Cottbus Park Railway
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| Route length: | 3.20 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 20 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Parkeisenbahn Cottbus is a narrow-gauge park railway in Cottbus .
history
The railway was opened on June 1, 1954 as the Pioneer Railway (PE) Cottbus. At the beginning the route was 1.1 km from the friendship station (now the Stadium of Friendship) to the Tierpark station (now the zoo). Four years later, another kilometer was added to the Friedenseiche railway station (now Park & Schloss Branitz). The first major renovation took place at the start of the construction of the Federal Garden Show (Buga) in 1995. New tracks, bridges and the “Sandower Dreieck” railway and depot were built. In the spring of 2011, the 40-year-old tracks at the Zoo station were renewed at a cost of 42,000 euros.
At the Zoo station there is direct access to the Fürst-Pückler-Park Branitz , and the Messe station is right next to the Stadium of Friendship by Energie Cottbus . In its more than 50 years of operation, the railway has carried more than five million passengers. The operator of the Park Railway is on the one hand the Association for the Promotion of the Cottbus Park Railway, which has around 84 members (as of 2010), including around 35 children and young people. Until the end of March 2011, the Congress, Messe und Touristik (CMT) Cottbus was the operator of the Parkbahn, since April 1, 2011 it has been the Cottbusverkehr GmbH.
vehicles
In the fleet of the Parkeisenbahn Cottbus there are two steam locomotives , four diesel locomotives and a more modern diesel multiple unit (ICE).
Locomotive 01 - Brigadelok
During the First World War, more than 2500 four-axle brigade locomotives with 600 mm gauge were built for the Heeresfeldbahnen . Because the war was over by the time the locomotive was delivered, it was taken to a demobilization camp, as the continued existence of railway troops was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles . The locomotives collected there were all sold to factories, agriculture or other railway administrations.
The locomotive with the number 2257 was manufactured in 1918 by Linke-Hofmann-Werke (LHW) in Breslau under the serial number 1739. In 1948 the locomotive was registered in the portfolio of the “Frieden” lignite works in Halbendorf near Weißwasser.
Already at the beginning of 1954 she came to the RAW Cottbus, where she was prepared in voluntary hours for her assignment in the emerging pioneer railway. Here it ran under the fictitious company number 99 0001 (based on the DR numbering scheme), later as locomotive 01.
On June 1, 1954, it pulled the inaugural train of the pioneer railway and has been in service with the Cottbus Park Railway ever since. The last general inspection (with the installation of a new boiler) was successfully completed in March 2016.
Locomotive 04 "Graf Arnim" 99 3301
The 1895 & Krauss Co. in Munich built locomotive 04 was formerly in the Counts von Arnim's light railway in Muskau as Count Arnim in use. From 1951 it belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn under the number 99 3301. As a special feature, it has had a tender since the 1920s.
Since May 1970 she has been in the service of the pioneer railway, the current Park Railway Cottbus. It changed its color scheme in the mid-1990s from black (from the Reichsbahn and pioneer railway times) to green paintwork (with the city coat of arms of the city of Cottbus on the driver's cab).
From November 1988 until it was reactivated because of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1995, the locomotive was shut down due to a boiler damage. The locomotive has not been in operation since the end of 2008 due to cracked studs and wear on the chassis.
For technical data, see: WEM Graf Arnim
Locomotive 02, type DG 20
It replaced the failed Kö 0409 and was also taken over by the Muskau Forest Railway . It belongs to the DG 20 series and was built in 1934 by Henschel & Sohn under the serial number D-1056 for the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway (MPSB), where it was shunted in a gravel pit near Friedland. In 1949 the locomotive became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn as Kö 0403 and in 1952 it was relocated to the Muskau Forest Railway. After a stay at Raw Dessau, the machine was taken over by the Cottbus pioneer railway in 1958.
It was actually intended for a planned children's railway in Dessau. But that didn't happen and so the vehicle ended up in Cottbus. A new two-cylinder engine with an output of 40 hp was installed here. It is still operational today and was completely overhauled again in preparation for the 1995 Federal Horticultural Show in the AW Cottbus. The driver's cab and the electrical system were modernized. In addition, the locomotive was painted in red / beige, but changed to blue / beige in 2002.
In winter 2008/2009 the engine was given a thorough overhaul. Since then, locomotive 199 02 has been available for driving again.
Technical specifications
- Manufacturer: Henschel & Sohn , Kassel
- Year of construction: 1934
- Factory number: D 1056
- Number of axles: 2
- Drive type: diesel engine , sprocket
- Length over the buffers: 4.5 m
- Width: 2.9 m
- Total weight: 6.5 t
- Braking mass: 4.5 t
- Speed: 20 km / h
- Power: 40 hp
- with PE since: 1965
- Last revision: 2008
Locomotive 03
The locomotive was built in 1956 with the serial number 248448 at Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg (LKM), although it was probably rebuilt in the same year in the RAW Dessau. It was given a non-drive axle that was firmly mounted in the frame; this is referred to as a 1B axle sequence. For this purpose, the frame of the diesel-mechanical locomotive had to be extended.
