Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz

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Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz
The supplier entrance at the junction of Weldenstrasse and Wickenburggasse, which is currently closed to the public
The
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entrance at the junction of Weldenstrasse and Wickenburggasse, which is currently closed to the public
Route length: 2 km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz (MWM) is a railway museum currently not open to the public in the tunnels of the Graz Schloßberg with an underground narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm.

location

The narrow-gauge railway line of the Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz runs through the tunnels of the Graz Schloßberg from the entrance, which is currently closed to the public, at the junction of Weldenstrasse from Wickenburggasse to the end of the Grazer Märchenbahn . This is partially electrified by a central conductor or an overhead line and in parts has two tracks. Rail vehicles, which have been collected by the Association of Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz since 1984, occasionally run on part of the route. There are more than 50 mostly functional and sometimes unusual and therefore historically valuable locomotives and around 200 lorries , as well as mining equipment, switch boxes, old telephones and signs in the darkness of the Schloßberg tunnel.

Due to fire regulations that were issued after the fire disaster on the Kaprun Gletscherbahn cable car on November 11, 2000, the Montanmuseum has not yet been open to the public.

history

During the Second World War , the tunnels of the Graz Schloßberg , which had been laid out since 1937, served as a refuge from air raids for 40,000 people from 1943 onwards. The extensive 6.3 km long tunnel system with 20 entrances offered the residents of the city protection.

In the post-war period, the air raid tunnels were initially no longer used, until the first fairytale grotto railway was set up in a section of the tunnel system in 1968 and was accessible via an entrance in Wickenburggasse. After being temporarily closed, re-gauging from 500 to 600 mm gauge and installing a new exhibition concept, it was reopened under the new name Grazer Märchenbahn on November 14, 2014 .

Rail vehicles

The rail vehicle collection stored underground in the Schlossberg is one of the largest and most diverse of its kind in Europe. It includes around 50 diesel, gasoline, benzene, electric, battery and compressed air locomotives as well as around 200 wagons with a gauge of 600 mm, which are kept in working order if possible.

Bismut EL 30 next to the AEG contact wire locomotive

The following running locomotives play a particularly important role:

Electrically operated:

  • EL 30 , contact wire locomotive from Wismut AG
  • FA 860 , combined contact wire battery locomotive from Wismut AG (currently without operational batteries)
  • B360 , battery locomotive from Wismut AG
  • B660, battery locomotive from Wismut AG
  • Metallist , battery locomotive from Wismut AG
  • AEG 1910 contact wire locomotive
  • EL79 , longest battery locomotive on 600 m track width (currently without operational batteries)
  • EL61 (currently without operational batteries)
FA860 next to the JW20 with mine hoist
Working Deutz Benzollok type CV 12

Powered by fuel:

  • CV 12, 3740/1918, Deutz gasoline locomotive
  • JW 20, diesel locomotive from Jenbacher Werke
  • JW 20G, pit version of the JW 20
  • JW 8
  • Ruston

Other drives:

Web links

Commons : Mining and Works Railway  Museum Graz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The spelling of the Grazer Schloßberg with ß instead of ss, based on the Grazer Magistrat, survived the spelling reform as a proper name.
  2. ↑ a b The unknown world in the Schloßberg - city portal of the provincial capital Graz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on November 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War): The Grazer Schloßbergstollen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / werkstadt.mur.at  
  4. ↑ Reopening of the Grazer Märchenbahn.
  5. ↑ Mirjam Marits: Into the tunnel, back to childhood. The press, January 10, 2015.
  6. ^ History of the Grazer Märchenbahn - formerly Grottenbahn.
  7. ↑ styria mobile: mining and industrial railway museum Graz. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
  8. ^ Mining and Works Railway Museum Graz: Mining atmosphere in the Schlossberg tunnel.
  9. ↑ Martin Wolf (camera) and Benjamin Dworschak (editor): Film recordings in the MWM for "The Mythenberg - the history of the Graz Schlossberg."

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 43.6 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 15.7 ″  E