Vippetangen Line

The Korntrikk - also Korntrikken, German " grain tram " - was one of the freight transport tram used in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

The " grain tram " transported grain from the grain port on the Vippetangen to two mill owners in the Oslo city neighborhoods Grunerløkka and Sandaker.

History

The road freight rail link was established in 1918. First, we took advantage of four converted tramcar with a possible load of 5 tons. Load, as well as three trailers that. For a payload of about 8 to Load were designed. In 1932, two vehicles specially built for grain transport were bought and used that to around 20. Payload possessed. During normal operation, the vehicles run under the operating number K- 355 and K -354, were able to daily about 320 tons. Grain are transported.

After initially only the mill Bjølsen Valsemølle in Sandaker district was hit by a 5.6 km long route, in 1953 a branch to the mills drive Nedre Foss Mill was also established. The route from the port here was about 3.3 km.

On February 15, 1967, the operation of the Korntrikk was closed, when the railway route was needed for the new ferry terminal in the wake of the harbor redevelopment and extension of quays. From then took over the supply truck. The Nedre Foss Mill was decommissioned in 1986, while the Bjølsen Valsemølle today produced at their site.

The entire rolling stock was scrapped after cessation of operation so that you can visit only in a converted to a dormitory granary, on the site of the former Nedre Foss Mill, a replica of the front end of a Korntrikk today.

A special feature of all vehicles reported Korntrikk on the roof of an additional, laterally offset pantographs on which it admitted that they could be filled when driving the granary in the middle, from the top. A single center contact wire would have prevented this.