Pängel Anton

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Pängelanton in Münster-Gremmendorf

The Pängel Anton or Pengel Anton (or "Pingel Anton") is a Westphalian and North German expression for the steam-powered railway . The name was used colloquially for various railway lines, mostly small railways .

The term is widespread in the Münsterland , East Westphalia , Emsland , Osnabrücker Land , Tecklenburger Land and in the Sauerland . The Tecklenburger Nordbahn , the Hümmlinger Kreisbahn , the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn , the Neubeckum – Warendorf and the Warendorfer Bahn , the Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahn or the Ahaus – Alstätte line were or are called Pängel Anton . In Lipperland, the Schieder – Blomberg railway was nicknamed Blomberger Pengel .

According to the operating regulations, the railways had to repeatedly ring the bell to warn other road users (onomatopoeic poking or pinging) because of the innumerable level crossings that were not barred.

In the partial inner city extending Ruhr lip light railway in Neheim and the room was Arnsberg when passing through the inner-city areas and during shunting permanent bell struck, the onomatopoeic Pengel was called.

Trivia

Pengel-Anton cycle path
  • In Cloppenburg , a secondary school was officially renamed “Haupt- und Realschule Pingel Anton / Galgenmoor” as part of the Lower Saxony school law reform in 2004. Unofficially, it has had this name since it was founded at the end of the 1950s, after the street name of the original location near the former Cloppenburg small railway - state border .
  • In Münster, a street along the Münster – Warstein railway is called Pängelantonweg . The monument locomotive 91319 Pängelanton is in the Gremmendorf district . The owner has been the carnival society of the same name since 1979.
  • In Tönnishäuschen , a district of Vorhelm , the station building on the route above was taken over by the Pängel-Anton inn .
  • The Pengel-Anton cycle path runs along the former Soest – Brilon Stadt railway line .

See also

Bockerl (Bavarian naming)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friends of the old town Warendorf, both routes are called 'Pängel Anton'
  2. ↑ To the Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahn ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.marcokrings.de/ategorie/eisenbahn-und-oepnv/nordrhein-westfalen/
  4. ^ Pängel-Anton in Tönnishäuschen
  5. ↑ Pengel-Anton cycle path on outdooractive.com

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