Gommern – Pretzien small railway
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99 4301 in Gommern
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Route length: | 12 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kleinbahn Gommern – Pretzien was founded on March 15, 1886 by several quarry owners, the Gommern-Pretziener Kleinbahn EGmuH cooperative. It was only intended to transport stones from the quartzite quarries in the Gommern area to the Elbe port in Pretzien . As a result, the routes and the scope of the network changed frequently, which with all branches covered a maximum of twelve kilometers.
history
The Gommern-Pretziener Eisenbahn, as it was called, received approval in 1888 to operate a lorry railway with a gauge of 600 millimeters, which was moved by prisoners.
After the tracks had been re-gauged to 750 mm gauge, on December 5, 1890, steam operation was introduced on the line from the quarries near Gommern, Plötzky and Pretzien to the Old Elbe at the Pretziener weir. Since June 26, 1900, there was a 2.4 kilometer connection to the Gommern State Railway Station.
After the Pretzien power plant had taken over the railway, the company was called Kleinbahn und Kraftwerk Pretzien GmbH from May 14, 1908 . On October 12, 1911, this was granted the concession as a branch line-like small railway, but after that there was no public transport.
In 1914, the route from the Gommern state train station to the quarries and to the Old Elbe at the Pretziener Wehr with a branch to Galgenfeld, Neuland and Dannigkow had a total length of 5.8 km. According to the statistics for 1928 and 1939, the main line had shrunk to 4.2 kilometers, 0.9 kilometers of which was double-track. The business had declined sharply due to the economic crisis and could not recover until the end of the Second World War . After all, there were eight steam locomotives and 280 freight cars in 1939.
After an interruption due to the war, the railway started up again at the turn of the year 1945/46 and was placed under state administration in 1946. On October 1, 1947, it belonged to a company called Kleinbahn und Kraftwerk Dümling & Ballerstedt, which had been called Ballerstedt Transport KG Pretzien (Elbe) since 1949. It transported more and more gravel instead of sand and in 1972 it was incorporated into the state-owned company VEB Welsleben, and from January 1, 1975 into the VEB Sandgruben Pretzien (Elbe).
On December 31, 1976, the railway was finally shut down and then dismantled.
vehicles
designation | Axis formula | Manufacturer | Serial number | Construction year | annotation |
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MOLTKE | B n2t | Krauss | 2193 | 1889 | last boiler test 1924, deadline 1927, +1927 ?; Whereabouts unknown |
BISMARCK | B n2t | Krauss | 1889-1900 | Whereabouts unknown | |
ROON | B n2t | Krauss | 1889-1900 | Whereabouts unknown | |
BLÜCHER | B n2t | Henschel | 1902 | Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown | |
EMPEROR | B n2t | Henschel | 1912 | Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown | |
number 1 | B n2t | Hagans | 1890 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 2 | B n2t | Hagans | 1890 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 3 | B n2t | Hagans | 1890 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 4 | B n2t | OK | 1921-1925 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 5 | B n2t | OK | 1921-1925 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 6 | B n2t | OK | 1921-1925 | Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 7 | B n2t | Henschel | 1925-1935 | Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 8 | B n2t | Henschel | 1925-1935 | Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown | |
No. 9 | B n2t | Henschel | 1925-1935 | Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown | |
without designation | B n2t | LKM | 1951 | Whereabouts unknown | |
99 4301 | C n2t | OK | 9418 | 1920 | KJI No. 23, bought in 1965 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn; Monument locomotive Bf Gommern |
designation | power | Axis formula | Manufacturer | Serial number | Construction year | annotation |
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black | 75 hp | Bo | The MA | 1185 | 1944 | DR Ko 6004 ; 1959 renovation; Bought by the DR in 1967; +1976 ++ 197x |
dark green | 40 hp | Bo | Young | 1961 | Type ZL 114 | |
blue | 30 hp | Bo | ČKD | 1961 | ||
yellow | 30 hp | Bo | Škoda | 1965 | ||
brown | 30 hp | Bo | LKM | 1959 | Type Ns 2h | |
green | 60 hp | Bo | LKM | 249161 | 1955 | Type Ns 3f / d; Conversion with driver's cab and factory plate of LKM Ns 3d 249259/1959 |
literature
- Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archives of German small and private railways: Saxony-Anhalt . Transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-613-71087-0 .
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive. Transpress, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 (reprint of the 2nd edition 1982), pp. 226-229.
- Wolf-Dietger Machel : Gommern - Pretzien (Elbe). In: Wolf-Dietger Machel: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. Basic work. Munich 1994, ISSN 0949-2143.
Web links
- Olav Fabricius, Klaus Lehnert, Peter Sommer: History of the Gommern-Pretzien Kleinbahn, pretzien.de (accessed March 6, 2018)
- Reinhard Taege: The historical picture: Pretzien depot of the "Gommern-Pretziener Kleinbahn", reinhard-taege.de (accessed on March 6, 2018)
- Martin Wollmann: Gommern-Pretziener Eisenbahn, shutdown.de (accessed on March 6, 2018)