Mecklenburg Railway Company
The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft ( MEG for short ) was founded in 1845 and existed until it was nationalized and merged with the Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn to form the Grand Ducal Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn in 1873. During this time, the main line network and the associated stations and workshops of the Railway in Mecklenburg.
history
With the planning of the Prussian railway line Berlin – Hamburg from 1841, the projects for a separate route network also became more concrete in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . On February 25, 1846 the Schwerin-Wismarsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Hagenow-Schwerin-Rostocker Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, and the Güstrow-Bützower Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, founded in the previous year, merged to form the Mecklenburg Railway Company. On March 10, 1846, the company received the concession to build a railway line from Hagenow via Schwerin to Wismar and via Bad Kleinen , Bützow to Rostock and Güstrow .
On May 1, 1847, the section between Hagenow and Schwerin was put into operation. On July 12, 1848, the line to Wismar was completed. On May 13, 1850, the routes to Rostock and Güstrow finally opened .
The company's income situation was positive. At times a dividend of up to 13.5% was paid out. After the Franco-Prussian War and the founding of the Reich , Bismarck endeavored to found a Reichseisenbahn. As in other German states, the Mecklenburg government intended to nationalize the private railways. With effect from April 20, 1873, the Mecklenburg Railway Company was purchased and integrated into the newly created Grand Ducal Friedrich Franz Railway . At that time the company owned 27 locomotives .
Locomotives
In 1847 the railway company initially procured three locomotives with a 1A1 wheel arrangement for operational service. As the locomotives proved their worth, the MEG added 10 locomotives of this type to its inventory over the next few years. At the beginning of the 1850s, machines with the 1B wheel arrangement also came to MEG. Locomotives with the B1 wheel arrangement, on the other hand, were not found on the Mecklenburg railway lines until the end of the 1860s. In 1870 the railroad company's inventory comprised a total of 19 1A1, 6 1B and 2 B1 locomotives.
- Locomotive types of the Mecklenburg Railway Company
Wheel arrangement 1A1
locomotive Marshal Forward
Wheel arrangement 1B
locomotive Swantewit
Wheel arrangement B1
locomotive Wodan
Workshops and locomotive stations
In order to be able to look after , maintain and repair the locomotives and wagons used, the railway company built a workshop with a water crane , a coaling and purification plant and a locomotive shed in Schwerin in 1847 (from 1926 the Schwerin depot ). In the next few years, the workshop was continuously expanded despite the limited space available right next to the train station. Before the nationalization of the MEG, a forge, locksmith's shop, paint shop and warehouse as well as a lathe shop, copper and spring smiths and a bar smithy belonged to the workshop.
In addition to this main workshop, smaller locomotive stations in Hagenow, Kleinen, Wismar, Rostock, Bützow and Güstrow were put into operation. Only the water and coal supplies of the locomotives could be replenished there. In some cases, these locomotive stations later also developed into important railway depots.
See also
literature
- Lothar Schultz: The railways in Mecklenburg . transpress, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00068-3 .