The Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel has operated passenger transport on their
ridable miniature railway
A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or pet ...
with 127 mm (5 inches) and 184 mm (7¼ inches) gauge in
Sprockhövel
Sprockhövel is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Sprockhövel is located in the southern suburban part of the Ruhr area. It is 6 km southeast of Hattingen, 8 km northwest of Gevelsb ...
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Haßlinghausen in
North Rhine Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
,
Germany
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since 2004.
Location
The rail track is located in the immediate vicinity of the former railway line Schee-Silschede, which is now used as a bicycle trail and is part of the Von-Ruhr-zur-Ruhr-Radweg.
Route
The route, which runs in two partly winding circles over an area of about one hectare, is about long. The tracks are laid on a concrete foundation with a
camber in the bends.
This is a complex construction, which is rare in garden railways, as the tracks are usually laid as in the raw-model in a ballast bed. With financial support from a local foundation, the association succeeded in 2017 to build a steel bridge, which is also used as a track underpass.
The club regularly organizes public railway trips between April and September, which attracts mainly local families for leisure activities.
Rolling stock
Most of the locomotive models are privately owned. These are driven by real steam or by electric motors that obtain their energy from accumulators.
The scales of the vehicles vary between 1: 8 and 1: 3. Some locomotives were built in-house.
References
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Miniature railways in Germany
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis