Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel district

Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel
Former Greetsiel station building
Course book section (DB) :	ex 223c
Route length:	22.8 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend 22.8 Greetsiel 21.3 Hit 20.0 Pilsum 18.9 Sloet 16.9 Manslagt 15.1 Groothusen Mill 14.2 Groothusen Woquard 12.4 Pewsum 11.8 Canum 9.3 Freepsum 7.7 Large midlum 5.4 Back 3.5 Harsweg 0.0 Emden Kreisbf transition to the Staatsbf

The Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel district railway was a 23-kilometer, meter- gauge small railway in East Friesland , which was originally owned by the Emden district in East Friesland, which in 1932 was largely incorporated into the north district.

The railway was also known locally as " Jan Klein ".

Route

The meter - gauge small train route began in the Emden district station near the Emden West state train station (today Emden Hauptbahnhof ), which was created in 1935/36 from the Larrelter Strasse stop.

The official name of the Emden station resulted in the railway postmark "Emden − Larrelt − Greetsiel" used on the small train , which points to the suburb of Larrelt , which was incorporated into Emden in 1945 , where there was never a train station. This was just a shortened spelling for “Emden – Larrelter Straße – Greetsiel”.

The route led through the Krummhörn landscape via Hinte and Pewsum to Greetsiel an der Leybucht .

service

Timetable 1944

Passenger and freight traffic started on July 27, 1899 from Emden to Pewsum and was extended to Greetsiel on September 21, 1906.

Since 1933 operations have been run by the Hanover State Small Railway Authority , which later became the Lower Saxony State Railway Authority (NLEA). After its dissolution, Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG was the operator from October 1, 1959 .

On May 25, 1963, all rail traffic ceased and the line was dismantled. The Kraftpost took passengers by buses .

Traction vehicles

In 1899 there were two two-axle steam locomotives from Hanomag . In 1906 another two-axle locomotive was procured from Borsig , in 1907 the first three-axle locomotive, also from Borsig, came on the line, and in 1909 a three-axle locomotive from Hanomag. It was the first meter-gauge locomotive with superheated steam in Germany.

In 1920 a four-axle locomotive was purchased from Hanomag, which replaced the first two-axle locomotives. Finally, in 1926, the last new acquisition was a 1'C locomotive from AEG . In 1949 another two-axle locomotive was taken over by the Kleisbahn Leer – Aurich – Wittmund.

The diesel era began in 1934 with the railcar T 1 of the wagon factory Wismar , these railcars is preserved. In 1950 and 1953, two railcars from DWK were purchased used (T 60 and T 54). 1959 another railcar from Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer to replace the T 60.

In 1954 the V 30 diesel locomotive was purchased and was in use until the railway was closed.

Search for clues

Pewsum locomotive monument (2010)

In Greetsiel, south of the village, there are not only the reception building of the former train station, which is now a restaurant, but also other operational buildings of the former small train that are now used for other purposes. The workshop of the locomotive shed is used by a mechanic and the locomotive shed is used by a nursery.

In Pewsum there has been a monument locomotive (LKM FNr. 250486/1969, type V10C, wheel arrangement C-dm, track width 750 millimeters, formerly VEB Ziegelwerke Zehdenick, since July 1998 at the Münsterländischer Feldbahnmuseum) at the entrance to the village on the former route of the railway , Rheine), which has no connection with the former railway line.

The railcar T1 / T61 , a passenger car and a tank car of the railway are preserved at the German Railway Association in Bruchhausen-Vilsen .

literature

• Hinrich Rudolfsen: The Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel circuit and the Emden – Außenhafen tram . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2005, ISBN 3-933613-77-9 (secondary line documentation 19).