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Hespertalbahn Heritage Railway

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Hespertalbahn Heritage Railway

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Hespertalbahn Heritage Railway

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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ThomasB

January 6, 2019

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The railway line accompanies you on the way. Unfortunately, trains rarely run.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

December 22, 2019

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The Hespertalbahn began in 1857, and as a narrow-gauge railway with horse operation, it served the ore mines in the Velbert region as a means of transport. In 1877 the Pörtingssiepen colliery was connected and the line from Kupferdreh to Hesperbrück station on Hammer Straße was re-gauged to standard gauge. The remaining narrow gauge section after Hefel was closed in 1918. From 1927 until the Pörtingssiepen colliery was closed in 1973, the mine workforce was closed to the public.
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slueart

June 23, 2020

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"In 1872, a railway depot and the railway bridge over the Ruhr, which connected the Ruhr Valley Railway as part of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway, were built in Kupferdreh. This is …

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