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Battering ram of the former Edewecht–Bad Zwischenahn narrow-gauge railway

Battering ram of the former Edewecht–Bad Zwischenahn narrow-gauge railway

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Battering ram of the former Edewecht–Bad Zwischenahn narrow-gauge railway

Name: Battering ram of the former Edewecht–Bad Zwischenahn narrow-gauge railway
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Location: Edewecht, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Alwin R 🚲

January 12, 2025

The narrow-gauge railway hiking trail passes by here. It used to be a narrow-gauge railway line on which peat was transported from the Vehnemoor (Edewechterdamm) via Edewecht to Bad Zwischenahn. Since the peat was transported by truck, the line has been closed. The battering ram is a reminder of the former railway line.

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Alwin R 🚲

May 4, 2025

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Steam locomotives of various designs were in service until 1958. The first was a two-axle Type B n2t locomotive (factory number 6798) manufactured by Hanomag, known as the EDEWECHT. In 1918, a similarly two-axle Type B n2t locomotive from the Hohenzollern locomotive factory (locomotive 84, built in 1890, factory number 580), known as the ZWISCHENAHN, was acquired. This locomotive was decommissioned in 1925 and replaced by a peat-fired, three-axle locomotive from the Jung locomotive factory (Type C 1’ h2t). In 1938, this locomotive was initially converted to coal-fired operation, converted to a wet steam locomotive (C 1’ n2t) in 1948, and sold in 1959. The fourth steam-powered locomotive used from 1935 was a Type 1' C n2t locomotive (built in 1915 by Henschel, serial number 13575) under the name Ammerland. This locomotive, too, was sold in 1959.

At that time, the narrow-gauge railway had purchased a brand-new 340 hp Type R 30 C diesel locomotive from Jung (1958/12991) and registered it as the Edewecht II. This diesel locomotive remained in use until the end of narrow-gauge railway operations and was sold to the Ahaus-Alstätter Eisenbahn (Ahaus-Alstätter Railway) in 1991. There it operated as the Alstätte I until around 2003. It then went to the Hochwaldbahn (High Forest Railway) in Hermeskeil as the VL II Norbert, where it was scrapped in 2013 after having been parked for some time due to its fault.

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Location: Edewecht, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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