Yesterday I visited a friend and his garden for his annual 'Chistmas run-in', and for the occasion I had prepared my military trains for winter service.
As people starts to prepare for Christmas these days heritage Railways often invites to different "Christmas Trains" and "Santa Specials". Today a heritage industrial narrow gauge railway , which collects different 600mm rollingstock from all over Norway, invited to such a "Santa Special", and I decided to take my youngest son there as he loves both trains and Christmas.
The narrow gauge railway is called Lommedalsbanen, and they have not only collected stock from pure industrial railways, but from different Norwegian military narrow gauge lines as well. Some of them were running today.
A locomotive of the same type has been in service on a coastal fortress in the southern region of Norway.
This is a postwar locomotive which were in service on the same naval armament depot as the one above. I think it was in service until about 1990.
In the shed at a distance I got a brief glimse of this one; A German WWII narrow gauge locomotive which was used on another naval armament depot in the middle region of Norway.
Another locomotive of the same type used on the naval armament depot mentioned above.
And off course; No "Santa Special" without a Santa:
That armament depot is long gone, but I visited it last summer during a motorcycle-tour in the district, and found some few traces of the railway there
At Lommedalsbanen they hava also collected some naval rollingstock with propper loads as torpedoes and mines. It's not very easy to see them now when they're covered in snow.
The 'Up' meets the 'Down'
A great day out . I really enjoyed the pictures. I am intrigued by the history of Norwegian railways especially the narrow gauge ones in steam days. Can you recommend any websites?
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DeleteThere are some websites that you might take a look at:
- If you want to take a look at different stations on different lines in different periods, the 'Station Database' by the National Norwegian Railway Society (NJK) is the place to start: https://forsk.njk.no/stdb/
- NJK has also a great overview of locomotives of different types, EMUs, DMUs, industrial and more for different periods on their website. Keep in mind that in really old times 1067mm narrow gauge was the Norwegian 'normal' (until we actually got Normal gauge). Steamlocomotives with Roman numerals are 1067mm narrow gauge ones: https://forsk.njk.no/mdb2/mdb.php?aut=0&blokk=start
- There is a Norwegian Heritage Railway still running on 1067mm; Setesdalsbanen located in the southern parts of Norway. Very nice to take a ride during the summer season: http://setesdalsbanen.no/ and https://www.vestagdermuseet.no/setesdalsbanen/
- Not far away from Setesdalsbanen there was another 1067mm private railway called Lillesand-Flaksvandbanen. Too bad thats long gone, even you can find some traces of it: https://www.lfbanen.net/
- They're not narrow gauged, but not very far from where I live there were 3 private industrial standard gauge lines terminating in the same city of Askim. They were mostly freight but the Aksim - Solbergfoss line had passenger traffic as well: https://www.askimlinjene.com/
- For general information about old railway lines in Norway, there is a guy travelling around visiting them all: https://skinnelangs.no/index.php?line=42
I hope you find some interesting information on the provided links.