Cottbus–Frankfurt (Oder) railway

Cottbus–Frankfurt (Oder)
Route number:	209.36 (Frankfurt–Grunow) 211 (Willmersdorf–Cottbus)
Line length:	73.2
Track gauge:	1435
Voltage:	Willmersdorf–Cottbus: 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC
State:	Brandenburg
Operating points and lines
From Eberswalde and Küstrin-Kietz From Fürstenwalde 162.9 Frankfurt (Oder) To Eisenhüttenstadt and Poznań 151.2 Frankfurt (Oder) Afs 151.0 Frankfurt (Oder)-Neuberesinchen From Eisenhüttenstadt 148.7 Fauler See 144.5 Markendorf junction 144.2 Helenesee(seasonal stop) Oder–Spree Canal 139.0 Müllrose Schlaube 133.1 Mixdorf 129.2 Grunow (Niederlausitz) To Beeskow 123.9 Groß Briesen 120.9 Weichensdorf 114.8 Ullersdorf (Schwansee) 109.8 Jamlitz (formerly Lieberose) former Spreewald Railway siding 102.6 Tauer 97.4 Preilack junctionto Guben 94.4 Peitz 88.3 Willmersdorf (Kr Cottbus) From Guben (new course) Cottbus-Merzdorf From Guben (old course) Cottbus-Sandow Spree From Forst and Görlitz 79.7 Cottbus To Berlin and Halle (Saale) To Großenhain

The Cottbus–Frankfurt (Oder) railway is a single-track main line in the German state of Brandenburg, which was originally built and operated by the Cottbus-Großenhain Railway Company (German: Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CGE) and directly connects the two cities to each other. It runs from Cottbus via Peitz to Frankfurt (Oder). Only the section between Grunow and Frankfurt and a short section near Cottbus are still in operation. Trains running over the line now use the line to Guben and continue on the line of the former Lower Silesian-Mark Railway (Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn).

Planning for a rail connection from the area around the town of Müllrose had started by 1840. In 1843, August Leopold Crelle presented a design for a railway from Berlin to Breslau (now Wrocław) that would run near Briesen. This connection—the Lower Silesian-Mark Railway—was, however, built via Frankfurt (Oder). Subsequently plans were studied for a line between Frankfurt and Leipzig. The Cottbus-Großenhain Railway Company opened a line between Großenhain and Cottbus in 1870 and planned an extension to Frankfurt. The original plans envisaged a course via Friedland and Beeskow, but it was eventually decided to take a route further east.

The line was opened to traffic on 31 December 1876. Stations were built in between in Peitz, Jamlitz (first called Lieberose after a nearby town), Weichensdorf, Grunow and Müllrose. The railway served at first as a long-distance connection between Dresden, Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder) and with other towns located to the east of the Oder.

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