Danstål



DDS 371 (former DSB MH 343) in the scrapyard at the Frederiksværk Stålvalseværk.
Photo: Allan Støvring-Nielsen, 1998
Danstål, Det Danske Stålvalseværk, Frederiksværk motive power (Steel recycling plant)

Danish Steelworks Ltd. was founded during the second World-war in 1942, while the Central European Steel Cartel imposed a duty of 30% on the sale of steel to Scandinavia to protect the other European countries against the competitive Scandinavian shipyards.

The Steelworks is located in Frederiksvaerk, approximately 60 km north of Copenhagen, where there is easy access to cooling water from lake Arresø and good transport links by sea, rail and road. Approximately 1200 employees produce about 800,000 tons of rolled steel products each year in the form of steel plates and bar steel. The raw material is steel scrap collected mainly in Denmark.

The works runs an impressive railway of about 10 km's, both for internal use and for loading of steel products for export. During the years 14 normal gauge and 5 narrow gauge steam locos has been in service, while 21 normal gauge and 6 narrow gauge motorlocos has been used. Most of the locos has been bought second-hand and once they where worn out they where simply run into the melting ovens!

Danstål went bankrupt in the summer of 2002. Parts of the works has later been taken over by a new company, which started production of steel plates in December 2002, but whether the internal railway is still is use is not known. How many of the locos mentioned below still in use/preserved is also not known at this point.
  

Danstål on the internet: www.dansteel.dk

Preben S. Jørgensen runs an excellent website about the locomotives of Danstål (DanSteel Ltd.) on www.startsite.dk/loko

Motive power changes 2001:
- DSB MH 396 and MH 403 was bought from DSB and arrived in Hillerød on 19. August 2001.
Motive power changes 2000:
- DSB MH 365 was withdrawn in 1997 and then stored for a couple of years. Summer 2000 it was sold for scrapping to Uniscrap (Copenhagen), but then sold to Danstål for spare parts and then finally scrapped (probably melted!) in the autumn of 2000.
Motive power changes 1999:
- From DSB has been bought dieselhydraulic shunter MH 364.

Class & number

Type

Builder

Building number

Year

Re-numberings

Danstål 200

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Henschel

31107

1965

1965-19**: Owner unknown
19**-1980: Bergische Stahl Industrie, Remscheid, Germany, nr. 5
1980-1985: Thyssen-Schalker Verein, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, nr. 21
1985-1992: Friedrich Wilhelms Hütte, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany, nr. FWH-2
1992-199*: DDS 200
19**-: Danstål 200

Danstål 215

Dieselhydraulic locomotive

Jung

13976

1966

1966-1981: DDS 3
1981-1988: DDS R 8
1988-19**: DDS 215
19**-: Danstål 215

Danstål 283

Dieselhydraulic lokomotive

Henschel

30331

1962

1962-19??: Bergwerks Gesellschaft, Hibernia, Germany
19??-1989: NEBA Chemie und Chemische Werk Hüls, Herne, Germany, nr. 2
1989-19**: DDS 283
19**-: Danstål 283

Danstål 284

Dieselhydraulic locomotive

Henschel

30320

1961

1961-1989: Mannesmann Kalkwerke, Neanderthal, Germany
1989-19**: DDS 284
19**-: Danstål 284

Danstål 371

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Frichs

747

1962

1962-1998: DSB MH 343
1998-: Danstål, Frederiksværk

Danstål 372

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Frichs

740

1962

1962-1998: DSB MH 336
1998-: Danstål, Frederiksværk.

Danstål (MH 364)

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Frichs

768

1963

1963-1999: DSB MH 364
1999- : Danstål (MH 364)

Danstål (MH 396)

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Frichs

821

1964

1964-2001: DSB MH 396
2001- : Danstål (MH 396)

Danstål (MH 403)

Dieselhydraulic shunting locomotive

Frichs

844

1965

1965-2001: DSB MH 403
2001- : Danstål (MH 403)


Technical details:

Class

Numbers

Numbers in use

Type

Builder

Building year

Motor

Output

Max. speed

Wheel arr.

Length o. buffers/ couplers

Weight

-

200

1

Diesel- hydraulic shunter

Henschel

1965

Henschel 6R 1418A

240 HP / 176 kW

?

B

?

36,0 t.

-

215

1

Diesel- hydraulic shunter

Jung

1966

?

?

?

?

?.

?

-

283

1

Diesel- hydraulic shunter

Henschel

1962

?

?

?

?

?

?

-

284

1

Diesel- hydraulic shunter

Henschel

1961

?

?

?

?

?

?

(MH)

371, 372, (MH 364), (MH 396), (MH 403)

5

Diesel- hydraulic shunter

Frichs

1962-1965

MAN W8V17,5/ 22A,8 cyl.

440HP / 232kW

60 km/h

C

9440 mm.

40,5 t.

 

 

DDS 200 at the Frederiksværk Stålvalseværk.
Photo: Allan Støvring-Nielsen, 1998

 

DDS 215 at the Frederiksværk Stålvalseværk.
Photo: Allan Støvring-Nielsen, 1998

     

  		 

DDS 284 in the scrapyard at the Frederiksværk Stålvalseværk.
Photo: Allan Støvring-Nielsen, 1998

 

DDS 372 - (former DSB MH 336) at the Frederiksværk Stålvalseværk.
Photo: Allan Støvring-Nielsen, 1998

 

 

Historic motive power:

In preparation. An excellent article on the subject was published some years ago:
Morten N. Olesen: Stålvalseværkets dieselslidere - rangerlokomotiver på stålvalseværket i Frederiksværk. In: Jernbanen 1999/1, pp. 28 ff.

 

 

 



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