Kleinbahn Pogegen – Schmalleningken
Pogegen – Mikieten – Schmalleningken | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course book range : | DR 120m (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 58.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tilsit – Mikieten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book range : | DR 120m (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 6.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | ? = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 .