Pioneer Railway Prerow
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| Route length: | 2.00 km | ||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||
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The Pioniereisenbahn Prerow (also Pionierstrandbahn or Strandbahn Prerow ) was a pioneer railway operated in the summer of 1954 , which ran on the beach of the Baltic Sea resort of Prerow between the then children's holiday camp " Ernst Thälmann " on Bernsteinweg and the dune house on today's shopping street.
History and operation
In 1954, the VEB Bau-Union Süd from Dresden, which later became a bridge construction company in the VEB Autobahnbaukombinat Magdeburg , built a children's holiday camp on the Baltic Sea beach of Prerow. At the same time, using usable field railway material, a 600-mm-gauge railway line was built on its own embankment from the holiday camp in an easterly direction behind the dunes to 300 m in front of the Dünenhaus restaurant. Originally it was planned to create loop loops at the two stations, but simple transfer tracks were ultimately implemented. In addition to the track system, wooden houses were built as a station building, platform edges and entry and exit signals at the end of the line, as well as a restricted level crossing.
The train could be used by the participants of the holiday camps and all other holiday guests. After the end of the summer vacation, the pioneer railway stopped operating on August 31, 1954 and never resumed. As a result, the railway was dismantled.
vehicles
Three four-axle open passenger cars were designed for passenger transport. After the railway was closed, these wagons came to the Dresden Pioneer Railway , where they were re-gauged to 381 mm. In the 1990s they were transferred from there to the Dresden Historical Light Railroad Association. The cars are in use at this club, retraced to 600 mm. With regard to the locomotives used, there are different details: On the one hand, the use of a construction diesel locomotive built by the Arnold Jung locomotive factory is suspected; according to other details, a Deutz OME 117 and a Diema DS 12 were used.
literature
- Gerhard Arndt, Ursula Arndt: Pioneer and exhibition railways. Transpress - VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1981, p. 60ff.
Web link
- Historic Feldbahn Dresden eV - Information on passenger cars
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arndt / Arndt, p. 63.
- ^ Homepage of the Historischen Feldbahn Dresden eV