Molotschne tram

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Molotschne tram
Molotschne tram train (2006)
Molotschne tram train (2006)
Molotschne tram route
Route length: 1.5 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )

The Molotschne tram ran from 1989 to 2014 between the Ukrainian village of Molotschne and the beach on the Black Sea . With a route length of 1.5 kilometers, Molotschne had the smallest tram company in Ukraine and one of the smallest in the world.

history

The village of Molotschne is located in the Crimea , around eight kilometers west of Yevpatoria on the Black Sea. On the south-eastern outskirts there is a holiday home, the "Pansionat Berehowyj". To make it easier for guests to access the sea, the construction of a tram line began in 1988. Since no new vehicles were available and they wanted to fall back on used vehicles from Yevpatoria, the line was built in meter gauge.

The route has a length of 1.5 kilometers and only two stops at the ends of the route, "Pansionat Berehowyj" and "Pljasch" (bathing beach). Dodging and turning loops were not built, there is a simple butt track at both end stops . A wagon shed was built at the Pansionat Berehowyj, at the junction to this there is the only switch on the route.

The construction of the railway was closely related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in May 1986. As a result, the railway administration of the Korosten / Zhytomyr region selected the Berehowyj holiday home as a resort for its more than 10,000 employees. This meant that the large property was fully booked for the entire bathing season. Due to the prevailing shortage economy in the Soviet Union , the establishment of a bus service to the beach was out of the question. However, the know-how to build a tram was available and the necessary personnel could be requisitioned from within the company. Tracks and vehicles were made available from Zhytomyr and Evpatoria, only eight kilometers away .

Scheduled operations began on August 18, 1989. Since then, the tram has run every summer season from June to September.

Due to the lack of holidaymakers due to the Crimean crisis , the tram only ran a few times in 2014 for some groups of children from the Russian Far East. In 2015 tram operations were not resumed.

vehicles

Two direction railcars 5 at the final stop Pljasch (2006)
Bidirectional railcar 5 with wrong number (2012)

At the opening of the tram operation were from the tram Yevpatoria two railcars over a bi-directional motor coaches of the type Gotha T57 (number 5), originally from the tram Mykolaiv came, and a device railcars of type Gotha T59E (number 20). A two-part one-way train of the type Gotha T2-62 / B2-62 was taken over from Zhytomyr (numbers 33 and 76). The regular service was operated from the beginning with cars 5 and 20, the numbers of which have since been changed to 005 and 020. From 2005 to 2008 these vehicles drove with reversed numbers.

The cars 005 and 020 were coupled to a train. The driver's cab of the two-way railcar 005, which faces the railcar 020, has been expanded. Both platforms of the route are on the south-eastern side of the route, so that the doors on the 020 railcar were only sufficient on one side. The doors on the other side of railcar 005 remained locked.

The railcar 33 only served as a spare parts donor , it was soon completely dismantled and scrapped in 1996. Sidecar 76 was available as a reinforcement car until 1997, but was then taken out of service and used as a storage room.

business

The operation was limited to the summer season from June to September. During this time, the daily driving was from around 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with a longer lunch break. The train ran every half hour. Although the operation was primarily intended for the guests of the holiday home, the rides were public for all passengers and paid for. The tickets were sold by a conductor on the train. A single ticket cost 50 kopecks in 2006, and then one hryvnia in 2009 .

literature

  • Molotschne. In: Serhij Tarchow, Kost Koslow, Aare Olander: Elektrotransport Ukrajini. Encyclopedychny Putivnyk. Warto, Kyjiw 2010, ISBN 978-966-2321-11-1 , pp. 555-556.

Web links

Commons : Molotschne tram  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Kaiser: The smallest in the whole world . In: Tram magazine . No. 3 , 2010, p. 52 f .
  2. ↑ hjs: Tram Молочне / Moločne . In: IBSE Telegram 286 (9/2014), p. 5.
  3. ↑ Chronology of the Molotschne tram on transphoto.ru
  4. ↑ http://transphoto.ru/list.php?t=1&cid=148