Ortelsburger Kleinbahn
| Puppen – Myszyniec (Spychowo – Myszyniec) |
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 Opening of the Ortelsburger Kleinbahn in Friedrichshof
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 Olsztyn – Elck route in 1938
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DR 120e (1940) , 136h (1941) , 136p (1944) |
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| Route length: | 27.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ortelsburger Kleinbahn was a small transport company in the east of the former district of Ortelsburg in the province of East Prussia .
history
The eastern part of the district Szczytno was since 1884 only by the route Szczytno-Elk joined the Prussian State Railways to the railway network. It was not until the demands of the military in World War I that a small railway was built there. To facilitate supplies in the border area against Russia, railway pioneers built an army field railway in the 600 mm light rail gauge from Puppen station in a southerly direction via Friedrichshof and further across the border to the Myszyniec (Mischinietz) junction , where narrow-gauge railways from Ostrołęka were built in 1915/16 (Ostrolenka), Łomża and Kolno came together.
After the First World War, a railway founded by the district of Ortelsburg together with the Free State of Prussia and the Province of East Prussia took over the route from Puppen to Friedrichshof (the rest of the route was on Polish territory) and opened it to public transport on June 16, 1920. It was run by the East German Railway Company in Königsberg . The Ortelsburger Kleinbahn AG went on June 30, 1924 in the East Prussian Kleinbahnen AG .
The timetable was quite modest. In 1927 there were two pairs of trains on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, only one pair of trains on the other working days. In 1934, one train was planned every day, arriving in Puppen at noon and returning to Friedrichshof at 4:54 pm in the afternoon. In 1939, a pair of trains only ran on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Since June 2, 1930, the Kleinbahn has been using an omnibus on the 35-kilometer Ortelsburg – Friedrichshof – Liebenberg line; Two trips on weekdays drove to Friedrichshof, on Wednesdays and Saturdays Liebenberg was the destination.
In 1939 the following vehicles were available: two steam locomotives, four passenger cars, one pack wagon and 45 freight cars as well as a bus.
During the Second World War, the railway, which was about to cease operations, once again gained a certain importance. It was placed under the Deutsche Reichsbahn on June 1, 1940. From 1941 to 1944 three trains drove daily on the again extended route to Myszyniec, one of which continued to Grabowo am Narew near Ostrolenka, sometimes called Scharfenwiese.
A passenger car, which was built on an undercarriage of the Heeresfeldbahn, has survived the times in use on several Polish narrow-gauge railways (and most recently as a shed). It was restored and used for the Hein Schüttelborg project in Malente .
Operation in Poland
After the Second World War, the line was operated until May 27, 1962 via the former terminus Myszyniec to the new terminus Grabowo Wąskotorowe. The section that did not belong to the former small railway was discontinued on April 1, 1973.
Literature and web link
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. B10 and C10
- Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 , ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
- Erich Sadlowski: The Ortelsburger Kleinbahn, OKB Die Museums-Eisenbahn 2/1995, S. 5–7.
Individual evidence
- ^ Linia Spychowo Wąskotorowe - Grabowo Wąskotorowe. In: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa. Retrieved March 30, 2016 (Polish).
Web links
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)