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Hespertalbahn Museum Railway

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

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December 21, 2022

As a narrow-gauge railway with horse-power, it opened up ore mines from 1857, and later the Pörtingsiepen colliery. The conversion of part of the tracks to standard gauge took place in 1877 up to Hesperbrück. The upper part of the Hespertalbahn remained a narrow-gauge railway.

In order to manage the transport of the lime from Hefel to Hesperbrück, a narrow-gauge railway was built through the southern Hespertal to Hefel, as in 1870/71, which was connected to the old siding at Oberhesperhof. It is the first to open up the limestone quarries of the Stolberg colliery in the western part of the Hefelerbach valley through a tunnel. Today the quarries have been filled in by a disused municipal rubbish dump and overbuilt by the A44. The Röbbecker quarry in the Rottberg farming community was connected in 1890 with a branch line and a Bremsberg. In 1881, the District President in Düsseldorf gave permission to convert the Hefel-Hesperbrück narrow-gauge connecting railway into a steam-powered railway. In 1885 the railway from Hefel via Hesperbrück to Kupferdreh was relicensed and now operated under the name "Hespertalbahn". There is also public transport. In 1899, planning begins again for a railway connection from Velbert to Kupferdreh through the Hespertal; however, the plans are soon abandoned. In 1917 the narrow-gauge railway was shut down. Visible evidence of the railway are two tunnels, a braking hill and some remains of the route in Velbert.

The lower Hespertalbahn remained in operation because of the coal mines. Rail traffic was discontinued in 1973. Since June 1975, the Association for the Preservation of the Hespertalbahn has operated the line as a museum railway.

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Thomas

September 25, 2022

Great museum railway

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Koonga

September 26, 2022

It's been a while, but that was a great tour around the beautiful Baldeneysee.

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Hespertalbahn Museum Railway

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