Sovetsk – Klaipeda railway line

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Sovetsk – Klaipeda
Route map 1938
Route map 1938
Course book range : 118a (1939) , 135 (1944)
Route length: 92.3 km
Gauge : 1520 mm ( Russian gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Kaliningrad and from Chernyakhovsk
Station, station
 0.0 Sovetsk (Tilsit)
   
 Memel , state border between Russia and Lithuania
   
 6.2 Pagėgiai (Pogegen)
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the right, from the right
 from and to Tauragė
   
 11.5 Anužiai (Jecksterken)
   
 14.6 Žirgynas (jerking)
   
 18.1 Stoniškiai (Stonishken) formerly Hp.
   
 22.2 Usėnai (Maiden Forest)
   
 27.7 Kugeliai (Kugeleit / Heydeberg / Kugelhof)
   
 33.8 Juknaičiai (Jugnaten) former Bf.
   
 37.6 Gaideliai (Gaidellen)
Station, station
 42.5 Šilute (Heydekrug)
   
 45.1 (Trakseden)
   
 50.3 Žemaitkiemis (Szameitkehmen / Mestellen) former Bf.
   
 52.5 (Medals)
Stop, stop
 55.9 Kukorai (Kukoreiten)
   
 60.2 Plikoriai (Sakuts)
Stop, stop
 62.8 Vilkyčiai (Wilkieten)
   
 66.2 (Drews)
   
 68.4 (Gropeschken)
   
 Minge
Station, station
 70.9 Priekulė (Prokuls)
   
 74.8 Dituva (Dittau)
   
 77.1 (Mitzken)
   
 78.1 Gručeikiai (Spengen)
   
 80.1 Laistai (dumping)
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the left, from the left
 from and to Draugystė
   
 83.7 Rimkai (Carlsberg)
   
 private freight railway to Gargždai
   
 87.2 (Liepken)
Station, station
 92.3 Klaipėda (Memel)
Route - straight ahead
 to Kretinga

The Sowetsk – Klaipėda (Tilsit – Memel) railway connects the city of Sowetsk in the north of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast with the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda . Passenger traffic takes place on it in the section from Šilutė to Klaipėda (as of October 2018).

history

Tilsit's mayor Heinrich Kleffel built the line, which opened in 1875. It extended the Insterburg – Tilsit line to the north , which had been completed ten years earlier, and was built under the direction of the Prussian State Railways ; because the soft marshland and the railway bridge over the Memel made the construction expensive, difficult and lengthy.

After the annexation of Memel by after the First World War, newly emerged Lithuania in 1923 the railway line was supported by the Lithuanian State Railway operated, which in 1924 by the Memel Convention was legalized. After the Memelland was returned to the German Reich on March 23, 1939, under threat of violence , the line was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

After the Second World War , the line, which was now in the Soviet Union, was reopened in broad gauge in 1953 . In Soviet course books it was shown in unity with the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk route .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , international passenger traffic between Sovetsk and Pagėgiai was discontinued in 1996. At this time, the Lithuanian domestic traffic between Pagėgiai and Klaipėda was also stopped. On the section Šilute –Klaipėda the resumption took place later; for financial reasons, however, operations were stopped again in May 2011. On October 1, 2018, traffic between Klaipėda and Šilutė was resumed. On the way the train stops in Priekulė , Vilkyčiai and Kukorai.

Possibilities to change to small railways before 1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Lithuania
  2. ↑ Silute – Klaipeda line
  3. ↑ Traukiniu iš Klaipėdos į Šilutę - jau nuo spalio (By train from Klaipėda to Šilutė - from October) , information on www.litrail.lt from September 13, 2018

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