Gumbinnen – Angerburg railway line
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| Course book range : | DR 119e (1940) / 137d (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 65.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line from Gumbinnen to Angerburg was built in 1913/14 and led from Gumbinnen ( Russian: Gussew ) to Angerburg ( Polish : Węgorzewo ).
history
In the administrative district town of Gumbinnen, the line established the connection to the section of the Prussian Eastern Railway from Königsberg (Prussia) ( Kaliningrad in Russian ) to Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau ( Chernyshevskoje in Russian ) , which was completed in 1860 .
In Darkehmen / Angerapp ( Russian Osjorsk ) it crossed the Insterburg – Lyck (Tschernjachowsk, Russia - Ełk, Poland) railway and joined the railway lines to Königsberg , to Goldap ( Polish: Gołdap ), to Lötzen ( Polish: Giżycko ) and to Rastenburg in Angerburg ( Polish Kętrzyn and Polish Słobity ).
The route connected the three districts of Gumbinnen , Darkehmen / Angerapp and Angerburg and was only operated in regional traffic.
The Russian-Polish border has crossed the route since the end of the Second World War . Railway operations were stopped after the war and the railway facilities were dismantled.
literature
- German course book. Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books. Issue from January 21, 1940 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Oberbetriebsleitung East Berlin. Reprinted in 1988.
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in West and East Prussia. Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 .