had meanwhile become superfluous due to the truck . It existed significantly longer than all other trolleybus and trolley truck systems that were set up before the First World War . When the Wurzen industrial line was closed on October 23, 1928, Altona was the only overhead line truck operation in Germany.
See also
literature
- Ludger Kenning, Mattis Schindler: Trolleybuses in Germany, Volume 1. Kenning, Nordhorn 2009, ISBN 978-3-933613-34-9 .
Web links
- turntable-foren.de: Trackless railways in Blankenese and Altona, by Ludger Kenning ( memento from June 30, 2014 on WebCite ), accessed on June 30, 2014