Berge – Putlitz railway line

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Berge (Prign) –Putlitz
Course book range : 812 (1968)
Route length: 14.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
   
 from Karstädt
   
 0.0 Berge (Prign) formerly Klein Berge
   
 to Perleberg
   
 1.9 Grenzheim formerly pork oven
   
 4.0 Muggerkuhl
   
 6.4 Hülsebeck
   
 8.1 Sagast
   
 10.3 Lütgendorf
   
 13.4 Putlitz West
   
 from Suckow
   
 14.5 Putlitz former wedge station
Route - straight ahead
 to Pritzwalk

The Berge – Putlitz railway was a single-track branch line in northern Brandenburg . It belonged to the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn and connected its main line with the Pritzwalk – Suckow line .

Route

Muggerkuhl stop building (August 2008)

The line began at Berge station on the circular ring line. Immediately to the east of the train station, it separated from the line to Perleberg . The route to Putlitz ran approximately in an easterly direction not far from the state border with Mecklenburg south of the Ruhner Mountains . Putlitz was reached via the Sagast train station and several stops, where the Putlitz West train station was near the town center. Putlitz train station is south of the city. The lines from Berge and Suckow already separated in the platform area. However, the station building is not located between the lines as in a typical wedge station , but on the track to Suckow.

history

Together with the main line of the Westprignitzer Kreiskleinbahn Perleberg – Karstädt –Klein Berge – Perleberg, a connection was created from Klein Berge (later only Berge) to Putlitz on the Pritzwalk – Suckow line. On December 6, 1911, the opening voyage took place on both routes.

On April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the administration and use of the Westprignitzer Kreisbahn.

The access offer was always low. In the 1930s there were four pairs of trains, three of them as multiple units and one as a mixed train for passenger and freight transport. The 1960 timetable shows exactly the same offer, supplemented by a multiple unit running three times a week early in the morning.

In some cases, the trains were tied through to the adjacent lines, mostly on via Karstädt to Perleberg. A strange train route in the 1960s was a train from Berge – Putlitz – Pritzwalk – Meyenburg and back.

On May 26, 1968, traffic on the line was stopped and the tracks were dismantled a little later.

In Muggerkuhl there was a connection to an approximately three kilometer long field railway of the local brickworks with a gauge of 600 mm. This line was operated until the 1990s, and track remains were still in place until after 2005.

literature

  • Ulrich Hoeppner, Erich Preuß: West and East Prignitzer Kreiskleinbahnen. In: Erich Preuß: Archives of German small and private railways: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin . transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , pp. 98-109 .
  • Peter Sommerfeld: The Perleberger Ringbahn. The regular gauge small railways Pritzwalk – Putlitz – Suckow, Perleberg – Karstädt – Berge – Perleberg and Berge – Putlitz . Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2012, ISBN 978-3-936893-67-0 .

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