Local Dermulo – Mendel railway
Coordinates: 46 ° 26 ′ 8.3 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 26.4" E
Dermulo-Mendel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
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
- 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
- ^ Forni, Corrà: Le Ferrovie del Trentino . 2003, p. 193.