Oschatz – Strehla narrow-gauge railway
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 Section of the route map of Saxony from 1902
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| Route number : | 6965; sä. OS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 11.91 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 25 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 60 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The narrow-gauge railway Oschatz – Strehla was a Saxon narrow-gauge railway . The route ran from Oschatz to Strehla on the Elbe . In 1972 the line was closed.
history
The line was opened on December 31, 1891. Major transport services were only provided during the sugar beet harvest in autumn each year.
From April 20, 1892 there was a direct track to the Strehlaer Elbhafen, but this did not acquire any greater importance. From 1928 onwards, the kaolin delivered by Kemmlitz in narrow-gauge freight wagons was loaded there. In 1957 the harbor track was abandoned.
On January 31, 1972, the last trains ran and the line was closed on February 1, 1972. In March 1972, the dismantling of the line began, which was completed within eight weeks. In the 1980s, part of the route was used for the construction of the strategic railway Oschatz – Röderau .
Between 2017 and 2018, parts of the route were expanded as a cycle path and integrated into the cycle route from Oschatz to Strehla. The last section of the Mulde-Elbe cycle route is led to the Elbe.
Vehicle use
In the early years, the triple-coupled I K locomotives were initially used on the line. From the turn of the century, train traffic was handled exclusively with the more powerful class IV K (DR class 99.51-60).
Goods traffic was initially carried out with narrow-gauge freight wagons, and in 1912 rolling vehicle traffic was also introduced. The cars used corresponded to the general Saxon building and procurement regulations for the narrow-gauge railways and could therefore be freely exchanged with vehicles on other Saxon narrow-gauge lines.
literature
- Ludger Kenning: Narrow-gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn, 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9
- Erich Preuss, Reiner Preuss: Narrow gauge railways in Saxony . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71079-X
- Gustav W. Ledig, Johann Ferdinand Ulbricht: The narrow-gauge state railways in the kingdom of Saxony. 2nd increased and improved edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1895 (Reprint: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-7463-0070-3 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oschatz is busy building the new Mulde-Elbe cycle path. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Oschatz - Strehla. on bahntrassenradeln.de , accessed on January 20, 2020 .