Sovetsk – Nesterov railway line

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Tilsit-Stallupönen (Ebenrode)
Stallupönen station
Stallupönen station
Line of the Sovetsk – Nesterov railway line
Location of the route between Ragnit and the nuclear power plant
Course book range : DR 118b (1940) ,
DR 135p (1944)
Route length: 76.2 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 State railway line from Memel (Klaipėda)
Station, station
 0.0 Tilsit (Sovetsk)
   
 State railway line to Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad)
   
 State railway line to Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk)
   
 8.7 Girschuns (Girdschunai)
   
 13.2 Ragnite (No, sorry man)
   
 Small railway line to Kraupischken / Breitenstein (Uljanowo)
   
 20.2 Klapaten / Angerwiese (Krasnoye Selo)
   
 Kaliningrad nuclear power plant (Kaliningradskaja AЗС)
   
 26.6 To let
   
 30.4 Naujeningken / Neusiedel (East Pr.) (Malomoshaiskoje)
   
 35.2 Lesgewangminnen / Lesgewangen (Sabrodino)
   
 39.8 Rautenberg (East Pr.) (Uslowoje)
   
 45.2 Drozwalde / Droschwalde
   
 49.2 Groß Schorellen / Adlerswalde (Saratovskoye)
   
 52.0 Schmilgen (Lukaschowka)
   
 Small railway line from Lasdehnen / Haselberg (Krasnosnamensk)
   
 58.6 Pillkallen / Schloßberg (Dobrovolsk)
   
 62.6 Stehlischken / Stehlau (Sadovskoye)
   
 66.0 Schwirgallen / Eichhagen (East Pr.)
   
 68.7 Dräweningken / Dräwen
   
 State railway line from Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 76.2 Stallupönen / Ebenrode (Nesterow)
   
 State railway line to Goldap (Gołdap)
Route - straight ahead
 State railway line to Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau (Tschernyschewskoje)

The Tilsit – Stallupönen (Sowetsk – Nesterow) railway was the last of the four lines that connected the city of Tilsit ( Russian Sowetsk ) with the other East Prussian metropolises.

history

In 1865 the line from Insterburg ( Russian: Chernyachovsk ) was connected to the Prussian Eastern Railway , which ran from Berlin via Königsberg (Prussia) to Eydtkuhnen (1938 to 1946: Eydtkau, Russian: Chernyshevskoje ). In 1875 the construction of the line from Tilsit to Memel ( Lithuanian Klaipėda ) followed, and in 1891 the railway line from Königsberg ( Russian Kaliningrad ) established the connection between Tilsit and the East Prussian capital. In order to connect the northeast of the province of East Prussia with Memelstadt, the railway line from Tilsit to Ragnit ( Neman in Russian ) was finally built in 1894 , which was continued in 1894 to Stallupönen (1938 to 1946: Ebenrode, Nesterow in Russian ) and thus an additional connection to Tilsit to the Prussian Eastern Railway.

The Tilsit – Stallupönen railway connected the Tilsit district and the Ragnit (from 1922 Tilsit-Ragnit ), Pillkallen (1939 to 1945 "Landkreis Schloßberg (Ostpr.)") And Stallupönen (1939 to 1945 "Landkreis Ebenrode").

The line was under the authority of the Reichsbahndirektion Königsberg (Prussia) until 1945 . In 1940 it was used by five pairs of trains in its total length, and also by three pairs of trains in the Pillkallen (Schloßberg) –Stallupönen (Ebenrode) section.

The railway line, which was badly damaged in the aftermath of the war, was only used to a limited extent after 1945, but was soon taken out of service for passenger traffic.

Today only a section from Sovetsk to the Kaliningrad nuclear power plant ("Kaliningradskaja АЗС", also: Baltic nuclear power plant), which is still under construction, is still available for freight traffic . However, it is questionable whether this construction will ever be completed.

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