Forst – Guben railway line
| Forst – Guben south | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6573 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 178h (1944) 206 (1981) |
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| Route length: | 27.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | CM4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Forst – Guben railway was a branch line in the east of Brandenburg . It connected the towns of Forst (Lausitz) and Guben on the Lusatian Neisse . Passenger traffic on the line ceased in 1981, and in 1995 the line was closed.
course
The route led north in the immediate vicinity of the Neisse. At the Guben Süd depot, it was integrated into the Cottbus – Guben main line . There were alternative points in Schlagsdorf , Groß Gastrose , Grießen and Briesnig as well as in the two terminus stations.
Since the line was closed, the middle section has been dismantled and part of it has been converted into a section of the Oder-Neisse cycle path . In the Forst area, the route was also partially removed in favor of local roads.
history
The line was opened as a single-track branch line on June 1, 1904. The builder and operator were the Prussian State Railways , the railway was subordinate to the Royal Railway Directorate of the Eastern Railway in Frankfurt (Oder) , from which the Eastern Railway Directorate emerged on April 1, 1920 . Just a few years after the opening, the connection was supplemented by further stops, for example in 1905 in Horno and Mulknitz and in 1908 in Taubendorf.
Passenger traffic was primarily limited to the connection between Guben and Forst and in the direction of Döbern and Weißwasser . This route book connection was continued after 1945 when the line was assigned to the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus . With the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as the German eastern border, however, the status of the railway changed, as it now ran in the immediate vicinity of the border. Together with other connecting routes, it was part of a continuous rail connection always along the two rivers from Stralsund to Görlitz , which was particularly useful from a military point of view.
In the 1960s, passenger steam trains were replaced by class 171 rail buses . However, since the traffic was constantly declining, the Reichsbahn stopped passenger traffic when the timetable changed on May 30, 1981. A sparse freight traffic was however still maintained.
After reunification there was no longer any need for the line, so that after freight traffic between Guben and Groß Gastrose ended in March 1995, the line was closed on December 14th of the same year. However, the systems have only been partially dismantled to date, primarily in the area of level crossings. The rails have been completely dismantled, the sleepers are mostly still in the track bed. Part of the section between Mulknitz and Grießen has been redesigned as a cycle path since 2006 , with the Oder-Neisse cycle path running along the route between Grießen and Briesnig .
Since August 2008, after the reconstruction of the section from Guben to Schlagsdorf, freight traffic to the local gravel works has been resumed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bahn-Report, 6/2008, p. 40