Hespertalbahn

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Hespertalbahn

Al:

The narrow horse-drawn tramway has long been inadequate to connect the Phoenix smelter with the Pörtingsiepen mine and the cement factory and to transport the material. A proper railroad from Kupferdreh to the quarries and ore mines would be appropriate. This would kill several birds with one stone. And I suggest taking a break at the idyllically situated Haus Scheppen!

The "Steel Time Travelers" Luise & Alfred: Hespertalbahn


Visitor information

Address:
Hespertalbahn am Baldeneysee
Prinz-Friedrich-Platz 3
45257 Essen
Phone. 0201/80091330
info@hespertalbahn.de
www.hespertalbahn.de

Private rail passenger service at Lake Baldeney - Pörtingsiepen (1968)

Short description (film without sound)

The train connection between Essen-Kupferdreh station and Pörtingsiepen colliery was an important means of transportation for many miners. The film shows the Pörtingsiepen colliery, Lake Baldeney and in Kupferdreh buildings of the disused Prinz Friedrich colliery. On the way back, Haus Scheppen can be seen, today a popular motorcycle meeting place.

The Hespertalbahn through the ages

  • For decades, the Hespertalbahn in Essen-Fischlaken transported the coal mined at the Pörtingsiepen colliery.

  • Locomotive Pörtingsiepen VI was in service on the line [1969]

  • The tower winding frame of the Pörtingsiepen colliery with the locomotive shed dating from 1958. The colliery was closed down in 1972. [ 31.03.1973]

  • A museum train of the Hespertalbahn e.V., which runs between the historic station (Essen-)Kupferdreh and Haus Scheppen along the Baldeneysee

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