Railway from Węgliniec to Czerwona Woda

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Węgliniec – Czerwona Woda
Course book range : 157k (1944)
Route length: 6.427 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed: 30 km / h
Route - straight ahead
Connecting track from the state railway
Station, station
0.00 Węgliniec Dworzec Mały formerly Kohlfurt Kleinbahnhof
   
to Görlitz
   
1.10 Zgorzelec Nadleśnictwo formerly Forst Görlitz
   
4.93 Czerwona Woda Północna formerly Rothwasser Niederbahnhof
   
6.43 Czerwona Woda formerly Rothwasser Hauptbahnhof

The railway line Węgliniec – Czerwona Woda connected the community Czerwona Woda ( Rothwasser ) with the railway junction Węgliniec ( Kohlfurt ) from 1913 to 1974 .

history

As early as 1846, a junction of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was established near the town of Kohlfurt , the importance of which was increased in the years 1865 and 1874 by further railway construction. However, none of the routes touched the market town of Rothwasser, just a few kilometers to the south, with 2,500 inhabitants and brisk commercial activity. The city fathers of Rothwasser even disapproved of the construction of a railway, only when the neighboring Penzig experienced an economic boom due to the station, a railway connection was also sought in Rothwasser.

A narrow-gauge railway project proposed after 1900 was rejected and a standard-gauge railway was requested. Therefore, the community of Rothwasser and other interested parties founded the Kleinbahn-AG Kohlfurt – Rothwasser on May 17, 1913 , which received the concession for a standard-gauge railway line of six kilometers between Kohlfurt and Rothwasser on June 2, 1913 according to the Prussian Kleinbahngesetz . The route was opened on October 21, 1913. The company was initially run by the Otto Conrad railway and civil engineering business from Berlin, which was also one of the founders. In 1928 Lenz & Co GmbH took over this task.

Passenger traffic was always modest. In 1914, six pairs of trains were still on the route a day, but in the 1930s and 1940s only two were generally left in service.

A few sidings were still available in Rothwasser for freight traffic.

Located east of the Lusatian Neisse , the line remained on Polish territory after the Second World War . The Polish State Railways ( PKP) took over the route, which had not been damaged during the war, but the structural condition was poor. Since the local economy declined after the Second World War, freight traffic was almost completely eliminated in the 1950s. Passenger traffic was continued by the PKP until October 1, 1966, after which the route only served a small amount of goods traffic in Rothwasser. On May 17, 1974, the line was finally closed due to the poor condition of the line and finally dismantled in the 1980s.

In the summer of 2018, an asphalt bike path was opened on the route of the former railway line, which could be built with EU funding.

vehicles

In 1914, as in 1939, there were two steam locomotives, two passenger cars, one packing car and four freight cars.

When operations started, there were two Bn2t locomotives built by Maffei in 1913 , they were sold in 1935 and two Cn2t locomotives from the Bunzlauer Kleinbahn were acquired, one with the number 22 was built by LHW in 1905 , the other with the Number 21, 1913 by Orenstein & Koppel . The latter came to the Oderbruchbahn in 1945 , was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as 89 6129 and retired in 1965.

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia , Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).
  • Wilfried Rettig: Railways in the border triangle of East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ) - Part 2: Secondary, small and narrow-gauge railways, railway operations and repair shops, railway mail , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-388255 -733-6

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