Wreschener Kreisbahn
| Wreschener Kreisbahn | |
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| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Wreschener Kreisbahn (Polish: Wrzesinska Kolejka Powiatowa ) was a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm in the district of Wreschen in the former Prussian province of Posen .
history
After the Gnesen-Jarotschin line of the former Oels-Gnesener Railway , which was still active in 1882, and the Poznan-Stralkowo state railroad , which was nationalized in 1886, went into operation between 1875 and 1888, trains were able to travel in four directions from the district town of Wreschen with 7,300 inhabitants . But part of the district that stretched south-east towards the Russian border remained without a connection to the rail network.
The district of Wreschen tried to have its own small railway, which opened on April 14, 1898. The 19.6 kilometer long "main line" led from the small station Wreschen to the city station and on to the border town Borzykowo / Borstein. At the same time, from Wreschen in a north-easterly direction, a seven-kilometer-long railway to Kleparz, which was already in the neighboring Witkowo district, was put into operation. There was a connection to the Witkowo orbit . With the extension from Borzykowo Dorf to the customs office, which opened on July 1, 1905, and two other freight railways, the total network had reached a length of 29.1 kilometers.
In the 1930s, routes with a length of 22 kilometers were added. Of these, the purchase of the Kleparz – Mierzewo line (6.6 km) from the Gnesener Kreisbahn and the new construction of the Borzykowo – Peisern / Pyzdry line, a town on the Warta, which was only possible after the former Prussia / Russia border was removed, should be mentioned has been.
In 1914 the vehicle fleet comprised four steam locomotives, four passenger and three baggage cars and 150 freight cars.
During the Second World War, the circular railway as "Wreschener Eisenbahn" was temporarily subordinate to the Gaubahnen Wartheland . In the post-war period, the railway was retraced to a gauge of 750 mm in 1957. Passenger traffic Wreschen – Peisern ended on February 20, 1979.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen. Bufe, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-33-0
Individual evidence
- ^ The Oels – Gnesener Eisenbahn , Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , April 15, 1882, p. 1, accessed on December 13, 2012