Neschwitz – Wetro railway line

Neschwitz-Wetro
Route number :	6668
Course book range :	-
Route length:	3.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	A.
Legend from Bautzen 0.00 Neschwitz (Sachs) 152 m to Hoyerswerda 1.60 (End of route 6668) 2.58 Wetro 180 m Conn. VEB Feuerfestwerke Wetro Conn. VEB Feuerfestwerke Wetro 3.50

The Neschwitz – Wetro railway was a branch line in Saxony that only served goods traffic . It ran in Upper Lusatia from Neschwitz to Wetro .

history

Refractories and train station in Wetro (1976)

After the Second World War , lignite mining in Puschwitz was resumed by the VEB Braunkohlenwerk Puschwitz . To ship the products, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built a short industrial line from Neschwitz station on the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda line , which went into operation in 1947. After the lignite works were shut down in 1960, VEB Feuerfestwerke Wetro was the only user. The company had its own works station on its premises, which was run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as Wetro station.

After the political change in East Germany in 1989/1990 , the products of the refractory plants were increasingly being shipped across the street. In 2001 the line was shut down together with the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda line and dismantled shortly thereafter.

literature

• Hans von Polenz: Railways in the Bautzener Land ; Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde eV, Löbau 2006; ISBN 3-00-018243-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Route data at www.sachsenschiene.de (accessed on June 1, 2015)
2. ↑ STREDA - Total distance directory DBAG; Status: February 1, 2003
3. ↑ Western Upper Lusatia between Kamenz and Königswartha (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 51). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000708-7 , pp. 154ff.