Английская Википедия:Elsenborn Camp Railway
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox rail line The Elsenborn Camp Railway was a Шаблон:Convert long Шаблон:Track gauge gauge railway line which connected the Elsenborn Camp near Elsenborn with Sourbrodt railway station on the standard gauge Vennbahn in Belgium from 1901 to 1939.
History
Шаблон:Stack The track was laid in 1900 and inaugurated in 1901. Since 1918 German 0-8-0 brigade steam locomotives of the Heeresfeldbahn were used on the line.[1] The railway was subsequently nicknamed Elijah's Chariot of Fire (Feuriger Elias) and used for goods and passenger trains.[2] Reverend Pietkin was not amused by the increasing alcohol consumption and prostitution around the railway station, when he warned from the pulpit about the railway's curse with the aphorism: "C'est le chemin de l'enfer!" ("This is railway to hell!")[3]
The transport unit employed about 70 civilians, most of whom were recruited from the surrounding population. It was moved to the Bressoux barracks during the winter months, when there were no exercises on the square. In the run-up to World War II, the camp, with the exception of permanent employees, was largely abandoned due to the general mobilization of Belgium, and in 1939 the narrow-gauge railway was taken out of use and its track was lifted.
References
- ↑ Joerg Seidel: Camp d'Elsenborn mit Feldbahn. Um 1925.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web abbreviated edition of: Echo de Malmedy, 5 May 1889, based on a manuscript by R. Giet, Sourbrodt
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