Stendaler Kleinbahn
The Stendaler Eisenbahn-AG , which operated as Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG until November 25, 1942 , was a small railway company in the east of the Altmark in the Prussian province of Saxony .
history
Kleinbahn AG Stendal – Arendsee
The Kleinbahn-AG Stendal – Arendsee , which operated the Stendal – Arendsee railway since 1908 , changed its name to Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG with effect from November 23, 1915 .
Stendaler Kleinbahn AG
In 1921, after the opening of a branch line from Peulingen to Bismark, the company's route network was 71 kilometers long. In 1924, the Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG took over the Stendal – Arneburg railway line, which had meanwhile been converted to standard gauge, from the Kleinbahn-AG Stendal-Arneburg railway , which expanded the rail network to 84 kilometers.
Six steam locomotives, two railcars, 15 passenger cars, three pack wagons and 29 freight cars were available for operation. The bus company of Altmärkische Kraftverkehrs-GmbH , which opened up the south-western part of the Stendal district , was connected to the company .
After the Second World War
After the end of the war, the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH took over at the end of 1946 and from August 15, 1948 the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) of the Saxony-Anhalt transport system took over the operation. In the last decades of its existence from April 1, 1949, the Stendal Railway belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
The Peulingen – Bismark line was discontinued in 1951, the Stendal – Arneburg line in 1972 and the Stendal – Arendsee line in stages between 1978 and 1985. The Arneburger Kleinbahn was partially reactivated, on which part of the route was used for the Stendal – Niedergörne railway line that was built to connect the Stendal nuclear power station planned at the time .
Lore
The tradition of the Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG is in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
literature
- Wolfgang List: Stendal and the railroad. Volume 2: The small railways. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-933254-93-1 .
- Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archives of German small and private railways. Saxony-Anhalt. (Routes, vehicles, operations). Transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 .
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . 2nd, revised edition. Transpress - Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1982 (reprinted as: GDR narrow-gauge railway archive. Transpress, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 ).
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Stendaler Kleinbahn in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Tradition of the Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department