Stendal – Arneburg railway line
| Stendal Ost – Arneburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Arneburg, train station and railway area
down in the middle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number : | 6896 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 183s (1935) ; 210s (1951); 751 (1968) |
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| Route length: | 12.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1899-1914: 1000 mm. 1914-1972: 1435 mm |
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The Stendal – Arneburg railway was initially a meter-gauge , then standard-gauge branch line in Saxony-Anhalt . It ran from Stendal to Arneburg .
history
At the end of the 19th century, Arneburg an der Elbe wanted to get a railway connection to the neighboring Stendal. For this purpose, the Kleinbahn AG Stendal – Arneburg , based in Arneburg, was founded. The Kingdom of Prussia and the Province of Saxony each took over a quarter of the shares, while the other half was divided roughly equally between the city and district of Stendal , the city of Arneburg and private parties. On August 8, 1899, the 1000 mm track was opened. The management was taken care of.
The terminus was in the east of Stendal on Arneburger Strasse, just after a level crossing with the Stendal – Wittenberge line , which ran east of the city until 1900. There was a loading track parallel to the state railway line. After their relocation there was no connection to a state railway line. The route to Arneburg mostly ran close to Arneburger Strasse. On November 25, 1908, the Stendal – Arendsee small railway was opened, which ran over the former state railway line and established a connection to the Stendal state railway station. To the south of the Stendal Ost train station between Arneburger Straße and Haferbreiter Weg, a transfer facility was built. Thereupon the freight traffic took such an upswing that in 1912 a trolley pit was created and the trolley traffic was started. Nevertheless, the increase in traffic was such that it was decided to switch to standard gauge. The location of the station in Arneburg was changed and an independent engine shed was built. The standard gauge line was opened on May 2, 1914. At the same time, the Kleinbahn Stendal – Arendsee took over operations.
The Stendal Ost station became a wedge station , the trains to Arneburg had the platform in a curve south of Arneburger Strasse and then flowed into the Stendal – Arendsee line, the platforms to Arendsee were north of the street at the stately reception building.
In 1924 the Kleinbahn Stendal – Arneburg was taken over by the Kleinbahngesellschaft now operating as the Stendaler Kleinbahn .
After the end of the war, the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH took over at the end of 1946 and from August 15, 1948 the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) of the Saxony-Anhalt transport system took over the operation. From April 1, 1949, the Stendaler Railway belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
On October 1, 1972, the line was shut down and dismantled soon after. Between Hassel and Sanne, the planum was used for the new Borstel – Niedergörne line built in 1975/76 .
Vehicle use
- Narrow gauge
A two-axle and a three-axle steam locomotive from Hanomag formed the initial stock, two four-axle passenger cars and 18 two-axle freight cars were part of the fleet. In 1914, the company passed the narrow-gauge vehicles on to the Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen .
- Standard gauge
A two-axle steam locomotive, a passenger car, a passenger / baggage car and three freight cars were available in 1914. The shared rolling stock with the Arendsee Kleinbahn included steam locomotives of the types Bn2t, Cn2t and 1'Cn2t manufactured by Henschel.
business
For a long time (1914, 1935 and 1951) there were five pairs of passenger trains every day. After the gauge change, some passenger trains ran continuously to the Reichsbahnhof. In 1935, three pairs of trains also carried the 2nd class, all other trains only the 3rd class. In 1951 there were only 3rd class trains. In Stendal Ost there was a connection to the horse tram of the Stendal tram from 1909 to 1926 , then to the bus to the state train station. After the gauge change until the takeover by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the freight trains began and ended in Stendal East, from where they were transferred in special trains to and from the Reichsbahn handover in Stendal Vorbahnhof.
In 1968 seven pairs of trains ran the route on weekdays and five pairs of trains on Sundays and public holidays. Five pairs of trains were driven by railcars on weekdays and three pairs of trains on Sundays and public holidays.
photos
Arneburg railway station, former freight yard
Arneburg railway station, track side
literature
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Ore Mountains. Alba Buchverlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-069-7 , pp. 175, 178-179.
- Wolfgang List: Memories of Bf Stendal Ost . In: The Museum Railway . No. 4 , 2007, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 10-19 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 8th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89494-140-6 , pp. 34 .
- ↑ a b Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, summer . 1968, p. 221 .