Hardenberg – Neuchâtel railway

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Hardenberg – Neuchâtel
Course book range : DR : 131g Hardenberg – Neuenburg (West Prussia) (1944)
PKP : 316 Twarda Góra – Nowe (1946)
Route length: 6 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Dirschau
Station, station
 0.000 Hardenberg 86 m
   
 to Laskowitz / Lassewitz
   
 2,349 Przyn 84 m
   
 6.006 Neuchâtel (Westpr) 72 m

The Kleinbahn Hardenberg – Neuenburg AG connected the city of Neuenburg in the former Prussian province of West Prussia with the main line Bromberg – Dirschau .

history

The Dirschau – Bromberg line, which was opened by the Prussian Eastern Railway on August 6, 1852 , left the town of Neuchâtel an der Weichsel , which belongs to the district of Schwetz, “on the left” with over 5,000 inhabitants. In order to close this gap with a small railway, a consortium was formed in which the Prussian state, the province of West Prussia, the district of Schwetz, the city of Neuchâtel and the railway construction company Lenz & Co were involved.

The stock corporation founded on October 19, 1904 was able to open the standard-gauge line of six kilometers on November 19, 1906. The company was initially run by Lenz & Co GmbH, and then by the East German Railway Company until 1919 . In 1914 ten pairs of trains ran.

After the First World War , the Schwetz district became part of Poland. Nevertheless, the railway kept its independence as a private railway Twarda Góra – Nowe. It was not assigned to the Deutsche Reichsbahn until November 27, 1939. It was given route number 242 on the Polish State Railways .

In 1990 the passenger traffic of the Polish State Railways was stopped and the line was closed.

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