Moerser Kreisbahn

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Route network of the Moerser Kreisbahn
Closed freight wagon

The Moerser Kreisbahn was a railway company in the Moers district (today Kleve and Wesel district ), which operated the railway line from Rheinberg via Moers to Hoerstgen-Sevelen .

In order to be able to better develop the north of the then Moers district , the district council decided in 1905 to build several railway lines. After the original plans had been reduced, the concession for the route from Rheinberg via Moers to Sevelen was granted in the same year . The line from Moers to Schaephuysen opened on May 1, 1909, and the rest of the line the following year. The traffic developed well, after the development of new coal deposits in 1912 it increased rapidly. Passenger and freight traffic were separated early on. In 1921, the first railcars were procured; they originally came from the Schmöckwitz – Grünauer Uferbahn . The economic crisis in the 1920s made itself felt in falling transport performance, but this increased again in the 1930s. In 1938 the Moerser Kreisbahn merged with the Moers – Kamp – Rheinberg tram, the Orsoy Rhine port and the district waterworks to form the Moerser transport and supply companies . In 1967 these went into the Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe (NIAG).

Passenger traffic on the route ceased in 1968. However, the route still exists and is operated in freight traffic.

Steam locomotives

Locomotive no. Type Manufacturer Serial number Construction year at circular path Whereabouts
from to
1 Bn2t Hohenzollern 2395 1909 1909 ? ?
2 Bn2t Hohenzollern 2396 1909 1909 ? ?
10 Cn2t Borsig ? ? 1930 1937 scrapped
11 Bn2t Hohenzollern 2397 1908 1908 ? ?
12 Bn2t Hohenzollern 2398 1908 1908 ? ?
21st Cn2t Hohenzollern 2656 1910 1910 1944 scrapped in 1949
31 Cn2t Hohenzollern 2885 1911 1911 11/6/1961 scrapped
40 Dn2t Hohenzollern 3289 1914 1914 1961 scrapped in 1963
41 Dn2t Hohenzollern 3290 1914 1914 1956 scrapped in 1963
50 Dn2t
pr. T 13		 Union foundry
Königsberg		 2073 1913 1936 1963 scrapped in 1967
51 Dn2t
pr. T 13		 Union foundry
Königsberg		 2066 1913 1936 1963 scrapped in 1967
60 Dn2t Hohenzollern 3938 1920 1920 1962 scrapped in 1965
61 Dn2t Hohenzollern 3939 1920 1920 1967 scrapped in 1967
62 Dn2t Hohenzollern 3940 1920 1920 1945 to Halberstadt-Blankenheim Railway
63 1 Cn2t
pr. T 11		 Union foundry
Königsberg		 1700 1909 1948 1951 sold
64 1 Cn2t
pr. T 11		 Union foundry
Königsberg		 1265 1903 1948 1951 sold in 1967
90 En2t Croup 1947 1939 1939 1964 scrapped

literature

  • Gerd Wolff and Lothar Riedel: German small and private railways, Volume 5 North Rhine-Westphalia (northwestern part) . Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-662-5 , pp. 248-270
  • Festschrift 75 Years (1909–1984) Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe Aktiengesellschaft NIAG .

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