We'll be at the listed coords
(in front of Minør, if it's back from winter vacation)
From 6pm until 6:30pm
(If the weather is unbearably wet & windy, we'll take refuge across the road under Kolaportið's overhang. Use the pedestrian crossing!)
Minør
The first railway in Iceland was a 900mm gauge system some 12km in extent, used for harbour construction and maintenance in and around the capital, Reykjavik. The two steam locomotives are preserved as static exhibits in Reykjavik, "Pionér" is in a museum and "Minør" is here during the summer. They are both Jung machines built in 1892, works numbers 129 and 130. Pionér's plates now carry works number 1591 and a building date of 1910 but the plates have clearly been altered and it is thought that it was fitted with a new boiler then. The two locomotives were originally supplied to an industrial user in Rostock, Germany and later ran in Copenhagen. They moved from Copenhagen to Reykjavik the same year. The harbour was completed in 1918 but the railway continued to operate on a reduced scale until it was closed in 1928.
"Minør" is more or less in the position of one of the old harbour tracks and is surrounded by a display of old photos of the harbour, some of which show the railway and the locomotives in action. It was buried in scrap metal until about 1996, when it was restored and put on display on a short length of the old track.
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This cache belongs to the SideTracked series, which started in the UK. It has expanded to over 4,500 caches in more than 30 countries around the world, though most of them are in the UK. They are not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view, though this one might. More information can be found at the SideTracked Website.