Siding (Ibbenbüren)
| Siding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 9.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Categorization | Narrow gauge railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| expansion | single track not electrified |
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| Stations : | 7th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of tracks: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bridges: | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Freight traffic: | Closure of freight traffic:
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The towing railway was a railway line on the Schafberg above Ibbenbüren to Laggenbeck . It transported ore from the Friedrich Wilhelm mine to the Perm colliery and on to the Perm tunnel, where the Perm Railway connected. The eastern route ran from the Hector shaft to the Perm colliery. The track width was 750 mm. It was created in 1885, closed in 1900 east and in 1912 west of the Perm colliery. The course of the route is partly still clearly visible, especially the section of the street of the same name in Laggenbeck.
history
The siding connected the Friedrich Wilhelm colliery with the Perm colliery 4.1 km away. There a switch branched off to Hectorschacht, 0.5 km away. From the Perm colliery, the train ran a further 2.2 km to the Perm Railway colliery station. The locomotive sheds of the railway and the workshops were 350 m north of the Perm shaft. A 4.6 kW steam engine was used to operate the devices and all repairs were carried out on the locomotives and the wagons. At the Perm station there was a cable car for lowering the wagons on an inclined plane, as the shaft was 29 m lower than the route with the station. Up to 36 men were employed in a separate quarry to plug the tracks with ballast.
Wooden bridges ran across four valleys. One of them was more than 100 m long and ran high above the fruit trees in the valley. From 1904 the Osterledde farmers went over an underground brake mountain through the Perm tunnel to the Perm Railway station. Benz locomotives were used to mine the tunnel. The railway included three steam locomotives and 40 wooden ore wagons with a capacity of 700 liters.
A horse-drawn tram to Ibbenbüren station (2.9 km) had been installed at the Friedrich Wilhelm colliery since 1879 . From there, lawn iron ore was transported to the Perm Railway. When the underground route was built in 1900, the eastern part of the route to the Hechtorschacht was shut down. When the 7 km long underground route to the Friedrich Wilhelm colliery was completed in 1912, the western route was also closed.
literature
- Hans Röhrs : The early ore mining and the iron and steel industry in the Tecklenburger Land. Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei, Ibbenbüren 1985, ISBN 3-921290-13-9 (2nd edition, ibid 1987, ISBN 3-921290-23-6 ).
