Ohsabanan

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Ohs Bruk – Bor Norra
Route of the Ohsabanan
Lok 4 of the Ohsabahn (ex PKP Ty3-195)
Route length: 14.5 km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 41  ‰
Minimum radius : 100 m
Top speed: 20 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend
End station - start of the route
 14,556 Ohs Bruk 182 m
Stop, stop
 13.986 Impregneringen ( bus stop )
Stop, stop
 12,830 Ekebohult
Stop, stop
 10.465 Elgaryd
Station, station
 9.787 Gimarp 202 m
Stop, stop
 8,638 Gimarpsby
Stop, stop
 5,896 Hösjömo 231 m
Station, station
 4.029 Stensjön 220 m
Stop, stop
 1,839 Sjövägen
Stop, stop
 1,200 Tagel (end of the horse tram)
End station - end of the line
 0.049 Bor Norra 167 m
   
 Transition to Kust till kust-banan

Ohsabanan ( German  Ohsabahn ) is a narrow gauge - railway museum in Swedish Småland east of Värnamo .

history

Ohs Bruk is an old industrial town that owned an ironworks from the 17th century. The place is on the southern tip of the Rusken, east of Värnamo . In the 1890s, a pulp mill and a sawmill were also built .

The transport of the finished goods from the ironworks and the building materials for the new plants was carried out with ox carts. From 1894, the train station in Lammhult on the Södra Stambana, around 20 kilometers east of Ohs, was available for the onward shipment of finished products. With the opening of the Kust till kust-bana between Borås and Alvesta in 1902, the transports to the nearby train station in Bor took place.

The entire construction work for the line, which began in 1907, took three years. First, the existing horse tram was equipped with a reinforced substructure . It formed the first section of the new route. Two passing points were planned for the entire route. In 1910 the entire length of the railway line could be used.

As one of the last 600 mm railways in Sweden, the Ohsabana shut down in 1967. The pulp mill followed for eleven years. Even before that, in 1970 Ohs Bruks Järnvägs Museiförening was able to take over the railway line and subsequently start operating the museum.

Bor-Tagel horse-drawn tram

The ironworks, which had existed since around 1660, was shut down in 1889 and the buildings demolished. In 1893 the engineer Sannfried Berglund bought the site and built a pulp mill on it, in which pulp was produced using the sulphate process. He had a power station built next to the sawmill to generate the necessary electrical energy.

Since Ohs Bruk was away from the traffic routes, Berglund had to consider replacing the ox cart with a modern means of transport. From 1894 he used the route to Lammhult and from 1902 he had the goods transported to Bor. As early as 1906, Berglund had a horse-drawn tram built between Bor and the sawmill in Tagel with a gauge of 600 mm, which was on the south bank of the Hindsen . The route was about a kilometer long and allowed sawn timber to be transported to the station in Bor.

In Helsingborg , Fredrik Posse was interested in upgrading the Helsingborg – Råå – Ramlösa line to meet the new requirements due to the increased traffic. Like the Lessebo – Målerås railway line , this line was built in the field railway system developed by Decauville with fixed and transportable track sections with gauges of 400 to 600 mm, which is part of the Swedish Kostasystem with the smallest gauge of 600 mm common in Sweden - about two Swedish feet ( Swedish tvåfotabana ) - has been further developed.

vehicles

After converting the Helsingborg – Råå – Ramlösa line to standard gauge in 1906, Berglund bought a locomotive for the planned Ohsabana, the no. 3, the so-called Franska Loket ( German-  French locomotive ), some wagons, tracks and two turntables. When locomotive No. 3 was due for overhaul in 1913, it was parked and replaced by a B-coupler from Orenstein & Koppel . The locomotive was similar to No. 5 on the Väsman – Barken railway line operated by Wesman – Barkens Jernvägs-Aktiebolag , which was briefly called Smedjebackens järnväg and existed from 1859 to 1903.

After the First World War , another locomotive was needed, which came from Vinninga near Linköping in 1918 . This machine called Svenska Loket ( German  Swedish locomotive ) had a track width of 891 mm and had to be re-gauged for operation on the line. In 1920 a Heeresfeldbahn locomotive added to the vehicle fleet. This locomotive was called the Tyska Loket ( German  German locomotive ).

In 1929 the boiler of the Tyska Loket was worn out and was replaced by a brigadelok from Bratteborg . In 1948 a motor locomotive was bought and the Tyska Loket became a reserve locomotive until it was converted into a petrol engine shunting locomotive in 1952.

Ohs Bruks Järnvägs Museiförening

The Ohs Bruks Järnvägs Museiförening museum railway company was founded in 1970. The association procured new locomotives, there is another brigade locomotive and a new Tyska Loket , which came to Sweden in 1976.

photos

  • Locomotive 2 "Emsfors" in Ohs Bruk station

  • Station building Ohs Bruk

  • Bor Norra station building

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ohsabanan. In: Ohs Bruks Järnvägs Museiförening. Retrieved December 26, 2015 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Ohsbruk. ohsbruk.se, archived from the original on January 7, 2016 ; Retrieved May 5, 2019 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Ohsabanan. Värnamo kommun, accessed May 5, 2019 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Steam locomotives. ohsabanan.com, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Motor locomotives. ohsabanan.com, accessed January 7, 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Ohsabanan  - collection of images, videos and audio files