Small train Tangermünde – Lüderitz

Tangermünde – Lüderitz
Route length:	18 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend Tangermünde loading points on the banks of the Elbe and the port 0.0 Tangermünde formerly three-tier to Stendal (standard gauge) 1.6 Tangermünde Neustadt 5.6 Gross life 7.8 Elversdorf 8.8 Demker Magdeburg-Wittenbergesche Railway Demker ( connecting station ) 10.2 Bellingen 11.8 Hüselitz 14.9 Little Schwarzlosen 16.4 Big black lots 17.8 Luderitz

The Tangermünde – Lüderitz small railway , also known as the beet railway, was a railway line in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . Your operating company, the Kleinbahn-AG Tangermünde – Lüderitz (TLKB), was founded on April 30, 1902 with its headquarters in Tangermünde . The most important shareholders were the Prussian state and the province of Saxony . In addition, the district of Stendal , the city of Tangermünde and other communities and private individuals were involved.

history

Operations began on October 10, 1903, on the initially 16.2 km long line with a gauge of 750 mm. It began at Tangermünde-Neustadt train station and went 7.2 kilometers west to Demker , where it crossed the main line from Stendal to Magdeburg . Then it went another 9 kilometers to the end point Lüderitz . From February 25, 1904, the trains began in Tangermünde station of the Stendal-Tangermünder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , so that the line now had a length of 17.8 kilometers. In addition, there were sidings to the Elbhafen in Tangermünde, because the main task of the railway was to transport agricultural products to the ship connection. In 1911 there were four pairs of trains that took about 90 minutes, including a half-hour stop in Demker, towards Lüderitz. Three of the trains towards Tangermünde only stopped briefly in Demker.

In 1914 there were only three pairs of trains that now took two hours to travel each route. The railway was unable to withstand the crises that soon followed in the war and post-war period because it was built extremely sparingly and traffic safety was no longer guaranteed. The proposal was already on the agenda of the shareholders' meeting on January 11, 1917: “Resolution on the shutdown of the railway and sale of old materials. Discussion about the construction of a standard-gauge railway from Tangermünde to Lüderitz and continuation to Vinzelberg. ”In Vinzelberg on the main line Stendal – Oebisfelde , the connection to the“ Altmärkische Kleinbahn ”to Klötze could have been established.

This motion did not initially find a majority. However, on October 7, 1917, the Tangermünde – Demker section was closed. The Demker – Lüderitz section followed on June 17, 1920. The company was still trying to renew and lengthen the normal-gauge railway . When there was no longer any prospect of realizing these plans, it was decided on November 21, 1920 to liquidate the company. In the first thirteen years of the company's existence, a dividend of one percent each was paid only twice .

vehicles

The Kleinbahn used two triple-coupled tank locomotives with track numbers 1 and 2 made by Borsig in 1903 .

literature

• Wolfgang List: Stendal and the railroad. Volume 2: The small railways. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-933254-93-1 , p. 147ff.
• Reinhard Taege: Stendal-Tangermünder Eisenbahn, Kleinbahn Tangermünde-Lüderitz . (= Small railway booklets). 2nd Edition. TG publications, Brandenburg 1994.
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: GDR narrow-gauge railway archive . 2nd Edition. transpress Verlag, 1982 (reprint 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 ).

Web links

• History of the Tangermünde – Lüderitz Kleinbahn on altmarkschiene.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhard Taege: Stendal-Tangermünder Eisenbahn, Kleinbahn Tangermünde – Lüderitz . (= Small railway booklets). 2nd Edition. TG publications, Brandenburg 1994.