Kunowice – Cybinka railway line
| Kunowice – Cybinka (Kunersdorf – Ziebingen) |
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| Course book range : | PKP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 23 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kunowice – Cybinka railway is a former branch line of the Weststernberger Kreiskleinbahn .
history
The “Continental Railway Construction and Operating Company Berlin” had received a concession to build the line in May 1905. The Weststernberg district , which was also the owner of the route, took on half of the costs, while the Prussian state and the province of Brandenburg each took over a quarter . The line was opened on September 1, 1907, operated by the Brandenburg State Transport Authority . The administration of the railway was located in the station building of the Ziebingen terminus.
Lignite mining , which was booming in the region, and the wood and paper industry made the route east of the Oder into an important economic route in the years that followed. In 1937, G. Baerwaldt GmbH, a paper and cellulose factory based in Pulverkrug, opened a standard-gauge field railway that ran from Pulverkrug parallel to the small railway past Ziebingen, the end point also being connected to Ziebingen station. This railway was only in operation for a good seven years, when fighting broke out at the end of the Second World War, it was discontinued in early 1945.
In the winter of 1945, the Polish State Railways (PKP) took over operations on the Cybinka line. Two pairs of trains ran daily between Rzepin and Cybinka in passenger traffic .
In the 1970s, for strategic military reasons, a duplicate bridge was built to replace the Frankfurt (Oder) node in the event of war. A track led from Kunice to the Oder, and a line from the Wiesenau area between Frankfurt and Eisenhüttenstadt to the Oder was also built on the other side . A makeshift bridge could be built here in an emergency. The parts for this bridge were stored on the GDR side near Ziltendorf . In 1998 the track was dismantled.
In 1966 the regular PKP passenger traffic on the route from Kunowice to Cybinka was discontinued. The route remained in operation for freight traffic. In the end, the timber loading area in Cybinka was only served when required. A special trip, announced as the last trip on the route, took place on June 30, 2012.
photos
Cybinka station , special trip from June 30, 2012
Former platform at Kunowice station in the direction of Cybinka
Exit from Kunowice station, special trip from June 30, 2012
literature
- Lothar Meyer; Horst Regling: Railway junction Frankfurt (Oder). - The gateway to the east. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 .
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-71-3 .
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. D1
Web links
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
- Last timetable from 2011: Rzepin – Kunowice – Cybinka .
- Historical timetable from 1944: Frankfurt / O. – Reppen– Kunersdorf – Ziebingen-Sandow .
- Course of the Weststernberger Kreiskleinbahn: Kunersdorf – Ziebingen-Sandow in 1934 - a map by Lothar Meyer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lothar Meyer, Horst Regling, Eisenbahnknoten Frankfurt (Oder), transpress, Stuttgart, 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 , pp. 116–117.