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From: =James Birkholz= <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] train service
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:57:45 -0500


At 12:33 AM -0500 5/18/0, Nancy Zuber/Del Smith wrote:
>As I recall, the railroad came to Rogasen in 1879. Can I assume, then,
>that residents were able to go directly to Bremen via rail or would they
>have had to go north to the Baltic and then west? Do we know where the
>train ran in the 1880s?
>Thanks, Nancy

Long after the RR arrived many people still traveled (at least in part) by
river and canal boat. I presume that it was more economical.
The consensus seems that most emigrants traveled overland (RR, boat, and/or
wagen) to Bremen and Hamburg.
1879 was when the Posen/Poznan~ to Schneidemu"hl/Pil~a RR line was opened.
In 1859, there were two main lines in the province. One ran east/west from
Bromberg/Bydgoszcz past Schniedemu"hl to Cu"strin on the Oder River. From
Bromberg it angled NE past Schwetz. From Cu"strin it split NW and S past
Frankfurt.
The other line was more or less north/south, passing through Rawitsch,
Lissa (where another line entered from the SW passing through Fraustadt),
Kosten, Posen city, Samter, Wronke, crossing the other RR at Lukatz (west
of Filehne), and continuing NW past Arneswalde. (I'll be posting this map
soon.)

James

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