Hjerl Hede Park Railway
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| Route length: | 0.8 km | ||||||||
| Gauge : | 700 mm from 1988: 785 mm |
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The park railway Hjerl Hede is a narrow-gauge railway line in the Danish open-air museum Hjerl Hede in the municipality of Holstebro in the administrative region of Midtjylland . It was built in 1975 with a gauge of 700 mm and retraced to 785 mm in autumn 1988.
history
The origins of the open-air museum go back to the 1930s, when an old farm was turned into a museum for the first time. First handicraft techniques were shown, later the museum was expanded to include a cooperative dairy and a forest museum.
The route, built in 1975, leads through the plantations of Hjerl Hede and along Flyndersø , Denmark's largest ice age lake .
The rails and sleepers used come from a disused narrow-gauge line of the state hydraulic engineering ( Danish Vandbygningsvæsen ), the predecessor of today's Kystdirektoratet . The route lay on the west coast of Jutland and was used for the transport of material and personnel for the construction and repair of groynes . The rails are bolted with straps and attached to the sleepers with nails.
vehicles
The following locomotives are available:
| number | design type | Wheel alignment | Manufacturer | Fabr.-No./ year of construction |
Special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HH 1 | Tank locomotive | B t | Henschel & Sohn , Kassel | 17819 1921 |
Delivered for construction company Philip Pedersen og Arvid Holm , re-gauged from 750 mm to 785 mm in 1988 |
| HH 2 | Tank locomotive | B t | Locomotive factory Krauss & Comp. , Munich | 8477 1929 |
Delivered to ØK cement factory in Nørresundby , No. 10 there, since 1994 in the open air museum , the smallest operational steam locomotive in Northern Europe |
| FJ 4 | Tank locomotive | C 1t | Locomotive factory Krauss & Comp. , Munich | 5599 1907 |
Supplied for Faxe Kalkbrud, in use until 1973, bought by Torben Juul. Since 1992, for a damage to the HH 1 in use |
| D 11 | Diesel locomotive | B. | Pedershaab Maskinfabrik , Brønderslev | 465 1955 |
Delivered to Vandbygningsvæsenet, acquired by Hjerl Hede in the mid-1970s, used as a shunting locomotive |
The fleet consists of:
- Kongevognen : The car has two bogies and was taken over by Vandbygningsvæsenet in Thyborøn in the mid-1970s . It was originally designed for King Frederik IX. built for an inspection trip and then served to transport personnel to the construction sites
- Closed wagon J3–1 , two-axle
- Timber transport wagon J3–2 , two-axle, originally closed, later converted to an open transport wagon
- Freight cars 449–452 : Bogie cars, they were used to transport sugar beets to the sugar factories in South Funen, Lolland and Falster. Car No. 449 is original, while No. 450, 451 and 452 were reproduced. Originally 700 mm gauge, re-gauged for Hjerl Hede in 1988
Web links
- Per Brunsgård: Hjerl Hede - Frilandsmuseets 100 års jubilæum. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Danish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Damptoget and Banen. Description of the route. hjerlhede.dk, accessed on January 23, 2018 (Danish).
- ↑ Damptoget and Banen. Description of the vehicles. hjerlhede.dk, accessed January 24, 2018 (Danish).
Coordinates: 56 ° 28 '48 " N , 8 ° 52' 26.4" E