Gołdap – Nesterow railway line
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 Station building in Tschistyje Prudy (Tollmingkehmen / Tollmingen)
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| Course book range : | DR 119b (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 50.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Goldap – Stallupönen (Gołdap – Nesterow) railway was built in 1901. It extended the railway line Angerburg – Goldap ( Polish : Węgorzewo – Gołdap ) opened in 1897 to the north and established a railway connection to the Rominter Heide ( Russian: Puszcza Romincka : Krasny Les, Polish: Puszcza Romincka ).
history
In 1907 the Rominter Heide was connected to Gumbinnen (Russian: Gussew), which met in Tollmingkehmen (1938 to 1946: Tollmingen, Russian Tschistyje Prudy ) on the Goldap – Stallupönen / Ebenrode railway line and a year later to Szittkehmen (1938 to 1946: Wehrkirchen, Polish Żytkiejmy ) was extended.
In Stallupönen there was a connection to the Prussian Eastern Railway in the section from Königsberg (Kaliningrad) to Eydtkuhnen (1938 to 1946: Eydtkau, Russian: Tschernyschewskoje) and to the railway to Tilsit ( Russian Sowetsk ).
The Goldap – Stallupönen railway line was under the control of the Reich Railway Directorate in Königsberg (Prussia) until 1945 . In 1940, three pairs of trains ran on the route every day, and one pair of trains on Sundays and public holidays. The railway line connected the two districts of Goldap and Stallupönen / Ebenrode and ran through them in a north-south direction.
After the Second World War
As a result of the Second World War , operations on the Gołdap - Krasnolessje section, which now crossed the Polish-Russian state border, were discontinued and most of the railway systems were dismantled. On the section from Krasnolessje to Nesterow, traffic was initially still running, but was then only used for some time by freight traffic. However, this part of the entire railway line is still preserved. Future use is being considered.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in West and East Prussia. Egglham, 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 .
- German course book. Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books. Edition of January 21, 1940 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Oberbetriebsleitung East Berlin, reprint 1st edition 1988.
- Dieter Zeigert: Disappeared tracks. The "Kaiserbahn" Goldap – Szittkehmen. Stade, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034548-7 .