Morzeszczyn – Gniew railway line

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Morzeszczyn – Gniew
Morroschin / Leutmannsdorf – Mewe [Stsbf]
Gniew Railway Station, 2010
Gniew Railway Station, 2010
Route number : 244
Route length: 11.239 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Laskowice Pomorskie (Laskowitz)
Station, station
 0.000 Morzeszczyn (Morroschin / Leutmannsdorf) 48 m
   
 to Tczew (Dirschau)
   
 5.848 Brody Pomorskie (German Brodden) 26 m
   
 heel
   
 9.140 Brodzkie Młyny (Brodden Mill) 22 m
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by Wielkie Walichnowy (Groß Falkenau)
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Gniew Wąskotorowy (Mewe town)
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11.239 Gniew (Mewe Stsbf ​​/ Mewe) 19 m
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to Lewy Brzeg Wisły (left bank of the Vistula)

The Morzeszczyn – Gniew (Morroschin / Leutmannsdorf – Mewe) railway was a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

course

Gniew railway station

The continuously single-track and non-electrified line began at Morzeszczyn station (Morroschin / Leutmannsdorf) on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line , from which it turned north-west to run a little south again after the Brody Pomorskie station (Deutsch Brodden; km 5.848) and after crossing it the heel at Brodzkie Młyny (Broddener Mühle; km 9.140) to reach the Gniew terminus (Mewe Staatsbahnhof / Mewe; km 11.239), where the narrow-gauge station of the Marienwerder Kleinbahnen was located.

history

The line was opened on January 5, 1905 as a branch line of the Prussian State Railways . With the cession of the Gdańsk Corridor to the Second Polish Republic after the First World War and under the Treaty of Versailles , the route came to the Polish State Railways . During the German occupation of Poland in World War II 1939–1945 , it was part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , after the war it became Polish again. Passenger traffic was stopped on July 10, 1989, and the line was closed in 1992.

literature

  • Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 , Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. B6–7

Web links

Commons : Former Mewe station  - collection of images, videos and audio files