Viaduct Brusselseweg
Shortly before Smeermaas the line crosses the Brusselseweg by means of a brick viaduct. The concrete bycycle-gates at both sides date from 1975. Here a new sound-deadening roadway will be placed. The sandstone ornaments will be restaurated. Thet viaduct now is a official monument.
(Situation anno 13 Aug 2007)
View on the viaduct Brusselseweg coming from Smeermaas.
( 8 June 2008 )
The trace here is cleared of the worst weeds and bushes.
( 8 June 2008 )
The roadway at this site already has been removed in the early weeks of June.
( 30 June 2008 )
The viaduct seen from above.
( 30 June 2008 )
The renovated roadway has been placed back on its place.
( 15 Feb 2009 )
The viaduct seen from above.
( 15 Feb 2009 )
Underpass Kantoorweg
The brickwork will be repaired .
The little tunnel at the Kantoorweg.
( 8 June 2008 )
The little tunnel at the Kantoorweg seen from above.
( 8 June 2008 )
The trace in direction Belgium has been cleared of bushes.
( 8 June 2008 )
Transshipment Europark
On this location a transshipment is planned.
Industrial park Europark
Here a junction is to be build next to a containerterminal. Momentarily earthwork is done here. At the site one did historic archeological foundings. As it seems in prehistoric time there was already some sort of industry, what's new ?
The industrial park "Europark" seen from the embankement at the Kantoorweg.
( 8 June 2008 )
The industrial park "Europark" seen from the Kantoorweg.
( 8 June 2008 )
Overview of the project where one can see a concrete platform where in future containers can be parked.
( 27 July 2008 )
On the upper right the branch to Maastricht, on the left the junction to Lanaken .
( 27 July 2008 )
A new railway crossing is build here. One can see clearly that Infrabel has chosen for wooden sleepers.
( 27 July 2008 )
Overview of the still empty new basin.
( 27 July 2008 )
Bridge across the sluice at Lanaken
The brickwork will be reapired and the roadway will be replaced by a new one.
At the Industrieweg, which goes parallel to the Verbindingsvaart, the railway crossing was demolished in the past. Right to it there is a pile of rotten sleepers.
27 July 2008
Left of the crossing location the track goes into the bushes further to the sluice.
27 July 2008
The railway bridge across the sluice in the Verbindingsvaart (connects the Zuid-Willemsvaart with the Albertkanaal) at Lanaken.
27 July 2008
From the sluice one has a splendid view over the Verbindingsvaart in direction Smeermaas.
27 July 2008
Sappi Lanaken
The papermill in Maastricht was financed with capital from Liège and built on the riverbank of the Maas on a site of a former commandry of the German Order. One of the most important ingredients for making paper were rags, so the mill got the nickname ‘’t lommelefebrik’ (slang for "ragfactory"). In 1875 the firm became a joint stock company and and was renamed in Koninklijke Nederlandse Papierfabriek (KNP).
KNP became one of the first factories in Europe to produce coated woodfree graphic paper, which became a great succes. Hereto KNP built a new papermachine in 1951, the PM 5, followed by the PM 6 in 1962 and the PM 7 (which was built inthe belgian Lanaken) in 1967.
In 1997 the paperactivities of KNP-BT were taken over by the South African Pulp & Paper Industry (SAPPI). Under this name the KNP factories were continued since 1998. SAPPI is the worlds biggest producer of woodfree graphic paper.
(Source:Wikipedia)Both settlements in Maastricht as in Lanaken had railjunctions from the past, which were given up on behalf of the more flexible road-transport.
Out of environmental considerations and because of logistical reasons Sappi uses more and more railway-transport in stead of road-transport on behalf of the transport of raw materials as well as finished products.
Each day two special trains, loaded with 1700 tons of paper in 18 wagons of the type Habbins 15 of the DBAG, ride from Gratkorn in Austria to the north-german city of Wesel, where Sappi has a big distribution centre. On the returnway they transport raw materials, destined for the papermill in Gratkorn. Also Sappi makes use of own trainterminals at the german production sites in Alfeld and Ehingen, with the effect of 5000 trucks less on the roads. It makes a real difference of CO2-discharge and less traffic-pressure on the highways.
(Source:Sappi)
The old out of use junction to the settlement of the papermill Sappi in Lanaken.
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12 Aug 2007
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