Historic Frankfurt Railway

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HEF diesel train with V 36 on the Frankfurt am Main municipal connection line
VT 98 train set 2015 at the new "European Central Bank" stop

The Historical Railway Frankfurt is a museum railway in Frankfurt am Main . The association was founded in 1978 and aims to keep historically valuable railway materials, especially steam locomotives , operational as technical cultural monuments .

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Königstein station festival

Since 1979 there has been a regular museum operation on the tracks of the Frankfurt port railway on several weekends a year . The trains commute from the stop at Eiserner Steg between the Osthafen train stations (at the Frankfurt (Main) Ost freight station ) and Griesheim . In April 2015, the stop at the new building of the European Central Bank was added. Since 1981, the association has organized the Königstein station festival every year on Whitsun , to which the Königsteiner Bahn between Frankfurt-Höchst and Königstein im Taunus runs. In addition, vehicles from the historic Frankfurt railway are used for special trips throughout Germany .

Rolling material

The association has several operational locomotives . The best known and most historically significant was until August 2019, the express steam locomotive 01 118 of the 01 series .

The steam locomotive 01 118

01 118 in use in front of a special passenger train in Neustadt (Weinstrasse)

The locomotive was built in 1934 by Krupp in Essen under the factory number 1415 and is the only one of its type that has been in continuous operation to this day. It was delivered on December 18, 1934 and subsequently technically accepted by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on December 24, 1934. The purchase price for the locomotive with tender was 208,597 Reichsmarks . She started work on January 2, 1935. In March 1939 it was retrofitted with inductive train control .

The locomotive was stationed in various Central German depots over the years. After the end of the Second World War, it remained in the Soviet occupation zone and was incorporated into the inventory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , where it received the EDP number 01 2118-6 in 1970.

The Reichsbahn refrained from major modifications and modernizations during the entire period of its use. As a result, its appearance remained largely unchanged, which is particularly characterized by the large Wagner- type smoke deflectors . Instead of the original riveted tender, the locomotive was coupled to a type 2'2'T 34 tender that Borsig delivered in 1941 with the factory number 15117. The steam boiler has also been replaced several times over the years. The locomotive received its current boiler, the seventh in total, in July 1973. It originally came from the 01 191 built in 1937 and was last used on the 01 089.

By the time it was sold to the Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt on November 5, 1981, it had covered a total of 3,559,271 kilometers according to the operating log. Their last depot was the Saalfeld depot of the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt .

The sale was handled by Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH , a commercial coordination company . This department of the Foreign Trade Ministry of the GDR headed by Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski had the task of procuring foreign currency by selling works of art and antiques to customers in western countries . After the purchase contracts were signed, the locomotive set off for the west on November 7, 1981, together with two other historic locomotives, the 35 1097 (originally 23 1097) and the 03 2098.

The locomotive has been used for special trips since 1981, initially on the Frankfurt port railway , and since 1985 also on public railways. The locomotive underwent the necessary general inspections in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003 and can therefore continue to be used for special trips that led to France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In the spring of 2004 the locomotive received the PZB 90 train protection system . It is stationed in Frankfurt (Main) Osthafen .

Until 2006, the special trips were organized by the Nuremberg Transport Museum . In addition to the traditional events of the Historic Railway in Frankfurt, it also occurs, for example, as part of the Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main , z. B. at the Frankfurt Harbor Festival in August 2006.

Apart from the numerous photographs and films that railway enthusiasts and trainspotters produce for each of their appearances, the locomotive played an important supporting role in the 2001 TV melodrama Robbed Love , which was filmed by the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt.

The 01 118 is the prototype for several models in different gauges. In 2004, for the 70th anniversary of the locomotive, a small series model in brass for nominal size 1 was presented. It is also available as a high-volume model for the TT nominal size in various versions from BTTB and Tillig . Märklin brought out a model of the locomotive in nominal size H0 .

