Port railway Demmin

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The port railway Demmin connected the port of the city of Demmin with the Berlin Northern Railway and the Demminer Bahnen . In addition, both 750 mm narrow-gauge and standard-gauge railroad cars could be transported on the three- rail track . The length of the route from the small train station to the Demminer Hafen was around 2.4 kilometers. As tractive schmalspurige locomotives served to Demminer webs. These pulled the standard gauge wagons with the help of a coupling wagon .

history

The planning of the port railway was carried out by the Szczecin company Lenz & Co. When the plans were presented at the beginning of February 1897, the originally planned continuation of the line from the port to the Demmin sugar factory had been discarded for reasons of cost. After the revised planning had been submitted to the supervisory authority again and the land issues had been clarified with the city of Demmin, construction work could begin on September 30, 1898. At the beginning of October 1899 a provisional operation could be started. The acceptance could only take place after the completion of a flood bridge along the route. Public operations began on November 4, 1899.

In the area of ​​the Demminer Hafen several extensions of the track area were carried out. Thus, until 1904, the Berlin storage facility was connected via an additional standard gauge track, which was expanded and extended to three tracks by 1907. The branch canal built in 1913 to expand the port area was given a siding in 1914. In the area of ​​the Berlin warehouse , the tracks were completely rebuilt in 1922. In 1923 the newly built granary of the Treptow- Demminer Agricultural Purchasing and Sales Association (LEVV) was connected to the branch canal . As the largest carrier on the Demminer Bahnen in the 1930s, the LEVV handled bulk goods between small trains and ships. The last extension of the tracks took place for the warehouse of the businessman Klänhammer, which was built in 1935 and enlarged until 1940.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the cargo handling in the Demminer port increased significantly. A second locomotive had to be used for the shunting work. Prisoners of war were used for the loading work. After the war, in contrast to the Demminer Bahnen, which was dismantled as a reparation payment, the port railway was preserved. The Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the operation of the line in 1949. The importance of inland shipping for Demmin declined in the 1970s after the construction of permanent bridges over Trebel and Tollense . The port railway remained in operation until 1990. The tracks in the port were reconstructed and the connection to Demmin train station dismantled in the 1990s.

literature

  • Walter Bauchspies, Torsten Berg: The Demminer Kleinbahnen - history of two narrow-gauge Lenz railways. EK-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-88255-693-5 , pp. 37-40.