Pomeranian narrow-gauge railways

Railway station in Dobra Nowogardzka

In the north of Poland are the remains of the once numerous narrow-gauge railways in what was then the province of Pomerania . Its construction took place after the Prussian Small Railroad Act had been passed by the House of Representatives in 1892 .

history

The fact that more than two thirds of the small railroad lines in Pomerania were laid out in narrow gauge , more than half of them in a gauge of less than one meter, speaks in favor of the efforts to use the money for the construction and operation of the railways as economically as possible . In 1940, of the 1,590 km of small railroad lines in Pomerania, which at that time belonged to the Pomeranian State Railways , 490 km were normal gauge, 529 km were meter gauge, 545 km were 750 mm gauge and 26 km were 600 mm gauge.

In Pomerania, east of the Oder , the company Lenz & Co GmbH built routes for five independent small railway companies:

• Kolberger Kleinbahn , opening June 1, 1895: Regenwalde – Roman – Kolberg, Gross Jestin – Stolzenberg (Polish: Resko – Rymań– Kołobrzeg , Gościno– Sławoborze )
• Regenwalder Kleinbahnen , opening July 26, 1896: Labes – Daber ( Łobez –Dobra )
• Saatziger Kleinbahnen , opening: January 14, 1895: Stargard – Nörenberg ( Stargard –Ińsko )
• Greifenberger Kleinbahn , opening: July 1st, 1896:
  • Greifenberg – Seebad Horst – Fischerkathen – Treptow / Rega
    ( Gryfice –Niechorze – Pogorzelica– Trzebiatów )
  • Greifenberg – Gülzow – Kantreck – Stepenitz
    ( Gryfice –Golczewo – Łożnica – Stepnica )
  • Treptow / Rega – Deep
    ( Trzebiatów –Mrzeżyno )
  • Greifenberg – Dummadel – Treptow / Rega
    ( Gryfice –Tąpadły– Trzebiatów )
  • Dummadel – Mühlenbruch
    ( Tąpadły – Skrzydłowo )
• Stolper Bahn (750 mm and 1435 mm, no longer operated by Poland after World War II )

In addition, the Munich locomotive factory Krauss & Co laid out the narrow-gauge lines for the

• Köslin – Belgarder Bahnen (750 mm, changed to 1000 mm in 1951, line Koszalin - Białogard ) and the
• Schlawer Kleinbahn (750 mm, mostly converted to standard gauge in 1934).

In 2000, the still in operation Pomeranian narrow-gauge railways (Stargard-Daber, Greifenberg-Fischerkathen and Köslin-Schwellin) were subordinated to the Dyrekcja Kolei Dojazdowych (Railway Directorate ) in Warsaw with a branch in Stargard.

The museum train Greifenberg – Fischerkathen ( Gryfice – Pogorzelica ), sometimes under steam, is the only line that is still in operation for around three months a year. The inventory was bought by the municipality of Rewal in 2003/2004. Due to the bridge being damaged , it has not been possible to travel to the terminus Treptow / Rega ( Trzebiatów ) for a long time.

Web links

• Pomeranian narrow-gauge railways

literature

• Wolfgang Clössner, Carsten Gussmann: Travel guide to narrow-gauge railways in Poland. Röhr-Verlag, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-88490-228-8 .
• Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 .
• Fundacja "Wspólnota Kolejarzy Pomorskiej DOKP" (Ed.): Kolej na Pomorzu Zachodnim 1945–1999. (Railway in western Poland 1945-1999) Wydawnictwo INES, Szczecin 1999, ISBN 83-910427-1-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Special trip on the Żuławska KD , accessed on January 18, 2018.