Niederhermsdorfer coal branch line
| Freital-Potschappel-Albertschacht | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | sä. PNoA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 3.181 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 25 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 113 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Niederhermsdorfer coal branch line was a standard gauge industrial line near Freital in Saxony . It ran from the Potschappel station of the Albertsbahn ( Dresden – Tharandt ) to the Oppelschacht in Zauckerode and Albertschacht in Niederhermsdorf .
history
The line was opened on December 1, 1856 by the Albertsbahn AG. The route was used exclusively for freight traffic. In 1886, the track of the coal branch line was also used for the construction of the Potschappel – Wilsdruff narrow-gauge railway. From then on there was a three- rail track on which trains of both gauges could run.
The Albertschacht ceased production in 1922, the Oppelschacht followed in 1927. Until the end of the 1960s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn operated the line with occasional handovers. In connection with the closure of the narrow-gauge railway to Nossen on May 28, 1972, the standard-gauge track of the coal branch line was also dismantled later.
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
- Kurt Kaiß, Matthias Hengst: Dresden's Railway: 1894 - 1994 , Alba, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5 , p. 153