Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk railway line

Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk
Railway lines around Königsberg in 1938
Route length:	43.0 km
Gauge :	until 1945: 1435 mm 1520 mm
Legend from Kaliningrad-Passashirski 0.0 Kaliningrad-Severny (Koenigsberg North) (Kbg.-Samlandbf.) (Until 1929) to Zelenogradsk and to Sovetsk Route Tilsit – Königsberg until 1929 Mark by Tilsit Selma ( Kohlhof ) 4.7 (Koenigsberg-Charlottenburg) 6.9 Tschkalowsk- Sapadny (Kbg.-Tannenwalde) 8.4 ( Goldsmiths ) 9.8 (Gallhöfen) 13.1 Druschnoe- Sapadnoye (Mednicken) 16.3 ( Bittern germ ) 17.3 Kolossowka- Sapadnaja (Willgalten) 19.3 O. p. 20 km ( Drugehnen -Galtgarben) 22.7 Pereslavskoje- Sapadnoye (Marienhof) to Fischhausen 25.2 (Perteltnicken) 27.6 Romanowo ( Watzum - Pobethen ) former Bf. 29.6 (Kalthof) 31.7 ( Lixeiden ) from Zelenogradsk 35.2 Pionerski Kurort (Neukuhren) 40.0 Svetlogorsk 1 (Rauschen Ort) 43.0 Svetlogorsk 2 (Rauschen dune) to Primorsk

The Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk railway , the historic Samland Railway , connects the center of the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad , the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) with the Baltic resort of Svetlogorsk (Rauschen) on the north coast of the Samland .

The line is electrified and operated on Russian broad gauge .

history

The line was built from 1900 to 1906 by Samlandbahn AG in standard gauge. It originally led to Warnicken (today Lesnoje ). The trains ran from the Königsberg Samland station until 1929, then from the newly built North Station . At the beginning of 1945 a section of this route south of Neukuhren (today Pionerski ) was removed in order to close a previously missing section from Warnicken to Groß Dirschkeim (today Donskoje ) in the northwest corner of the Samland, which was intended to support the German population in their escape efforts.

After 1945, the entire section from the Kaliningrad city limits, where a connection to the expanded former Königsberg-Prowehren airfield remained, was broken off to Pionerski and restored in 1965 in Russian broad gauge. In the area of ​​the former Goldschmiede and Gallhöfen stops, the route was relocated around one kilometer to the north. Military members of the 11th Guard Army and students from the highest military engineering school AA Zhdanov (КВВИУ) in Kaliningrad were involved in the reconstruction of the route .

The line was electrified in the early 1970s. In 1975 the new Svetlogorsk 2 station (formerly Rauschen Düne) was completed and renovated from 2006. In 2011, a stop of the same name was set up in northern Kaliningrad near the Selma trade complex .

Today's operation

Svetlogorsk 2 station (2011)

For the timetable change in the summer of 2011, the train sequence on what is now the electrically operated route from Königsberg to Rauschen was condensed with the so-called Blue Arrow , a high-speed railcar.

Web links

• Открытие о.п "Сельма" (opening of Hp. Selma): rus. TV report from May 2011 on the occasion of the opening of the Selma stop in Kaliningrad on www.youtube.com (2:04 min)
• Timetable on www.kppk39.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Since 2011; this new stop is apparently at (at least approximately) the same place as the Kohlhof stop, which probably existed until the 1930s, and which was then apparently replaced by the Königsberg-Charlottenburg stop.
2. ↑ this continued to Warnicken
3. ^ Eisenbahn-Kurier Special 58: Via the Eastern Railway to East Prussia, p. 71
4. ↑ because of the expansion of the former Königsberg-Prowehren airfield after 1945, cf. PDF (474 kB)
5. ↑ today's Kaliningrad border Institute of the Federal Security Office of the Russian Federation (Калининградский пограничный институт Федеральной службы безопасности Российской Федерации) in Kaliningrad Borissowo
6. ↑ "Железный" путь на север, к морю ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (iron trail to the north, to the sea) on www.svetlogorsk-admin.ru (ru.), Accessed on January 13, 2013
7. ↑ rus. Рынок Сельма (Rynok Selma)
8. ^ Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung / episode 26-11 of July 2, 2011