On June 5, 2019, the association announced that the locomotive had to be sold in 2013 for economic reasons in order to be able to cover the costs for the maintenance work that was due at the time. In June 2019, the association's contractually granted right of use for the locomotive ended. It was therefore transferred to the private collection of the owner Martin Viessmann in a hall in Battenberg (Eder) on August 4, 2019 and stored there with a deadline valid until March 2020. After the overpass - as planned by DB Netz - the route category of the connecting line from Allendorf was reduced, which would have required a significantly more complicated road transport for a later overpass to Battenberg . This also prevents the locomotive from being easily returned to operation. The locomotive will therefore no longer be under steam for the time being.

Steam locomotive 52 4867

52 4867 with a shuttle train on the port railway

The freight locomotive 52 4867 was built in 1943 and stayed in Austria after the Second World War . In 1980 she came from the Graz-Köflacher Railway and Mining Company to the Frankfurt Historical Railway.

52 4867 drove an unusual job in October 2007: When the tracks on the connecting curve of the Bäderbahn (Homburger Damm) - a connecting track normally used by the Taunusbahn in the west of Frankfurt - were to be completely renovated, the executing company decided to use the freight locomotive from of the Historic Railway Frankfurt as a tractor for the heavy work trains. 52 4867 moved wagons loaded with track ballast to the Frankfurt (Main) Höchst freight yard in a 64-hour permanent shift . The 52 was also used at Easter 2008 for further work on the Main-Neckar Bridge .

Other locomotives

Köf II

The association also has the following locomotives:

  • 2 diesel locomotives of the V 36 series . The two V 36 405 and V 36 406 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , built in 1950, were acquired by the Frankfurt Historical Railway after they were retired in 1981 and 1979, respectively. From them the V 36 406 will be kept operational.
  • 2 small locomotives of performance group II :
    • The Kö 5712, built in 1942, was initially used at the Peenemünde Army Research Institute and after the war came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Erfurt . Retired in 1995, it was refurbished from 1998 and has been operational again since 2000.
    • The Köf 4293, built in 1934, is privately owned. It has been used on loan by the Historical Railway in Frankfurt since it was refurbished in 2004.

A pre-series -V 36 (LDF 300 C) is now in the Technik-Museum Speyer . The locomotive was manufactured by Schwartzkopff (BMAG) for the Wehrmacht in 1938 and finally sold in 1962 by the Steinhuder Meer-Bahn with the number 271 to the city of Frankfurt. For use by Stadtwerke Frankfurt , the vehicle listed there as No. 2018 was equipped with a pantograph to control signals and switches on a route of the former Frankfurt local railway . The locomotive was parked in 1980 because of a crack in the engine block and handed over to the Frankfurt Historical Railway.

A set of Uerdinger rail buses , consisting of the motor car 798 629-2, the control car 996 683-9 and the sidecar 998 175-4 is currently rented to the Eifelbahn Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH in Linz, whereby the sidecar is inoperable .

In addition, the HEF acquired the express steam locomotive 18 314 from the DR in 1984. A short time later, the locomotive was transferred to the Technology Museum in Sinsheim, where it can still be seen today.

Passenger coaches

The association owns a number of historic passenger coaches , including five four-axle wagons from the Bm 234 series , a saloon car , two three-axle wagons from the 3yg series and a Gms series wagon for their power supply .

Web links

Commons : Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : DRG 01 118  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Marvin Christ, Wilfried Staub: Newsletter of the Historical Railway Frankfurt (HEF) No. 75 . Ed .: Historical Railway Frankfurt e. V. Frankfurt May 13, 2015, p. 5-6 .
  2. Newsletter No. 99 of June 5, 2019
  3. Last trip: Legendary steam locomotive 01-118 arrives in Battenberg private museum. August 6, 2019, accessed August 9, 2019 .
  4. Wolfgang Schubert: Untimely track construction. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Issued October 17, 2007.
  5. Walter Söhnlein, Jürgen Leindecker: The Frankfurter Lokalbahn and their electric Taunus-Bahnen. , GeraMond, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-932785-04-5 , p. 145

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 55.8 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 47.1"  E