Inselbahn Röm
| Inselbahn Röm | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route length: | 3.8 km | ||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||
|
|||||||||
The Röm island railway was opened on June 1, 1899. The operator of the island railway on what is now the Danish island of Rømø , which belonged to Prussia between 1865 and the referendum in Schleswig in 1920 , was Nordseebad Lakolk AG in Altona . After 1920 the Danish term Troljebanen was used for the railway .
The 3.8 kilometer long 750 mm horse-drawn tram connected the harbor in Kongsmark on the east side of the island with the hotels and the beach in Lakolk in the west. The concession was issued as a horse-drawn tram (tram), the use of a small steam locomotive failed due to the poor and too light superstructure of the railway.
The island railway, whose journey time was 20 minutes, served the guests arriving and departing by ship from Hoyer lock as a feeder to and from the hotels and for the onward transport of the goods that were transported to the island by the ferries . The car park included two passenger cars and four baggage cars. The Rømø island railway only operated in the summer months, horse-drawn carriages were used for transports outside of the holiday period .
The island railway was able to hold up until 1940, and a lack of care and maintenance of the systems and vehicles made it impossible to resume operations at the beginning of the 1941 season. An investor could not be found because the company had hardly paid off in recent years. The rails were dismantled and sold, the vehicles dismantled and scrapped on site or given as "stalls".
The former route roughly corresponds to today's Gammel Skinnevej .
literature
- Gerd Wolff: Schleswig-Holstein 2 (western part) (= German small and private railways . Volume 13 ). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-672-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Station of the horse tram in Kongsmark
- ↑ Station of the horse tram in Lakolk
- ↑ Troljebanen on Rømø. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; accessed on April 16, 2018 .
Web links
- Kongsmark 1899-1940. havnebaner.dk, accessed November 17, 2016 .
- Troljebanen on Romo. 100 year old photos. February 12, 2013, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 .
- Island railway on the island of Rømø
- Map of Bad Lakolk 1880
- Map of Kongsmark 1880
- Sven Bracke: Small railways in Schleswig-Holstein. Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, accessed on October 7, 2015 .
