Stargard-Cüstrin Railway
The Stargard – Cüstriner Railway Company (SCE) was founded in 1881 in Cüstrin on the Oder in the east of the province of Brandenburg . The Prussian state, the provinces of Brandenburg and Pomerania as well as districts and cities participated in the capital.
Their goal was Stargard , the capital of the Pomeranian Saatzig district , which had been linked to Stettin since 1846 by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and to Kolberg and Köslin on the Baltic coast since 1859 , now also in a southerly direction with the Cüstrin junction -Connecting suburbs to the Ostbahn .
At the same time, an agriculturally important area should be developed via the neighboring district town of Pyritz in the Weizacker countryside and the town of Soldin in the Neumark . The line was also able to accommodate through traffic from Western Pomerania to Brandenburg and Silesia.
The standard gauge secondary line was 98 km long and was opened on August 31, 1882. In the following year, on October 31, 1883, a 19 km long branch line branched off in Glasow - 8 km north-east of Soldin - to Berlinchen, and on August 7, 1898 another 28 km to Arnswalde at the Stargard-Posen Railway Company was extended. The first section had been built by the "Glasow-Berlinchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft" (GBE), but operation was carried out by SCE, which later also bought up GBE.
The network of the SCE was extended on January 8, 1899 by 47 km by a cross connection from Pyritz to Jädickendorf in the Neumark, from where, among other things, a direct route to Berlin via Wriezen went off. As part of its nationalization policy, the Prussian State Railroad took over the SCE routes on April 1, 1903.