The locomotive first ran on the Berlin pioneer railway as no. 04 002 and came to the Cottbus pioneer railway in 1972.
With 57 hp, it is the most powerful diesel locomotive on the Cottbus Park Railway. The locomotive is driven by a mechanical transmission via coupling rods on two axles. Three gears are available for the necessary performance. The locomotive currently has a throw lever brake . The compressed air brake system was removed in the Cottbus repair shop in the 1990s because the park railway wagons did not have a braking system. The locomotive is currently painted in red-beige. Another identically constructed locomotive no longer exists today.
Technical specifications:
- Manufacturer: LKM Babelsberg
- Year of construction: 1956
- Former company number: 04 002
- Drive type: diesel engine, rod drive
- Length over the buffers: 4.5 m
- Number of axles: 3, 2 of which are driven
- Width: 2.8 m
- Height: 2.75 m
- Total weight: 7.0 t
- Speed: 20 km / h
- Power: 57 hp
- Pulling force: 5.8 t
- Braking weight: 5.0 t
- with PE since: 1973 (from PE Berlin)
- Last revision: 2008
Locomotive 05
This 30 HP field railway diesel locomotive of the type Ns 2 f (LKM serial number 248668/1955) comes from the former Rietschen refractory works near Weißwasser. With the company number 4, it was in use until 1990 on the five-kilometer-long clay railway between the clay mine near Teicha and the distillery for heat-resistant special bricks in Rietschen. The hard work in the clay pits had damaged the substance of the vehicle, but the Muskau Forest Railway acquired the small locomotive after the plant closed.
For the 1995 Federal Horticultural Show , the diesel-mechanical locomotive was restored in an exemplary manner by the support association in Weißwasser , as a sign of the solidarity between the two associations, and has been in use in Cottbus without interruption since then and has established itself as an important towing vehicle.
This locomotive has an outer frame and is driven on both axles by means of a jackshaft and coupling rods. A motor from a Famulus tractor and a transmission with three gears ensure the maximum speed of 20 km / h .
In the years after 1995, the locomotive often changed its color. From green to red and yellow it shines today in a blue-beige paint. In 2006, some chassis components were replaced and the engine was overhauled in a specialist workshop near Königswartha . Today the little locomotive is back in service with the Cottbus Park Railway.
Technical specifications:
- Manufacturer: LKM Babelsberg
- Year of construction: 1955
- Former company number: No. 4
- Drive: diesel engine, coupling rods
- Length over the buffers: 3.8 m
- Width: 2.4 m
- Weight: 5.8 t
- Power: 25 hp
- Speed: 20 km / h
- with PE since: 1995
- last revision: March 2009
"ICE" No. 299 010 and 299 011
Since the Federal Horticultural Show in 1995, two power cars and five cars from Essen have been in use in Cottbus.
From 1966 to 1992 they operated as the Grugabahn in Grugapark Essen. There a powered end car with five other cars operated as a one-way train on a circuit. Both power cars with two intermediate cars form the multiple unit for the Cottbus Park Railway.
After the train in Essen was converted to electric drive, two power cars and five intermediate cars could be handed over to the Cottbus Park Railway. A three-train traffic could be realized for the Federal Horticultural Show 1995. Before that, the vehicles in the LAUBAG main workshop Schwarze Pump and in the AW Cottbus were modernized. New VW engines were installed and the paintwork changed to a light green.
The power cars have a 5-speed gearbox and thus reach a top speed of around 40 km / h. In the first years of operation, all four axles were driven, now only the first bogie is driven. The leading power car is generally the working vehicle, the rear power car is empty. The multiple unit is the only vehicle in the fleet to have a compressed air brake , which only acts on the braking system of the power cars and leaves the intermediate cars unbraked. Especially on weekdays with little traffic, the multiple unit is a rational alternative to a locomotive-hauled train.
The vehicles are connected to one another with an Albert coupling , which means that they cannot be used with the other vehicles on the park railway. Locomotive 05 alone has the same coupling system.
Fleet
In use, status 2010:
- seven open four-axle bogie cars
- five closed four-axle bogie cars
- a four-axle saloon car
- a four-axle closed van
- a four-axle work car (panel car)
- several two-axle wagons (lorries)
The wagons, like the locomotives, are housed in the large locomotive and wagon hall in the depot of the Cottbus Park Railway at the Sandower Dreieck station.
literature
- Gerhard and Ursula Arndt: Miniature railways in parks and gardens. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71072-2 , pp. 87-91.
- Rudi Buchweitz: Pioneer Railways in the GDR. In: Wolf-Dietger Machel: secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany. (Loose leaf). GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2010 (86th supplementary edition ), ISSN 0949-2143 , pp. 17-22.
- Erich Preuß : The Parkbahn in Cottbus. In: Klaus Jünemann, Erich Preuß: Everything about narrow-gauge railways between the Spree and the Neisse. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71416-8 , pp. 100-110.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the route and the kilometering: Private website for the Cottbus Park Railway. ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 8.6 ″ E