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Borkumer Kleinbahn
The Borkumer Kleinbahn is a narrow gauge railway on the German island of Borkum in the North Sea. It is the oldest island railway () in Germany, beginning operation in 1888. Line The long line connects the port with the town of Borkum. It is double tracked since the early 20th century. File:Karte Insel Borkum.png, A map of the island showing the railway line History In 1879, tracks for a horse-drawn railway line were laid for the construction of a new lighthouse. The tracks were converted for locomotive-hauled trains about 10 years later, and the line opened in 1888 as a successor of the horsedrawn line. The network reached its peak length in 1938, with a track length of about . The line celebrated its 125th anniversary on June 15, 2013. Rolling stock The fleet consists of multiple passenger cars, diesel locomotives, steam locomotives and a Wismar railbus, which was built in 1940. A steam locomotive from the Bäderbahn Molli The Molli (''German: Mecklenburgische Bäd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borkum
Borkum (; ) is an island and a municipality in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany. It is situated east of Rottumeroog and west of Juist. Geography Borkum is bordered to the west by the Westerems strait (which forms the border with the Netherlands), to the east by the Osterems strait, to the north by the North Sea, and to the south by the Wadden Sea. It is the largest and westernmost of the East Frisian Islands in the North Sea, due north of the Dutch province of Groningen. The island was formed in 1863 by two previously separate islands which were still separated by a shallow water. The seam between the former eastern and western parts is called ''Tüskendör'' ("through in between"). Climate Borkum is the only East Frisian island that is under the influence of the North Sea all year round thanks to its distance from the mainland. The maritime climate is influenced by the Gulf Stream and the west wind zone with correspondingly high humidity through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
(; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. NDR is a member of ARD (broadcaster), ARD, the joint organisation of German public broadcasters. History Pre-war In 1924 broadcasting began in Hamburg, when ''Norddeutsche Rundfunk AG'' (NORAG) was created. In 1934 it was incorporated into the ''Großdeutscher Rundfunk'', the national broadcaster controlled by Joseph Goebbels's Propagandaministerium, as ''Reichssender Hamburg''. In 1930, NORAG commissioned the Welte-Funkorgel – a large theatre organ custom-built by the firm of Welte-Mignon, M. Welte & Sons to meet the specific acoustic requirements of radio broadcasting – and installed it in their radio studio (today the world's oldest such facility still in use) on Rothenbaumchaussee 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double-track Railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track. Overview In the earliest days of railways in the United Kingdom, most lines were built as double-track because of the difficulty of co-ordinating operations before the invention of the telegraph. The lines also tended to be busy enough to be beyond the capacity of a single track. In the early days the Board of Trade did not consider any single-track railway line to be complete. In the earliest days of railways in the United States most lines were built as single-track for reasons of cost, and very inefficient timetable working systems were used to prevent head-on collisions on single lines. This improved with the development of the telegraph and the train order system. Operation Handedness In any given country, rail traffic generally runs to one side of a double-track line, not always the same side as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse-drawn Railway
A wagonway (or waggonway; also known as a horse-drawn railway, or horse-drawn railroad) was a method of railway transportation that preceded the steam locomotive and used horses to haul wagons. The terms plateway and tramway were also used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger loads could be transported with the same power compared to horse haulage along roads. Ancient systems The earliest evidence is of the long ''Diolkos'' paved trackway, which transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece from around 600 BC. Wheeled vehicles pulled by men and animals ran in grooves in limestone, which provided the track element, preventing the wagons from leaving the intended route. The Diolkos was in use for over 650 years, until at least the 1st century AD. Paved trackways were later built in Roman Egypt. Wooden rails Such an operation was illustrated in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola (image left) in his work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bäderbahn Molli
The Molli (''German: Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn "Molli"''; short: MBB; also: Molli Bahn or Mollibahn) is a narrow-gauge steam-powered railway in Mecklenburg, Germany, running on gauge track. It operates between Bad Doberan, Heiligendamm and Kühlungsborn West over a total distance of with a running time of 40 minutes. Within Bad Doberan the line runs through the street, and later along a linden tree-lined avenue. History On 19 June 1886, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg granted a licence for the construction and operation of a narrow gauge railway from Doberan station to Heiligendamm, this first section going into operation on 9 July 1886. It was built by the private railway construction and operating company of from Stettin (now ''Szczecin'') and run by the Doberan-Heiligendamm Railway (DHE). Services on the -long route, which was worked by a steam tram and later classified as a light railway or ''Kleinbahn'', initially only ran during the summer season f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostsee-Zeitung
The ''Ostsee-Zeitung'' (abbreviated ''OZ'') is a German language regional daily newspaper published in Rostock, Germany. It was launched in East Germany in 1952 and has been in circulation since then. History and profile Founded in 1952, ''Ostsee-Zeitung'' was one of the newspapers published in East Germany before the German reunification. The paper was owned the Socialist Unity Party during this period. As of 1959 the paper had thirteen local editions. The paper is based in Rostock and is published in Rheinisch format. ''Ostsee-Zeitung'' was part of the Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH, a subsidiary of the Axel Springer group, until 2008. The group acquired the shares in the paper in 1990. The Lübecker Nachrichten GmbH, a subsidiary of the Madsack group, bought the Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH in February 2009. The Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH is a subsidiary of the Lübecker Nachrichten GmbH. The Madsack group also owns ''Freie Presse'', ''Göttinger Tageblatt'', ''Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung'', ''Kie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Lines In Lower Saxony
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
900 Mm Gauge Railways In Germany
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
