Georg Fischer AG factory railway
| Georg Fischer AG factory railway | |
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 The three most important vehicle types on
the Georg Fischer AG factory railway : Gm 2/2 5, Ge 4/4 77 and Ge 2/2 78 in the roller bolster system (1980) | |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
The Georg Fischer AG factory railway was a meter gauge factory railway operated by Georg Fischer AG (GF) in Schaffhausen . It existed between 1913 and 1993 and was designed according to the standards of the Schaffhauser Strassenbahn (SchSt). This is because she also used the tram tracks to transport her freight cars to the various GF plants in Schaffhausen.
history
The production in the plants of Georg Fischer AG suffered more and more from the sluggish traffic conditions on " Mühlentalstrasse ". An experimental delivery of raw materials with the truck purchased in 1906 was also unsuccessful, as the road was badly damaged by the iron-tyred wheels and was almost no longer passable. A planned standard gauge connection with disadvantageous tight curves and a tunnel under the "Tannenberg" was estimated to cost CHF 800,000 without the associated rolling stock. For a further draft with the creation of a tram route for public passenger traffic and shared use for company traffic, only costs of 500,000 francs were estimated for Georg Fischer AG, including rolling stock. This alternative was cheaper, it also improved the transport of its own workers, the disadvantage was the acceptance of a roller bolster company that only allowed the transport of wagons with a maximum height of 3.4 meters from the upper edge of the roller bolster. Nevertheless, the Board of Directors decided on this second option.
During the First World War there was a branch in Ossingen . There, peat was transported from the mining area at Hausersee to the Ossingen station on a meter-gauge field railway in order to supply its own gas works. One of the construction locomotives (probably no. 80) was used for this.
Initially, only open freight wagons with roller bolsters could be transported because two underpasses had to be crossed under between the SchSt loading facility and the works in the “Mühlental”. Initially, this was not a problem, as most of the raw material was delivered in open wagons. This changed when a new roller bolster system was built on the north side of Schaffhausen station in 1957 . From this point in time, the tram operation in the «Mühlental» was discontinued and the tram line became the property of Georg Fischer AG. From then on, transport by rail to the plant in Ebnat and to the SBB freight halls was no longer possible. The Ebnat plant was served with narrow-gauge lines until 1970, after which it was served with a new standard-gauge freight connection. In August 1980 the network in the Mühlental was shortened and the section from the former foundry near the boiler to Birch was discontinued. Around two years later, the section from the steel foundry to the boiler was discontinued. In August 1980, electrical operation was also switched to diesel. The operation of the factory railway in Mühlental was given up on August 6, 1993. In the same year, the standard gauge section of the works railway was shut down.
Rolling stock
With the exception of the Scheidegg– Neuhausen route, all rolling stock was permitted on the entire Schaffhausen tram network. The freight wagons were probably also occasionally used on the Schaffhausen – Schleitheim tram route. At the start of operation, the vehicles were equipped with the trumpet clutches that were common on trams at the time . This rigid coupling was replaced in 1914/1915 by the semi-automatic GF coupling developed in-house. Only the roller stools were left with the old coupling and converted together with those of the Schaffhausen tram.
Originally the vehicles were equipped with roller pantographs , after the overhead contact line was converted in 1916, the vehicles could be converted to hoop pantographs .
Between 1971 and 1993 an Em 2/2 from Moyse with the number 1 was owned for the standard gauge connection Ebnat, which was sold to KEBAG in Zuchwil in 1994.
Locomotives
- Ge 4/4 75 and 76, built in 1913, out of service in 1980. Both received in 1981 on the Blonay – Chamby museum railway , No. 75 (revision completed in 1988), No. 76 broken off in 1981
- Ge 2/2 77 and 78, built in 1915 and 1921, No. 77 demolished in 1968; Received No. 78.
- G 3/3 79 and 81, bought as an used 1912/1915 from the Birsigtalbahn (ex. No. 2 and 3), one already as a construction locomotive; Sale on demolition 1916/1921
- G 3/3 80, bought as a second hand in 1913 from the Société genevoise des chemins de fer à voie étroite ( ex.no.15 ), sold on demolition in 1921
- G 3/3 82, purchased as a second hand in 1916 from the Société genevoise des chemins de fer à voie étroite (ex.no.8), sold on demolition in 1921
- G 3/3 83, bought as a used 1918 from the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn ex Birsigtalbahn No. 4, sold after demolition in 1921
- Tm 2/2 Georg V , bought as a second hand in 1980 from Schöma , formerly construction locomotive Arlberg road tunnel
The Ge 4/4 75 (1980)
The Ge 4/4 74 on the Blonay – Chamby museum railway
The Ge 2/2 77 with a train in the Mühlental (1915)
The Ge 2/2 78 (1980)
The G 3/3 80 (1915)
dare
When the company opened, there were a covered wagon (K116), four dump trucks , three open freight wagons and two open freight wagons (M147–148) and eight roller bolsters (O 1 91–98).
literature
- Georg Fischer AG factory railway (+ GF +) In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar
- Jürg Zimmermann, Richard Gerbig: The Schaffhausen trams. Verlag Peter Meili, Schaffhausen 1976, ISBN 3-85805-052-0 .
- V. John: 50 years + GF + Werkbahn 1913–1963. 1963 (typescript) Georg Fischer Archive 30/60.
- Schaffhausen Cantonal History of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume 2. ISBN 3-85801-151-7 , pp. 1201–1203.
- Hans Waldenburger, Jürg Aeschliemann: Tram and Bus in Schaffhausen , 2017 Prellbockverlag ISBN 978-3-907579-43-5 , pp. 217-256.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Waldenburger, Jürg Aeschlimann: Tram and bus in Schaffhausen. P. 221.