Local railway Alsenz – Obermoschel
| Local railway Alsenz – Obermoschel | |||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 3.834 km | ||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||
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The Alsenz – Obermoschel local railway was a 1000-millimeter narrow-gauge railway in the Northern Palatinate , which was in operation from 1903 to 1935 and which was primarily intended to connect the town of Obermoschel to the railway network. Operators were the Palatinate Northern Railway until the end of 1908 , then the Royal Bavarian State Railway and, from 1920, the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft .
history
- prehistory
As early as 1872, the “Royal Commissaire at the Palatinate Railways” had sent a request to the government in Speyer to build a full-gauge railway from Alsenz via Obermoschel to Meisenheim . A draft was even approved for the full-gauge railway. In 1875 the cost of this route was estimated at 1,430.00 guilders. Such high costs would only have had a chance of success if the cross-bar had been continued from Alsenz via Florheim to Alzey.
In 1880, the Royal District Captain Rau in Kirchheimbolanden proposed the construction of a horse-drawn railway from Alsenz to Obermoschel to the administration of the Palatinate Railways in Ludwigshafen. It should have a track width of 1500 mm and its tracks should be sunk into the road surface. The cost of building the line was estimated at 46,000 marks, those for the rest of the track and station construction at 62,000 marks. In 1881 the Pfälzische Zeitung reported in a treatise on secondary railway projects in the Northern Palatinate on the project of a full railway from Alsenz to Obermoschel with the possibility of an extension to Meisenheim. With the construction of the Glantalbahn started in 1883 , these projects came to a standstill and were not carried out.
- Planning and construction
In order to free the northern Palatinate former canton town of Obermoschel from its traffic-related isolation, the interested parties then operated the construction of a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 1000 mm from Alsenz to Obermoschel. Construction and operation should be carried out by the company of the Palatinate Northern Railways. This was granted the concession by Prince Regent Luitpold on January 21, 1902 , the costs were estimated at 106,000 marks. The city of Obermoschel raised an additional 121,000 marks in property acquisition costs. The line was opened on October 1, 1903. Due to the low demand, it was shut down in 1935.
Route
The route begins on the forecourt of the Alsenz train station , then branches off the Alsenztalbahn to follow the course of the regional road through the Moscheltal to Obermoschel and ends there after 3.9 km. The only stopover was Niedermoschel . The route mainly used the road surface. Only a small part was on our own property. Its entire length was within what is now the Donnersbergkreis .
business
Since a turntable was not available in Alsenz or in Obermoschel, the locomotives ran the route in one-way operation, that is, they were not turned at the end points, but only "moved". That is why they were always at the head of the train, in Alsenz station with the smoke chamber door (forward travel) and in Obermoschel with the driver's cab (reverse travel) in the direction of travel. On the entire route there was also no possibility of evading or overtaking, so that only one train could travel in one direction.
Depending on requirements, one or two passenger cars and also one or two luggage cars were usually attached. If necessary, trolleys with the standard-gauge freight wagons to be picked up in Alsenz were attached to the scheduled passenger trains (up to nine pairs of trains per day) .
vehicles
At the time the line was opened, the line was initially operated by two two-axle steam locomotives, which the Pfalzbahn designated as class L 2 . One was named KLINGBACH , the other was called REHBACH ; three other locomotives of the same type with the designations GEINSHEIM , FREISBACH and WEINGARTEN ran on the Speyer – Neustadt local railway, which opened in 1905 and also had meter gauge . The name of the two locomotives comes from two streams of the same name from the Vorderpfalz. After the railroad ran under the direction of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1919 , the locomotives were given the serial numbers 99 001 and 99 002.
Operating points
Alsenz narrow-gauge station
Niedermoschel stop
After 2.488 km the line reached the stop of the same name in the Niedermoschel through-town. It was located in today's Bahnhofstrasse at the level of the former schoolhouse and consisted of a bulk platform with a waiting room. There was no passing or passing track.
Obermoschel train station
Obermoschel was both the terminus and the depot for the narrow-gauge railway. In addition to the station building with goods shed, built in the late Classicist style like the stations on the lower Glantalbahn built at the same time, he also had a two-tier engine shed with an attached water house.
literature
- Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1st edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0301-6 .
- Rainer Schlundt: 650 years of Obermoschel . 1999, ISBN 3-87022-259-X .
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz, 100th birthday of "Bawettche", Ludwigshafen September 27, 2003, p. 225.
- ↑ Rainer Schlundt: The Alsenz - Obermoschel Kleinbahn 1903–1935. From the chronicle 650 years of the city of Obermoschel
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter. P. 18.
- ^ Heinz Sturm, The Palatinate Railways, p. 244