Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company

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The Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company (Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HSGE) was a private German railway company, which was founded in 1868 in

.

History

The company was founded by

to Halle an der Saale from 30 June 1872.

A new route was opened in an easterly direction from Cottbus to

in present-day Poland) from 30 June 1872.

A 24 km-long line was opened to connect with the trading centre of Leipzig on 1 November 1874 from Eilenburg via was Taucha in the Kingdom of Saxony. The HSGE network eventually comprised a network that was about 300 kilometres long. However, it was not possible to divert substantial traffic from the competing routes that had been built earlier, so its income fell short of expectations. Its management was transferred to the Prussian state railways on 1 January 1877 to increase efficiency and the HSGE was nationalised in 1885.

The lines

• Cottbus–Guben (opened on 1 September 1871)
• Cottbus–Sorau (opened on 30 June 1872)
• Falkenberg/Elster–Cottbus (opened on 1 December 1871)
• Halle–Eilenburg–Falkenberg/Elster (opened on 30 June 1872)
• Leipzig–Eilenburg (opened on 1 November 1874)

References

External links

"Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn" (in German). Bahnstrecken in Brandenburg. Retrieved 19 August 2014.