Railway line Dölitz – Grammow
| Dölitz-Grammow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route length: | 11.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dölitz – Grammow railway was a single-track connecting and later branch line operated from 1889 to 1946 in today's Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which was mainly used to transport sugar beet and is therefore also known as the "beet railway ".
history
After the Teterow – Gnoien railway was opened in 1884, the construction of a private connecting railway was supposed to enable the supply of beet from the growing area around Grammow to the new Teterow sugar factory. Interested landowners raised the capital of 300,000 marks necessary for the railway construction and founded the Dölitz-Grammower Rübenbahngesellschaft on July 18, 1889 . The company Lenz & Co. , which had already built the route to Gnoien , was responsible for the construction. Plans to extend the railway to Dudendorf or even to Sülze were not implemented. The beet railway company transferred the management and administration of the railway to the Gnoien-Teterower secondary railway company, which was sold to the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway (MFFE) shortly after the beet railway opened. In November 1889 the beet railway line was shut down by the police and operations started.
On April 27, 1910, the Rübenbahngesellschaft was dissolved. The beet railway became the property of the MFFE, which now operated the route as an "organic part" of its railway network. Efforts by the Reichsbahn, which operated the railway as a successor to the MFFE from 1920, to allow the shareholders of the former beet railway company to participate in the losses incurred in particular due to the closure of the Teterower sugar factory in 1924, failed. In the 1920s, there were considerations to introduce travel with railcars and to extend the route to the sugar factory in Ticino (near Rostock) . These considerations were not implemented, probably also because a shift in traffic to the road was already noticeable at that time. During the Second World War , however, the transport services increased again strongly.
In the spring of 1945, the line was used to park numerous locomotives and wagons, including three hospital trains . After the line was cleared, it was dismantled in 1946 as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union . This ended the existence of this line, also known as the Krautjunkerbahn .
Operation and route
The line was initially operated as a private siding, from 1910 as a branch line, for which the specifications of the driving service regulations and from 1940 for the simplified branch line operation applied. Train crossings were not planned, which is why train reports were omitted.
The maximum speed owed to the simple superstructure design was 20 km / h. Trains ran daily during the harvest season, otherwise usually only once a week. Individual trains were tied through to Teterow. In addition to sugar beets, the freight transported also included cattle and other goods, in particular fuel and truck spare parts during World War II.
Each loading point had a loading track connected to the route on both sides. In Viecheln, Nustrow and Grammow, narrow-gauge field railways connected to the loading points.
literature
- Ingolf Schmidt, Franz Rittig: The branch lines in Mecklenburg Switzerland and the warehouse in goods (Müritz). Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2019, ISBN 978-3-947691-00-5 , pp. 109–116.