Neubrandenburg – Friedland railway line

Neubrandenburg – Friedland (Meckl)
Railway station in Friedland (Meckl), 2011
Route number (DB) :	6756
Route length:	25.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend of goods from Güstrow Berlin Northern Railway from Stralsund 0.0 Neubrandenburg Berlin Northern Railway to Neustrelitz to Pasewalk 3.0 Neubrandenburg suburb Connection of Praefa expanded clay plant 3.2 Industrial site ( Awanst ) 6.3 Trollenhagen ( Awanst ) 9.8 Neuenkirchen (Meckl) 14.0 Staven 17.5 Roggenhagen 19.8 Pleetz 25.6 Friedland (Meckl) ( formerly transition to MPSB )

The Neubrandenburg – Friedland line is a 26-kilometer branch line in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Its original operator was the Neubrandenburg-Friedländer Railway Company . Passenger traffic on the railway was stopped in 1994, freight traffic has been limited to the section Neubrandenburg Vorstadt – Friedland since 1995.

history

The Neubrandenburg-Friedländer Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft (NFE) was founded on February 21, 1884. Its purpose was the construction of a railway line from the Neubrandenburg railway junction , where the Parchim – Neubrandenburg railway station was also used, to Friedland (Meckl) , the company's headquarters. From this small town, which developed into the industrial center of the small state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , since 1891/92 two lines of the Mecklenburg-Pomeranian Narrow Gauge Railway AG continued in north and east direction to Western Pomerania.

Station sign at the former Staven stop

The railway was built by the Central Administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein (CV) and opened on November 5, 1884. The CV, which also took over the management, was one of the founders as well as the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the two cities at the endpoints. CV Bachstein has been the sole shareholder since 1895. The extension of the line to Ducherow or a branch line to Woldegk, which was planned before the First World War , was omitted because the planned line up to there would have been partly in the catchment area of ​​the MPSB.

The transport of goods, mostly agricultural products, remained modest in the first few years of the company. Only with the opening of the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway, the connection to a potato starch factory and, above all, to the sugar factory in Friedland, did transport services increase sharply from the 1890s.

After freight traffic stagnated from 1918 until the end of the global economic crisis, the number of goods transported rose again from the 1930s onwards, but military transports also gained importance in the Second World War. The low passenger traffic of the NFE, which usually had only three daily train pairs, was supplemented by buses from Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Friedland mbH, which belongs to CV, since around 1925.

Railroad crossing at Roggenhagen with the remains of a St. Andrew's cross

After the occupation of Mecklenburg by the Red Army, the railway company was expropriated and on January 1, 1947, it was placed under the main administration of the railways of the state of Mecklenburg. The corporation NFE was deleted from the commercial register in 1948. On April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the operation and continued to run it for 45 years. Passenger traffic, which last consisted of only three pairs of trains per day, was discontinued on January 14, 1994. The approximately three kilometer long section between Neubrandenburg and Neubrandenburg Vorstadt, which crossed the railway lines to Güstrow and Stralsund on bridges, was then closed. The reason for this was that the overpass structure was not high enough for the electrification of the route to Stralsund. A remnant of the track at the western head of the station in Neubrandenburg is still clearly visible today and serves as a pull-out track .

Since then, the line has been connected to the rest of the railway network exclusively via the urban industrial connection line Neubrandenburg, which has been establishing a second connection between the Neubrandenburg and Neubrandenburg Vorstadt stations in the east of the city since the 1970s. Footpaths and cycle paths were created on sections of the abandoned section.

Level crossing at Pleetz

On November 23, 1985 there was a serious head-on collision between a transfer train and a Gmp (freight train with passenger transport) near Neubrandenburg due to a lack of communication between the railway workers involved. 3 dead, 21 injured and considerable damage to property were the result. The line was officially closed on December 31, 2002, although it was initially leased by DB Netz to Ostmecklenburgischen Eisenbahn GmbH (OME), which continued to operate it as a connecting railway . After OME terminated the lease in 2004, the section from Neubrandenburg up to and including Trollenhagen was sold to the city of Neubrandenburg and the subsequent Trollenhagen – Friedland section to FLB - Friedländer Bahn - GmbH . The latter in turn leased its section to the railway infrastructure company Eisenbahn Logistik und Service GmbH (ELS).

business

The freight traffic was carried out as required by Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH (OLA, formerly OME) until the end of 2009 . Since then it has been operated by DB Cargo . These are mainly fertilizer - trains for the country store in Friedland. In spring and autumn these can run several times a week, with 50,000 tons being transported each year. The trains first enter the Friedland station, from where the freight wagons are pushed back into the country trade siding. Long-term planning provides for the construction of a connecting curve so that the section behind the then converted connection to the rural trade, including the Friedland train station, could be shut down.

In November 2014, construction work began on a new connecting curve from the industrial connecting railway to the Friedland line, which was put into operation in April 2016 after around one and a half years of construction. This means that there is no longer any need to change direction at the suburban train station. The connection to the Praefa expanded clay works will be retained, the old section from the suburban train station to the connection to the new connecting curve has already been dismantled, and the city of Neubrandenburg is striving to de-dedicate the areas that have become free.

Until the military part was closed in 2013, the Neubrandenburg-Trollenhagen airfield , which has its own siding, was operated irregularly in freight traffic.

In passenger traffic, only occasional special trips by railway associations take place.

literature

• Lothar Schultz: Railways in Mecklenburg . transpress, Berlin 1986, ³ 1992. ISBN 3-344-70732-9 .
• Andreas Görs: The route between Neubrandenburg and Friedland , in: Bahn-Report Heft 1, 2010, p. 41, ISSN  0178-4528 .

Web links

Commons : Neubrandenburg – Friedland railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Pinchas Unbelief: Regional freight traffic around Neubrandenburg . In: Bahn-Report . No. 5/2016 , p. 37 .
2. ↑ Design of the former route continues - press release of February 20, 2007. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Transport, Building and Regional Development, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 18, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ Erich Preuß: Tragischer Errtum , p. 75 ff.
4. ↑ Disused railway lines in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office , formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 6, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Görs: The route Neubrandenburg - Friedland , in: Bahn-Report Heft 1, 2010, p. 41, ISSN  0178-4528 .
6. ↑ Hartmut Nieswandt: New track construction makes shunting unnecessary. In: Nordkurier . November 20, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .