Greiz-Brunner Railway Company
The Greiz – Brunner Railway Company was a railway company in Saxony and the Principality of Reuss older line . She was the owner of the Neumark – Greiz railway in Vogtland .
history
Before Greiz, the then capital of the Principality of Reuss Older Line, was connected to the rail network in 1875 by the Elstertalbahn of the Saxon-Thuringian Railway Company , the city received a railway connection from Saxony, which was especially requested by the factory owners. Because the Saxon State Railroad did not want to carry out the construction itself, the interested parties founded the Greiz-Brunner Railway Company (GBE) in 1862, of whose capital the Princely Reussian government also took over more than a quarter. In 1864 the company received the concessions from the Principality of Reuss and the Kingdom of Saxony to build a railway line. It began in Greiz at a station that was later called Oberer Bahnhof or Aubachtal, continued in an easterly direction and crossed the Saxon border shortly before Brunn. At Brunn it flowed into the Leipzig – Hof railway line , which was opened by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company in 1846 and then nationalized. The GBE let its trains run through to Neumark in Saxony and paid the state railway a "railroad fee" of 1860 marks annually for using the route .
The operation on the new route, which opened on October 23, 1865, was taken care of by the Kgl. Saxon State Railways . This was acquired by the Greiz-Brunner Railway on January 1, 1876.
Locomotives and wagons
The Greiz-Brunner Railway procured two double-coupled tank locomotives from Hartmann in Chemnitz , which were named GREIZ and BRUNN . Five passenger wagons were available for travel and three boxcars for freight transport.
literature
- Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Volume 4: 1996-1998 . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71091-9 .
- Arthur von Mayer: History and geography of the German railways . Baensch, Berlin 1891 (reprint: Steiger, Moers 1984, ISBN 3-921564-71-9 ).