Kleinbahn Freest – Bergensin
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| Route length: | 6.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kleinbahn AG Freest Bergensin owned a standard gauge railway line in Lauenburg county in Pomerania , which served exclusively to freight.
history
The founders of the company were the Prussian state treasury, the province of Pomerania , the district of Lauenburg as well as three manor owners and one mill owner. The provincial association carried out the construction.
The 6.85 km long standard gauge line was opened on October 31, 1910; it branched off from the state railway line at Freest station , which leads from the district town of Lauenburg to the Baltic resort of Leba . The end point of the small train was the village (manor) Bergensin , which had 260 inhabitants.
In the first years of operation, around 20,000 t of goods were transported annually. The main cargo was marl lime , which was mined at Roschütz. When the plant closed a few years after the First World War, the economic basis of the railway was no longer given.
The company was initially run by the Prussian State Railways , then from 1918 by Lenz & Co GmbH with staff and vehicles from the neighboring Lauenburg Railways . The small railway company did not have its own vehicles.
On February 1, 1926, operations were closed for economic reasons. On October 1, 1930, the liquidation proceedings were opened, superstructure materials and inventory were sold, and on January 3, 1933, the company was deleted from the commercial register.
See also
literature
- Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 .