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Former Weighing Facility for Peat Railway Wagons

Former Weighing Facility for Peat Railway Wagons

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Former Weighing Facility for Peat Railway Wagons

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Location: Edewecht, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Pulp-Fiction

July 5, 2025

With a scale, they weighed things🫣😁😎

The peat railways, also known as field railways, used special wagons designed for transporting peat. These wagons were often long and had a large wheelbase to ensure a high load-bearing capacity. The car bodies could be removable and were lifted from the chassis using chain lugs and then transferred, for example, with a crane.

Double-flanged wheels were common because the tracks in the bog often couldn't be laid securely, and the wheels were designed to prevent derailment.

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Alwin R 🚲

September 6, 2023

The scale is hardly recognizable as a scale in Süddorf

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Alwin R 🚲

March 6, 2024

So that the memory doesn't rust. Where there used to be a railway line, there is now a cycle path. But the past always comes to light in various places.Süddorf - Maintaining the memory of the Edewechter Kleinbahn is important to the members of the Süddorf local association. There is not much of the former tracks left where trains ran from 1912 to 1991. On the route from Bad Zwischenahn to Edewecht, the tracks have largely been dismantled, and cyclists have been riding along the former route since 1994. But when buildings are demolished on the land where the railway facilities used to stand, mementos of the railway occasionally come to light. At the beginning of the railway path in Süddorf, the old warehouse has now been demolished. “Coal and briquettes for the stoves that were used to heat the houses were stored here,” explains Herbert Runge, chairman of the Süddorf local association.

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Location: Edewecht, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Former Weighing Facility for Peat Railway Wagons

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3. Kleinbahn Trail Edewecht loop from Garrel

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