Spyck–Welle train ferry

The ferry Spyck wave was a railway ferry across the Rhine between the left bank and the right bank Spyck shaft. It was taken with the establishment of the Left Lower Rhine route from Cologne to Neuss, Krefeld, Kleve, Elten and Zevenaar to the Dutch North Sea ports in operation in 1865 by the Rhenish Railway Company ( RhE ).

Streckenbau

On 5 July 1862, the Rhenish Railway Company ( RhE ) and the Nederlandse Rhijnspoorweg (NRS ) in Cologne agreed to link their two tracks on German soil. Since preliminary talks in Berlin had shown a consent for a route near the border, the Prussian military, however, a fixed bridge across the Rhine refused there was only one ferry ( ferry ).

Response the RhE their distance from Kleve in 1865 on over there Griethausen and bridged the Old Rhine on a 100 -meter-long girder bridge ( Griethausen railway bridge), which still stands today. This is followed by the 314 m long outfall joined with 20 openings. The route then ran across the Rhine island Salmorth to the Rhine River in Spyck where a station was built with 4 Aufstellgleisen for the resolution of the incoming trains and the recomposition of trajektierten car. From here to the right bank wave was since the current regulation one of the narrowest points of the Lower Rhine, to be crossed by ferry. There, a similar station was built, from which the distance further zuführte on the Eltenberg while the small river wild with a 130 m long bridge crossed with 7 openings. Before reaching the railway line Emmerich - Zevenaar they turned to the north and ran alongside the route to the border of the Netherlands. From there to Zevenaar NRS had completed its 5.10 km long section of the course by March 9, 1864.

The route from Kleve to the border with the bridges was taken by the police on April 2, 1864, and opened to traffic. However, the construction of the Trajektes brought because of its initial construction many problems, so that significantly delayed the opening of the entire route.

The Trajektanstalt

The Fährponten with cars from the train should not move freely across the stream, but cross the stream between two chains stretched across the stream. Only when they replaced the chains by strong ropes, managed to Trajektierung. The current in the headwater stronger wire rope ran on the Ponte about roles and served as a guide rope. The thinner rope in underwater ran on the Ponte on two wheels, which were driven by a steam engine and the Ponte transported across the stream.

The cars were pushed over an inclined plane (slope 1:48 ) of a locomotive on the Ponten and deducted on the other side by another locomotive again. In order not to burden the Ponten with the weight of the locomotive had been coupled two light intermediate cars to locomotives. The Ponten could carry mounted on the deck rail freight cars either six or five cars. The passengers remained during the crossing into the car.

The release of the transport of two Fährstraßen over the Rhine was made on 19 April 1865 and a few days later, on April 21, the first passenger train from Cologne via the ferry ran to Zevenaar. For the crossing by ferry had scheduled 20 minutes in the schedule. Accounted for 4 minutes each for the movement of the trolley on the inclined planes and 8 minutes on the proper navigation.

Disadvantage for the Trajektbetrieb to floods, storms and especially ice of the Rhine had an impact that occurred at that time every winter. This operation was interrupted an average of three weeks per year. Nevertheless, every year between 20,000 and 30,000 cars were driven across the Rhine. The RhE could use the Trajektsystem developed here for two more Eisenbahntrajekte. On August 23, 1866, she opened the ferry Rheinhausen high-field and on July 11, 1870, the ferry Bonn -Oberkassel.

End of Trajektanstalt

Until the nationalization of RhE the entire freight and passenger of the company was using the links Niederrheinische route to northern Holland. Then the end of 1912 the ferry traffic was stopped and dismantled the track ramps on both banks. The passengers were ferried to a steam boat. During the 1st World War, the train has been reduced to two pairs of trains. After the war, the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) terminated the contract and the German State Railroad Company (DRG ) operating the train and ferry service until August 31, 1926 In 1930 the tracks of the line shaft were on the right side of the Rhine -. Elten degraded. In contrast, the passenger up to 29 May 1960 and the freight was left of the Rhine performed to a lying directly on the Rhine oil mill until 1987. Then also this stretch was decommissioned.