Kleinbahn Groß Peterwitz – Katscher

Groß Peterwitz - Katscher

Route number :

194

Route length:

8.645 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Top speed:

20 km / h

Legend

		from Leobschütz / Głubczyce
	0.000	Groß Peterwitz (Upper Silesia) / Pietrowice Wielkie
	0.177	to Ratibor / Racibórz
	5.298	Ratsch / Gródczanki
		connection
	8.645	Katscher / Kietrz

The Groß Peterwitz – Katscher small railway was the first standard-gauge small railway in Silesia and was put into operation on April 28, 1896.

The approximately 8.5 km long route connected the small town of Katscher ( Kietrz ) in the Upper Silesian district of Leobschütz near the Bohemian border with the Groß Peterwitz ( Pietrowice Wielkie ) train station on the state branch line Ratibor-Leobschütz .

The railway, which was built by the Berlin railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter , became the property of Vereinigte Kleinbahnen AG in 1927 , which it owned by Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADEG), a subsidiary of Allgemeine Deutsche Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft AG (ADKA). However, ADEG continued to operate until 1945.

After the Second World War, the Polish State Railways (PKP) took over operations and continued passenger train services until 1992 or 1994. Sporadically, there is still freight train traffic (beet transports from PKP Cargo to Racibórz) on the route.

Connection and terminus of the former Groß Peterwitz - Katscher small railway in 2013
Until 1992 there was a connection to the branch line to Kietrz in Pietrowice Wielkie .

In April 2000, passenger train services also ended on the Racibórz - Głubczyce feeder line .

The station building at the Kietrz terminus has been used privately since 1986.

The side wing with the goods floor was torn down in spring 2008.

literature

Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. G6

Kleinbahn Groß Peterwitz – Katscher

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