Local Dermulo – Mendel railway

Coordinates: 46 ° 26 ′ 8.3 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 26.4"  E

Dermulo-Mendel
Route length:	23.549 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	800 V  =
Maximum slope :	80  ‰
Minimum radius :	40 m
Top speed:	25 km / h
Legend Non Valley Railway to Trento 0.000 Dermulo 548  m slm Non Valley Railway to Malè 0.750 Coredo 570  m slm 3.400 Rivo San Romedio 3,941 Sanzeno 642  m slm 5.494 Casez 703  m slm 7.070 Malgolo 797  m slm 10.051 S. Bartolomeo 955  m slm 10.484 Romeno 952  m slm 12,510 Cavareno Fermata 966  m slm 12,980 Cavareno Stazione 968  m slm 13,595 Sarnonico 970  m slm 15,530 Fondo 994  m slm 15.820 Malosco 1009  m slm 17.607 Belvedere 1129  m slm 20,841 Ruffrè 1210  m slm 21.000 Tunnel (43 m) 22,520 Tre Ville 1307  m slm 23.230 Hotel Mendola 1349  m slm 23,549 Mendel 1357  m slm Funicular to St. Anton

The Dermulo-Fondo-Mendel-Bahn or Nonsbergbahn (Italian: Ferrovia Elettrica dell'Alta Anaunia ) was a 23-kilometer-long narrow-gauge local railway, which runs from the Dermulo train station in the province of Trento today (on the narrow-gauge Non Valley Railway ) via Fondo to Mendelkamm went where there was a connection to the Mendelbahn .

Route

simplified elevation profile of the route

Fondo station

Immediately after Dermulo station, the train ran on its own route, roughly on the current route of the road to Fondo . The station there - the largest on the line - housed the management and workshops. This lower section was in operation all year round.

Immediately after leaving the Fondo station, the route led through a steep and sharp bend with a radius of only 40 m up to the Mendel Pass. This upper section of the route - in some cases the gradient was up to 80 ‰ - was only served in the summer season.

history

The railway, which opened on September 1, 1909, was planned in close connection with the Non Valley Railway and was intended to also open up the areas remote from the latter towards the Gampenpass in a contemporary way.

The tour to the Mendel gave tourists the opportunity to take a tour of the Mendel. To do this, one drove from Bolzano with the Überetscher Bahn to the Mendelbahn , from there with the Dermulo-Fondo-Mendel-Bahn to Dermulo, on with the Non Valley Railway to Trento and here with the Brenner Railway back to Bolzano.

Shutdown

EMU 105 "Alioth" of the FEAA on the Rittner Bahn

As with many other small mountain railways, operations were discontinued very early on February 1, 1934, due to the rise of automobile traffic and have been taken over by buses to this day. Parts of the rolling stock , in particular a railcar named " Alioth " after the Swiss manufacturer of electrical equipment , then came to the Rittner Bahn .

present

In the village of Fondo, the reception building still stands and is used as a bus station. Other station buildings in the lower section of the route are also still available in a slightly different form. The former route was used to build or widen existing roads.

literature

• Josef Dultinger : On a narrow track through South Tyrol . Narrow gauge railways south of the Brenner Pass. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Erhard, Rum 1982.
• Werner Duschk, Walter Pramstaller, among others: Local and trams in old Tyrol . Self-published by Tiroler Museumsbahnen , Innsbruck 2008.
• Mario Forni, Paolo Corrà: La Ferrovia Dermulo-Mendola . In: Le Ferrovie del Trentino . Edizioni UCT, Trento 2003, ISBN 88-86246-94-3 , p. 174-193 (Italian).
• Maurizio Visintin: Comodamente seduti nelle nostre carrozze elettriche . Centrali sul Novella e ferrovia dell 'Alta Anaunia (1898–1940). Ed .: Associazione Culturale “GB Lampi”. Fondo 2001 (Italian).
• Michael Alexander Populorum: The Non Valley Railway: Trient - Malé - Marilleva local railway . With an excursus on the Nonsbergbahn Dermulo - Fondo - Mendel (=  publication series of the Documentation Center for European Railway Research (DEEF) . Volume 21 ). Mercurius Verlag, Grödig / Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-903132-00-9 (DVD / e-book).
• Joachim Rothkegel: The Nonsbergbahn - the second local railway in the Non Valley . In: Railway Austria . No. 9 , 2002, ISSN  1421-2900 , p. 414-417 .
• Walter Kreutz: The Dermulo-Fondo-Mendelpaßbahn . In: Railway . No. 8 , 1958, ISSN  0013-2756 , pp. 124–125 (part of the series of electric local and trams of Austrian origin in South Tyrol ).
• Karl Armbruster: The Tyrolean mountain railways . Buchdruckerei G. Davis & Co., Vienna 1914, Die Lokalbahn Dermulo – Fondo – Mendel, p. 195–208 ( digitized version from the South Tyrolean Provincial Library [accessed on September 15, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Dermulo – Mendel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tyrolean Museum Railways : The Dermulo – Mendel local railway. Retrieved October 26, 2011 . 
• Preserved rail vehicles. Retrieved October 26, 2011 . 
• Ex-ferrovia Dermulo-Mendola. In: ferrovieabbandonate.it . Retrieved October 26, 2011 (Italian). 
• The Nonsbergbahn Dermulo - Fondo - Mendel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Forni, Corrà: Le Ferrovie del Trentino . 2003, p. 193.