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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