Toitz-Rustow – Loitz railway line
| Loitz-Toitz-Rustow | |||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6795 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 919 (DR, 1969) | ||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 7.1 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
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The Loitz-Toitz-Rustow (KLTR) line was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in Western Pomerania . The 7.1 km long branch line connected the Berlin Northern Railway with the city of Loitz . It was in operation from 1906 to 1969 (passenger traffic) and 1997 (freight traffic).
history
The northern line from Berlin to Stralsund was inaugurated in 1877/78. Decades of planning preceded its construction. For a long time there was a discussion about running the route across the small town of Loitz an der Peene . However, these plans failed, as did projects that included a route from Greifswald via Loitz, Demmin , Waren (Müritz) to Wittstock / Dosse . On September 1, 1895, the Toitz-Rustow station was built on the northern line, seven kilometers west of Loitz.
In the following years there were efforts to build a line from Toitz-Rustow via Loitz either to Greifswald or to Voigtsdorf on the Greifswald – Grimmen – Tribsees railway line . These plans also failed. Finally, a branch line from Toitz-Rustow to Loitz was built by the Kleinbahn Toitz-Rustow-Loitz (KTRL), which was inaugurated on September 8, 1906. The Prussian State Railway took over the management.
In passenger transport, feeder trains commuted to Toitz-Rustow, where one changed in the direction of Stralsund or Demmin. Freight traffic mainly served the Loitz starch factory. In 1916 a siding to the factory was built; further connections to other companies followed.
In 1935 the KTRL transported 6,045 people and 20,309 tons of goods.
In the 1960s, the importance of passenger transport declined after direct bus routes to Demmin and Greifswald were established. Passenger traffic was stopped when the timetable changed on May 31, 1969. For a few years buses still ran between Loitz and Toitz-Rustow train station.
After the political change in the GDR and German reunification, the importance of the route for freight traffic declined. The line was converted into a station track for Toitz-Rustow station. From 1991 onwards, a transfer train to the starch factory ran again on weekdays. In the following years, the volume gradually decreased, so that freight traffic was completely stopped on December 31, 1994.
In 1999 the points in the former Toitz-Rustow station were expanded and the connection to the line to Loitz removed. Passenger trains have not stopped in Toitz-Rustow since June 2, 1996. In 2003 the line to Loitz was shut down and then dismantled.
Route
The route begins in the former Toitz-Rustow train station. This is in the middle of the Kronwald forest, around five kilometers from the eponymous towns of Toitz and Rustow . A few houses were built at the station. The line branches off south of the station to the east; To the west there was a branch to a connection to an army object. The route continues in an easterly direction and crosses the road to Rustow. There were no other operating points between Toitz-Rustow and Loitz. The city of Loitz is crossed on the northern edge of the old town so that the route connects the port of the city to the Peene. The train station is right on the river. The station buildings in Toitz-Rustow and Loitz have been preserved. The building in Loitz is a listed building and now serves as a marina catering facility .
literature
- Erich Preuß: Archive of German small and private railways. Brandenburg / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , pp. 356-359 .
Web links
- Literature on the Toitz-Rustow-Loitz railway line in the MV Landesbibliographie
- Private homepage for the route with very extensive route histories, construction plans and pictures
- Route , track plans from Toitz-Rustow (PDF; 28 kB) and Loitz (PDF; 27 kB) at eisenbahn-mv.de
- The route at Bahn-in-pommern.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet source ( memento of April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 20, 2009.
- ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , pp. 156, 169.
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de (PDF; 956 kB), p. 43.