Ahlenmoor moor railway

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Light rail train at one of the stops
Relocating the Diema locomotive

The moor railway Ahlenmoor is a field railway of the former peat factory in Ahlenmoor , which is used today as an excursion railway and as a means of transport for the blueberry harvest.

The railway is located in the municipality of Land Hadeln in the district of Cuxhaven and runs a 5.7 kilometer long circuit with four stops through the Ahlenmoor. The base station is in Wanna - Ahlen-Falkenberg . Travel time is around 2 hours and 15 minutes. During the tour through rewetted peat extraction areas in different stages of development, untouched raised bog areas and through lands once used for agriculture, the visitor learns interesting facts about the formation of the raised bog and the use of the bog by humans. The three DIEMA locomotives used are of the type DS 14, DS 20 and DL 6 with a track width of 600 mm. The type DS 20 locomotive (serial no. 2575) was used as a material rail from 1962 to 1986 by the Lower Saxony port authority of Cuxhaven and later by the Hamburg authority for electricity and port construction on the island of Neuwerk .

The moor railway and the moor information center (MoorIZ) are part of the "Naturerlebnis Ahlenmoor" project, a joint project of the now dissolved municipalities of Sietland and Bederkesa and the former city of Langen .

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  1. ↑ a b Moorbahn Ahlenmoor. April 6, 2011, accessed May 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Moor railway. Förderverein Ahlenmoor eV, accessed on May 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Information on the moor experience offer. Moor railway and moor information center (MoorIZ). (No longer available online.) Sietland municipality, archived from the original on June 24, 2007 ; accessed on May 6, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Diema Feldbahnlokomotiven Part 2. June 7, 2014, accessed on July 11, 2014 .
  5. ↑ inselbahn.de - Neuwerk. In: inselbahn.de. Retrieved January 12, 2016 .