Museum field railway Leipzig-Lindenau

Museum field railway Leipzig-Lindenau
Route length:	1.5 km
Gauge :	800 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend Mortar factory Lützner Strasse Loading of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe Railway line Leipzig-Plagwitz – Leipzig-Lindenau Rail loading Loading track Screening plant 0.00 Museum station Gravel yard 0.35 Schomburgkstrasse 0.50 Lyoner Strasse Sieving plant in Plautstrasse former gravel pits Spoil dump 0.90 Black way 0.95 Black way 1.35 Schoenauer laugh 2.50 Gravel pit

The museum field railway Leipzig-Lindenau in the west of Leipzig was previously used in regular field railway operations. The track width is 800 millimeters. It is single-track and is no longer electrified today.

history

There is evidence that the light railroad was first used in 1856. At that time, were Loren moved by hand or pulled by horses. The light railroad was then used to build what is now the Karl Heine Canal . From 1888 the railway was used for gravel extraction and soon connected the new pits with the mortar works built three years later. From 1896 the horses were initially replaced by two electric locomotives . This year the route was 400 meters long. From 1905 steam locomotives were also added.

In 1925 the route was extended to 2.5 kilometers. When the gravel pits were expropriated in 1938 in favor of the port construction, the mortar works opened up new pits, which led to the re-routing of the railway, which was now four kilometers long. In 1946 the field railway was seven kilometers long and numerous diesel locomotives came to the railway, which came from nationalized private mines. 600 millimeters of track and vehicle material was used for the overburden track. In 1959/60 it reached its greatest extent of twelve kilometers. It was called the "Lindenauer Kiesbahn".

From 1965 the importance of the field railway waned. In that year the steam locomotive operation was stopped. Two years later, the electric locomotive operation also ended when the mortar factory ceased operations - the field railway was only 9 kilometers long at that time. 1980 to 1990 the route length was 3.5 kilometers.

Until it was shut down in May 1991, the railroad operated diesel locomotives between the pit and the port. Three diesel locomotives of the LKM type Ns3 were in use

In the mid-1980s, model railroaders began researching the history of this train; the result was published in July 1988 in the magazine modelleisenbahner .

In May 1991 the last regular gravel train ran, after which the dismantling of the railway began. In February 1992, a remaining stretch of around one kilometer in length was saved from being dismantled and placed under monument protection as a technical monument "Alte Lindenauer Kiesbahn". The reconstruction up to today's terminus "Schönauer Lachen" began immediately. Since then, the route has been 1.5 kilometers. In September 1992, the first passenger traffic in museum railroad operations was finally started on the line, which still exists today.

Route

planned crossing of the port access as an extension of the railway to the east

Train at the Schomburgkstrasse stop

The route begins in the museum station. The route initially leads along the storage building of the Lindenau harbor in a north-westerly direction. The Schomburgkstraße stop is on this section of the route. Afterwards, the Lyoner Straße is crossed in a narrow left curve. From here on the route runs in a south-westerly direction and passes the Leipzig end of the Elster-Saale Canal . In the further course the route swings in a westerly direction. After a short climb, you will reach Schwarzer Weg train station. Later in a slope section begins at the end of the bank of a excavated lake railway station Schönauer laughter and thus the route reaches the end.

Vehicle fleet

• Car 22: 1906, foundry Bern, to Wengernalpbahn (WAB) as B 73, wooden car body without sheet metal, this until today (as of 2020), 1970 privately as a chicken coop, 1976 at Schinznacher Baumschulbahn (SchBB), there jump to 600 mm gauge, 1998 at the Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau as No. 22 in green livery with yellow handles, dismantling to 800 mm gauge

literature

• Uwe Köhler: The gravel runway in Leipzig-Lindenau . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2015, ISBN 978-3-933613-90-5 .

Web links

• Homepage of the Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau
• Report about the Museumfeldbahn on euroreiseblog.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Köhler: 100 Years of the Gravel Railway in Leipzig-Lindenau In: modelleisenbahner Heft 7/88, ISSN  0026-7422 , pp. 4–6
2. ^ History of the Museumfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau . Retrieved November 14, 2015
3. ↑ Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau, Wagen 22 , accessed on August 30, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 6 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 1.8 ″  E