Zwickau-Lengenfeld-Falkensteiner Railway Company
The Zwickau-Lengenfeld-Falkensteiner Railway Company (ZLF) was a railway company in Saxony . It built and operated the Zwickau – Falkenstein railway line until 1876 .
history
The company was founded on April 11, 1872 and on July 8, 1872 was granted the concession for the Zwickau – Falkenstein line, which was approved on February 27, 1872. The construction work was entrusted to Plessner & Co in Berlin. The 3.7 million mark expensive line was to be put into operation a year later. Due to disputes about the location of individual stations, the completion was delayed more and more. Although the investment capital of the ZLF was 6.6 million marks, in 1874 they had to raise additional funds because the sale of the route to the Saxon state failed. Even after the line opened on September 18, 1875, the financial situation of the railway company did not improve, as income remained well below the forecast values. On July 15, 1876, the line was therefore sold to the Saxon state at a loss. The investors had lost a total of around 75% of their fixed assets.
Locomotives
In 1874, the ZLF acquired three mixed-train locomotives of the Saxon class IIIb as initial equipment . Like almost all Saxon locomotives, they were built by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik (formerly Hartmann) in Chemnitz . Shortly before the nationalization in 1876, the ZLF received two more locomotives, which corresponded to the Saxon class VII . The locomotives were given names after locations in the traffic area.
literature
- Erich and Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways . transpress-Verlag Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, railway depot and buildings , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 , p. 102 f.
- ↑ Dietrich Kutschik, Fritz Näbrich, Günter Meyer, Reiner Preuss: locomotives Saxon railways I , 2nd edition, transpress-Verlag Berlin, 1995