Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Railway Company

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The Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company (NWE) was after the Gernroder-Harzgerode Railway in the second resin founded railways .

history

500 RM shares in the Nordhausen-Wernigeroder-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft from January 1925
Nordhausen Nord train station

On June 15, 1896, the NWE was founded by the United Railway Construction and Operating Company in Berlin, which also carried out operations. The first section of the narrow-gauge Harzquerbahn was opened as early as 1896 and the Brockenbahn , which was also narrow-gauge , was opened in 1898 . On April 1, 1908, the NWE took over management of the United Railway Construction and Operating Company.

In Eisfelder Talmühle there was a transition to the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GHE) and in the Sorge station there was a transition to the Südharz-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SHE). In the Nordhausen and Wernigerode stations, there was a connection to the standard-gauge trains of the Prussian State Railways , later the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In Drei-Annen-Hohne there was a connection to the Halberstadt-Blankenburg railway . By 1925 the NWE had around 250 employees plus around 100 seasonal workers. From 1926 the NWE also operated its own bus routes (called: "Harzer Roller" ). The workshop and administration were in Wernigerode.

After the Second World War , the NWE was responsible for the remainder of the GHE, the railway line Eisfelder Talmühle - Stiege - Hasselfelde as well as the remainder of the SHE Sorge - Tanne in the course of the dismantling of the GHE systems and machines from April 15, 1946 . The NWE was later expropriated on the basis of a referendum and in 1948 was part of the Saxony-Anhalt state railways.

The Harzquer- and Selketalbahn were operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1949 . Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH has been the owner and operator of the Harzquer, Brocken and Selketalbahn since 1993 .

Traction vehicles

Vehicles until 1949
No. DR number design type Construction year annotation
1 to 3 99 5803 and 5804 B n2t 1896
6 and 7 99 6101 and 6102 C h2t 1914 Hot / wet steam locomotive
11 to 22 99 5901 to 5905 B'B n4vt 1897-1901 In 1914 seven copies were handed over to the Heeresfeldbahn, in 1918 renumbered to nos. 11 to 17, in 1927 renumbered again to nos. 11 to 15 II
21 II 99 6001 1'C1 'h2t 1939 corresponds to the new type range for meter-gauge locomotives developed by Krupp shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War
31 and 32 - C'C n4vt 1909 Sold in 1921
41 and 42 - 1'D1 'h2t 1913 Sold in 1914/18
41 II 99 5906 B'B n4vt 1918 Bought in 1920
51 and 52 99 6011 and 6012 (1'B) B1 'h4vt 1922/23
61 - B n2t 1899 Standard gauge locomotive, for works connections in Nordhausen, bought in 1925, † 1934
61 II 98 6213 B n2t 1908 Standard gauge locomotive, bought in 1934 for works connections in Nordhausen
71 and 72 99 5631 and 5632 C1 'n2t 1890 Formerly Chemins de fer départementaux de la Côte-d'Or , taken over in 1946
T 1 to 3 VT 137 561, VT 137 565, VT 137 566 (later 187 025) Bo'Bo ' 1939 Combustion railcars

Lore

The records of the Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Railway Company are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

literature

  • Gerhard Zieglgänsberger, Hans Röper: The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways : The Selketalbahn; The Harzquer and Brocken Railway; The southern resin railway. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71103-6
  • Jörg Bauer: 100 years of Harzquer and Brocken Railway. EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg 1999, ISBN 3-88255-685-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aktiensammler 04/12, p. 14, ISSN  1611-8006

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