Aspelt – Bettemburg narrow-gauge railway
| Aspelt – Bettemburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 10.19 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 120 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The narrow-gauge railway Aspelt-Bettemburg was a narrow-gauge railway with 1000 mm gauge in Luxembourg. The approximately 10 km long route led from Aspelt on the narrow-gauge railway Luxembourg – Remich to Bettembourg, where there was a transition to the standard-gauge station.
history
Construction work on the route planned by the state as a vicinal railway began in the summer of 1898. In total, the construction cost around 800,000 francs, which was around twice as much as originally estimated. The traffic could be started on September 1, 1899 by the Société Anonyme pour l'exploitation de chemins de fer régionaux en Belgique . Between 1911 and 1919 the company was taken over by the Chemins de fer secondaires Luxembourgeois (Luxembourg secondary railways), and in 1919 management was transferred to the Société Anonyme des chemins de fer et minières Prince Henri . Thereafter, the superstructure, neglected by the secondary railway company, was gradually renovated.
From 1934 the traffic was carried out by the state company Chemins de fer à voie étroite de l'État (CVE) itself. Operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn between 1942 and 1944 , the line was transferred to the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois after the Second World War . In contrast to other railway lines, the narrow-gauge railway survived the Second World War itself undamaged.
Traffic was resumed in August 1945, but as in previous decades, no profit could be made with the route. However, since the railway formed an operating unit together with the narrow-gauge railway Luxembourg – Remich in the last years of operation , the deficit traffic was maintained until the 1950s. In 1952, passenger traffic and in 1954 goods traffic were shifted to the state railroad's own motor traffic.
literature
- Ed Federmeyer: Narrow Gauge Railways in Luxembourg , 1991
- Jean-Paul Meyer: The narrow-gauge railway Bettembourg-Aspelt, 1984