Kaliningrad – Bagrationovsk railway line

Kaliningrad – Bagrationovsk
Route length:	35.8 km
Gauge :	eastern track: 1435 mm western track: 1520 mm
Dual track :	Kaliningrad – Bagrationovsk
Legend from Baltiysk and from Sovetsk (Königsberg Südbahnhof) (until 1929) from Mamonowo 0.0 Kaliningrad-Passaschirski (Königsberg Hbf) to and from Chernyshevskoye 4th, 0 Op 4 km 4.4 Dzerzhinskaya-Novaya Kaliningrad South Loop 6th, 0 Op 6 km 9.7 Otwaschnoje (Wickbold) former Bf. 13.3 Vladimirovo (Tharau) to Kreuzburg Prochladnaja (fresh food) 18th, 0 Op 18 km 20th, 0 Op 20 km 21st, 0 Op 21 km 22.0 Strelnya -Nowaja ( Schrombehnen ) former. Bf. from Rositten (11.0) Dolgorukovo- Sapadnoye (Stablack) until 1995 (4.1) ( Althof ) 0.0 35.8 Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) State border Russia / Poland (1945–1991 Soviet Union / Poland) 46.4 Głomno (Glommen) until 1991, former Bf. to Białystok

The Kaliningrad – Bagrationovsk railway line (Königsberg – Preussisch Eylau) runs from Kaliningrad , the center of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast , in a south-easterly direction to the Bagrationovsk district near the Russian-Polish border .

Historically, it is the first part of the East Prussian Southern Railway line from Königsberg to Prostken (now in Polish Prostki). The line is double-track, consisting of a standard gauge track and a Russian broad gauge track. The border crossing to Poland has been closed since 2001.

history

The line was built by the East Prussian Southern Railway Company and put into operation on September 24, 1866. It was initially single-track. In the four-year plan of National Socialist Germany for 1942–1945, an expansion to two tracks was planned. After this section of the line was taken over by the Soviet Union after 1945, a Russian broad gauge track was laid that leads to Głomno in Poland. The border crossing to Poland created by the new border was only used for goods traffic. In particular, the Kaliningrad Oblast was supplied with grain through it. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , cross-border freight traffic decreased more and more and was discontinued in 2001. Until 1995, the passenger trains to Bagrationovsk drove on to the military settlement Dolgorukowo (formerly Stablack and others) on the former railway line from Heiligenbeil to Preussisch Eylau, which was no longer completed by 1945 .

Web links

• Timetable on www.kppk39.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ not to be confused with today's Kaliningrad South Railway Station Kaliningrad Passaschirski
2. ↑ On this day to Bartenstein (today's Polish Bartoszyce )
3. ↑ See Eisenbahn-Kurier Special 52: Ostpreußen , 1999, p. 66, whether this came about must remain open for the time being.