Rowan wagon

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Railcar 3 of the Kurfürstendamm Society , around 1886

A Rowan car is a steam railcar constructed according to the Rowan system . The design goes back to the Englishman William Robert Rowan , who developed it as director of the Danish wagon factory Scandia A / S in Randers and thus achieved notable successes above all with steam trams, but also on rural branch lines such as the railway lines in Skåne served by steam railcars .

Rowan wagons have been used in Charlottenburg and other suburbs of Berlin since the end of the 19th century, from 1886 to 1899 between the Zoological Garden , Halensee , Nollendorfplatz and Grunewald and from 1888 to 1907 between Groß-Lichterfelde and the Machnower lock in Kleinmachnow .

The first steam trams in Greater Berlin with Rowan cars drove from the Zoological Garden to Halensee on May 5, 1886, over the Kurfürstendamm , which at that time was still a sandy dirt road. Another company operated a steam tram from the Twelve Apostles Church via Wilmersdorf to Schmargendorf since 1888 . Both companies merged in 1888 in the Berlin steam tram consortium of the railway company Herrmann Bachstein , which expanded its network by 1892; two lines were operated with rowan cars, another with steam locomotives. On the line through the Kaiserallee there was mixed operation with horse and steam trains. In 1898 the company owned 28 rowan cars, nine steam locomotives, 50 trailers and 20 horse-drawn cars. After being taken over by the Westliche Berliner Vorortbahn in 1898, operations were electrified.

From 1888 to 1906, Herrmann Bachstein's central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein operated the Groß-Lichterfelde - Teltow - Stahnsdorf steam tram , which was taken over by the Teltower Kreisbahnen in 1907 and electrified in 1907. Two rowan cars and several locomotives were available for this. The Rowan cars were sold to the Uetersener Eisenbahn in 1907 .

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  1. ↑ http://www.sebtus.de/hist_scandia_2.html
  2. ^ William Robert Rowan: De la traction économique pour tramways . Baudry & Cie., Paris 1891.
  3. ^ Arne Hengsbach: The Berlin steam tram. A contribution to the history of transport in the 19th century . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . tape 17 , 1966, pp. 62-79 .
  4. ↑ a b Sigurd Hilkenbach, Wolfgang Kramer, Claude Jeanmaire: Berlin trams . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen im Aargau 1973.