Krotoschin – Pleschen circuit

Krotoschin – Pleschen (–Broniszewice)
Route length:	up to 49.5 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend 0.00 Krotoszyn Wąskotorowy (Krotoschin; transition to the state railway ) Krotoszyn – Ostrów Wielkopolski (Krotoschin – Ostrowo) 0.88 Krotoszyn Stary 2.73 Nowy Folwark 4.86 Brzoza (birch stone) 6.16 Henryków Wielkopolski 7.44 Dzielice 10.45 Rozdrażew (Rozdrazewo) 12.56 Macieev 16.64 Nowa Wieś Krotoszyńska 18.54 Wyki 20.41 Koźminiec (German Koschmin) 22.66 Izbiczno (Eichdorf) 25.59 Dobrzyca (Dobrzyca) 27.64 Lutynia Lutynia 31.06 Fabianów ( Fabianow ) Kluczbork – Poznań (Kreuzburg – Posen) 35.14 Pleszew Wąskotorowy (Pleschen crossing) Plac Zabaw Przy Kauflandzie 38.62 Pleszew Miasto (Pleschen City) Pleszew Wschód 42.69 Lenartowice Pacanowice 49.50 Broniszewice

The Krotoschin – Pleschen district railway connected the district town of the Krotoschin district with the district town of the neighboring district of Pleschen in the south of the former Prussian province of Posen .

history

In the years 1875 to 1888 the town of Krotoschin with 13,000 inhabitants had become a small railway junction, where the Jarotschin – Öls line, nationalized in 1886, of the former Oels-Gnesener Railway Company and the Ostrowo – Lissa state railway crossed. In order to connect the north-east of the district to the rail network, the Krotoschin and Pleschen districts jointly built a small railway. It began operating on May 15, 1900, from Krotoschin to the village of Dobrzyca (26 kilometers), then crossed the district boundary on July 10, 1900 and reached the Pleschen station on the Kreuzburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built by the Poznan in 1875 In 1884 nationalized route Jarotschin – Ostrowo .

The small train, built in narrow gauge of 750 mm, was now 35.5 kilometers long. In order to connect the district town of Pleschen , about four kilometers to the east , in which 8,000 people lived, with the state train station, which was called Pleschen transition by the Kleinbahn, a continuation of the Kleinbahn to the Stadtbahnhof was established. Passenger traffic began on January 21, and goods traffic on February 13, 1901, but on a standard-gauge track. A third rail for narrow-gauge vehicles was not added until 1905/07. In 1914 there were 17 pairs of trains on this "light rail"

At that time, the small railway network was 40.5 kilometers long. The vehicle inventory included 8 steam locomotives, 8 passenger and 4 baggage cars, as well as 83 freight and 8 special cars.

During the Second World War, the circular railway as "Krotoschin-Pleschener Eisenbahn" was temporarily subordinate to the Gaubahnen Wartheland .

Apart from a 300-meter-long siding, which was put into operation on March 26, 1912 between the Krotoschin railway station and a brewery, the network remained unchanged until 1946. Then the narrow-gauge railway from Pleschen Stadt to Broniszewice was extended by a further 10.6 kilometers.

Passenger traffic is said to have been served until 1987.

Passenger trains run again between Pleszew and Pleszew Miasto.

literature

• Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-33-0 ( East German Railway History 2).
• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. E5

annotation

1. ↑ Because there is no distinction in the Railway Atlas, no distinction is made here between train stations and stops.
2. ↑ Timetable 2016 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.