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By 1930, the railway extended to 95 kilometres (59 mi) of track, serving 13 copper mines and two smelteries, and had interchanges with two station served by standard gauge trains. Transporter wagons were introduced in the 1930s, as well as air brakes on rolling stock. Traffic on the Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn reached its peak in 1955.
A mine railway (or mine railroad, U.S.), sometimes pit railway, is a railway constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of a mine. [1] Materials transported typically include ore , coal and overburden (also called variously spoils, waste, slack, culm, [ 2 ] and tilings; all meaning waste rock).
Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Germany: Mine railways in Mayen: 557 mm: 21 + 15 ⁄ 16 in: Dominican Republic: Transport in the Dominican Republic: 560 mm: 22 + 1 ⁄ 16 in: Germany Salt mine railway in Berchtesgaden [23] 575 mm 22 + 5 ⁄ 8 in: Germany Iron ore mine railways in Bad Ems and Ramsbeck [24] 578 mm 1 ft 10 + 3 ⁄ 4 in: United ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Mansfeld Mining Railway; Märkische Museum Railway; ... Heritage railways in Germany.
A German mine cart with a guide pin (in Fig. F), in a 1556 drawing by Georgius Agricola (De re metallica Libri XII), the forerunner of all modern railway wagons. The forerunner of the railway in Germany, as in England, was to be found mainly in association with the mining industry.
Begun in 1978, the mine's operation area currently (as of end of 2017) has a size of 43.8 km 2, with the total area designated for mining having a size of 85 km 2. [4] It is the deepest open pit mine with respect to sea level : the bottom of the pit, with up to 500 metres (1,640 ft) from the surface, is 299 metres (981 ft) below sea level, [ 5 ...
Bremen-Thedinghausen Railway (Kleinbahn Leeste) - Leeste Branch Line; Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein (German Railway Society), Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Asendorf; Syke–Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Hoya–Eystrup (first and oldest museum railway in Germany: German Railway Society, 1964), Kaffkieker; Osnabrück-Piesberg Mine station (Osnabrücker Dampflokfreunde)
For railway companies that are no longer in existence, see the List of former German railway companies. The bulk of the railway network in Germany belongs to DB Netz , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG – this situation is a relic from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn had a monopoly.