Priemerburg–Plaaz railway
| Plaaz–Priemerburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number: | 187 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line number: | 6926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line length: | 9.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge: | 1435 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voltage: | 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State: | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Priemerburg-Plaaz railway is a single-track, electrified branch line in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Like the Güstrow–Meyenburg railway, the line to Plaaz separates from the line to Neubrandenburg not in Güstrow, but three kilometres to its east in the settlement of Priemerburg. It runs to the south from the junction and then crosses the other tracks on a bridge. To the right is the route of the former connecting curve to Priemerwald Süd. After running through a wooded area, it passes through Glasewitz station, which closed in 1993 and has left few traces. The following section runs through open, rolling countryside. The now closed Mierdorf station was outside the village in an open field. Shortly afterwards, the line joins the Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway (Lloyd Railway) to the south of Plaaz station.
The Güstrow Plau Railway (Güstrow-Plauer Eisenbahn) opened its main line from Güstrow to Plau in 1882, which was later extended to Meyenburg. The Lloyd Railway connecting Neustrelitz and was opened in 1886, but it by-passed the town of Güstrow. Then, a nearly ten kilometre-long connection was opened to Plaaz on the Lloyd Railway by the Güstrow Plau Railway in 1887. The importance of the line was limited to local traffic, especially after 1887 when the direct connection from Güstrow to Rostock over the Güstrow–Schwaan railway went into operation.
The Güstrow Plau Railway was nationalised in 1890 and incorporated in the Friedrich-Franz Railway, which was nationalised at the same time.
The traffic in the first half of the 20th century consisted of three to four pairs of trains daily between Güstrow and Plaaz, which usually connected in Plaaz with trains on the Lloyd Railway to Rostock.
After the Second World War, the Lloyd Railway south of Plaaz was dismantled as reparations to the Soviet Union and trains ran from Güstrow via Plaaz to Rostock. This continued after the reconstruction of the Lloyd Railway. The line had additional importance in the first years after the Second World War until 1948, because it was the only connection from Rostock to the south after the Rostock–Schwaan–Bützow line was also dismantled.
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