Coal railway

The Hähnichen coal branch near Dresden (built in 1856) was one of the oldest German coal railways

A carbon track is a rail track , which is one carbon in particular the compound mine such as with the public railway network or direct customers thermal power plants , briquette , ironworks or coking is used. It is mostly owned by the affiliated mines; operation by the state is an exception.

Legally, coal railways are mostly classified as connecting railways, in some countries they are also under the supervision of the respective mining authorities as mine railways .

Are often used coal cars next to the removal of the coal from the mine in the reverse direction also for the transport of packing material to the mine or from waste or tailings or ash or FGD gypsum for landfill on dumps .

See also

• List of mining railways

literature

• Norbert Peschke : The Zwickau hard coal mining and its coal railways . Zschiesche GmbH, Wilkau-Haßlau 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808512-9-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ministry of Economics and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Supervision of mine connection railways . RdErl. D. Minister of Economy and Transport. Decree of the Minister for Economics and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia, October 22, 1959 ( full text - applicable decrees (SMBl. NRW.) As of July 12, 2019).