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Diabaswerk Saalfelden
Saalfelden

 
Gauge : 600mm
Status : Ceased approx 2008
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Diabaswerk Saalfelden  

Running for a distance of approximately 1.2km, the 600mm gauge line at Saalfelden was used for the transport of stone. A short easily accessable railway which over the last few years had updated its rolling stock and locomotives.

 

Date: May 1997

Date: May 1997

Date: May 1997

For part of its length, it ran alongside the road away from the mainline station, before crossing over via an ungated level crossing towards the quarry.

The railway terminates at a standard gauge transhipment point, next to Saalfelden Railway station. There was just a single run round loop here, with an interesting device for unloading the crushed stone into the standard gauge wagons. The side tipping Mühlhäuser wagons were emptied into a bucket below rail height alongside the narrow gauge tracks. This was then mechanically hauled up to the correct height to tip into the standard gauge wagons.

In 1995, at the end of the run round loop, the reserve loco, Diema (No 4846), was found. This loco was just 10 years old.

 

Date: June 1995

Date: June 1995

Date: June 1995

The Diema loco was displaced in 1994 by a new Schöma loco. By 1997, the Diema was not in working order, and so the Schöma was the sole motive power.

The line entered the quarry via small bridge and there was a single point allowing the wagons to be backed under the loading hopper.

The new Schöma loco was N0 5398, and is type CHL-40G. It is seen here at the end of the line in the stone crushing plant.

Date: May 1997

For several years, one of the earlier locos, a Jenbach 20hp, plus some of the original skips have been plinthed at the entrance to the plant.

 
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