Grevenbrück lime railway

Route length:

1.5 km

		Transition to the Ruhr-Sieg route
	0.0	Station Grevenbrück (Westphalia)
		Siegener Strasse
		Koelner Strasse
	0.5	Lenne
	0.6	Engine shed
		today's B 236
	1.5	Grevenbrücker Kalkwerke

A loaded Kalkbahn train passes the engine shed and heads towards the train station

A typical train of the Kalkbahn when loading in the quarry

The Kalkbahn Grevenbrück is a former overhead line truck operation - at that time still called Gleislose Bahn - in today's municipality of Lennestadt in North Rhine-Westphalia . Its full name was Transportbahn der Grevenbrücker Kalkwerke . The operating company was the Grevenbrücker Kalkwerke GmbH , which still exists today .

The 1.5-kilometer route was opened on February 6, 1903 and operated exclusively for freight traffic . For transporting limestone from 1902 opened quarry to the station Grevenbrück at the Ruhr-Sieg railway one stood railcars and several sidecar available. The railway had gradients of over four percent. The relocation of the quarry finally led to the closure of the company in 1907.

The railway was operated according to the so-called Schiemann system , developed by the Saxon society for trackless railways Max Schiemann & Co. from Wurzen . Independently of the Kalkbahn, there was also a normal trolleybus operation with passengers in Grevenbrück , namely the Veischedetalbahn , which operated from 1904 to 1916 . Although both lines met at Grevenbrück station, they were operated largely independently of each other.

literature

Voiges: The trackless electric train in Grevenbrück i. W. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . No. 31 , April 18, 1903, p. 202-203 .

Grevenbrück lime railway

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