Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel

The Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel operates since 2004 passenger transport on their ridable miniature railway with 127 mm (5 inches) and 184 mm (7¼ inches) gauge in Sprockhövel-Haßlinghausen in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel
Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel
Technical
Line length0.4 kilometres (0.25 mi)
Track gauge127 mm (5 inches) and
184 mm (7¼ inches)
Route map
Station
Depot

Location

The rail track is located in the immediate vicinity of the former railway line Schee-Silschede, which is now used as a bicycle trail and is part of the Von-Ruhr-zur-Ruhr-Radweg.

Route

The route, which runs in two partly winding circles over an area of about one hectare, is about 400 metres (440 yd) long. The tracks are laid on a concrete foundation with a camber in the bends.

This is a complex construction, which is rare in garden railways, as the tracks are usually laid as in the raw-model in a ballast bed. With financial support from a local foundation, the association succeeded in 2017 to build a steel bridge, which is also used as a track underpass.[1][2]

The club regularly organizes public driving days between April and September, which attracts mainly local families for leisure activities.[3]

Rolling stock

Most of the locomotive models are privately owned. These are driven by real steam or by electric motors that obtain their energy from accumulators . The scales of the vehicles vary between 1: 8 and 1: 3. Some locomotives were built in-house.[4]

References
  1. Andreas Eichhorn (2016-06-25). "Dampfbahn bekommt neue Brücke" (in German). NRZ. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  2. "Spatenstich für Modelleisenbahn-Brücke" (PDF) (in German). Sparkasse Sprockhövel. 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  3. Amelie Hennig (2017-04-24). "Großer Andrang herrschte beim Andampfen in Haßlinghausen" (in German). WAZ. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  4. Matthias Spuck (2016-12-29). "Beim DBC Sprockhövel schmaucht das Feuerross" (in German). WAZ. Retrieved 2018-03-01.

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