Children's tram in Frankfurt am Main
The children's tram in the youth traffic garden of the city of Frankfurt am Main is a miniature tram in the style of a garden tram . The train runs in the city's youth traffic garden on an oval of rails.
technology
route
The children's tram was built in May 1960 with a gauge of 410 mm in the youth traffic garden of the city of Frankfurt am Main on the edge of the Grüneburg Park on Siesmayerstraße . The track is 220 m long and surrounds the youth traffic garden in a large oval. There is a junction to the parking facility in the youth traffic garden building. An overhead line does not exist. The route crosses an intersection equipped with a functional traffic light with driving signals for the train.
vehicle
The children's tram only has one vehicle that is externally modeled on the Frankfurt type K railcar , as it is in use in the city as an Ebbelwei express to the present day . The car was built in 1960 in the training workshop of the city of Frankfurt. The energy for the electric motor is provided by truck batteries with a voltage of 24 volts , which is enough for almost eight hours of uninterrupted operation. The power of the motor is 500 watts . The vehicle can accommodate up to five children and the driver. The vehicle is 330 cm long, 160 cm high (with simulated pantograph 220 cm) and 82 cm wide. It weighs 750 kg and has a top speed of 5 km / h. In 2007 the vehicle was overhauled. It is technically supervised by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (VGF) and driven by police officers who give traffic lessons in the youth traffic garden.
business
The train operates as line 1 . It is mainly used during the local holiday games, but only rarely during regular traffic lessons.
The future of the children's tram and the entire site is currently open (as of August 2017), since after the neighboring biological institutes have moved away, the traffic garden may also give way to new buildings or be added to Grüneburgpark as a green area.
See also
literature
- Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 , p. 152 .
- bgr: Miniature tram Frankfurt (Main) . In: IBSE telegram . tape 212 . Interest group for trams and railroad tours e. V., Passau July 1, 2008.
- Michael Walke: The miniature tram in the youth traffic garden of the city of Frankfurt am Main . In: Tram magazine - Electric local transport in reports and pictures from the past and present 16 . tape 56 . GeraMond Verlag , Munich 1985, p. 144 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Field report traffic education for the year 2010 .
- ↑ The traffic garden should give way to daycare. ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: fnp.de from October 8, 2012
- ↑ Urban planning: youth traffic garden could become a green area / Grüneburgpark should be bigger. ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: fnp.de from August 22, 2017
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 30.5 ″ E