Lillesand – Flaksvandbanen

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Lillesand – Flaksvand
Lillesand railway station 1902
Lillesand railway station 1902
Route length: 16.6 km
Gauge : 1067 mm ( cape track )
Maximum slope : 33.3  ‰
Minimum radius : 60 m
Legend
   
 16.59 Flaksvatn (until about 1923 Flaksvand) 27  moh.
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14.21 Birkeland 46  moh.
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13.80
   
 Møllebekken
   
 10.99 Tveite (until about 1907 Tveide) 71  moh.
   
 Moelva
   
 Quarry
   
 6.53 Eikeland (until around 1925 Eigeland) 50  moh.
   
 4.75 Storemyr (station until 1920, Hp until 1925) 47  moh.
   
 Sandvad gravel pit
   
 1.72 Møglestu 42  moh.
   
 0.47 Stene
   
 0.00 Lillesand 2  moh.

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The Lillesand – Flaksvandbane (LFB or LFB) was a railway line in Norway that ran between Lillesand and Flaksvand. The line was the first railway in Agder and was almost 17 km long. It was built with a gauge of 1067 mm, opened in 1896 and shut down in 1953.

history

Steam locomotive in Lillesand (1927)

The first planning began in the early 1870s when the Lillesand Jernbanekomité wanted to improve the transport of timber between the inland locations and the coast. In December 1884 an inquiry was made to the Ministry of the Interior to build a new railway line. The Komitéen for tertiær Jernbaneanlæg Lillesand-Flaksvand was then formed. The first route selection was made in 1886.

Proposals for the construction of the line were submitted to Storting on March 7, 1889 and accepted on June 22, 1891. By royal decree of August 31, 1892, the company Det interkommunale Selskabet Lillesand-Flaksvandsbanen was granted a license for 30 years, valid from June 4, 1896.

Because of the planned extension to the planned Sørlandsbane , Labor Minister Hans Nysom insisted on Cape Gauge instead of the 600 mm light railway originally planned . In the spring of 1893, the company Nicolay N. Sontum from Bergen received the order for the planning and construction of the line. The construction costs of 537,350 crowns were supported by grants (State 100 000 Kr., Fylke 20,000 Kr.) And covered the subscription of shares in the company. The largest shareholders were the municipality of Lillesand (181,500 Kr.), The state (100,000 Kr.), The municipalities of Birkenes Vest Morland (60,000 Kr. And 28,000 Kr.), The Fylke (20,000 Kr.) As well as private individuals and other municipalities (27,150 Kr.).

The line was approved on May 21, 1896, and officially opened on June 3, 1896 in the presence of Minister of Labor Peder Nilsen . General operations began a day later. In 1938 the extension to the Sørlandsbanen to Oggevatn or Vennesla and another one from Lillesand to the north to Roresand near Grimstad was considered, but it was not implemented. Instead, the railway company procured a first omnibus to connect to Herefoss on the Sørlandsbane by road. The last train ran on June 15, 1953, and the line was closed at the end of the month.

Traffic volume

The range of transport was never large, initially two, sometimes three daily train pairs with a journey time of one hour ran. In the 1930s, the offer was withdrawn to a daily pair of trains, which from 1942 only ran when needed and only in summer.

The main cargo was wood, which was detached from Flaksvand with a long detour over the Tovdalselva before the railway was built and then transported on to the sawmill in Nedenes . There were also products from a peat factory as well as several sawmills , quarries, gravel and sand pits . The highest transport volume was recorded in 1902 (53,207 t), but then quickly decreased and from 1906 never exceeded 20,000 t. The resulting losses were borne by the public purse. In 1951 only 4,915 t were transported.

Passenger traffic was never extensive, in 1900 26,000 people, in 1928 1,000 people and in 1952 only 269 people were carried on special trips. Scheduled passenger traffic had already ceased on March 2, 1942.

vehicles

During the entire operating time, the Lillesand-Flaksvandbane had two steam locomotives built by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik (No. 1 Lillesand , No. 2 Flaksvand ). This C-coupled wet steam - Tender locomotives were nearly 6 m long, contributed 100 hp and weighed 15 tons.

There were also 32 cars (5 passenger cars , 3 of which were 3rd class, 2 baggage cars , 11 open and 14 closed freight cars ).

Track systems and structures

In addition to the continuous main track, there were eleven other side tracks with a total length of 1.55 km, which are divided as follows:

  • Lillesand: reception building (preserved), goods handling , wagon hall , locomotive shed with turntable , siding, sidings to two quays
  • Møglestu: siding
  • Sandvad: siding to the gravel pit
  • Storemyr: siding
  • Way to Ydderstad: loading platform for loading wood
  • Eikeland: three side tracks to the quarry, length 600 m
  • Jordbruna: loading track for loading wood
  • Tveite: reception building (preserved), two loading tracks for peat and sand loading
  • 1.2 km north of Tveite: siding to park a part of the train if the limit load of the locomotive for the uphill section was exceeded
  • Birkeland: The Stoppested was on a 330 m long siding and was not approached by passenger trains. These stopped on the main line. There were a station building, track to the goods handling (from 1909) and to the sawmill
  • Flaksvand: reception building (preserved), turntable, two train station tracks, siding to the sawmill and timber loading track on the lakeshore (with steam-operated, tine-fitted conveyor belt that pulls the loosened tree trunks out of the water and makes them available for gravity loading)

literature

  • Nils Carl Aspenberg: Glemte spor: boken om sidebanenes tragiske liv . Baneforlaget, Oslo 1994, ISBN 82-91448-00-0 (Norwegian).
  • Roy Owen: Norwegian Railways - from Stephenson to high-speed . Balholm Press, Hitchin 1996, ISBN 0-9528069-0-8 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896–1953 - MOORING PERIODS. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ a b c Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 (Norwegian).
  3. ^ A b c d e f g Roy Owen: Norwegian Railways - from Stephenson to high-speed . Balholm Press, Hitchin 1996, ISBN 0-9528069-0-8 , 17 Lillesand-Flaksvandbanen, p. 96 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c Stasjonsdatabasen Flaksvatn. Norsk Jernbaneklubb, accessed June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ a b c Stasjonsdatabasen Tveite. Norsk Jernbaneklubb, accessed June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  6. ↑ a b c Stasjonsdatabasen Eikeland. Norsk Jernbaneklubb, accessed June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  7. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896–1953 - DRØMMEN OM JERNBANE TAR FORM. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  9. ^ A b c d Roy Owen: Norwegian Railways - from Stephenson to high-speed . Balholm Press, Hitchin 1996, ISBN 0-9528069-0-8 , 17 Lillesand-Flaksvandbanen, p. 95 (English).
  10. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953 - MYE Penger mat SKAFFES. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  11. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896–1953 - Route plan from 1909. Retrieved on June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  12. ↑ a b c d Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896–1953 - TRANSPORTGRUNNLAG. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  13. ↑ Lillesand-Flaksvandbanen material databases. Norsk Jernbaneklubb, accessed June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  14. ↑ a b Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896–1953 - LOKOMOTIVER OG VOGNER. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  15. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953 - Lillesand stasjon. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  16. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953 - stasjon Tveide. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  17. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953 - Birkeland stasjon. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  18. ↑ Helge Hodøl: Lillesand - Flaksvandbanen 1896-1953 - stasjon Flaksvand. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (Norwegian).

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