Königsberg-Cranzer railway company
| Koenigsberg – Cranz Kaliningrad – Severny – Zelenogradsk |
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 Railway lines around Königsberg in 1938
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| Course book range : | Königsberg – Cranz: 120 (1939), 138 (1944) Cranz – Cranzbeek: 120a (1939), 138b (1944) |
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| Route length: | 28.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Königsberg- Cranz railway company built the Königsberg – Cranz railway line between Königsberg and Cranz . It serves to connect the provincial capital of East Prussia with the Samland Baltic coast .
history
The Königsberg-Cranzer Eisenbahngesellschaft ( KCE ), founded in 1884 to build the line, was able to put this line into operation on December 31, 1885. The 28 km long railway line began in its own train station in the north of Königsberg. On September 19, 1929 , the joint northern station was opened together with the sister company Samlandbahn , which was also operated by the East German Railway Company . This was also used by the Reichsbahn line Königsberg Hauptbahnhof – Labiau – Tilsit .
From July 8, 1895, a two-kilometer branch line ran from Cranz to Cranzbeek on the Curonian Lagoon, where the Cranz – Memel line was connected to the ship. On December 20, the main line was extended along the coast to the west to Pobethen-Rantau, which reached Neukuhren on May 25, 1901 , where it was possible to change to the Samland Railway to Warnicken.
From August 5, 1900, the line was run as the main line in summer, allowing a maximum speed of 60 km / h instead of 40 km / h.
In 1913/14 almost 900,000 travelers were carried.
Twelve steam locomotives were available for the KCE network, which now covers almost 49 km. Between Königsberg and Cranz there was an hourly drive in summer, sometimes without stopping. In addition, from August 1, 1934, the company still operated three bus routes . In that year the city of Königsberg transferred the majority of shares of around 65% to the AG für Verkehrwesen .
From May 9, 1916, a ten-kilometer-long small railway to Ellerkrug, which belonged to Kleinbahn Groß Raum-Ellerkrug GmbH , but was operated by KCE, branched off at the intermediate station Groß Raum .
On May 25, 1928, the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ODEG) took over management. In 1938 the KCE had 1.3 million passengers.
After the Second World War
The branch line to Cranzbeek was shut down in the post-war years. The main line was switched to broad gauge and electrified with 3 kV DC voltage in 1970 to Cranz. A track triangle was laid out south of Cranz so that trains can be run directly to Pionerski (Neukuhren).
For the current state of development of the railway line see:
Documents
Seal mark
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literature
Jörg Petzold: 130 years of the Königsberg-Cranzer Railway . In: The Museum Railway . No. 1 , 2016, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 28-29 .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Königsberg-Cranzer Railway Company in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
annotation
- ↑ Other sources cite December 20, 1900 as the opening day of the branch line