Schwertberger kaolin train

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The Schwertberg kaolin train , also called kaolin, was the works railway of the Kaolin-Montan-Industrie-Gesellschaft ( Kamig AG ), which ran from Schwertberg (Austria) along the river into the Josefstal ( Aisttal ).

course

The 3.8-kilometer-long factory railway with a gauge of 600 millimeters, which was set up in 1923, led from the railway station in Schwertberg to the processing and loading facility in Josefstal and was shut down in 1981. The railway line ran almost continuously along Aisttalstraße L 1415 and passed the Schwertberg Castle . In their place there was a pipeline system with which the slurried kaolin was brought directly to the processing plant in Aisthofen .

Purpose and meaning

The first in the mining and later in open pit in Kriechbaum in the church of All Saints in Mühlkreis subsidized raw kaolin was by means of a cable car brought into the valley, in the narrow-gauge wagons loaded, transported to almost four kilometers from the train station Schwertberg, in wagons of the ÖBB reloaded and more two kilometers to the processing plant in Aisthofen. 24 lorries with a capacity of three tons each and 4 four-axle freight wagons were available.

In the 1960s, up to 170,000 tons of raw kaolin were mined annually in the only mine in the Mühlviertel and up to 50,000 tons of kaolin were produced from it, with up to 500 people employed there. At that time, Kamig was one of the largest companies in the Mühlviertel.

Vehicle fleet

In 1930 Kamig AG acquired the last fire-free steam storage locomotive produced there from Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik (B-fl, Floridsdorf 3012/1930, weight 13.5 tons, operating pressure 5 atmospheres), which was completed by the Floridsdorfer Lokomotivfabrik and delivered to Schwertberg in October 1930 has been. The locomotive is in the Schwechat Railway Museum , where there is also a diesel locomotive (B-dm, Jenbach 162-56 / 1958, 50 HP) used in Schwertberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Works railways in the Linz area on the Danube
  2. ↑ Heimathaus Stadtmuseum Perg - Kamig kaolin mine (PDF; 5.5 MB)
  3. ↑ Festschrift 80 years of Kamig (PDF; 921 kB), p. 16f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 53.6 "  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 44.8"  E