Briesen circular path
| Briesen train station - Briesen city | |||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 133g | ||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 3.28 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 470 V = | ||||||||||||||||
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The Kreisbahn Briesen (also Briesen Stadtbahn ) was an electrically operated standard-gauge small train that connected the two stations Briesen Stadt and Briesen Bahnhof on a 3.28-kilometer route. The city of Wąbrzeźno (German Briesen ) with around 8,200 inhabitants is today the county seat of the Powiat Wąbrzeski in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship .
history
The small town of Briesen is located about three kilometers northwest of the main line from Allenstein to Thorn, which was opened in 1871 by the Prussian Eastern Railway . In order to improve the connection to the state train station, the administration of the former Briesen district in West Prussia decided to build a connecting line, which was later often referred to as the “Stadtbahn”.
Because there was already a power station in the district town at that time, electrical operation with direct current of 470 volts was introduced from the start. This began on the standard-gauge and single-track line, which largely followed the road, on April 1, 1898. The management was incumbent on the East German Railway Company in Bromberg until 1919 , and from 1903 in Königsberg.
Passenger traffic was based on the number of trains on the main line. When there 1,914 daily seven passenger trains and express train Berlin - Olsztyn in each direction were leaving, they sat daily sixteen pairs of passenger on one of the narrow-gauge railway. Two electric railcars with two sidecars and one freight railcar were available for this. The railcars were manufactured by the Kummer company in Niedersedlitz near Dresden .
Even when the district came to Poland after the First World War, the Kreisbahn retained its independence, as it was legally viewed as a tram and not a railway.
In 1958 the PKP took over the route. A year later, the overhead line along the route was torn down. The last passenger train ran at the end of 1990, and freight traffic has also been suspended since July 1, 2011.
In May 2013 the railway line was dismantled in favor of a combined foot and cycle path. However, according to information from the city administration of Wąbrzeźno, an approx. 30 m long section of track is to be preserved as a memorial.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in West and East Prussia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
