Kleinbahn Pogegen – Schmalleningken

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Pogegen – Mikieten – Schmalleningken
Kleinbahn Pogegen – Schmalleningken.jpg
Course book range : DR 120m (1940)
Route length: 58.0 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend
   
 State railway Tilsit – Memel (Sowetsk – Klaipėda)
   
 0.0 Po against Klbf (Pagėgiai)
   
 1.2 Baubeln (Būbliškė)
   
 Small railway line from Tilsit (Sovetsk)
   
 6.5 Mikieten (Mikytai)
   
 8.2 Buoyends (Bajėnai)
   
 10.8 Trakeningken (Trakininkai)
   
 12.9 Strasden (Strazdai)
   
 15.8 Polompen (Palumpiai)
   
 17.4 Kerkutwethen (Kerkutvečiai)
   
 20.1 Willkischken (Vilkyškiai)
   
 Law
   
 24.1 Motzischken (Mociškiai)
   
 29.7 Nettschunen (Nečiūnai)
   
 31.6 Cobbler (pagenaičiai)
   
 33.1 Little cobbler
   
 35.4 Jura (Jūrava)
   
 37.4 Wolfsgrund (Vilkdaubis)
   
 41.6 Riedelsberg (Ridelkalnis)
   
 42.7 Wischwill West (Viešvilė)
   
 43.9 Wischwill Ost
   
 46.6 Abschruten (Apšriūtai)
   
 48.3 Kallwehlen (Kalveliai)
   
 51.7 Kassigkehmen (Kazikėnai)
   
 54.1 Endruszen / Endruschen (Endrušiai)
   
 56.5 Wittkehmen (Vidkiemis)
   
 58.0 Schmalleningken (Smalininkai)
Tilsit – Mikieten
Course book range : DR 120m (1940)
Route length: 6.5 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : ? =
Legend
   
 0.0 Tilsit grain market (Sovetsk)
   
 Memel
   
 0.7 Tilsit bridgehead
   
 1.2 Tilsit Usienkis
   
 2.6 Prussellen (Prūseliai)
   
 4.1 Schakeningken (Šakininkai)
   
 5.6 Mikieten Haltep
   
 6.5 Mikieten (Mikytai)
   
 from Pogegen Klbf (Pagėgiai)
   
 Small railway line to Schmalleningken

The Kleinbahn Pogegen – Schmalleningken was a meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway in the former East Prussia .

history

It was located in the Memelland at the northern end of the Prussian province of East Prussia , which was under Lithuanian sovereignty from 1923 to 1939.

In Pogegen , which was then the administrative seat of the district of the same name , the line branched off from the main line Tilsit – Memel and led 55 km in an easterly direction via Willkischken and Wischwill to the end point Schmalleningken on the Memel River , a border town to the Russian Empire until the First World War .

The meter-gauge small railway was opened by the Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG on August 12, 1902, which operated as Ostpreußische Kleinbahnen AG from 1924 . The Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Königsberg (ODEG) also ran operations during the Lithuanian administration ( Republic of Lithuania ). Now Pogegen belongs to the Lithuanian municipality of Pagėgiai , Tauragė district .

Tilsit – Mikieten railway line

On May 1, 1914, a seven-kilometer branch line to the city of Tilsit was opened from the Mikieten station, 3.6 km east of Pogegen, which crossed the Memel on the 480 m long Königin-Luise-Brücke . It ran like a tram in the city and was therefore equipped with electric railcars. At the end point on the Getreidemarkt (later Fletcherplatz) there was a connection to the Tilsit tram , which owned the overhead line of the branch line.

When the Red Army marched into East Prussia, rail operations ended in autumn 1944; the last train ran on October 7, 1944, when the towns north of the Memel River had to be evacuated.

vehicles

When operations opened, three two-axle Lenz type i steam locomotives were used. In 1906 two more powerful locomotives with a 1'C wheel arrangement were procured from O&K . The wagons did not differ from those of other Lenz railways.

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe: Trams in East and West Prussia . 2nd Edition. Bufe Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-922138-29-2 .
  • Siegfried Bufe: Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 .