Railway line Rogäsen – Karow
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 Route west of Zitz
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| Course book range : | 207h (1951) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rogäsen – Karow railway line was a single-track branch line in what is now the federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt . The short branch line hadn't even been in operation for 40 years.
history
The landowner of the west in 1901 by the Small Bahn AG Ziesar-Großwusterwitz opened railway Wusterwitz-Ziesar nearby town Karow , Hermann Ludwig von Wartensleben demanded connecting his village to the railway and was able to win it, although here expect only a small volume of traffic was. On February 4, 1912, the line went into operation, which connected to the existing railway in Rogäsen. In the first years of operation, three pairs of trains ran daily between Karow and Rogäsen, which had a connection in Rogäsen towards Wusterwitz. After the First World War, there was usually only one pair of trains a day, mostly all the way to Wusterwitz.
After the Second World War, the line was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . On October 3, 1951, traffic on the line was stopped and the line was dismantled for material extraction. This was justified with the construction of the Berlin outer ring . Other sources say that the material was used in the reconstruction of the Forst – Guben railway line . In the winter timetable 1951/52 the routes were still included with a pair of trains every day except Sundays.
Route
The line began at Rogäsen station ( called Rogäsen (b Magdeburg) in the last years of operation ), which was located west of the town roughly halfway between Rogäsen and Zitz. While the route to Ziesar continued south from there, the route to Karow stayed in a westerly direction, initially south of the road to Zitz. The place Zitz was bypassed in the south. From there the route ran further west on the northern edge of the Fiener Bruch , then in a north-west direction to Karow. The train station (after the Second World War Karow (Kr Genthin) ) was on the southeastern edge of the village. There was a transfer track, a loading track with storage and a locomotive shed that was demolished in 1933. The intermediate station in Zitz had a loading platform and two corrugated iron stalls for the handling of people and goods.
The route can be seen along the entire length of the terrain, and a path partially runs along it. The Karow station building has been preserved and serves as a residential building, while that of Rögäsen was demolished for the construction of extensions to a waffle factory located at the station.
Web links
- The Genthiner Kleinbahn - prototype and model, Karow station 1912 ( memento from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on a private website for the Genthiner Kleinbahn
- Ziesarer Kleinbahn on bahnstrecken.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Frank Barby, Die Genthiner Kleinbahn - Prototype and Model, Karow Station 1912 , accessed on March 6, 2012
- ↑ List, Röper, Zieglgänsberger, Archive of German Small and Private Railways Saxony-Anhalt , Transpress 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 , p. 60.
- ↑ Erich Preuß & Reiner Preuß, Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945–1993, Eisenbahn in der DDR , GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 33
- ^ Ministry of Transport of the GDR, official timetable of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, winter timetable valid from October 7, 1951 to May 17, 1952.