Klockow – Pasewalk Ost narrow-gauge railway
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| Course book range : | 125 k (1950) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 16.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Klockow – Pasewalk Ost (KKP) narrow-gauge railway was a 750 mm narrow-gauge railway in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The 16 km long route led from Klockow to Pasewalk Ost . Originally 11 km with all intermediate stations were in the Prussian province of Brandenburg and 5 km in the Prussian province of Pomerania. Today, more than half of the former route belongs to the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the rest to the state of Brandenburg.
history
In the 1890s, a railway connection was desired for the transport of agricultural products. Numerous landowners therefore wanted to build a narrow-gauge horse-drawn tram from Klockow to Pasewalk in 1892 . The then founded Kleinbahn Klockow-Pasewalk GmbH (KKP) had a share capital of 120,000 marks. With the help of old material, a 700 mm horse-drawn tram was built. The opening planned for 1892 could not be implemented because there were disputes at Pasewalk about the extension of the route. The line was finally opened on July 1, 1893. However, the company was not a small railway under the law on small railways and private connecting railways , so only non-public freight traffic was carried out.
Already around 1900 the gauge change to 750 mm gauge was planned, but the extension to Prenzlau planned in this context did not materialize. In 1908 the previous GmbH was converted into a joint venture, which then received the concession for the narrow-gauge railway in 1908. There were of Orenstein & Koppel procured two steam locomotives, both started in the summer with the Umspurung. As early as October 7 of the same year, the sugar beet harvest was carried out with the new narrow-gauge railway, but the route was not approved by the police until June 8, 1909. From then on, public goods transport was carried out. On March 31, 1928, the joint venture dissolved and a GmbH was founded again. In 1939, two steam locomotives and 80 freight cars were available for traffic . In 1913/14 it carried 28,865 t of goods, in 1935 23,819 t.
Passenger transport was only started on February 1, 1948 in the emergency after the Second World War. Since November 1, 1946, the railway, which had previously been privately owned, had become part of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen as a result of the land reform ; The state traffic office of Brandenburg was now responsible for the management until April 1, 1949, when the Deutsche Reichsbahn took its place. In 1950, only on weekdays were two pairs of trains running as freight trains with passenger transport, which took more than two hours for the route. At the beginning of the 1960s, the maximum speed had to be limited to 8 km / h due to damage to the superstructure. On February 6, 1961, the Klockow – Schönfeld section was closed.
Passenger traffic was stopped on May 27, 1961 and all traffic on October 4, 1963.
route
The route began in the village of Klockow, which today belongs to the municipality of Schönfeld in the Uckermark district. Since November 1, 1915, there has been a connection to the Prenzlau circular railroad - albeit standard gauge - from Prenzlau, but there was little transit traffic. From Klockow, the route led north to the former district town of Pasewalk , where the route ended at Pasewalk Ost station.
vehicles
In 1909 two three-axle steam locomotives No. 1 and 2 (later DR 99 4612 and 99 4613) were procured, which remained in service almost until they were decommissioned. There were also 55 four-axle freight cars.
literature
- Wolf Dietger Machel, Rudi Buchweitz : Small railways in the Uckermark . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 161-207 .