Schluff
The silt is Krefeld's historic steam train and runs on one of the oldest private railways in Germany.
The name " silt " is derived from the vernacular name for silts slippers. In a figurative sense silt is a tired man who no longer gets his legs up and looped with his slippers, so his silts across the floor. The leisurely cruising speed of the train and the wheezing sound of the steam engine, the locomotive reminiscent of a silt.
Premises of the silt is now a museum railway of the SWK MOBIL and supported by the clubs ' silt and historic vehicles Krefeld "," Friends of the Railway Krefeld eV "and the" community of interests rail Krefeld eV ", the tradition department of bus and train SWK Association and since 2010 the " port Krefeld GmbH & Co. KG ", which operates the krefeld Rhine harbor.
History of the route and its operation
1868 Krefeld Railway as " Crefeld Circle Kempener Industrial Railway Society " ( CKKIE ) was founded. 1880 took over the " Crefelder Railway Company " (CEG, later KEG) 1874 bankrupt CKKIE. 1914 decreed the car park of the CEG 19 locomotives, 51 passenger cars, 10 vans, two post car, 101 covered and 83 open wagons, 57 coke car and 8 special car. This company went public in 1978 on the KREVAG, SWK MOBIL GmbH today. Even until 1951, passenger services were set on the rail, freight followed until 1985. Nowadays, from the network, only the connection between St. Tönis and Hülser mountain remained. The ancient tracks of St. Tönis after Süchteln and from Hülser mountain to Moers been partially preserved as a combined cycling trail.
Since 1979, this route is used for excursions, first briefly with a diesel locomotive, starting in May 1980 with the steam locomotive " Count Bismarck XV ". On every Sunday and holiday from May to October, hundreds of passengers travel by silt from St. Tönis over the Krefeld North Station to the recreation area Hülser mountain. Bicycles can find in a van space.
Train conductors and conductors are the "Friends of the Railway Krefeld eV " ( FdE ) and the " community of interests rail Krefeld eV " (ISK). The bar car of the silt is hosted by the " tradition Division bus and train " SWK Association ( Trabuba ).
In 1995, the silt has been included as Portable monument in the list of monuments of the city of Krefeld.
First introduced in 1980, SWK Mobil, Maintenance Department, the train drivers, which, however, also had their part in the silt as an ancillary activity to a normal service with the SWK perceive what led after the turn of the century to bottlenecks, as fewer were qualified employees. 2008 NIAG took over the driving and also presented the drivers. Since 2010, SWK Mobil cooperates problematic due to the lack of train drivers has since become the " port Krefeld GmbH & Co. KG " instead NIAG. She takes over for three years, the technical operation and the maintenance and servicing of cars and tracks and organizes the transport of goods.
The steam locomotive
The locomotive Count Bismarck XV (No. 98 8921 ) was adopted in 1979 by the German Society for Railway History from the Railway Museum Bochum- Dahlhausen. It was built at Henschel & Sohn in Kassel under the serial number Hey 29893/47. The locomotive is of type D 600 This is a relatively new locomotive (built in 1947/48 ) of the type "D N2T " ( four driving axles, wet steam boiler with two cylinders, tank locomotive ), originally on the bill count Bismarck in Gelsenkirchen was in use.
To avoid embankment fires by sparks and Abas Chung on the track, the locomotive was converted to the wooded path to the Hülser mountain from 1980, prior to their use coal to light oil. The burner is a burner of retired from the heating plant of Stadtwerke Krefeld on the Old Gladbach road. Since this burner - unlike normal practice in oil-fired steam locomotives - is not operated by steam, but with an electric current, the locomotive received two steam turbine with a generator to produce electricity, as well as a diesel engine - generator for starting.
In 1997 the locomotive in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works was completely overhauled and given a new boiler. 2005/ 06, the locomotive was repaired again in the same factory.
Pictures
Details from the helm of Count Bismarck XV
The silt and ranked by evaporation on a mountain Hülser
Film
In 2013, the silt was used as a framework design for the children's film The silt and the mystery of the golden pocket watch producer Michael Schürger, among other things, with the actor Tom Gerhardt.