Nieder-Ramstadt industrial railway
The industrial railway Nieder-Ramstadt linked the quarry at Wingertsberg in Nieder-Ramstadt with the station Nieder Ramstadt-Traisa (now Mühltal) of Odenwaldbahn .
history
The quarry opened in 1886. Here diorite , hornfels and granite were extracted. The industrial railway with a gauge of 720 mm was put into operation in August 1891. It transported the extracted rock to the loading facility at Nieder Ramstadt-Traisa station . This was done first with horses. In 1893 the Leferenz brothers bought the quarry and in 1898 brought it to the Odenwald hard stone industry . From 1903 a steam locomotive was used on the industrial railway , from 1935 diesel locomotives . During the Second World War , operations ceased and the locomotives were used in Russia . Production only started again in mid-1954. In 1957 the industrial railway was discontinued, in 1974 the quarry operation.
vehicles
Steam locomotives:
- Tank locomotive Bn2t, type 27GG1 from Krauss & Co , Munich, 1892, serial number 2596; 1903 bought second-hand from “Basaltwerke Rouselle & Co.”, Hanau .
- Tank locomotive Bn2t by Arnold Jung , Jungenthal , 1922, serial number 3157.
Diesel locomotives:
- B-dm from Maschinenfabrik Windhoff AG serial number 331, built in 1935, LS32sIII (the only copy of this type); Umgespurt 1954 mm to 750 and to the quarry Steinefrenz issued
- B-dm from Gmeinder , serial number 3064, built in 1942; 1951 re-tracked to 750 mm and handed over to the Steinfrenz quarry
literature
- Berthold Matthäus: Feldbahnen of the Odenwald hard stone industry . Ed .: Association for Local History Ober-Ramstadt 2000.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 53.7 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 2.5" E